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Towards Crafting Beer with Artificial Intelligence
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin
Naming & Signs
Most educational settlements are not overloaded by signage by design but distracted management (overlapping temporary signs, inconsistent styles) or large footprints supports the perception. Today at the usual hour we explore the literature covering exterior and interior signage with emphases on coherence and necessity.
Donor Control & Influence
Charitable donations to U.S. colleges and universities amounted to $58 billion in 2023; down 2.5% from 2022 and includes new architectural statements. Some benefactors contribute to the lifecycle upkeep of building in the form of endowed funds specifically designated for the maintenance, repair, and renovation of facilities. Such endowments are crucial as they provide a continuous source of funding to ensure that buildings remain beautiful.
Abiit sed non oblita | Rebecca Luker
"Whom the gods love, die young." Menander (341-290 BCE)
Quadrivium: Spring
Educational settlements are the closest many people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land in public law. We explore the action continuously; assign priorities, then schedule a separate teleconference to formulate responses to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR.
Means of Egress
Just as building entrances are designed as an architectural statement and primary point of interaction, points of egress are not always the same as the way into a building. Committee Action Hearings for the Group B tranche of titles will be heard in Orlando, April 26-May 7; including one of our own.
Recognizing signs and doors for Indoor Wayfinding for Blind and Visually Impaired Persons
Indoor signage plays an essential component to find destination for blind and visually impaired people. In this paper, we propose an indoor signage and doors detection system in order to help blind and partially sighted persons accessing unfamiliar indoor environments. Our indoor signage and doors recognizer is based on deep learning algorithms.
Current Issues and Recent Research
The Joint IEEE Power Engineering and Industrial Applications Society Committee to which we belong has completed its work on the 2026 National Electrical Code Second Draft. Public consultation on ballot results will be received by NFPA until April 18th. While all the issues are fresh in mind it is never unwise to draft proposals for the 2029 National Electrical Code which will begin accepting new public input some time after release of the new edition in the fall.
Unified English Braille
In 2016 the Braille Authority of North America voted to make Unified English Braille, the official braille of the United States, along with special formats for mathematics and science notation, music notation, and the phonetic alphabet. Many organizations have made the switch. State by state, books and other materials printed by government agencies, as well as private organizations and publishers, are being printed in UEB rather than the outmoded “EBAE” (English Braille American Edition).