3dim, a startup working on sensor-level software that recognizes three-dimensional gestures on mobile devices, was awarded the Robert P. Goldberg $100,000 grand prize after beating out seven other finalist teams during the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition finale. This year’s teams…
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Ionut Budisteanu, 19, of Romania was awarded first place for using artificial intelligence to create a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a program of Society for Science & the…
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A robot can struggle to discover objects in its surroundings when it relies on computer vision alone; but by taking advantage of all of the information available to it – an object’s location, size, shape and even whether it can…
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Harvard University researchers are continuing work on autonomic robotic insects, says the university in a statement. Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, are currently working on dozens of…
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Researchers at the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University have developed an iterative zooming technique that lets users input text into smartwatches or ultra-small computers. Users can enter about 10 words per minute at high accuracy on a keyboard…
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Scientists from IBM unveiled the world’s smallest movie, made with atoms. Yes, actual atoms. A Boy and His Atom depicts a character named Atom who befriends a single atom. And exactly how small is an atom? To give you a perspective,…
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Online crowds can be an important tool for teaching the ins and outs of innovation, educators at Carnegie Mellon University and Northwestern University say, even when the quality of the feedback provided by online sources doesn’t always match the quantity.…
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A three-year, $2.4 million grant from the Swiss Commission for Technology and Innovation has been awarded to scientists at IBM Research and ETH Zurich, among others, to harness the energy of 2,000 suns using a high concentration photovoltaic thermal system.…
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The Stanford University School of Medicine’s Division of Clinical Anatomy has joined zSpace’s Academic Advisory Council, a network of universities focused on advancing innovation, design and research. Stanford joins Olin College, University of Southern California (USC) and the University of California…
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Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs, founding chairman and CEO Emeritus of Qualcomm, and his wife Joan Klein Jacobs, have made a $133-million gift to Cornell University and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology to create the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation…
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