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Walter Robb, Who Helped Revolutionize Medical Imaging, Including Tools Now Used Against COVID-19, Dies At 92

Brett Nelson
April 08, 2020
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There are skilled engineers, and there are able business leaders. Walter Robb was the rare mixture of both.

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Innovation

Bray’s Law: How One Physicist Cleared The Way For GE Research

Dorothy Pomerantz
March 14, 2020

It was summer 2018, and Stephen Bush was starting to worry. Months of research were about to go down the drain if he couldn’t convince a room of his colleagues that quantum mechanics was the future of cryptography.

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Innovation

The Burning Question: Can Supercomputers Teach Engineers To Build Better Engines?

Scott Woolley
March 12, 2020
How hot is a jet engine? So hot that scientists have been enlisting the world’s most powerful computers to figure out how to cool them without sacrificing the energy the heat can deliver. “Just like biologists use microscopes or astronomers use telescopes, high-fidelity simulations empower researchers to see what they otherwise could not,” says Rick Arthur, an engineer at GE Research.
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ai

You Can Teach A Computer New Tricks: How Boyhood Pets Paved This Scientist’s Approach To AI

Scott Woolley
February 25, 2020
For a man who would grow up to become a leading expert on teaching computers to think, Peter Tu spent his childhood on some unlikely hobbies. Rather than holing up in his bedroom to code, the young Tu would often run around his Toronto neighborhood with his dog or oversee the reptile pit he built in his backyard. Of particular interest to the future computer scientist were the ways his menagerie of animals learned new tricks and skills.
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Power Electronics

It’s Electric: Silicon Carbide Takes Army’s Vehicle Fleet Into The Future

February 15, 2020
It famously took 1.21 gigawatts, roughly the capacity of a large nuclear power plant, to fire up the DeLorean time machine in the “Back to the Future” movies. Time travel might still be the stuff of science fiction but some of Dr. Emmett Brown’s technology wasn’t too far from reality. His attempts to channel the energy from a lightning bolt into the DeLorean’s flux capacitor, for example, were also a madcap introduction to power electronics, the systems that send electricity around in cars and many other machines and devices.
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ai

Humble AI Takes A Curious Turn: How Algorithms That Ask ‘Why’ Can Improve Wind Energy

Amy Kover
November 18, 2019
Part of being human is knowing one’s limitations — no one who has just run their first 5-kilometer race, for instance, should think they could pull off a marathon the following weekend. Likewise, artificial intelligence can perform marathon feats of computing but also needs to know its limits.
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wearables

Tour De Force: Sweat Patch Takes A Licking, Keeps On Sticking

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 11, 2019
Serious physical training is all about making the body tougher and figuring out the weak points. When GE Research engineers sent the first generation of their adhesive sweat patch to a U.S. Air Force Academy boot camp simulation in March 2018, cadets were encouraged to go hard on the Band-Aid-like wearable device designed to wirelessly detect specific levels of electrolytes in their sweat.
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ai

Judgment Call: Why GE Is Experimenting With ‘Humble AI’

Fred Guterl
September 09, 2019

Here’s a nightmare story for you: Machines, endowed with artificial intelligence, get smarter than their creators, take charge and attempt to save humans from themselves. Oops. Smarts, it turns out, are different from wisdom. Pooh-poohing a saying variously attributed to Socrates, Aristotle as well Albert Einstein — the more I know, the more I realize I know nothing — the machines push ahead and bring civilization crashing down on all of us.

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blockchain

Unbreakable: How Quantum Technology Is Helping Secure The Most Critical Data

Sharon Cleary
August 23, 2019
In “Avengers: Endgame,” the titular superheroes need to find a way to go back in time to a moment before half of the universe was wiped out with a snap. Their solution? Travel through the quantum realm, where subatomic particles bounce around like oil in a lava lamp.
While the time travel aspect is pure superhero-movie hokum, the filmmakers tapped into a branch of scientific research that has enormous potential for protecting blockchain: quantum mechanics.
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The Need For Speed: The Potential Of Additive Manufacturing Is Enormous, And Materializing Now

Scott Woolley
August 12, 2019
After a career spent inventing new ways to manipulate metal, William Carter sometimes imagines what it would be like to demonstrate GE’s latest technology to a blacksmith visiting from the Bronze Age. While the time-traveling metallurgist would have no trouble recognizing the wax patterns and ceramic molds used to cast turbine blades and other large metal items, Carter says, he chuckles at the idea of his visitor watching computer-guided lasers conjure elaborate objects from a bed of metal powder: “What it would look like to him is as though we are making parts from burning dirt.”
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