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The inaugural Patient, Safety Science & Technology Summit—held January 13 and 14 in Laguna Niguel, California—made history. For the first time, nine leading medical device companies publicly pledged to make their devices interoperable. The groundbreaking pledges will make patient data co...
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On January 19, 2013 as part of Inauguration Weekend, the Department of Energy hosted Energy All Stars featuring prominent energy leaders doing TED-style talks outlining what our energy future can and should look like, and steps that can be taken to achieve that vision. Speakers included Secretary of...
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This week it was my honor to speak alongside outstanding leaders in Patient Safety as well as President Clinton, at the Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit about a cause very close to my heart - the need for better patient care and elimination of medical error. The summit, founded by T...
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Evolution of the Moon From year to year, the moon never seems to change. Craters and other formations appear to be permanent now, but the moon didn't always look like this. Thanks to NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we now have a better look at some of the moon's history. Learn more in this vid...
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In the words of Albert Gyorgyi, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1937, “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” Similarly, our team has been working on a piezoelectric device that harnesses sound energy, generating electricity ...
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Press Release Lockheed Martin Renews Support for Spirit of Innovation Challenge For third consecutive year, global security and aerospace company works with teens to nurture and develop an innovation generation HOUSTON (Dec. 11, 2012) — Nancy Conrad, founder and chairman of the&n...
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Press Release 2012-2013 Spirit of Innovation Challenge Semi-Finalists Announced More than 100 innovative teams one step closer to the finals HOUSTON (Nov. 28, 2012) — Jennifer Fotherby, Spirit of Innovation Challenge executive director, announced today the 2012-2013 Spirit of Innova...
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Semi-Finalists Announced! We are pleased to announce the 2012-2013 Spirit of Innovation Challenge semi-finalists. Congratulations! These student teams exceeded our expectations in regards to innovation and creativity when applying STEM principles to their product concepts. This year, 130 i...
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By Michael Belfiore If space flight is ever to become affordable enough to be a mainstream business, two things have to happen. Actually getting to space has to be come an order or two of magnitude cheaper, and satellites and spaceships have to get a whole lot cheaper. SpaceX is worki...
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This is an informative white paper that addresses the question of what it means to think like an engineer and how we prep the developing workforce to be the engineers we need to support our future. From the Executive Summary: Engineers, like other professionals, are expected to per...