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Living On The Edge: This New Tech Completes The Industrial Internet

Danielle Merfeld Vice President General Manager Of The Niskayuna Technology Center GE Global Research
September 23, 2017
In a popular sitcom about the digital economy, a brilliant team of misfit coders and developers do valiant, if hapless, battle against a mega-corporation with unlimited resources but no inspiration. I work for a big company, but that vision of development looks like a kludgy nightmare to me, too. Thankfully, everyone at GE, from top to bottom, agreed that we should build our digital business like Thomas Edison would: through a restless drive to innovate, small teams and tight deadlines.
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Behavioral Science: Solar Eclipses Are Predictable. The People Watching Them? Not So Much

Tomas Kellner
August 23, 2017
Millions of people will step outside today to watch as the “Great American” solar eclipse cuts across the United States from Oregon to South Carolina. But a group of experts responsible for generating and distributing power around the country will keep their eyes glued to their gauges and dials. For them, the show will begin when the shadow passes.
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Behavioral Science: Solar Eclipses Are Predictable. The People Watching Them? Not So Much

Tomas Kellner
August 21, 2017
Millions of people will step outside today to watch as the “Great American” solar eclipse cuts across the United States from Oregon to South Carolina. But a group of experts responsible for generating and distributing power around the country will keep their eyes glued to their gauges and dials. For them, the show will begin when the shadow passes.
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Two Brains, A Computer, And Lots Of Coffee: How A Pair Of GE Engineers Took NASA By Storm

Bruce Watson
August 02, 2017
Imagine a storm whipping across the Martian desert, blasting everything in its path. When the wind dies down, a robot slowly ventures out of a habitat station and into the dusty aftermath, picking its way around rocks and debris. It assembles a solar panel and adjusts an antenna, providing energy to the station and strengthening its connection to Earth. Then it heads back inside where it detects a leak and patches it, making the room safe for human inhabitants.
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3D Printing

GE: 3D Printing Opens A ‘New, Unlimited Dimension’ For Manufacturing

Yari Bovalino
Tomas Kellner
June 01, 2017
Carlos Haertel, who runs the GE Global Research center in Munich, says additive manufacturing technologies like 3D printing are opening a “new, unlimited dimension” to how we make products as varied as jewelry, dental implants, planes and jet engines.
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blockchain

Beyond Bitcoin: Digital Currency Among Many Industrial Applications For Blockchain

Dorothy Pomerantz
May 22, 2017
Ben Beckmann works as the lead scientist in the complex systems engineering lab at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. In 2012, he made a seemingly inconsequential wager: He bet one of his colleagues that the electronic currency bitcoin would fail.
Bitcoins started trading for pennies after the currency launched in 2009. Today, you can buy one bitcoin for $2,200. Beckmann lost the bet and took his colleague for a nice meal. “If we had taken the $100 we spent on dinner and invested it in bitcoins at the start, we would be millionaires,” Beckmann laughs.
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Electric Cars

This Is What We Call A Smart Car: Talking Batteries Will Help EVs Find Their Voice

Todd Alhart
April 27, 2017
Electric carmakers have spent more than a century searching for a way to make their vehicles truly competitive. It never occurred to them to ask the batteries.
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3D Printing

The Heirs Of Gutenberg: GE Is Adding The Next Chapter Of Its 3D-Printing Push In Germany

Tomas Kellner
April 24, 2017
When the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press during the Renaissance, he set words, and ideas, free. Six hundred years later, his compatriot Frank Herzog is taking printing to a new dimension, using it to liberate designers and reinvent manufacturing. Herzog is the founder of Concept Laser, one of the leading makers of industrial 3D printers.
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ai

I Machine, You Human: How AI Is Helping GE Build A Powerhouse Of Knowledge

Tomas Kellner
April 13, 2017
Every fall, GE Global Research holds a scientific gathering called the Whitney Symposium highlighting the latest scientific trends. Last year the two-day event explored industrial applications of artificial intelligence. We sat down with Mark Grabb and Achalesh Pandey, two GE scientists looking for ways to apply AI to  jet engines, medical scanners and other machines. "We are starting to see significant performance increases from the combination of deep learning and reinforcement learning, where you have a human in the loop correcting the system," Grabb said.
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Energy

This Is What We Call Ecomagination: GE Is Building A CO2-Powered Turbine That Generates 10 Megawatts And Fits On A Table

Tomas Kellner
April 12, 2017
Beacham says that facial recognition will enable plant managers to ensure that workers at specific workstations have the required training. It also will automatically sign the employee into GE’s IT systems and allow him or her to start or resume the job after a break. “We’re spending almost 100,000 hours a year on logging into our IT systems at GE Healthcare alone,” Beacham says. “This saves time and money.”
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