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Seeking the Unseen: The GE Health Cloud Floats on a Century of Medical...
Thomas Edison’s light bulb patent was 15 years old when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and proved their power by imaging the bones inside his wife’s hand. “I’ve seen my death,” she reportedly said...
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Swimming With Current: New Chief Digital Officer makes Intelligent...
In October, GE launched Current, a startup focusing on bringing to market a holistic energy-as-a-service offering absent from the industry today. Former IBM Watson executive John Gordon just became...
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High-Tech Harriet Turbines Make Generating Energy From Shale Gas In...
Two of the world’s most efficient gas turbines, made by GE in Greenville, South Carolina, will drive a new power plant built by Moxie Energy and Caithness Energy in Salem Township in Luzerne County,...
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Julia Roig: How Businesses Can Help Deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals
Achieving the SDGs will require the private sector to work in authentic partnership with civil society and resist going back to business as usual. Through an incredibly participatory process, the...
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Buddy Bots: These Robots Will Guard Workers From Dull, Dirty and Dangerous Labor
He’s a coworker unlike any other — not afraid to wade into dangerous situations, take on boring tasks for hours on end or answer obscure maintenance questions you may have. “He” is really an it, a...
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Business Insider: GE CEO Says Let’s End The Debate Over Whether We Are In A...
In his piece in Business Insider, Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO, called for an end to the debate over whether we were in a tech bubble. “I believe that this is shortsighted and rooted in the belief...
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Child’s Play: Machines Learning Like Kids Will Usher In The Next Industrial...
If you ask Hollywood, the world teeming with robots and artificial intelligence is a no-brainer. Movies like “The Terminator,” “WALL-E” and “Blade Runner” have all cast intelligent automata as the...
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Navi Radjou: Fighting Global Warming with Frugal Innovation
Businesses can do more with less and find a sustainable path to growth by following the principles of frugal innovation. Heads of state from around the world have gathered in Paris with a lofty goal —...
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Present Perfect: When Reality Trumps Imagination
In the 1950s, GE hired renowned comics artists, including George “Inky” Roussos of Batman fame, to draw a series of comic books called Adventures in Science. “In the public relations field, although...
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From Gigabytes To Gigawatts: The Power Plant Of The Future Will Look Like...
Over the next decade, the global population is expected to grow by 1 billion people to more than 8 billion, and everyone will need electricity. GE expects demand for power to grow 50 percent over the...
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The Connector: Meet Joe Salvo, the Man from Digital Future
When Joe Salvo bought his house in Schenectady, NY, in 1986 he purchased a piece of history. GE built it in 1905, not long after Thomas Edison and his compatriots opened the company’s labs and moved...
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Relatively Speaking: When Albert Einstein Came To GE
A century ago this November, Albert Einstein published 10 equations that rocked the foundations of physics and changed how we view the universe. Einstein’s general theory of relativity upended our...
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Point Break: Where The World’s Largest Gas Turbines Prove Their Mettle
In parts of the world like the US and Brazil where electric current oscillates at 60 Hz, there’s no larger and more efficient gas turbine than a machine that GE calls 7HA. So efficient, in fact, that...
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From Gigabytes To Gigawatts: The Power Plant Of The Future Will Look Like...
Over the next decade, the global population is expected to grow by 1 billion people to more than 8 billion, and everyone will need electricity. GE expects demand for power to grow 50 percent over the...
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Huge New All-Electric Stealth Destroyer Makes First Rescue At Sea
Less than a week into its maiden voyage, the USS Zumwalt, the U.S. Navy’s largest and most advanced stealth destroyer, completed its first unplanned rescue mission on Dec. 12. The 610-foot,...
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Alan Marcus: Data and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
We are moving toward the fourth industrial revolution, in which mobile communications, social media and sensors are blurring the boundaries between people, the Internet and the physical world. Data is...
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What’s Inside A Jet Engine? These Scientists Are On A...
Dr. Waseem Faidi’s research playground looks an awful lot like a high-tech hospital room. There’s the large white doughnut of a computed tomography scanner and a medical bed surrounded by digital dials...
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Into Thin Air: The Lofty Side Of Jet Engine Testing
New GE jet engines must pass a litany of hardships on the test stand — from bird strikes to hailstorms — before they get to take to the air.But even then they are not finished. One of the steps...
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Business Insider: GE CEO Uses His Math Major Every Day, More Than MBA
GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt says he uses his undergraduate degree in mathematics more often than his Harvard MBA. “I use my math major every day, I don’t use the MBA quite as much,” Immelt told...
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Andrea Durkin: Why Aren’t American App Developers Looking Overseas?
With the global market for apps taking off, exports are fast becoming an attractive proposition for U.S. software developers. There are over 1 million U.S. software developers, according to the Bureau...
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