"Most of the academic experiments were of much lower orders of risk".
Memristors are still viewed as laboratory and academic experiments by the majority of the world's leading semiconductor firms, most of whom have settled on a competing technology known as Phase Change Memory, or P.C.M.
There have been more than 1,000 academic experiments in goal-setting, of which over 90% have produced positive results, says Gary Latham of the University of Toronto.
From the academic experiments and aerospace simulators of the 1960s to the Sega VR headset, Nintendo's Virtual Boy and the Virtuality arcade games of the 1990s, virtual reality has always sounded fantastic in theory but felt in practice like brain poison.
'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments.
This paper aims to propose and implement a robust, modular hardware device that retains the low-cost entry barrier for academic experiments while providing high-quality scans of the blood vessels with significant improvements over traditional scanning systems.
Prior to the use of field experiments, most academic experiments regarding sales force compensation took place in labs and involved volunteers (usually undergraduates) rather than real salespeople.
Our two main suspects for this are high-level industrial espionage against Siemens and a kind of academic experiment".
Set up in the late 1930s, Mass Observation was a national academic experiment that invited a varied group of ordinary people to write regular reports about their lives.
Manzi also points out the obvious: where an academic experiment is frequently a "one-off" event, business experimentation is part of an ongoing process.
