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::: nBlog ::: For the last 16 years, the European Court of Auditors (ECA), the independent audit institution of the European Union, has issued predominantly negative

::: nBlog ::: Politicians in the Nordics are grinning in agreement when giants like Facebook and Google convert old paper mills and other aging blue chip

::: nBlog ::: Predicting the future is hard. Some of the earliest and even nowadays most powerful supercomputers are used eg. for weather forecasting and financial

::: nBlog ::: When I was made a VP in 2000, my first thought was that I again need to learn, and a lot. So

::: nBlog ::: Yesterday while I was driving to Helsinki-Vantaa airport, I got a simple SMS message from Finnair, asking whether I wanted to upgrade to

::: nBlog ::: Today’s electrical grids are based on 50 or 60 Hertz alternating current (AC) in three phases, 60 degrees apart. This makes generators with

::: nBlog ::: Last Friday I had the privilege to visit Valmet Automotive factory, together with mayor Kari Koski of Uusikaupunki. What comes to cars,

::: nBlog ::: It seems that even the most tightly regulated businesses like airlines are now embracing possibilities for real time measurements, as described in the

::: nBlog ::: Although common sense is helpful in many situations and guides us in understanding the world around us, it can sometimes seriously undermine our

::: nBlog ::: The methodologies of EU banking stress tests left me somewhat puzzled, as it seems that the worst case scenarios were carefully engineered