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Stanford's Bill Perry to speak at AAAS on engineering's 'Grand Challenges'
02-15-2008 · EurekAlert!At the request of the National Academy of Engineering, Stanford's William Perry, an engineering professor and former secretary of defense, has led a team of leading technical thinkers who have put together a list of "Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century."
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- Langer examines biomedical engineering future
02-15-2008 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer speaks about the great challenges facing biomedical engineering as part of a panel announcing the report "Grand Challenges of Engineering" at the annual meeting of the AAAS in Boston on Feb. 15.
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- Panel identifies greatest technological research challenges of the 21st century
02-15-2008 · EurekAlert!
A panel of maverick thinkers, convened by the National Academy of Engineering, today identified what they consider to be the greatest technological research challenges facing society in the coming century. In the following Q&A, panel member Rob Socolow of Princeton University expands upon the NAE Grand Challenges project and the role that technological innovation plays in a vibrant society.
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- Enter 'Junior': Stanford team's next-generation robot joins DARPA Urban Challenge
02-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
When five autonomous vehicles, including the Stanford Racing Team's winning entry "Stanley," finished the 2005 Grand Challenge in the still Nevada desert, they passed a milestone of artificial intelligence. The robots in the 2007 Urban Challenge, however, will have to handle traffic. It is a tougher test that calls for a new generation of technology. Enter "Junior," the Stanford Racing Team's new brainchild.
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- MIT researcher addresses biomedical engineering challenges
02-15-2008 · EurekAlert!
Much of the work in MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer's prolific lab sounds like something straight from the pages of science fiction, but its products are already saving lives around the world in a variety of ways. Langer will speak about the great challenges facing biomedical engineering in the next century, at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston, on Friday afternoon, Feb. 15.
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- Computer science trouble lies in education, not jobs, Stanford professor says
02-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
Contrary to tales of doom about the decline of America's computer science industry, the biggest problem facing computing today is not a lack of jobs but a shortage of qualified workers to fill those jobs, says Stanford Professor Eric Roberts, who will speak about the crisis in computer science education at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Feb. 19 in San Francisco.
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- Leading engineers and scientists identify advances that could improve quality of life
02-15-2008 · EurekAlert!
The US National Academy of Engineering today announced the grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century. A diverse committee of experts from around the world, convened at the request of the US National Science Foundation, revealed 14 challenges that, if met, would improve how we live.
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- Fixed versus growth intelligence mindsets: It’s all in your head, Dweck says
02-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck says that people's self-theories about intelligence have a profound influence on their motivation to learn. People who have a "fixed" theory are mainly concerned with how smart they are -- they prefer tasks they can already do well and avoid ones on which they may make mistakes and not look smart. In contrast, people who believe in a "growth" theory of intelligence want to challenge themselves to increase their abilities, even if they fail at first.
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- Eggs encourage school students into engineering
06-06-2007 · University of Bath
School students from Swindon will apply engineering to eggs, when they take part in a fun challenge at the University of Bath.
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- New accelerator technique doubles particle energy in just one meter
02-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
New research shows that acceleration using plasma, or ionized gas, can dramatically boost the energy of particles in a short distance. The group of researchers -- from the Department of Energy's Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, have published their work in the Feb. 15 issue of Nature.
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- Drive-by-wire and human behavior systems key to Virginia Tech's Urban Challenge vehicle
08-10-2007 · EurekAlert!
Virginia Tech's entry in DARPA's Urban Challenge is moving forward to the qualifying rounds, thanks in part to a custom-designed drive-by-wire control system and unique navigation software that makes the vehicle's driving decisions almost human. "VictorTango," a team of Virginia Tech engineering and geography students, is among 36 semi-finalists selected by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to vie for the $2 million Urban Challenge prize.
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