×

GE.com has been updated to serve our three go-forward companies.

Please visit these standalone sites for more information

GE Aerospace | GE Vernova | GE HealthCare 

header-image

Life of Pi: From the Pyramids to String Theory, Pi Animates Science andImagination

March 14, 2013

Some students fall in love with their teacher. Mathematician Andrew Barnes fell in love with pi. “My relationship with pi probably began when I was a schoolboy,” says Barnes, who is 44 years old and builds financial models, computes probabilities, and investigates bell curves at GE Global Research. “It started with elementary geometry and the relationship just keeps growing. Now it’s almost like being wedded to a concept.”

header-image

Everything Is Illuminated: New Method Aims to Light Up Pieces of the Cancer Puzzle

March 01, 2013

We’ve learned a lot about cancer, but far from enough. Doctors have gotten better at diagnosing the disease, but they still struggle to pick the right weapon for a patient to fight cancer’s aggressive behavior. “Cancer is very complicated and very different from patient to patient,” says Michael Gerdes, cancer researcher at GE Global Research (GRC) in New York. “We really have not done an adequate job matching patients to therapies. We get some patients but we miss a lot.”

header-image

The Wisdom of the Crowd: Edison’s Birthday Marks National Inventors’ Day

February 11, 2013
Steve Wozniak, who built the first Apple computer, has this advice for inventors: “You are going to be best able to design revolutionary products if you are working on your own,” he writes in his memoir iWoz. “Not on a committee. Not on a team.”
Press Release

Australia jumps ahead in global innovation rankings but must work to convert its strengths into outcomes, according to GE report

January 29, 2013

Australia, 31 January 2013: Australia has improved its global ranking as an innovation leader, according to the GE Innovation Barometer report released today.

Out of the 25 countries surveyed, the report revealed that Australia has moved from 16th place in 2012 to 13th place in 2013 as an innovative economy - ranking ahead of growth markets such as Russia and Brazil, but still lagging behind established innovation leaders like the USA, Germany and Japan.

The report, conducted by independent market research firm Strategy One, reveals that:

business unit
tags
Press Release

Лидеры мировых компаний взволнованы ускоряющимся темпом развития инноваций и усилением конкуренции

January 18, 2013

Исследование GE Global Innovation Barometer 2013 выявило «головокружение от инноваций»: мировые лидеры собираются с силами, чтобы приспособиться к новым, более сложным условиям ведения бизнеса

 

 

business unit
tags
header-image

Carbon Sink: The Solution to Carbon Capture May Be Hiding in Your Bathroom

January 14, 2013

First the good news. Carbon dioxide emissions from coal have been falling over the last five years in the U.S., hitting the lowest point for any quarter since 1986 in March 2012. Cheap natural gas allowed utilities to cut back on coal, the most “carbon-intense” fossil fuel used for power generation.

header-image

Can You Knit a Wind Turbine?: GE Wind Turbine Blades Made From Fabric Aim To Revolutionize Renewable Energy

December 03, 2012

Contrary to popular belief, taking a piano to a fourth-story walk up apartment in New York City may not be the toughest moving job. Consider the wind turbine. The stiff fiberglass blades of the largest turbines span half the length of a football field. Moving them from the factory to the wind farm requires custom cranes, oversize rigs, hours of careful route and traffic planning, and expert drivers to execute precarious turns. What if you could do away with all that and also eliminate the million-dollar molds used to make them for good measure?

Press Release

More Support Needed for Veterans Returning to Work in the UK, Says GE

November 05, 2012

Press Release

GE and Joint Venture Partners Celebrate Groundbreaking for 6FA Gas Turbine Facility in Russia

October 30, 2012

GE expands presence in fast-growing Russian energy market
Technology to help meet Russia's growing need for cogeneration
JV with Russian partners INTER RAO UES and UEC
Rybinsk facility to start producing gas turbines in Q2'2014

Rybinsk, Russia -- October 31, 2012 -- GE (NYSE: GE) and two Russian joint venture partners, INTER RAO UES and United Engine Corporation, today held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Russian Gas Turbines LLC Manufacturing Facility.

business unit
tags
header-image

Eyes on the Nobel Prize: GE Has Employed 2 Nobel Winners, Opened Labsto Others

October 29, 2012
GE once hired St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson to throw a fastball through a piece high-tech glass. Gibson pitched six innings and failed. GE engineer Ivar Giaever tried something similar on the atomic scale and succeeded. He figured out how to pitch electrons through a thin layer of an insulating material, a technique called electron tunneling.
Subscribe to GE Global Research