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A challenge that made cryptic crosswords look easy
As GE takes the next technological leap forward, sensor-enabling its machinery, from streetlights to locomotives, and wirelessly capturing the data that flows from each connection point, coding provides the means not only to sift and analyse the stream, but to net the benefits. Programmers will identify the anomalies that save millions, and code the operational twists that change lives.
Roy Hill’s new GE locomotives are super strong and super smart
Grayson Brulte: Disincentivizing Online Piracy Through Innovation
Projecting a Robot’s Intentions
A new spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots’ minds.
In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT’s Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind.Standing in its path is an obstacle — a human pedestrian who’s pacing back and forth. To get to the other side of the room, the robot has to first determine where the pedestrian is, then choose the optimal route to avoid a close encounter.
Zeroing in on the Big Picture
Why, where and how companies will innovate in 2015
If patents are viable proxies for innovation, then “innovation is on the rise”, states the Thomson Reuter’s 2014 State of Innovation report. The computing sector alone logged in 300,000 unique inventions. Rounding out the report’s top five most innovative industries were telecommunications (126,000 patents), automotive (123,000), semiconductors (97,000) and medical devices (75,000). All five industries had more R&D activity in 2013 than in the year before.
Steve Melito: Manufacturing, Entrepreneurship and Economic Strength
Francisco J. Sánchez: Synchronized Factories — The Key to Latin America’s Industrial Future
Almost 10 years later, it is clear that the gamble paid off. The factory has flourished and employs more than 1,800 workers. Bombardier continues to generate profits from its Mexico plants and is expanding there.
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The Next Big (or Really, Really Tiny) Thing in 3D Printing
How to print blood vessels. And apartment buildings
A wedding ring holding a piece of moon rock. Hydroponic garden structures tailored to any shape desired. Jet engine fuel nozzles. An Aston Martin template: These are but a few examples on the growing roster of 3D-printed structures that steadily made tech headlines over the past 18 months.