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Innovation

Fast Company Magazine Names Two GE Businesses Among The Most Innovative Companies In The World

Alaynah Tombridge
February 13, 2017
GE made history last year when its wind turbines started producing electricity at America’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. The landmark project, the first of several planned for the Eastern Seaboard of the United States, launched the country’s push into a powerful source of renewable energy. It also earned GE a spot on Fast Company’s annual list of the 10 most innovative companies in energy in the world.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week

February 10, 2017
Engineers are turning trees into power plants, using sound waves to hear the footsteps of disease, and building an AI that can warn you when you are talking too much. Enough said.
 

This AI Can Tell You When To Shut Up

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Innovation

Developing The Perfect ‘Imperfect’ AI System

Manuela Veloso
February 10, 2017

In terms of algorithms and techniques, we’re still in the infancy of artificial intelligence. And even in the future, A.I. systems will need humans just as much as humans need A.I., writes Manuela Veloso, Head of Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. 

 

 

Humanity needs artificial intelligence systems that act more like companions than superheroes. In the future, AI systems will need humans just as much as humans need AI.
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Mother Of Invention: This Barrier-Busting Electrical Engineer Joined Edison, Tesla in National Inventors

Tomas Kellner
February 10, 2017

When Edith Clarke was born, the odds that she would one day join a group of celebrated inventors including Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell seemed microscopic. She lived in a pre-computer era when the few women with science education worked mostly as “human computers,” helping their male colleagues solve labor-intensive equations.

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women in tech

The Slide Rule Sisters Would Be Proud: GE’s Female Engineers Talk About Changing The Gender Ratio In The Workplace

Samantha Shaddock
February 08, 2017
Florence Fogler put down her work for a moment. Mustering language simple enough for a reporter to understand, she explained her task: figuring out how to squeeze more power from coal by unraveling the complexities of thermodynamics.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
February 03, 2017
Scientists stared in the face of our 535-year-old ancestor, started a conversation between live and artificial cells and developed nanorobots powered by gastric acid that can deliver medicine to your stomach. We have more to chew on. Please, continue.
 

 

What Your Ancestors Looked Like 535 Million Years Ago
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Energy

Tesla Coal: How Technology Is Helping Eastern European Coal-Fired Power Plants Run Cleaner

Bruce Watson
February 02, 2017
Nikola Tesla is a national hero in Serbia. Although he was born in what is now Croatia, Serbs still recall the day in 1892 when the scientist made his first, and only, visit to Belgrade, the Serbian capital. But it feels like he’s never left.
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It’s electrifying! New Zealand’s energy incubator

January 31, 2017
Got thoughts on energy management? Get set. Today Creative HQ, New Zealand’s widely acclaimed and long-running startup-commercialisation base in the city of Wellington, puts spark to a tinder of ideas for the electricity industry. “We’ve noticed various industries in which a faster innovation environment could have real impact,” says Nick Churchouse, CHQ’s head of customer engagement.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
January 27, 2017
Scientists successfully grew human stem cells inside a pig for the first time, built an AI that rivals dermatologists in spotting skin cancer and created a metal out of hydrogen — a material so unique it could act as a superconductor at room temperature. Science is so hot!
 

This AI Can Rival Doctors In Spotting Skin Cancer 
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Innovation

Sensory Architecture Could Help Kids Suffering From Autism

Zach Mortice
January 25, 2017

Sean Ahlquist, assistant professor of architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, creates architecture, one of the few design mediums that requires full physical interaction, as a form of therapy for his 7-year-daughter who has autism spectrum disorder. “If we can improve motor skills, there is a correlation to creating opportunities for social interaction,” Ahlquist says.

 

 
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