#Student in Kenya Invents Solar Powered Forest fire Detector Efforts to curb forest loss around the world as a means of cutting carbon emissions just got a boost:
A Kenyan student has invented a device to automatically detect forest fire outbreaks. The technology, produced by Pascal Katana, a 24-year-old University of Nairobi engineering student,
uses heat sensors to detect a fire, then automatically relays the information to a forest station through mobile phone technology. he heat sensors are programmed to detect temperatures which are over 45 degrees Celsius,
In a demonstration at the University of Nairobi Katana altered sensor levels to detect body temperate
the electrical and electronics engineering student said, calling it a lug and playdevice. The device still has to go through a vetting
even including boosting brain functions like memory and learning
#FTC Proposes Stricter Guidelines on Food Ads for Children The Federal trade commission has proposed sweeping new guidelines that could push the food industry to overhaul how it advertises cereal, soda pop, snacks, restaurant meals and other foods to children.
a communications professor at the University of Arizona who studies the marketing of children food. his forces Toucan Sam to be associated with healthier products.
Jon Shane, a professor in the Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
and education levels of its officers so they can be matched up with certain assignments. Other larger projects include finishing the police academy at its new campus in College Point, Queens,
a 30-acre site that will consolidate training classes now taught at more than a dozen locations citywide.
The academy will be opened for some programs in July 2014, and will be fully open##with a firearms and driver training courses##in 2018,
Now they are back in every community, with the best even waving money at graduates.
##Wu, who is a member of both Berkeley Lab and the Berkeley University s Materials science and engineering department,
##At the University of Cambridge, researchers have pulled off something of a 3d printing coup. Using lab rats,
Led by professor Keith Martin, the team actually printed viable retina cells, using an inkjet printer, of all things.
but eventually professor Martin and his team believe that their process will be capable of 3d printing#retinal#grafts tailored for individual patients.
a college-degreed, up-and-coming Filipino youth, were annoying because of your accent. Now imagine being told that hundreds of times a day.
the training takes up to one to two weeks.####Working at a place like this might feel like playing a very strange massively multiplayer online game.
#Ana Gomes#at Harvard Medical school and her colleagues compared the levels of MESSENGER RNA (mrna) molecules that convey genetic information around a cell for the cellular components needed for respiration in the skeletal muscle of 6 and 22-month-old mice.
such as NMN,##says#Shin-Ichiro Imai, at Washington University School of medicine in St louis, Missouri. Photo credit: W. U k Via New Scientist Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorat s
Paul Wilcox, professor of ultrasonics at Bristol University s faculty of engineering,#told#The Sunday Times: The obvious way of doing it is to have an ultrasonic transducer in the corner of the windshield that would excite waves at around 30khz to bounce across the windshield.
The classroom will learn you. Buying local will beat online. Doctors will use your DNA to keep you well.
and adaptive learning technologies. IBM believes the technologies will be developed with the appropriate safeguards for privacy and security,
Here s some more detailed description and analysis on the predictions The classroom will learn you Globally,
two out of three adults haven t gotten the equivalent of a high school education. But IBM believes the classrooms of the future will give educators the tools to learn about every student,
providing them with a tailored curriculum from kindergarten to high school.####Your teacher spends time getting to know you every year,
##Meyerson said.####What if they already knew everything about how you learn?####In the next five years, IBM believes teachers will use##longitudinal data##such as test scores, attendance,
and student behavior on electronic learning platforms##and not just the results of aptitude tests.
Sophisticated analytics delivered over the cloud will help teachers make decisions about which students are at risk, their roadblocks,
and the way to help them. IBM is working on a research project with the#Gwinnett County Public schools in Georgia,
the 14th largest school district in the U s. with 170,000 students. The goal is to increase the district s graduation rate.
And after a $10 billion investment in analytics IBM believes it can harness big data to help students out.##
##You ll be able to pick up problems like dyslexia instantly, ##Meyerson said.####If a child has extraordinary abilities,
they can be recognized. With 30 kids in a class, a teacher cannot do it themselves. This doesn t replace them.
It allows them to be far more effective. Right now, the experience in a big box store doesn t resemble this,
but it will get there.####Buying local will beat online Online sales topped $1 trillion worldwide last year,
and many physical retailers have gone out of business as they fail to compete on price with the likes of Amazon.
However, the revelation made by the research team led by John Stamatoyannopoulos of the University of Washington indicates that genomes use the genetic code to write two separate languages.##
#A solar-powered 3d printer that prints glass from sand Marcus Kayser s Solar Sinter project When Markus Kayser, a design student,
talked to physics professors, and learned about a process in which sand, heated to its melting point,
But, a team of scientists at the University of Illinois at Chicago have figured out#a way to make synthetic gas inexpensively,
##We re a group of professionals from the army, security services and (straight) from university,##said an instructor who called himself##Mister
##It s a playground to simulate real cyber attacks, ##he said while seated in the##attack room##a computer nerd s paradise,
a law professor specializing in drones and robotics.####If you want to compete in logistics and delivery,
##With face-reading software, a computer s webcam might spot the confused expression of an online student
a Ph d. candidate at the University of Cambridge#who has written papers#on the automatic analysis of facial expressions.
Apps that can respond to facial cues may find wide use in education gaming, medicine and advertising,
said#Winslow Burleson, an assistant professor of human computer interaction at Arizona State university.####Once we can package this facial analysis in small devices
#Computer analyzes images to teach itself common sense At Carnegie mellon University computers are running a program that analyze images to learn common sense.
##The Never Ending Image Learner (NEIL) program is being run at Carnegie mellon University in the United states. The work is being funded by the US Department of defense s Office of Naval Research and Google.
##said Abhinav Gupta, assistant research professor in Carnegie mellon s Robotics Institute.####They also include a lot of common sense information about the world.
humans will need still to be part of the program s learning process, according to Abhinav Shrivastava, a Phd student working on the project.##
##People don t always know how or what to teach computers, ##he said.####But humans are good at telling computers
Leif Ristroph, an applied mathematician at New york University, wanted to build the##simplest possible##flying machine.#
Scientists at the National University of Singapore have developed a new electrode that could be the first step in making that happen.
says#Srdjan Lukic, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at NCSU. Wireless charging through magnetic induction##the same type typically used for electric toothbrushes##is being pursued by a number of companies for consumer electronics and electric vehicles.
The University of Utah has tested a wireless charging infrastructure for city buses and has spun out a company called Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification#to build commercial products.
#Elementary school students in Finland to learn coding Teaching programming is part of an effort to encourage the development of tech skills at an early age.
In the near future, elementary school students in Finland could be adding coding and programming to their nightly homework routine.
Following in#the footsteps of neighboring country Estonia, Alexander Stubb,#the Finnish Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade, says that teaching basic programming skills to young kids in the classroom
is on the country s radar.#####It would be a great idea to have coding as a voluntary
##We have a strong education system and rank among the top countries in both primary and secondary education,
##Bringing coding to students is something we are very aware of, but it would probably take awhile to get it up and running.##
Estonia rolled out a similar program for elementary school students in 2012, with 20 schools across the country testing a program called#Progetiiger.
The software teaches everything from basic logic to Java and C++ for older students. Finland is emerging as one of the hottest new startup hubs in the world,
##The country is also embracing coding education at the university level via Aalto University s Appcampus program#outside Helsinki.
It might take a decade of public education and wrangling in courts, legislative bodies, NATO and perhaps even the UN,
##We all know that learning to code is one of the most hyped skills right now and for good reason,
Programming##Micro Colleges##have sprung up in over#40 cities with Davinci Coders in Boulder, Colorado rated##top value##with its beginner-based, 11-week, full-immersion program for $6, 000.
#some schools already require students wear them as bracelets that sensors can pick up to#deter truancy.
It has already been put to work by British infantrymen in Afghanistan, scouting possible routes for enemy ambushes or secretively flying over enemy compound walls for a look inside.
A few months back, Professor Mark Post in Maastricht cultured and grew beef muscle cells from which that##Googleburger##was made.#
##Professor Post said. That#Economist#story also mentions that the##world s appetite for meat is forecast to rise by 70%by 2050.
Video)##In the TED Talk video below, Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), demonstrates automated construction,
teachers and parents how to convert the packaging and drinking straws leftover from lunch. If we were to use only the world s plastic waste rather than oil from oil fields,
#U s. State department and Coursera partner to support free education in over 30 countries The State departments goal is having more foreigners learn English and experience the U s. education system.
U s. embassies around the world this fall are hosting weekly discussions for students enrolled in free online courses, called MOOCS, in partnership with Coursera, the Silicon valley-based platform with over 5 million users.
Topics include English, science, technology, engineering, business, and U s. civics.#####The State department and USAID promote a more peaceful, prosperous world,
and we all know one of the best ways to get there is to ensure that all people have access to high-quality education,
##says Meghann Curtis, deputy assistant secretary for academic programs at the U s. Department of state s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
which is running the##MOOC Camp##program.####We saw MOOCS as this great tool to achieve a number of goals,
##she says.####It gave me, like, a taste of what is first world education, ##said Alejandra B,
. a 21-year-old student studying business at a Catholic university in La paz, Bolivia. She started the MOOC Camp in September,
meeting weekly with other students who were taking#Foundations of Business Strategy, a Coursera course taught by Michael Lenox at the University of Virginia s Darden School of business.
Alejandra liked learning the real-world case studies and how to write a business plan. The La paz example was an exceptional one.
In addition to going over the materials in the MOOC facilitator Yuki Kondo-Shah, an assistant cultural affairs officer in her first post, arranged video chats with U s. entrepreneurs,
like the founder of Disqus and Fundly. And the embassy is following up with a business plan competition for local students, with an#ipad#Mini as the prize.
Alejandra is working on a website that gathers data about rural areas in Bolivia.####I ve been fascinated with MOOCS
ever since they came out, ##says Kondo-Shah.####I thought this would be a great opportunity to work with Bolivian students
and get them exposed to American-style education.####The State department s sponsorship of this project isn t all altruistic.
They have the official goal of having more foreigners learn English and experience the U s. education system.
Every participant in a##MOOC Camp##will meet with an advisor from State seducationusa#program, which helps international students go to U s. colleges.
For its part, Coursera is providing training resources for facilitators. It will be tracking students success through the platform.
The idea is that people will find it easier to persist and succeed in the online,
video-based interactive courses when they have the chance to get in-person support from facilitators and from peers.
Increasing student success through this so-called##blended learning##approach is pretty important for Coursera and the other MOOC platforms.
Globally, 90%of those who enroll in the online courses created by professors at universities like Stanford, Pennsylvania State university, Wesleyan,
and Yale don t finish. There s some interesting political undertones to this experiment. Although MOOC platforms have partner institutions located around the world,
the very idea of MOOCS has been labeled###cultural imperialism###for broadcasting courses created at elite institutions.
This impression can only be enhanced when a MOOC program is sponsored literally by the U s. government for U s. diplomatic reasons.
Also, MOOC Camp is running in some countries not known for freedom of speech like China and the former Soviet republic of Georgia,
and it ll be interesting to see how the American liberal arts approach to classroom discussion flies in such settingsespecially
when the topic is U s. power itself.####We see this as an opportunity to draw an audience
and create a forum for open and spirited discussion, ##says Curtis.##One of the classes is American foreign policy.
Imke Hoehler, an inductrial design student at Germany Muthesius Academy of Fine arts has turned a lot of heads with her thesis project, the Dropnet fog collector.
but Canadian design student Thomas Row gives us an idea of what it may look like.
Millercoors director of sustainability. he learnings and savings in the first two years of the pilot project farms were significant cumulative 270 million gallons of water reduced.
Not so#according to a group of University of Washington engineers#who are building a communication system called Wifi backscatterthe system powers devices using radio waves
said Shyam Gollakota, a UW assistant professor of computer science and engineering. We now have the ability to enable Wifi connectivity for devices
and UW associate professor of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering, says that although the signals are tiny
Last year, Harvard university researchers led by engineering professor Robert Wood introduced the first Robobees, bee-size robots with the ability to lift off the ground
A coauthor of that report, Harvard graduate student and mechanical engineer Kevin Ma, tells Business Insider that the team ison the eve of the next big development.
In a joint 300 million project, universities across Britain are coming together, alongside the Department of health, the Wellcome Trust, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Medical Research Council.
Brian A. Barsky, a University of California, Berkeley, computer science professor and affiliate professor of optometry and vision science who coauthored the paper, says it's like undoing
However, Ramesh Raskar, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab who coauthored the paper says that if researchers used a display with a high enough resolution about double the 326 pixels per inch of the ipod Touch used in the paper the technology could be made to be used by more than one person at once.
He s deputy director of the company s#Institute of Deep Learning, a Chinese equivalent to#Google s X Labs. A team to turn the unthinkable to reality,
masters student Jonathan Cheseaux said in a release. Companies like Facebook and Google are looking into using drones
#Micro-colleges will educate the workforce of the future: Futurist Thomas Frey The world has a shortage of 18 million teachers.
Dell s#Center for Entrepreneurs#took to the Rockies, sponsoring an event at the Innovation Pavilion in Centennial, Colorado.
With the ever-increasing pace of innovation, traditional colleges and universities are failing to train and retrain workers quickly enough.##
We need to prepare students for jobs that don t yet exist using technology that hasn t been invented to solve problems we don t even know are problems yet.
Teacherless classroom Frey says he was approached once by Google to collaborate on a project to deliver educational resources to Africa.
The search giant recognized that one of the biggest obstacles had been that teachers simply didn t want to come to the continent.
With this in mind, the notion of a teacherless classroom became more and more intriguing. It wouldn t be without precedent, Frey noted.
The world has a shortage of 18 million teachers, Frey said. He noted that a full 23 percent of all children grow up without an education.
With the changing pace of technology today, if we continue to have to insert a teacher between us
and everything that we need to learn in the future, we can t possibly stay competitive, Frey said.
Disappearing jobs and micro-colleges The main factor driving change in the labor force is new innovations rendering old jobs obsolete,
That isn t possible through conventional universities, but he believes micro-colleges such as#Davinci Coders,
which offers programming training, #are stepping in to fill the gap. We need to create systems for reemploying people at a far faster rate than ever before,
Frey said. Jobs are going to transition in lots of different ways that we don t even understand yet,
much as high school and college do for rich white ones, #wrote Adam Gopnik in#his seminal 2012 article.
A new University of Chicago study found that black men are no better off in 2014 than they were passed
although criminologists and scholars like Michelle Alexander have#consistently found no correlation#between the incarceration rate and the crime rate.
and scholars who ve worked on prison and criminal-justice reform for years. But for the general public
Professor Roger Barlow from the University of Huddersfield is part of a team researching thorium power generation.
The team from the University of Rochester, Alfred University and the University of California San diego also added a surfactant to the mix to improve the printability of the material.
Other studies, notably those lead by University of California Irvine economist David Neumark, argue there is an adverse effect.
and Dow chemical. The batteries are based on research that company cofounder Christine Ho began as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley,
Mcor s Director of Marketing tells 3dprint. com. Staples, Gunma Internet, Vincennes University, WH Williams/Williams 3d,
The company believes that this technology can be used for multiple purposes in many sectors of business and education.
Mr. Petrone is in his fourth year of a Doctor of Chiropractic program at Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in Toronto.
He works out religiously, is the school s students council president and spends eight to 10 hours a day at school.
a family sociologist at Simon Fraser University. I would definitely say it supports a lot of the broader trends we re seeing with respect to young people delaying their own family formation,
says John Sorensen, a professor of sociology at Brock University in St catharines, Ont.,who specializes in human-animal relationships.
Keiley Abbat, owner of Small Wonders Pets, a Toronto shop that specializes in nutrition education
says Stanley Coren, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of British columbia and author of#The Wisdom of Dogs.
#Department of education shuts down for-profit Corinthian Colleges Federal regulations are designed to make sure that colleges that don t offer a good value to students,
don t get student aid money. Corinthian Colleges will put 85 of its U s. campuses up for sale and close the remaining dozen under an agreement with the U s. Department of education.
The for-profit college chain operates campuses under the names Heald, Everest and Wyotech. It has more than 70,000 students across North america.
It s the largest-ever college, by enrollment, to be shut down in this way. It all started in January
when the U s. Department of education asked the company to provide detailed records, including Social security numbers, job placement results,
and attendance and grade changes, of students. This was part of compliance with federal regulations designed to make sure that colleges that don t offer a good value to students,
don t get student aid money. When Corinthian didn t fully respond, in June, the Department of education placed a three-week hold on financial aid payments to Corinthian.
The cash freeze was a big problem for the college, which had underlying financial difficulties.
Inside Higher Ed reported in May that the college faced closing off or selling its business
with both enrollment and revenue slumping. We are pleased to have reached an agreement with ED that helps protect the interests of our students, employees and other stakeholders, Jack Massimino,
Corinthian Chairman and Chief executive officer, said in a company press release. This agreement allows our students to continue their education
and helps minimize the personal and financial issues that affect our 12,000 employees and their families.
It also provides a blueprint for allowing most of our campuses to continue serving their students and communities under new ownership.
Current students have a number of choices. For those who stay on at campuses that are closing
the Department of education will release enough money to allow the college toteach out or enable them to finish their degrees.
Some students will also be offered refunds or the opportunity to transfer, and their loans may be discharged.
The problems in the for-profit college sector are wider than Corinthian. They come both from market forces and the government.
For example, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is suing ITT Educational Services, a chain with 135 campuses and 55,000 students in 40 states.
The CFPB s allegations include predatory lending and misleading students about their job prospects. ITT has filed a motion to dismiss this lawsuit.
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#Fingerreader reads to the blind in real time MIT s Fingerreader Massachusetts institute of technology scientists are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people
Berrier manages training and evaluation for a federal program that distributes technology to low-income people in Massachusetts
an MIT professor who founded and leads the Fluid Interfaces research group developing the prototype,
Harvard Law Professor Lessig s ability to raise large sums from both wealthy tech luminaries and the general public shows broad support for making elected officials less beholden
Subhasish Mitra, a professor who worked on the project. We now know that you can build something useful with carbon nanotubes,
Dr Charl Faul, a materials chemist at the University of Bristol. He says the study offers avery simple, elegant answer to a very old problem.
by the time his son went to college.####Results from the latest clinical trials of his#smartphone-linked artificial pancreas#suggest he might just make that deadline.
Damiano, who works at the University of Boston, says a bionic pancreas his team has developed with colleagues at the Massachusetts General Hospital offers hope of a normal life to people with type 1 diabetes.
a charity which is supporting the#development of a similar device#with researchers at the University of Cambridge.
this may come to pass before his son heads off to college in the autumn of 2017.
The division, a participant in Singularity University s Corporate Innovation Exchange seeks to improve consumer experience by bringing bits of science fiction to life.
when University of Illinois computer scientists showed off an immersive holograph room, CAVE2, that projected images on an array of LED screens.
#The nanodegree A new type of college degree created by AT&T and Udacity An instructor for Udacity teaching an online Python class.
AT&T and the online education provider Udacity have partnered to create thenanodegree, a new type of college degree similar to the#Micro Colleges that Futurist Thomas Frey predicted.
The vocationally focused nanodegree is designed to be a lifelong learning portfolio#that would be recognized#widely by the tech industry
##Since last year, Udacity, other online education providers, and Internet billionaires have promised to overhaul the clunky path to a diploma.
We need to take what now exists as a dumb, static document and turn it into a richer, updateable, more connected record of a person s skills, expertise,
Governor Gavin Newsom, Udacity founder Sebastian Thrun#announced#a new consortium of businesses, the Open education Alliance,
It s a failure of the community college system, the California state system, and the University of California system that that announcement was made,
said Newsom, who believes California education should do more to address the widening skills gap.
Details about nanodegrees are still forthcoming, but Udacity stated, It should take a working student about six to12 months to complete without having to take time off.
Continuing, the blog explains, Our early nanodegrees will prepare you for a job as a front-end web developer,
Other online education providers, such as Coursera,#are designing their own certifications, which take about the same amount of time,
So, how s the quality of the degree compared to a traditional diploma? To test this out,
I ve been taking the data science track at both Coursera and Udacity and comparing it to the master s in mathematical behavioral sciences
On many levels, data science at Udacity and Coursera are superior. It s completely up-to-date with the latest software, it s problem-based, much (much) cheaper,
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