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The "last mile" is the final leg of delivering connectivity from a communications provider to a customer. The phrase is therefore often used by the telecommunications and cable television industries...
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The first step in solving a hard problem is to define it. In my view, the goal is to meet the access bandwidth requirements of all enterprises and residences. The problem, consequently, is to serve tens of millions of residences and small b...
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Genome Wide Association Studies; the last mile problem ... the last mile problem. There will be two classes of abstracts, those for GWAS and those on general human genome variation. You are welcome to attend the meeting without submitting an abstract. Only those registering are able to submit abstracts.
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The last-mile problem for knowledge is not new.  Indeed, for all of human history until recently it has been inseparable from knowledge itself and all our technologies for sharing it.  It’s only of interest today because the internet and OA give us unprecedented means for solving it, or at least for closing the...
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The inability of homes or businesses to access superfast fiber-optic cables, due to the high cost of building such a network. ... See also : last mile ... Edit This Word...
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None of the problems pointed out above should put anyone off the idea of co-operatively owned last mile infrastructure, though. Cringely's idea (or rather, Bob Frankston's idea, which Cringely relates) should be viewed not as a silver bullet but as one solution to the last mile problem among many.
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Open access and the last-mile problem for knowledge ... As long as the last-mile problem remains unsolved, rapidly growing human knowledge will coexist with rapidly growing unmet demand for that knowledge. As long as the problem remains unsolved, the uses we make of recorded knowledge will fall far short of its usefulness.
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By Greg Sterling ... Yesterday, moderating the local search panel at OMMA in New York, I was in another one of these situations: facing a room of people who think local is a “nice ... One company that solves this problem already very nicely in several verticals is AdMission. I rarely mention them because I’m an advisor.
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In telecommunications the "last-mile problem" is the problem of connecting individual homes and businesses to the fat pipes connecting cities. Because individual homes and businesses are in different locations, hooking up each one individually is expensive and difficult.
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Tiny light detector may lead to high-speed transmissions through outer space ... By Neal Weinberg ... March 22, 2006 12:00 PM ET...
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