Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes notifying a first person that a significant event is going to occur with respect to a second person; receiving from the first person, the second person, or another person a communication that relates to the significant event and to the first person and that has been curated at least in part from information that has been accumulated automatically from online resources; and sending the curated communication to the communication target.

Abstract: Among other things, a person who wants to give a tangible, physical, virtual, or digital item to another family member of a different generation (e.g., at a future time) can provide information from which the item, the future time, and the recipient can be determined. The giver and the recipient are individuals (a) who are not both living or not both competent at the time when the information is provided by the giver, (b) or may not both be living or may not both be competent at the future time, or (c) both (a) and (b), storing the information. The item is transferred to the other family member at the future time based on the provided information.

Abstract: Certain embodiments of the invention may include control systems and methods for monitoring environmental variables, performance variables and conditioning electrical power in energy-recapture sources of mechanical energy, which would otherwise be dissipated, as exemplified by farms for energy-harvesting to provide available electrical energy. Said farms may include one or more energy-recapture sources. One method for controlling may include measuring individual source energy output of one or more energy-recapture sources and measuring conditions of one or more energy-recapture sources via a controller that facilitates communication with one or more energy-recapture sources.

Abstract: A power-recapture method and system converts mechanical energy, which would otherwise be dissipated, into available electrical energy. A plurality of computer-coordinated Electric Generators are arranged with salient sensors that detect appropriate motion then adjust the phasing and intensity of electromagnets of the Electric Generator to optimally convert variable mechanical motion into electric current.

Abstract: Models are generated using a variety of tools and features of a model generation platform. For example, in connection with a project in which a user generates a predictive model based on historical data about a system being modeled, the user is provided through a graphical user interface a structured sequence of model generation activities to be followed, the sequence including dimension reduction, model generation, model process validation, and model re-generation. Historical multi-dimensional data is received representing multiple variables transformed to be maximally predictive for at least one outcome variable to be used as an input to a predictive model of a commercial system, model development process is validated for at one or more sets of such variables and enabling a user of a model generation tool to combine at least two of the variables from the sets of variables.

Abstract: Models are generated using a variety of tools and features of a model generation platform. For example, in connection with a project in which a user generates a predictive model based on historical data about a system being modeled, the user is provided through a graphical user interface a structured sequence of model generation activities to be followed, the sequence including dimension reduction, model generation, model process validation, and model re-generation. In connection with a project in which a user generates a predictive model based on historical data about a system being modeled, and in which the project includes a series of user choice points and actions or parameter settings that govern the generation of the model based on rules, which direct the user to select and apply an optimal model.

Abstract: A computer-aided expert system comprising a hypermedia structured expert system and a hypermedia-structured multi-level electronic document archive linked thereto. The expert system includes a knowledge base, an inference engine that interacts with the knowledge base to generate advice. A hypermedia interface having knowledge base transfer means is provided on a display that includes selectable areas that provide access to active and passive documents in the document archive. The document archive includes active and passive electronic documents interlinked by means of the hypermedia interface and linked to the expert system by means of the hypermedia interface. Each active and passive electronic document includes active document transfer means that provide for transfer from the active document to another active document, a passive document, or a knowledge base linked thereto.