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artificial-intelligence

Child’s Play: Machines Learning Like Kids Will Usher In The Next Industrial Revolution

December 07, 2015
If you ask Hollywood, the world teeming with robots and artificial intelligence is a no-brainer. Movies like “The Terminator,” “WALL-E” and “Blade Runner” have all cast intelligent automata as the wings upon which the future — mostly dystopian — swoops in. In fact, some very big names in science and engineering have recently joined voices in cautioning against unchecked intelligence development. Tesla’s Elon Musk and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking have both predicted catastrophe should we make dumb choices when building smart machines.
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Breakthrough

Honey, I Shrunk the Steam Turbine: We Could Drink from the Sea With This Miniaturized 3D Printed Machine

Todd Alhart
November 10, 2015
Scientists at GE Global Research (GRC) are working with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a super efficient desalination machine that fits in the palm of the hand.
This innovative solution involves the shrinking of a steam turbine originally designed to generate electricity. It’s also the perfect example of what GE calls the GE Store, the idea that sharing ideas across businesses can quickly lead to breakthroughs.
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wind energy

The Road to ecoROTR: How Building a Better Wind Turbine Began With an Online Shopping Spree for Styrofoam Balls

October 17, 2015
Scientists at GE Global Research spent the last four years building a more efficient wind turbine. It rises 450-feet above the Mojave desert in California – almost half the height of the Eiffel Tower — and seems to have a silver UFO stuck to its face. The turbine may appear strange, but you are looking at the future of wind power. Here's how it came about.
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materials-science

A Scientist Walks Into the GE Store: Sharing Ideas Helps Engineers Leapfrog Competition

September 24, 2015
The first GE research lab opened in a barn behind a scientist’s home in Schenectady, N.Y., in 1900. Three people worked inside the wooden structur before it burned down a year later.
It was an inauspicious beginning for one of the largest corporate research institutions in the world. GE Global Research now employs 3,000 people and runs nine labs in the United States, Brazil, China, Germany, India and Israel.
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Rise and Shine: This Diamond-like Material is Helping Solar Power Cast a Bigger Shadow

July 28, 2015
The energy usage curves of most industrial countries – or load curves - have long resembled a crumpled fedora hat. They rise sharply at daybreak as people start brewing coffee and companies switch on machines, then peak twice – in the morning and the late afternoon, before dropping off after dinner. Utilities usually crank up their turbines and bring extra power plants online to cover the “peak” demand.
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Flash Boys 2.0: New Superfast Network Can Sync Machines Across the Continent

July 26, 2015
On July 16, one pendulum started to swing in Niskayuna, N.Y. Nearly 3,000 miles away, in San Jose, Calif., another weight hung from a fixed point also oscillated back and forth.
The motion of the first pendulum was slightly off from the other. At one point, software in New York sent a command to equipment attached to the pendulum in California to fix its movement so that the two remote instruments would swing identically (see video below).
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Business Insider’s Global List of 50 Groundbreaking Scientists Includes GE’s Brain Research Partner

July 15, 2015
Business Insider published on Tuesday its global list of 50 “groundbreaking scientists who are changing the world.“ The publication stated that "these scientists’ revolutionary research in human happiness, evolutionary biology, neutrino physics, biotechnology, archeology, and other fields is helping to advance our lives in more ways than we could ever imagine.”
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Hold on to Your Seats: NASA Breathes New Life Into Commercial Supersonic Flight

June 22, 2015
The team studying lightning on top of the Empire State Building used an early high-speed camera developed by Sir Charles Boys to photograph strikes. Below: A description of the work. Image credits: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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How Does a Wind Turbine Work? With GE’s New ecoROTR, Better than Ever

June 10, 2015
The hillsides around Tehachapi, a brown and blustery town on the edge of California’s Mojave Desert, are bristling with a forest of wind turbines of all makes and sizes.
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Funny Science: Comic Books, the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and the Missing “Crop of Juvenile Delinquents”

May 28, 2015
Comic books were as popular with kids and teens in the 1950s as TV and social media is today. Although many parents couldn’t stand them, the team inside GE’s communication department took a second look. Since comics often featured outlandish spacecraft and superheroes, the GE PR whizzes thought they could use comics to explain some of the underlying science and get kids hooked on technology, engineering and mathematics, a program we now call STEM.
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