This year the festival, while as committed as ever to the difficult and the esoteric, devotes its opening program to one of the most popular (and profitable) applications of video technology, namely video games, which have recently superseded movies as the culture industry's biggest money machine.
It can further be suggested that, rural areas where electric grid system is not readily available, profitable applications of wind resources can be obtained with battery charging and water pumping using small-scale mechanical wind pumps.
A study from Emerj discovered that a majority of business owners feel that search is the single most profitable application for modern AI, only behind customer segmentation.
While automatic Building Information Modeling (BIM) based quantity takeoff is one of the potentially most important and profitable applications for BIM, it is still generally underexplored how BIM models respond when quantity takeoff is its primary use.
Ever faithful that Mooradian's invention could find a profitable application, the venture syndicate agreed to plow an additional $33 million into Novalux, this time with the goal of building chips for high-definition televisions and computer monitors.
How much of that has led to interesting, productive profitable applications?
A continuous flow of new materials new processing technologies and product design approaches has led the industry into profitable applications unknown or not possible in the past.
As inventors commercialize their technologies, competitors may enter the fray, preemptively launching profitable applications.
What computers scientists should be researching, he argues, is how the phenomenon of intelligence itself arises from the human brain – a question that those focused on data-led machine analysis (and its profitable applications) have increasingly side-lined.
