while he was earning his MBA. Val Babajov, president of Climateminder, says his company's goal is to help agricultural concerns produce the same yield with less water.
As you can see from the results of this recent study out of Depaul University:
while he was a freshman at New york University. Landolina explains how he came up with the idea:
While he was in his classroom, we could see his blood glucose via either a simple website
says Richard Stern, an electrical and computer engineering professor at Carnegie mellon University, in Pittsburgh. Music-compression algorithms,
#Knitted Supercapacitors to Power Smart Shirts Researchers from Drexel University in collaboration with the U s. Naval academy, have invented a way to embed activated carbon particles into different types of yarn to form a knitted textile that can store
the Drexel University team turned to activated carbon. This far less expensive material, is also nontoxic
According to Drexel University materials scientist Yury Gogotsi who supervised the research, using an area of about 3000 cm2 (about the size of the center back panel of a shirt) it is possible to store the equivalent energy of a 4 cm2,
This technique was invented chemistry professor Paul C. Trulove research team at the U s. Naval academy and Hugh C. Delong of the Air force Office of Scientific research.
which were perfected by Drexel University doctoral student Kristy Jost and Commander David P. Durkin at the U s. Naval academy.
That day has moved a bit closer thanks to research out of the Columbia University School of engineering and Applied science.
said Latha Venkataraman, a professor of applied physics at Columbia, in a press release. onstructing a device where the active elements are only a single molecule has long been a tantalizing dream in nanoscience.
in cooperation with colleagues at the University of California Berkeley, looked at putting the asymmetry in the area around the molecular junctionhere the molecule meets the metal electrode.
which is a Very Big Deal (at least if youe a scholar), and it brings along with it some updates and even more potential for the future.
during a trial in New york city of a system devised at the University of Virginia. he thing that was cool about it was that it works,
In the 1970s, Dean Kamen invented the insulin pump, making it possible for patients to administer insulin to themselves in a continuous fashion,
says Roman Hovorka, a specialist in mathematical informatics at the University of Cambridge, in England. wo analogues in development are about 15 minutes faster than todaynd that nowhere close enough.
Hovorka group at the University of Cambridge is conducting trials of advanced systems in the home, not just in controlled settings.
At ICRA 2015 last week, researchers from University of Tokyo JSK Laboratory led by Professors Masayuki Inaba
and Masayuki Inaba from the University of Tokyo, was presented at ICRA 2015 in Seattle, Wash A
while leafing through his copy of IEEE Spectrum, Zhenqiang"Jack"Ma, an engineer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research focus is microwave electronics,
Now researchers at Columbia University from James Hone lab, in cooperation with a team at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), have taken this huge step forward by creating the first on-chip incandescent visible light source
says Hone, a professor at Columbia Engineering, in a press release. his new type of'broadband'light emitter can be integrated into chips
a brain region involved in planning movements. human os iconlead researcher Richard Andersen, a neuroscience professor at Caltech,
Most of the prior studies in which paralyzed people used implanted BCIS were conducted by John Donoghue, director of Brown University Institute for Brain science and a pioneer in the use of implants in the motor cortex.
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) in Pune, India, have skipped the annoying step by developing a battery that charges directly from light.
Researchers at the University of California, San diego, designed a carpet cloak, a device that covers an object and scatters light
says Boubacar Kante, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at UCSD, who led the work, which appears in the latest issue of Progress in Electromagnetics Research.
According to Jack Dongarra, one of the curators of the Top500 list and a faculty member at the University of Tennessee and Oak ridge National Laboratory, Moore Law is not the problem. ome people think it the end of Moore Law,
Now researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology in The netherlands and the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) report in the 17 july issue of Nature Communications that they have improved tenfold the hydrogen producing capacity of a solar fuel cell.
said Erik Bakkers of Eindhoven University of Technology, as quoted in a press release. n addition,
the professor of electrical and computer engineering who led the research. The Rice university engineers called their answer i-Fi in Active TV Channels or WATCH.
An international research team based at the University of Texas at Dallas initially targeted the new super fiber for artificial muscles and for capacitors
Now scientists at the University of California, Riverside, have created hybrid materials that can make use of solar infrared rays.
Silicon valley Postsecondary education And A Half-Trillion Dollars It easy to forget that these are early days for the Internet.
since 2012, most ed-tech companies have rewritten quietly their product promise from unbridled learning for learning sake to a path to a job
the rise of accelerated learning programs (ALPS), including General assembly and Dev Bootcamp. ALPS explicitly measure student employment outcomes,
including placement rate and average salary, and they work. The ALP phenomenon has helped influence this product pivot in the ed-tech sector.
When one of my students gets a job, I get a giant bear hug and the credit for getting them there,
It not a coincidence that 2012 brought both the beginning of the end of the MOOC and the start of the ALP:
the zeitgeist had latched on to the connection between jobs and education. Postsecondary education has been off-balance from decades of seismic change,
and 2012 kicked off three back-to-back State of the Union addresses pushing universities to reduce student debt
and take accountability for student employment outcomes. This chronology sets the stage for an interesting future.
Postsecondary students have stated unambiguously their priorities: jobs, jobs, careers, jobs. But the incumbent university system is hesitant to adopt this new focus as paramount.
Silicon valley has cottoned on to this imbalance, and has its eye on the postsecondary education market worth a half-trillion dollars every year.
Read on for a sneak preview of the next few years, and an exploration of trends surrounding the 2012 transition.
But first: a historical primer on college. Postsecondary education and Jobs It may not look like it, but it is also early days for our postsecondary education system.
You might imagine that universities have been around about as long as democracy and indoor plumbing, but in fact, our higher education system has been redefined completely over the last 70 years.
Around that timeframe, the proportion of high school graduates attending college went from a small minority (in 1940,
only around 5 percent had completed four years of college) to a majority (65.9 percent are enrolled currently in colleges or universities).
The source of college funding changed from family wealth to federal loans. Most importantly, the goal of attending college moved from holistic education and a future in academia and research to career development and jobs.
If you ask students why theye going to college, the top five reasons include o be able to get a better job (No. 1),
o get training for a specific career (No. 3), and o be able to make more money (No. 4). Opinions differ as to
whether the higher education system is meeting those studentscareer goals and achieving those outcomes. It settled science that a degree raises a student lifetime earnings.
However only 11 percent of business leaders think college graduates have the right skills for work compared to 96 percent of chief academic officers who believe graduates are prepared for the job market.
Redefining a Sector: ostsecondary Educationto areer Education Ed tech efforts were accomplished diverse and by 2012,
but that year brought about a major discovery: there was no institution in America dedicated to providing career education to the millions of vocal, potential customers.
This central shift to recognize the demand for career education affected a diverse group of players in the space,
and ultimately it pushed all edtech companies to adopt the below trends. Trend: Quantified Student Outcomes
When the tech industry began looking at the postsecondary market, they started from the existing model flaws and all.
MOOCS literally offered college classes on the internet. This seemed promising, and The New york times declared 2012 he year of the MOOC.
Indeed, it lasted almost exactly one year, and by 2013, Udacity CEO had declared the product ousy.
This conclusion was almost entirely based on one fact: low completion rates. Measuring and delivering simple student outcomes seems obvious,
but it drives intense attention to quality and becomes a primary force upon any product or program.
In Udacity case, a hard completion requirement required that Udacity hire real human mentors, which drove a much higher price point and a number of other major product changes.
Trend: Employment, Not Just Education In order for Udacity to support the higher price point required by their new quality bar,
they had to offer a compelling ROI to students. As such, their tagline went from igher Education for Freeto dvance Your Career.
Unlike colleges, ed tech adopted this new charter in a hurry and with no ambivalence.
Codecademy represents an example of this trend from another lineage in ed tech. Its founders had worked at startups like Groupme, not at universities,
and you could tell that they were looking at coding education like a conversion optimization problem.
Codecademy launched with a free product but how would they make money from the millions of users that they taught?
Pushed by the same forces as the rest of us, Codecademy recently revealed its first fee-based program (tagline:
ransforming your job prospects in the process and a new resource portal to advertise it (tagline:
tart programming now, get hired in months alongside ALPS and other career education programs. Trend:
Hybrid Online/Offline Institutions Codecademy and Coursera are based two web ed-tech entrants that have created subsequently physical learning environments.
the postsecondary system has been asked to adopt the new charter of career education, but for very understandable reasons it has resisted this mandate from students, business leaders,
and the President of the United states. Against this backdrop, the market forces are so strong and clear that they have reshaped Codecademy, Hack Reactor,
and Udacity three deeply distinct products prior to 2012 into educational programs that could be siblings.
Expect to see some of the $500 billion a year currently spent on college tuition winding up in Silicon valley,
at institutions that offer career education, measure and ensure excellent student outcomes, and mix online and offline approaches.
If you thought it was dramatic when taxis became tech companies, just wait until it happens to colleges n
#American Re-Urbanization Drives More On-Demand Innovation Editor Note: David Hirsch is a cofounder
Yoo hopes the hackathon will get more students and recent graduates interested in startups, even as they deal with fierce competition for spots at prestigious universities
and large corporations. eoul already has an incredible infrastructure (fastest Internet/mobile speed), highest smartphone penetration,
and tech savvy people. What we need is a cultural shift. Through Global Hackathon Seoul and other awesome hackathons
Essentially, doctors at the Columbia University Medical center have been able to print a knee meniscus using a degradable plastic scaffold and a protein growth system.
The classroom tests in the video above also involve mostly fairly rudimentary translation so it ll be very interesting to see how it performs in real-world situations with more complex language.
The 7-week program pairs girls interested in computer science education with field trips to top tech companies such as Twitter and Square.
The program recruits and trains teachers and assistants, provides the curriculum, recruits the girls, curates guest speakers, manages field trips and offers mentorship to the girls during the course of each summer session.
Sandra Vivian-Calderon heads the Girls Who Code club at Castlemont High school in Oakland, CA. She says she didn think she was capable of programming before participating in the program. would say h I don know what I doing.
and Georgetown University. The application for the 2015 Summer Immersion Program will be available on January 15, 2015 b
and Mclean Hospital), Duke university, UC Davis and University of Nebraska Medical center i
#TV s Disruption On Display As Netflix And Amazon Go Head-To-Head At Golden Globes More proof that good television doesn have to be developed by traditional industry players:
Companies like Social Finance are pitching student lending services; Funding Circle, Ondeck, Swift Capital, CAN Capital,
Onstage, Sanchez noted that Coolchip has partnered with Cooler Master to bring its technology to market as aftermarket add-ons early next year
#Teachmate365 A Platform For Special Needs Educators Launches With $3m In Funding Organizing special needs education is complicated often
because teachers have to juggle learning materials for students with different requirements. Teachmate365 a new cloud-based teaching platform developed by education technology startup Specialneedsware
and Boston Children Hospital wants to make it easier for educators therapists and parents to collaborate so kids get the help they need.
Teachmate365 announced today that it has picked up $3 million in Series A funding from private investors
After graduating from university with a degree in computer science Izak created an ipad app that was inspired by his younger brother Oriel who has autism.
Like Autismate Teachmate365 is focused on visual learning. The platform allows educators to create visual tools for their students using technology developed by Izak and Shane.
It also lets them sync and store lesson plans schedules and other educational materials and track a student behavior and progress so it can be shared with other teachers therapists and parents.
Students can access lessons and visual exercises through their own tablets or smartphones. urrently what you will find is that the special education market is fragmented extremely
and that is one huge reason why there is such a massive opportunity here. Youl find hundreds of communication options on the market geared toward different areas of communication dozens of apps designed for social
and life skills and things that cover academics but don really cover communication and behavioral needs.
Wee really the first platform which helps support all those needs in one device. eachmate365 is aimed at educational institutions
and will provide districts with up to 37 days of training to use the platform. Boosting Special education With Technologyone of the benefits of a collaborative platform like Teachmate365 is that it can make it easier to integrate children with special needs into general education classrooms. nclusion classroomsare supposed to prevent students from being ostracized by their peers
but it can be difficult for teachers to organize individualized lesson plans and teaching strategies for each pupil.
Teachmate365 cuts down on the amount of paperwork they have to do and makes it simpler for educators to coordinate with therapists
and support staff. veryone has diverse and unique needs and the platform really allows teachers to cater to all of them by creating teaching
and collaborating around individualized contentsays Izak. As students get older Teachmate365 can be used to help them transition to college or their first jobs.
For example the Arc of Northern Virginia an advocacy group has used Specialneedsware technology to create a program to help people with learning disabilities navigate public transportation.
While the growing affordability of tablets and platforms like Teachmate365 have provided new tools for students with special needs
and educators Izak says there is a still huge gap in available resources. He notes that
even though venture capital investment in technology aimed at students in kindergarten through high school jumped 32 percent to $642 million last year almost none of that went toward tools for special education.
That is especially striking because 13 percent of all students in U s. public schools currently receive special education services.
Furthermore the average amount spent per year on a special-education student is compared about $24000 to $9559 for a student in general education.
Izak believes that there is plenty of room for educational technology startups to help improve education for children with learning
or developmental disabilities especially since only 15 states met the U s. Department of education basic standards for special needs education last year. t really a massive opportunity to help students with unique and diverse needs
who have the most to gain from techsays Izak t
#Malaysia Airlines Site Hacked By Lizard Squad Hacker group Lizard Squad which took down Xbox Live
and the Sony Playstation Network last month have claimed credit for an attack on Malaysia Airlineswebsite.
including University Of Oxford and Stanford. Apple learned about some of the biggest obstacles to scientific research in medicine.
Paper flyers on college campuses are one of the few ways labs sign up human guinea pigs.
a spin out of the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, is developing what it calls ifitechnology,
Investment bank (SIB) and Old College Capital, the venture investment arm of the University of Edinburgh.
and the learning algorithms will find the patterns, or at least be able to predict likelihoods with decent accuracy.
#Facebook Open-sources Some Of Its Deep-Learning Tools In the world of machine learning the buzzword these days is eep learning.
which deep-learning projects that use Torch run. One allows developers to parallelize the training of their networks using multiple GPUS simultaneously.
Another improvement ensures that training the convolutional neural nets at the center of many deep learning systems can be trained 23 times faster
when compared to the fastest publicly available code today. In addition Facebook is launching a number of additional tools that bring more speed to other parts of Torch as well.
And at CES last week Nvidia spent most of its keynote discussing how it uses deep learning to classify objects that a camera on a car may see in order to further its research in autonomous driving o
Student loan marketplace Sofi $200 million monster round in January, led by Third Point, is the largest round tracked to date.
when you were in college or frankly scary looking when you were in high school but potentially very costly and illegal if proprietary work information is involved e
#Ford#s Applink Will Soon Support Third-party Navigation Apps Most carsbuilt-in navigation systems tend to be compared a bit clunky to modern smartphone apps like of Google maps.
The mass of young, educated and enlightened graduates in Egypt are now turning out an array of startups.
Integreight which develops novel products for the electronic hobbyist and education market. Filkhedma A concierge for household services Baby Boons modern baby ecommerce Wallstreetchamber Which claims to have an algorithm for automated share investing.
timer settings and a learning algorithm that the company claims can save you up to 40 percent on your home heating and cooling bills over time,
After graduating from the University of Michigan with backgrounds in autonomous vehicle research the founders went on to found Skyspecs.
As members of Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles the APRIL laboratory and the autonomous boat team at the university of Michigan Skyspecs founding team met.
#Rentecarlo Launches U k. Peer-to-peer Car rental Marketplace Rentecarlo, the U k. startup and graduate of accelerator Ignite100, is officially launching today with a peer-to-peer car rental marketplace that lets anybody rent out their own car.
For institutions like universities and corporate campuses, Rapidsos offers a product it calls Geoalert that allows public safety officers to send out mass alerts to precisely the people they need to go to,
The team is a prototypical mix of Harvard business students and MIT nuclear engineers, currently numbering around 20.
and its institutional product is currently being tested beta by 25 companies and universities. The consumer product is free for users,
Last month, the team won $70, 000 from the President Challenge at Harvard ilab and $50, 000 from Harvard Business school New Venture Competition all in the span of 24 hours.
Oyeniyi has a Masters in Computer science and Elodimuor one in Economics. The system is live
Developed by Professor David Gracias at Johns hopkins university, these starfish shaped robots are able to enter the body, collect a minuscule tissue sample,
That the goal that Zhou Yaopeng and Marc Albanese, two former photonics researchers who met at Boston University nearly a decade ago,
and it going to pursue regulatory approval for its use in medical contexts in partnership with academic institutions and drug companies, per Bloomberg.
He a friend from college, and began perfecting its technology. A $2 million bridge led by Pritzker Group, Jump Capital,
Deep Learning. No one at Google programmed the new software with rules for how to interpret scenes.
After that training process, the software was set loose on several large data sets of images from Flickr
says Valerie Karplus, a professor of global economics at MIT Sloan School of management, and director of the Tsinghua-MIT China Energy and Climate Project.
Karplus and collaborators at Tsinghua University in Beijing found that demand for coal could peak sometime between 2020 and 2025,
says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton university. The deal also has symbolic value,
Aquion Energy, a company spun out of Carnegie mellon University, recently delivered the first of its batteries to operators of small power grids,
a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering at the University of Illinois. Semprius has raised $45 million from investors including Siemens,
and set out to measure it with the help of a large number of students who he asked to carry out simple memory tasks.
if a network that had been trained to copy sequences of length up to 20 could copy a sequence of length 100 with no further training say Graves
But when it comes to sequences that are longer than the training data errors immediately become significant.
Our experiments demonstrate that our Neural Turing Machine is capable of learning simple algorithms from example data
and of using these algorithms to generalize well outside its training regime say Graves and co. That is an important step forward that has the potential to make computing machines much more brainlike than ever before.
says Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford university Rock Center for Corporate Governance and at Singularity University,
an education corporation in Moffett Field with ties to the elites in Silicon valley. t like what you see in India,
Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of economics, greatly expands on this idea, documenting the exploding wealth of the very rich in the United states and Europe and comparing the trend with developments over the last few centuries.
Building on research conducted with his colleagues Emmanuel Saez, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley,
and Anthony Atkinson, an economist at the University of Oxford, Piketty collected and analyzed data, including tax records,
It the biggest factor, says Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor of management at MIT Sloan School.
and both were professors at MIT during the following years. But beyond an agreement that growing inequality is a problem,
and Michael Spence, a Nobel laureate and professor at New york University, argued that uperstar-based technical change is upending the global economy.
while workers with less education and expertise fall behind. Though income growth among the top 1 percent is an important phenomenon,
the disparity in skills and education among the other 99 percent is big deal, a much bigger deal.
The gap between median earnings for people with a high school diploma and those with a college degree was $17, 411 for men and $12, 887 for women in 1979;
Education, Autor says, s the most powerful thing you can do to affect lifetime earnings.
In the United states, this education premium began rising steeply in the late 1970s, when the surge of college entrants dramatically slowed
and the availability of high-skill workers consequently dwindled. More recent decades have seen an additional twist.
According to Chris Benner, a regional economist at the University of California, Davis, there has been no net increase in jobs in Silicon valley since 1998;
If economists are right that income inequality is fueled by disparities in skills and education, then the last chance for many people to find a route into the middle class may be in places like Foothill College.
Sprawling across some of Silicon valley most prized real estate in Los Altos Hills, the community college draws students from all over the region.
Many come from its poorest areas, such as East Palo alto and East San jose. Ladder or no ladder, the college provides a fleeting opportunity for those students to at least get within striking distance of the elusive jobs in the nowledge economythat dominates the area.
Judy Miner president of Foothill, is justifiably proud of its accomplishments. Students routinely transfer to prestigious four-year colleges,
including the University of California Berkeley and Santa cruz campuses; as of a few years ago, 17 had gone on to MIT.
But talented though some students are, Miner is also blunt about the challenges facing a school that proudly accepts he top 100 percent of all applicants.
Foothill, like other community colleges, is playing catch up with many students who aren prepared academically for universities. And, she says,
one goal is to change their orldview of where they fit in. When she was growing up in San francisco,
but no one else in her family had gone to college, and she couldn imagine leaving home to do so.
So she commuted on the bus to Lone Mountain College, a small Catholic school that has closed
Now, at Foothill, she works with families and local communities to expand the ambitions of students from backgrounds like hers. iketty says the best predictor of access to universities is parentsincome,
A handful of new two-story concrete buildings surround a courtyard holding a smattering of enthusiastic administrators and a few teachers.
It a relatively modest facility but, by all descriptions, a huge improvement over the cramped building the 13-year-old charter school occupied before.
In a city whose only public high school was shut down in the 1970s (students were bused to neighboring district schools),
The school seems to be turning around the lives of many of its 300 students.
But no one needs to be reminded that less than three miles down University avenue is the campus of Palo alto High, a public school with multiple tennis courts, a synthetic running track,
as one student excitedly points out, actually have nets. ne of the largest and most prominent debates in social sciences is the role of technology in inequality,
is that the income gaps between those with different levels of education ccount for a good share of the inequality.
It equalizing access to high-quality education. The problem is that we just pay lip service to it.
as many suggest, the overall quality of education, he argues: e have fine schools. For example, Palo alto High school is a fine school.
But everyone needs access to these types of schools. Everyone should have access to the kind of schools we routinely provide middle-class kids.
and secondary schools in the United states, helping to fuel the disparity in educational investments between poor and rich communities.)
and a high-quality secondary school. And then youe simply not in position to go to college. If workers aren equipped to do the jobs that technology is creating,
he says, t because our institutions are failing us. Dirty Words Understanding what causes income inequality is important
says Robert Solow, a professor emeritus of economics at MIT, t that redistributing income is not something wee very good at.
The most obvious policy recommendations point to education including, as social scientists are increasingly learning, pre-kindergarten and other early education programs.
As Sean Reardon, a sociologist at Stanford, points out, differences in educational achievement are associated now more closely with family income than they are with factors that have been more important in the past,
including race and ethnic background. And researchers have shown that those differences in achievement levels are already set
by the time children enter kindergarten. Inequality in education is not only hurting the chances of poor children to get ahead,
says David Grusky. It is also affecting the supply of high-skill labor. By stifling opportunities for countless talented individuals
In other words, the lack of access to high-quality education is not just bad for the students in East Palo alto;
Providing everyone with access to quality education would require us to transform our schooling system
But if differences in educational achievement based on family incomes are really what driving inequality, Grusky worries,
we can solve the problem by letting people who have privileged access to a good education reap the advantages
then we must attempt to reform educational institutions. That why asking whether technology causes inequality is the wrong question.
Surely, rapid advances in technology have exacerbated discrepancies in education and skills, and the rise of digital technologies could possibly be playing a part in creating an extreme elite of the very rich.
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