In the 1970s, Dean Kamen invented the insulin pump, making it possible for patients to administer insulin to themselves in a continuous fashion,
At ICRA 2015 last week, researchers from University of Tokyo JSK Laboratory led by Professors Masayuki Inaba
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,
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,
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.
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,
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.
Around that timeframe, the proportion of high school graduates attending college went from a small minority (in 1940,
If you ask students why theye going to college, the top five reasons include o be able to get a better job (No. 1),
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,
Quantified Student Outcomes When the tech industry began looking at the postsecondary market, they started from the existing model flaws and all.
Measuring and delivering simple student outcomes seems obvious, but it drives intense attention to quality
they had to offer a compelling ROI to students. As such, their tagline went from igher Education for Freeto dvance Your Career.
Hybrid Online/Offline Institutions Codecademy and Coursera are based two web ed-tech entrants that have created subsequently physical learning environments.
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 ensure excellent student outcomes, and mix online and offline approaches. If you thought it was dramatic
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,
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.
Companies like Social Finance are pitching student lending services; Funding Circle, Ondeck, Swift Capital, CAN Capital,
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
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
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
and teaching strategies for each pupil. Teachmate365 cuts down on the amount of paperwork they have to do
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
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
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
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.
The mass of young, educated and enlightened graduates in Egypt are now turning out an array of startups.
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,
#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.
The team is a prototypical mix of Harvard business students and MIT nuclear engineers, currently numbering around 20.
Developed by Professor David Gracias at Johns hopkins university, these starfish shaped robots are able to enter the body, collect a minuscule tissue sample,
Deep Learning. No one at Google programmed the new software with rules for how to interpret scenes.
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.
says Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of geosciences and international affairs at Princeton university. The deal also has symbolic value,
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.
Our experiments demonstrate that our Neural Turing Machine is capable of learning simple algorithms from example data
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,
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.
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;
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,
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,
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.
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,
as many suggest, the overall quality of education, he argues: e have fine schools. For example, Palo alto High school is a fine school.
says Robert Solow, a professor emeritus of economics at MIT, t that redistributing income is not something wee very good at.
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,
In other words, the lack of access to high-quality education is not just bad for the students in East Palo alto;
So although Herr had intended never to go to college a few years after his accident he decided to give it a try earning a bachelor's degree in physics at Millersville University in Pennsylvania at age 25.
After graduating Herr came to MIT where he completed a master s degree in mechanical engineering in 1993.
The lab which is packed typically with students and postdocs working on projects is strewn with computer parts coffee cups wires rolls of tape random tools
Luke Mooney a graduate student in the Biomechatronics Group says that many people think exoskeleton and imagine an Iron man style suit.
and unique approach and his drive says Woodie Flowers SM 68 ME 70 Phd 72 an emeritus professor of mechanical engineering who helped supervise Herr s graduate research work.
Ian Hutchinson a professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT and one of the principal investigators at the MIT fusion research reactor says the type of confinement described by Lockheed had long been studied without much success. Hutchinson says he was only
a professor at Stanford university who helped developed a DNA interpretation site called Interpretome as part of a class he teaches on genetics. s it going to be concentrated by medical associations,
To Barbara Evans, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center, the idea that people can gather DNA from one company
and this requires action said Efi Foufoula-Georgiou a professor in the Department of Civil engineering and former director of the National Center for Earth-Surface Dynamics at the University of Minnesota in an interview after the conference.
says payments expert Bill Maurer, dean of the School of Social sciences at the University of California,
Finally the pairs presented to new participants can be selected in a way that maximizes learning based on previous responses so a wiki survey can adapt as it evolves.
For example people were asked to choose between Open schoolyards across the city as public playgrounds and Increase targeted tree plantings in neighborhoods with high asthma rates.
Ali Shakouri a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University says the cost savings sound plausible given the material being used
Stephen Forrest, a professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Michigan, published work on a more efficient,
Training robots through demonstration is a common technique in research labs says Manuela Veloso a robotics professor at Carnegie mellon University.
Sonia Chernova an assistant professor in robotics at Worcester Polytechnic institute says that most other industrial robot companies are now working to add that type of learning to their own robots.
John Leonard, a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT who was involved not in the research, says the Carnegie mellon programmable headlight could improve automotive machine vision.
Maureen Hansen a professor of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell says the advances won't be seen in commercially grown food crops for at least five or 10 years.
and making sure the genes are stable says Dean Price a professor of medicine biology and environment at Australian National University.
It s quite lightweight flexible and conformal says Conor Walsh a professor of mechanical and biomedical engineering at Harvard.
The world went from believing RNAI would change everything to thinking it wouldn t work to now thinking it will says Robert Langer a professor at MIT and one of Alnylam s advisors.
although drone services can yet be offered commercially in the United states. Mike Schmitt, a professor in the Department of Soil, Water,
Donald Waldman a professor of economics at the University of Colorado says services like Datacoup may provide useful insights about the perceived value of privacy.
but the patient-identifying system has broader applications says Anil Jain a distinguished professor at Michigan State university s Computer science and Engineering Department and coauthor of the paper.
Now John Martinis a professor at University of California Santa barbara has joined Google to establish a new quantum hardware lab near the university.
Chris Monroe a professor who leads a quantum computing lab at the University of Maryland welcomed the news that one of the leading lights in the field was going to work on the question of
Maimone, a Phd student at the University of North carolina at Chapel hill, is developing a new kind of head-worn display that could make augmented reality hereby digital objects
One of her graduate students is also designing plates that will penetrate materials other than biological tissue.
simulated neural networks to work on data (see eep Learning. But those networks require giant clusters of conventional computers.
a professor of materials science at Rice university who led the work. Several companies are making progress towards commercializing RRAM.
says Wei Lu, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, and cofounder of Crossbar.
Brian A. Barsky, a University of California, Berkeley, computer science professor and affiliate professor of optometry and vision science who coauthored a paper on it, says it like undoing
which a deletion on chromosome 22 causes problems such as learning and memory deficits, are building a database of information from genomic tests, clinical medical records, extensive family surveys and histories,
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,
Ali Shakouri, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University, says that tetrahedrite has promise
says MIT professor Mildred Dresselhaus. Other materials are made from elements so rare that they wouldn be available for widespread use.
a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT who heads MIT Center for Clean water and Clean energy, where the technology was developed.
a professor of chemistry and chemical biology, turned to nature for an alternative approach, taking inspiration from the pitcher plant,
Etta Pisano, dean of the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South carolina, says there still isn enough evidence to say
professor and chief of the breast imaging division at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
a researcher at Intel Labs who developed the technology while a Phd student at Dartmouth. f
Mark Billinghurst, a professor and leader of the Human Interface Lab at the University of Canterbury, New zealand, says that the approach developed by Microsoft could have a broad impact
a professor of materials science at MIT who is not involved with the company. believe Infinium technology is sound.
who is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and involved in the UCSF-led project. e could detect that feeling
Michel Maharbiz, a professor in Berkeley electrical engineering department, says the Obama brain initiative, and now the DARPA money, has created a eeding frenzyaround new technology. t a great time to do tech for the brain,
DNA-templated synthesis allows researchers without a lot of expensive equipment to more quickly evaluate all the potential small molecule interactions that could occur from a library of building blocks. single student with only minimal equipment
to allow students to practice a complex procedure using a simulation system that feels as realistic as it looks.
says Sigurdur Gislason, a professor at the University of Iceland. The researchers report that 80 percent of the carbon dioxide they injected had formed carbonates in just one year.
says Eric Oelkers, a professor of aqueous geochemistry at University college London. The researchers estimate that this will make it twice as expensive as conventional approaches to storing carbon dioxidet least in the short run.
Mark Zoback, a professor of earth sciences at Stanford university, says there may be other challenges. While basalt is common, especially on the ocean floor,
says Jack Hu, a professor of industrial operations and engineering at the University of Michigan.
Undergraduate students in a class called uild-A-Genomeat Johns Hopkins used molecular biology tricks to string together snippets of DNA around 70 nucleotides (A
"said Dr Pravat Mandal, a professor at NBRC and associate professor (adjunct) at the John Hopkins University, Maryland, USA.
Dr Kameshwar Prasad, professor and head of neurology at AIIMS, said the findings are preliminary."
Kevin Harrington, UK trial leader and professor of biological cancer therapies at the ICR and an honorary consultant at the Royal Marsden, said he hoped the treatment could be available for routine use within a year in many countries
"said Professor Harrington.""We hope this is the first of a wave of indications for these sorts of cancer fighting agents that we will see coming through in the next decade or so."
"Professor Paul Workman, chief executive of the ICR said:""We may normally think of viruses as the enemies of mankind,
Alan Melcher, professor of clinical oncology and biotherapy at the University of Leeds, and an expert in oncolytic viruses, said the field had accelerated quickly in recent years."
Kevin Harrington, UK trial leader and professor of biological cancer therapies at the ICR and an honorary consultant at the Royal Marsden, said he hoped the treatment could be available for routine use within a year in many countries
"said Professor Harrington.""We hope this is the first of a wave of indications for these sorts of cancer fighting agents that we will see coming through in the next decade or so."
"Professor Paul Workman, chief executive of the ICR said:""We may normally think of viruses as the enemies of mankind,
Alan Melcher, professor of clinical oncology and biotherapy at the University of Leeds, and an expert in oncolytic viruses, said the field had accelerated quickly in recent years."
the graduate student involved in the work. The team applied this simpler approach to mouse embryonic stem cells in a dish,
Professor Duncan Wass, said he expected self-healing products to reach consumers in the"very near future".
Professor Wass and his team have been working with aerospace engineers at the university, who wanted to know
"Professor wass said.""We've not evolved to withstand any damage -if we were like that we'd have a skin as thick as a rhinoceros
Professor wass said. The technology could also make airline safety checks far cheaper as a dye could be added to the healing agent causing any damage to an aircraft to stand out like a bruise.
Professor wass said a bruise was a"good analogy "-but accepted that the dye would need to be tweaked to cater for nervous fliers."
"Professor wass said. The research was funded by the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council's UK Catalysis Hub, a collaborative project between universities and industry.
Professor Richard Catlow of the University of London one of the organisers of the meeting, said the research showed that catalysis
but Professor wass said the general principle would remain the same.""We're definitely getting to the stage where in the next five
How the technology is being used Professor Wass's team at the University of Bristol has been focusing on the creation of self-healing versions of carbon fibre composite materials
Professor Duncan Wass, said he expected self-healing products to reach consumers in the"very near future".
Professor Wass and his team have been working with aerospace engineers at the university, who wanted to know
"Professor wass said.""We've not evolved to withstand any damage -if we were like that we'd have a skin as thick as a rhinoceros
Professor wass said. The technology could also make airline safety checks far cheaper as a dye could be added to the healing agent causing any damage to an aircraft to stand out like a bruise.
Professor wass said a bruise was a"good analogy "-but accepted that the dye would need to be tweaked to cater for nervous fliers."
"Professor wass said. The research was funded by the Engineering and Physical sciences Research Council's UK Catalysis Hub, a collaborative project between universities and industry.
Professor Richard Catlow of the University of London one of the organisers of the meeting, said the research showed that catalysis
but Professor wass said the general principle would remain the same.""We're definitely getting to the stage where in the next five
How the technology is being used Professor Wass's team at the University of Bristol has been focusing on the creation of self-healing versions of carbon fibre composite materials
developed by Professor Hubert Egger at the University of Linz in northern Austria. Surgeons first rewired remaining foot nerve endings from a patient's stump to healthy tissue in the thigh,
developed by Professor Hubert Egger at the University of Linz in northern Austria. Surgeons first rewired remaining foot nerve endings from a patient's stump to healthy tissue in the thigh,
"said Clyde Manuel, a doctoral student of North carolina State university, Raleigh.""This is the first study to demonstrate copper's destructive powers against human norovirus,
which included professor Wang Hongyan, managed to harvest 10 trillion muscle stem cells from a pool of just 10,000 original stem cells taken from the host.
The professor said a similar method could be used to grow tendon stem cells to treat injuries like Liu's. She added that
professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University in New york, co-author of the study published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology."
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications,"Professor Hone said.""We are just starting to dream about other uses for these structures,
professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University in New york, co-author of the study published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology."
and graphene-based on-chip optical communications,"Professor Hone said.""We are just starting to dream about other uses for these structures,
a professor of molecular biology at the University of Pittsburgh who also is working on Project Premonition.
a professor of molecular biology at the University of Pittsburgh who also is working on Project Premonition.
"said Hone, Wang Fon-Jen professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia Engineering.""This new type of'broadband'light emitter can be integrated into chips
Dr William R Wilcox, a human genetics professor at Emory University, called the results"promising.""But he expressed caution, given that only 10 children were getting the high dose
"said TSRI professor David Nemazee z
#TOI impact: Energy supplied by humanitarian kite The Zephyr project, a photovoltaic balloon designed by students,
aims to supply energy to disaster areas. In the Iliad, Zephyr is a violent, stormy wind,
In this project set up by two ambitious young Parisian graduates, Zephyr takes the form of a flying device that comes to the rescue of those living without electricity in disaster areas.
These problems gave the students the idea of designing a photovoltaic balloon inspired by inflatable balloons,
The students, graduates of Telecom Paristech and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, met
first prize at the 2014 Student Entrepreneurship Day run by the Universite Paris-Saclay, the 2014 Humanitech Challenge jointly organised by the Red Helmets Foundation and Orange and EDF's'Sharing energy in the city, 2030'challenge.
The students worked particularly closely with the IRDEP to improve the balloon's photovoltaic technology.
giving final-year Master's degree students the opportunity to work on technical aspects of the project. From student project to start-up:
The next stage is to build an initial prototype, which should be completed in January 2017 and will serve as'proof of concept'.'
The two young entrepreneurs want to turn this student project into a start-up. Zephyr is also currently applying to join the Sciences-Po Paris incubator.
By Caroline de Malet (Le Figaro) The Zephyr project, a photovoltaic balloon designed by students,
In this project set up by two ambitious young Parisian graduates, Zephyr takes the form of a flying device that comes to the rescue of those living without electricity in disaster areas.
These problems gave the students the idea of designing a photovoltaic balloon inspired by inflatable balloons
The students, graduates of Telecom Paristech and the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs, met
first prize at the 2014 Student Entrepreneurship Day run by the Universite Paris-Saclay, the 2014 Humanitech Challenge jointly organised by the Red Helmets Foundation and Orange and EDF's'Sharing energy in the city, 2030'challenge.
The students worked particularly closely with the IRDEP to improve the balloon's photovoltaic technology.
giving final-year Master's degree students the opportunity to work on technical aspects of the project. From student project to start-up:
The next stage is to build an initial prototype, which should be completed in January 2017 and will serve as'proof of concept'.'
The two young entrepreneurs want to turn this student project into a start-up. Zephyr is also currently applying to join the Sciences-Po Paris incubator.
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