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2015 Predictions: Blue-Skying The New Year — Part 2

December 22, 2014
We spoke to another six thought-leaders about what will drive disruption and new opportunities in their industry. Here's part 2 of what will change the game in the new year. Missed part 1? Read it here.

Marita Cheng, founder of Robogals, Young Australian of the Year 2012 and founder and CEO of 2Mar Robotics.

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Andrew Tatem: How Mobiles Could Aid Disaster Response

Andrew Tatem Worldpop
December 19, 2014
There are now more mobile phones in use than there are people in the world to use them — some 7.2 billion phones. Mobile phones are becoming integral parts of our lives, penetrating into areas of the developing world that lack much of the fixed infrastructure taken for granted elsewhere. This makes them an excellent potential source of information about population movements.
 
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Charles McConnell: Energy Sustainability Through a Global Lens

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
December 17, 2014
Transformative technology continues to be the single largest enabler for a sustainable energy future in this world, and any number of studies also point to the fact that there is no more important contributor to the health and well-being of people than the supply of energy.
 

In future columns, I’d like to discuss in detail these technologies and how they are so important to a sustainable future. But what is energy sustainability, and how can it be viewed globally?

Technology at work in 2014: Redefining what we know

December 17, 2014
In the third theme of this year’s At Work event, we explored how one of the most pervasive terms of the 21st century – Technology – continues to redefine even the most modern of industries.
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How LED Is Lighting the Way Toward Indoor Farming

December 16, 2014
A warehouse full of lettuce might not be the first place you would expect to find the next Industrial Revolution. But follow the LED lights and you’ll discover a glimpse of the future of agriculture — industrial-scale, indoor farming.
 

Advances in LED technology are helping to create an environment where vegetables can be produced at scale for maximum impact — with higher yields and shorter grow cycles, no matter what climate.
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Dennis DeTurck and Bruce Lenthall: Transforming STEM Education

Dennis Deturck University Of Pennsylvania
Bruce Lenthall University Of Pennsylvania
December 12, 2014
Imagine an introductory college physics class where instead of sitting in a lecture hall, students work in small teams to predict the height from which an object must slide or roll downhill to successfully complete a loop-the-loop without leaving the track. They then do the experiment and analyze how accurate their predictions were.
 
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Brinnon Garrett Mandel: Finding a Path Forward in Global Health Innovation

Brinnon Garrett Mandel Jhpiego
December 11, 2014
“When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.” — Tuli Kupferberg, American poet
 

Innovation shouldn’t be easy. It requires understanding and breaking through existing patterns — in technology, behavior, policies or market forces. Innovating life-saving solutions for the world’s greatest health challenges, whether they are products or services, is also not easy because the patterns are complex — and sometimes unknown.
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Scaling Super-conductivity — Q&A with T.J. Wainerdi

T J Wainerdi University Of Houston
December 09, 2014
Superconductors have been around for decades now — think the Large Hadron Collider, or an MRI. Yet while most superconducting wiring and other material requires extremely cold conditions (around -450 °F) to enable electrical current to flow indefinitely without resistance, the recent development of high-temperature superconductors has opened up the technology to a much broader range of applications.
 
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Commercial Drones Set to Soar as Investors Climb Aboard

December 05, 2014
Starting in the late 1980s, the Pentagon launched a top-secret constellation of two-dozen navigation satellites designed to guide U.S. nuclear missiles precisely to their targets. Then the Cold War ended, the technology shed the uniform and put on civilian clothes. We know it as the Global Positioning System (GPS), and millions of drivers, hikers and bikers use it daily to find their bearings and map their workout routines.
 
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Stacey Jarrett Wagner: Help Wanted — Ensuring the Success of Regional Collaborations

Stacey Jarrett Wagner The Jarrettwagner Group
December 04, 2014
At a recent conference near Washington, D.C., the sound of deflation was palpable. No, this was not a financial conference; it was focused on closing America’s skills gap.
 

Talk of these stubborn gaps often takes my breath away, because the country has worked so hard since the Great Recession to grow jobs and the economy. Conference hotels should provide oxygen tanks for meeting participants seeking to solve the skills gap problem.
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