Étiquette : Universities & Schools
Stanford’s Strategic Energy Alliance adds Shell as fourth founding member
By Maxine Lym Stanford University’s Strategic Energy Alliance announced that it has added Shell as a founding member. The Alliance is a research program in collaboration with industry to accelerate the transition to affordable, low-carbon, secure energy systems around the world. The company has pledged $20 million for research over…
MIT’s fleet of autonomous boats can now shapeshift
MIT’s fleet of robotic boats has been updated with new capabilities to “shapeshift,” by autonomously disconnecting and reassembling into a variety of configurations, to form floating structures in Amsterdam’s many canals. Source : http://news.mit.edu/2019/roboats-autonomous-connect-assemble-0829 Date : August 29, 2019 at 06:30AM Tag(s) : Universities & Schools,MIT,Autonomous Boat Share this… Email Facebook…
IBM gives artificial intelligence computing at MIT a lift
IBM designed Summit, the fastest supercomputer on Earth, to run the calculation-intensive models that power modern artificial intelligence (AI). Now MIT is about to get a slice. Source : http://news.mit.edu/2019/ibm-gives-lift-artificial-intelligence-computing-mit-0826 Date : August 27, 2019 at 03:22AM Tag(s) : Universities & Schools,AI Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print
Princeton program empowers youth to shape the future of artificial intelligence
The summer AI4ALL program at Princeton gives young women and others from underrepresented groups a chance to learn about the artificial intelligence field from an early age. Source : https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/08/26/princeton-program-empowers-youth-shape-future-artificial-intelligence Date : August 26, 2019 at 07:21PM Tag(s) : Universities & Schools Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print
Berkeley Talks: We need a digital infrastructure that serves humanity, says techno-sociologist
Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science, discusses hate speech research being conducted at UC Berkeley’s D-Lab. Source : http://news.berkeley.edu/2019/08/26/berkeley-talks-zeynep-tufekci/ Date : August 26, 2019 at 08:56PM Tag(s) : Universities & Schools,Infrastructure Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print
Energising buildings
A solar façade developed at ETH Zurich combines electricity production with intelligent shading to achieve optimal energy balance. Source : http://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2019/08/kraftwerk-vor-dem-fenster.html Date : August 25, 2019 at 11:08AM Tag(s) : Universities & Schools,#SMARTCITY Share this… Email Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Print
Using algorithms to track down cancer
Modern medicine is looking for markers that provide early warning of complex diseases. In its quest to discover these “biomarkers”, the ETH spinoff Scailyte has developed software capable of analysing millions of single cells very efficiently. Source : http://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2019/08/scailyte.html Date : August 25, 2019 at 11:08AM Tag(s) : Universities &…
Learning in the urban lab in Singapore
Students from 12 departments took part in the first “ETH Singapore Month”, a “classroom” more than 10,000 kilometres away from the Zurich campus. Within an intensive month, they crossed disciplinary boundaries to develop proposals to address complex problems posed by urbanisation. Source : http://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2019/06/urban-lab.html Date : August 25, 2019 at…
Driverless congestion
A unique simulation for the city of Zurich shows that driverless taxis would not displace personal transport in cities as long as automated private vehicles are also available. Previous simulations assumed too high a demand for automated taxi services, as they did not take into account user preferences regarding flexibility,…
A major expansion for the Green Building
Rising nearly 300 feet from the ground, the Cecil and Ida Green Building, aka Building 54, stands out as not only the tallest building on MIT’s campus but also (until recently) the tallest building in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Yet it’s not obvious from the outside what actually goes on within this…
New discipline proposed: Macro-energy systems
What types of electricity storage could have the biggest impact globally for a low-carbon energy future? Can humanity simultaneously de-carbonize energy and extend heat, lighting and transportation to more than a billion people now living with without modern energy services? Source : https://energy.stanford.edu/news/new-discipline-proposed-science-energy-transition-macro-energy-systems Date : August 18, 2019 at 12:03PM…
Optimus Ride’s autonomous system makes self-driving vehicles a reality
Some of the biggest companies in the world are spending billions in the race to develop self-driving vehicles that can go anywhere. Meanwhile, Optimus Ride, a startup out of MIT, is already helping people get around by taking a different approach. Source : http://news.mit.edu/2019/optimus-ride-self-driving-0809 Date : August 9, 2019 at…