It will also partner with universities to maximize the amount of CO2 and carbon they can recapture
and General electric wants to lead the way A 20-year-old Indonesian student has helped General electric save considerable sums of money in development
And it also about learning and gathering data. And I can also make tooling that can use more conventional manufacturing. t not just about making a final part,
and learning, and we need to figure out what our role is, and if we are investing as much as we should be.
#Education reform has led to an education gold rush There been unprecedented an move to in education to standardize the curriculum in schools.
and tech companies to cash in on the education reform. Public schools don traditionally make good business clients for young tech startups.
And with good reason: Taxpayer-funded schools aren supposed to be the ones writing big checks for unproven products.
The unprecedented scope of the move to standardize K-12 academic achievement targets has resulted in a flurry of business activity among startups,
Gamified mobile apps, all manner of e-books and classroom analytics tools are just a few of the business models attracting venture capital dollars in the $5. 4 billion K-12
education technology industry. In California alone state estimates peg the implementation costs of Common Core around $3 billion,
an education researcher and professor at Stanford university. eople in district offices in schools have a really tough job.
A new education gold rush Judging by venture capital dollars and press write-ups, it might seem like higher education is ground zero for startup activity in the multibillion-dollar education technology industry.
Through startups like Coursera and Udacity Silicon valley entrepreneurs groomed at Stanford and Google have attracted much attention
and tens of millions of dollars intheir bid to translate increasingly expensive college courses into cheaper online formats.
Mounting student debt and constant tuition increases contribute to demand for higher education hacks, but reliable revenue streams have been hard to come by for ed tech entrepreneurs.
K-12 schools, on the other hand, are notorious for strong teachers unions and administrative bureaucracy that can make sales more challenging for vendors.
Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO of the Silicon valley Education Foundation, said of the Common Core requirements. efore we had 50 states with 50 different standards.
Already there is no shortage of startups that have landed products in K-12 classrooms, netting large sums of capital in the process.
San mateo-based Edmodo has raised $40 million to help students and teachers communicate online. In Bellevue, Washington, elementary math curriculum provider Dreambox Learning has secured $32 million
and the backing of Netflix CEO (and education reform advocate) Reed Hastings. Meanwhile, Classdojo, based in San francisco,
has amassed $10 million for its classroom analytics designed to help teachers improve student behavior. Others
like Portland-based Edcaliber, specifically mention Common Core in their mission statements. Edcaliber, which raised a $500,
000 seed funding round last year, advertises a curriculum management system that aims to urn Common Core into common practice.
But one unique dynamic in the K-12 education tech market which investor GSV Advisors projects will be worth $13. 4 billion by 2017is the prominence of nonprofit providers that have a head start over new for-profit entrants.
Mountain view Khan academy already counts 10 million monthly users, and Neeru Khosla Palo alto-based CK-12 Foundation provides free online tools to more than 38,
However, even the appealing price tag of free tools sometimes isn enough to win over skeptical educators. ree doesn mean it garbage,
Educator obstacles There is one constant at demo events featuring K-12 education startups in Silicon valley:
The proliferation of mobile technology is used often as a selling point for entrepreneurs hoping to get their products into classrooms.
But Khosla said there one major hitch in the vision for software-powered classrooms: A lack of necessary hardware. he biggest challenge is said access,
noting that many schools don have the technological infrastructure to make ed tech products viable on a consistent basis. Teacher training is another challenge that Chaudhry group has identified.
He said the Education Foundation is working with local teachers on classroom pilots to try out startup products in a realistic environment.
Apple Inc.,Google Inc.,Microsoft corp. and Cisco systems Inc. are a few major Silicon valley tech companies selling either hardware or software to K-12 educators.
she said. t what the teacher does with it that really matters
#U s. Navy s newest warship is a drone The U s. Navy will christen its newest class of destroyers this month.
and universities involved in directing digital traffic do so safely. Concern about ICANN stewardship has spiked in recent years amid a massive and controversial expansion that is adding hundreds of new domains,
Duke university professor of electrical and computer engineering Steven Cummer and his colleagues used metamaterials the combination of natural materials in repeating patterns to achieve unnatural properties.
This research was supported by Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative grants from the Office of Naval Research and from the Army Research Office.
A group of geologists from the University of Alberta uncovered a water-containing gem that finally confirms this theory:
Late last year, Gen. Robert Cone, head of the U s army Training and Doctrine Command suggested that up to a quarter of the service boots on the ground could be replaced by smarter and leaner weaponry.
according to Noel Sharkey, a University of Sheffield roboticist who is active in the top Killer Robotscampaign.
#Researchers discover marijuana s anxiety relief effects Researchers at Vanderbilt University have found cannabinoid receptors, through
said Sachin Patel, M d.,Ph d.,the paper senior author and professor of Psychiatry and of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics.
a graduate student in Patel lab, the researchers also showed for the first time how nerve cells in this part of the brain make
But Cédric Kovacs-Johnson and Charles Haider, both chemical engineering undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say they have come up with a solution:
They were created by a team of scientists led by Tamás Vicsek, a physicist at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest.
a computer graphics expert now at the University of California in Santa cruz. Reynolds simulated virtual flying objects that move according to three rules they match the average direction of their neighbours and move towards them,
Pics and video) That the kind of smartphone that researchers at Hasselt University iminds in Belgium are building.
a Phd Student in Human computer interaction at the University. hen unfolding Paddle completely it is nearly the size of an ipad,
With Paddle, they could manipulate a single mobile devicene that they operate with natural movementsreatly reducing the learning curve.
and former George washington University law professor Nick Szabo (who has come under occasional suspicion of being pseudonymous bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto).
In 2012, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology 3d printed a race car and cathedral smaller than a dust mite.
Researchers at the Washington University School of medicine have developed high-tech eyewear that helps surgeons detect cancer cells, which glow blue
Phd, a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering at the university. The technology involve a head-mounted display, custom video technology,
but it has already been used during surgery at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of medicine.
Julie Margenthaler, MD, an associate professor of surgery at Washington University and one of the breast surgeons who has performed surgery with the special eyewear,
#Aristotl learning system aims to rejuvenate STEM learning with platform heavy on visualization FORT COLLINS A Fort Collins man is aiming to revitalize the American education system with a new STEM-focused visual
learning platform he calls Aristotl after the Greek philosopher and teacher. Alan Witty a teacher serial entrepreneur and businessman believes U s. students are falling behind their global counterparts in STEM (science technology engineering
and math) skills and he attributes part of that situation to an education system that fails to make those subjects compelling and more easily understandable.
Witty a New york native whose past includes online teacher martial arts instructor and owner of a popular downtown Fort Collins bar says a teaching position at Colorado Technical University he accepted in 2005 opened his eyes to how technology could be used to create a more engaging and visual learning experience. began thinking there must be a better
way to engage students and that how the company startedhe said. Witty president and CEO of KSHARE Inc. said his Aristotl Learning Platform is sophisticated a yet simple-to-use virtual classroom
and content creation tool that enables interactive online learning across a dynamic multidimensional landscape. With his software Witty says users can set up
and run a real-time experiment in a virtual online classroom that can explain and demonstrate STEM concepts in vivid 3d detail.
According to Witty Aristotl is a course creation and content management system that enables the development of fully interactive 3d STEM courses
which can be delivered in a classroom online or through a combined approach. Witty said he set out to create a learning platform that is both student
and teacher-friendly. y thought was how can I create a tool for the teacher that is as flexible as possible
so they can bring their own flair to ithe said. Witty said he believes visual learning is important to address the needs of students who are digital natives
and Aristotl leans heavily on the visual aspect. et give everybody a platform with everything people expect
but let pull in widgets like 3d animation and so onhe said. his tool is focused on that group of people who need to learn visually
and also lets teachers add their own personal touch. itty said the platform encourages instructors to bring their own unique approach to teaching STEM with Aristotl content creation tool. f we look at learning models collaborative models work
besthe says. oday you have to appeal to a student in the language they understand and the world they live in is an extremely visual one. ill Van Eron owner of Headwaters
Marketing and an Aristotl advisor said Witty is taking an innovative approach to meeting today education needs. e moving the mountain over to students so the way teachers interact with students is in their worldvan Eron said.
But Witty said he not just looking to market Aristotl to the U s. education system. e want to be able to connect with people across the globehe says. not going to tell people how to teach.
I just want to give them a great platform. itty says a recent study indicates 40 percent of jobs now require technical skills
and with more and more foreign university students now returning to their home countries to begin their careers instead of staying in the U s. the outlook for continued U s. technical dominance is worrisome. don think the U s. can keep (leading the world)
unless we create a better education systemhe said. Witty launched an Indiegogo fundraising campaign on Jan 15 that aims to raise $150000 to fund the first release of Aristotl.
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scrolling=#no#><iframe>Van Eron said he became an advisor to Witty because of the potential he sees in Aristotl capability to improve education
and by extension help ensure the U s. remains at the top of global innovation. don think education can fix itselfhe said. t needs folks like Alan to create something that is far stronger than
and hopes the education system will embrace some help from Aristotl. t my fundamental belief that
and visiting scholar Zhi Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have developed a new real-time time-dependent density function theory (rt-TDDFT) algorithm that increases the small time
With the selection of suitable bacteria for the device helped biology-students from Delft University of Technology.
The North Central Sustainable agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and the Conservation Technology Information center conducted the survey of more than 759 commercial farmers from winter 2012 through spring 2013.
and the University of Southampton laughing. But Trueman has another serious reason to be fond of the ugly fish:
low-power systems to move through soil,"said Amos Winter, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT."
A Carnegie mellon University study found that eating plant-based meals even just one day a week reduces more greenhouse gases than eating exclusively local foods every day (a practice some people admirably
researchers from the University of Houston and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign created cephalopod-inspired materials that can sense
I"(for University of Illinois). Systems like this one could lead to adaptive camouflage technology that can be tuned to its environment,
As a research professor at the University of California San diego's Machine Perception Lab Bartlett has been studying the use of facial recognition software to help people with autism for several years. 5 Controversial Mental health Treatments
and engineers at the University of Queensland. Christopher Dunks, managing director of Synergen Met, accepted the award on behalf of the project team. his award validates the importance of our site based cyanide production unit
#New water-spray technology reduces coal dust by 60%Technology that has been in development by Southern Illinois University (SIU) researchers for over four years is now ready to be sold.
This accumulation of dust causes respiratory problems and is one of the primary long term dangers of coal mining.
Professor of Mining at SIU, Paul Chugh estimates that this advancement may reduce coal dust levels nywhere from 40 to 60 per cent The technology is free of chemicals
said Dean Perry, president of Toolhound. He continued to say that the technology rovides real-time tool tracking
#New 3-D microscope could benefit mining A University of Utah team discovered a method for turning a small,
Designed by Rajesh Menon, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and graduate student Ganghun Kim, the microscope technique works when an LED light is illuminated
and guided through a fiberoptic needle or cannula. Returned pictures are reconstructed into 3-D images using algorithms developed by Menon and Kim. nlike miniature microscopes,
The microscope was designed originally for the lab of Nobel prize-winning U human genetics professor, Mario R. Capecchi,
In partnership with the University of Western australia, Panorama has developed a patented optical reader for Micro Electro Mechanical systems (EMS
The latest breakthrough in invisibility technology comes out of the University of Rochester, where the most sophisticated
which works for transmitting rays in the visible spectrum, said Joseph Choi, a Phd student at Rochester Institute of Optics.
In other words, the University of Rochester technology is a cloaking system that doesn't distort and maintains the cloaked area across multiple viewing angles.
and University of Lund microbiologist Tobias Olofsson says in a press release. When used alive these 13 lactic acid bacteria produce the right kind of antimicrobial compounds as needed depending on the threat.
and it being used as a test bed by the Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems (IMS) at the University of Cincinnati.
The center is working on something like Big data for smart batteries turning these mysterious devices into information centers that according to doctoral student Mohammad Rezvani can tell their users
The University of Cincinnati's smart battery team with the Twike. Photo: Jim Motavalli) The big drawback of the Twike is the price around $27000 for the base model
The smart battery research at the University of Cincinnati is interesting. According to Jay Lee the IMS director the cells in a battery pack typically degrade
a professor of engineering at Harvard university who helped develop the new robot. Wood said he first became interested in origami-like folding
a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT who also worked on the self-assembling robot."
Royal College of Art graduate Julian Melchiorri has created the world's first man-made, biologically functional"leaf,"reports Dezeen.
which was developed as part of the Royal College of Art's Innovation Design Engineering course in collaboration with Tufts University silk lab,
The key word to this development is"transparent,"according to Richard Lunt of MSU's College of Engineering.
#Scientists achieve quantum teleportation of data with 100 percent accuracy Dutch scientists working with the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience at the Delft University of Technology have made a stunning breakthrough in quantum technology
For instance a University of Maryland study back in 2009 demonstrated that it could be done but only one out of every 100 million attempts succeeded.
That's the idea behind a new billboard archetype created by researchers at UTEC the University of Engineering and Technology of Peru reports Time.
This could lead to other methods for reducing the accumulation of pollution. If these early prototypes are successful one can imagine similar billboards being erected in urban areas around the world.
but now it getting more serious with the Honda Smart Home on the campus of the University of California at Davis
Undergraduate students at Johns hopkins university did much of the work fusing together short pieces of DNA into longer segments as part of a class project
and some of these former students were co-authors on the study Unraveling the Human genome: 6 Molecular Milestones Boeke's team made more than 500 tweaks to the native genome removing repeated sections
Timothy Lu, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and biological engineering.""It an interesting way of thinking about materials synthesis,
and materials engineering,"said Lingchong You, an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Duke university i
#Poop-powered airport shuttle bus hits the road in the U k. A supermarket powered by its own expired comestibles.
But a group of scientists from Hokkaido University in Japan decided to go further, and demonstrated that quantum entanglement can also be used in fields such as microscopy.
The Hokkaido University researchers say the signal-to-noise ratio, which describes roughly how sharp the image is,
Physicist Jonathan Matthews of the University of Bristol in the U k.,who also was involved not in the research,
The University of Quebec at Montreal is monitoring the suit both from the Antarctic and in its labs,
which owns the Exosuit) the AMNH the John B. Pierce Laboratory at Yale university Baruch College-City university of New york the University of Rhode island and Arizona State university.
7 Clever Technologies Inspired By nature The simplicity is the beauty of this technology said Ray Baughman a chemist at the University of Texas at Dallas
High-school students in their family room can make their own muscles and deploy them Baughman added.
Chris Mason a University college London professor of regenerative medicine who was affiliated not with the two studies told the BBC that this is a game changer
and includes on-site pilot and operations training. The vehicles are among the latest high-tech items geared at the super-rich,
Cornell University's Fab@Home can print ramen noodles in a variety of artistic shapes.
but learning to control the quantum data has proven difficult. The latest breakthrough in quantum computing,
"explained Andrew Dzurak of the University of New south wales, one of the study's authors. The trick to improving the accuracy of the technology was to select for specific silicon isotopes that have no magnetic spin,
Researchers at the University of Maryland, funded by the DARPA's Mathematics of Sensing, Exploitation and Execution (MSEE), are teaching robots how to process visual data
""This system allows robots to continuously build on previous learning such as types of objects and grasps associated with them
and training,"explained Ghanadan.""Instead of the long and expensive process of programming code to teach robots to do tasks, this research opens the potential for robots to learn much faster, at much lower cost and,
This learning-based approach is a significant step towards developing technologies that could have benefits in areas such as military repair and logistics."
And, according to Yiannis Aloimonos, University of Maryland professor of computer science and director of the Computer Vision Lab, cooking was the perfect skill to test the robots'progress."
#Metal surface is so water-repellent that drops of water bounce off it like balls Researchers at the University of Rochester have created a metal surface so hydrophobic that water bounces off it
Luckily the University of Rochester researchers have provided a demonstration: Water dropped over the metal appears like candy-dispenser bouncy balls as it richochets off.
Though perhaps it's simply enough to be dazzled by displays of water bouncing around like balls. he material is so strongly water-repellent the water actually gets bounced offsaid Chunlei Guo a professor of optics
an associate professor of physics at Princeton who led the study. The successful maser demonstration represents a breakthrough in efforts to build a quantum computer out of semiconductor materials.
"said collaborator Jacob Taylor, an adjunct assistant professor at the Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland-National Institute of Standards and Technology.
and the moving electron,"said Claire Gmachl, professor of electrical engineering at Princeton.""The double quantum dot allows them full control over the motion of even a single electron,
The opportunity to improve access to education health care financial systems and employment will take a revolution one that we are tremendously proud to be said part of Branson.
a winning solar-power commode designed by students at Caltech. Designed as a low-cost sewage treatment plant, the Omniprocessor was developed to tackle the same problem but on a larger scale.
"says graduate student Chris Moon, one of the authors of the work published in Nature Nanotechnology1.
"says Alexander Sergienko, a quantum-optics physicist at Boston University in Massachusetts. But he says that the technique is a long way from having any practical use.
"says co-author Jerry Franklin of the University of Washington in Seattle. But if the mortality rate ramps up to higher percentages,
"says Rod Wilson, a fish physiologist at the University of Exeter, UK. Wilson and his colleagues from the United kingdom, the United states and Canada set about estimating the contribution of fish to global marine carbonate production.
Byung Hee Hong from Sungkyunkwan University in Suwon, Korea, and his colleagues transferred a wafer-thin layer of graphene,
and more likely to be incorporated in niche applications such as individual ultra-high-frequency transistors, suggests Andre Geim, from the University of Manchester, UK,
"says Paul Nelson at the Nuclear Security Science and Policy Institute of Texas A&m University in College Station.
Klaas Pruessmann at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, his student David Brunner and their colleagues removed the radio-frequency coil used to tumble the nuclei from an MRI machine built by Philips Healthcare
The university has filed for patents on the technology, which is described on page 994 of this issue."
This provoked Graham Wiggins of the Center for Biomedical Imaging at New york University's Medical center to build his own version.
Now a team led by Merel Kindt at the University of Amsterdam have used the ß-blocker propranolol to affect reconsolidation.
"says Roger Pitman at Harvard Medical school, who led the original study on the effects of the drug on fear memories in patients with PTSD2.
"says Stephen Liggett, director of cardiopulmonary genomics at the University of Maryland Medical center in Baltimore,
"says study author Ann Palmenberg, a virologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.""These viruses are really nasty.
says Caroline Tapparel, a virologist at the University Hospital of Geneva in Switzerland, but she cautions that with the exception of the troublesome HRV-C viruses,
says James Riley, an HIV researcher at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Of all the'n=1'experiments out there, this is a good one,
Nature News Findings from a'brain training'study challenge theory. Researchers in Sweden have revealed a surprising change in brain biochemistry that occurs during the training of working memory,
a buffer that stores information for the few second required to solve problems or even to understand what we are reading.
But the'use-it-or-lose it'adage holds true working memory can be improved through training. Torkel Klingberg, a neurologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm,
Using brain imaging techniques, the scientists measured levels and locations of dopamine receptors in brain areas of interest in each participant before and after training.
Klingberg says that his team's results may also have practical implications for training working memory.
In some centres, children undergo working-memory training programmes.""We are interested now to see if a combination of cognitive training and pharmacological intervention could be more effective than either alone,
"he says h
#Neanderthal genome to be unveiled: Nature News The entire genome of a 38,000-year-old Neanderthal has been sequenced by a team of scientists in Germany.
chaired by physicist Pekka Sinervo from the University of Toronto in Ontario, reported in July 2008 that very little information existed about the risks associated with nanomaterials."
"says Colin Finan, from the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, based at the Woodrow wilson International Center for Scholars in WASHINGTON DC.
Kaicun Wang, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Maryland in College Park, and his colleagues based their conclusions on visibility measurements, a good proxy for aerosol pollution, from 3, 250 meteorological stations around the world.
and MRI to the molecular level, says Friedemann Reinhard, a physicist at the University of Stuttgart in Germany.
such as a protein folding, writes Philip Hemmer, a solid-state physicist at Texas A&m University in College Station."
head of neurosurgery at the University of California, San diego, says well-preserved RNA in blood and spinal fluid enables researchers to test
director of urologic oncology at Columbia University Medical center. There are additional reasons, however, for high PSA levels
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