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Why UPS Drivers Don’t Turn Left And You Probably Shouldn’t Either
Going round in circles can actually make your journey more efficient, so why don’t more people do it, asks Graham Kendall, computer science professor at the University of Nottingham? It might seem...
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These Drones Have A Flair For Flares: UAVs Are Taking Over The Dangerous Work...
If you’ve ever driven by a petroleum refinery, you’ve probably seen a flare stack “on fire.” What looks like shooting flames are the waste gases produced during chemical manufacturing burning off. At...
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Spielberg: Computer Pioneer Who Helped Design GE’s First...
The name Spielberg brings to mind a movie magician whose blockbusters changed storytelling forever. But Steven Spielberg isn’t the first disruptor in the family. His father, Arnold, who turns 100 on...
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Engineering The Future: GE’s Goal To Bridge The STEM Gender Gap By 2020
GE today announced goals of having 20,000 women to fill STEM roles at GE by 2020 and obtaining 50:50 representation for all our technical entry-level programs. The program will significantly increase...
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What Would The World Look Like If Companies Really Looked Like The World?
A balanced workforce is a business imperative, and today, the digital industrial revolution raises the stakes even higher. “In my 25 years working for GE, I have learned that the best business outcomes...
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The Slide Rule Sisters Would Be Proud: GE’s Female Engineers Talk About...
Florence Fogler put down her work for a moment. Mustering language simple enough for a reporter to understand, she explained her task: figuring out how to squeeze more power from coal by unraveling the...
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Developing The Perfect ‘Imperfect’ AI System
In terms of algorithms and techniques, we’re still in the infancy of artificial intelligence. And even in the future, A.I. systems will need humans just as much as humans need A.I., writes Manuela...
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GE, Innovation And The Path To DJIA 20,000
By bringing innovation into the lives of millions over the course of decades, General Electric has helped drive the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s growth to 20,000. On the Dow Jones Industrial...
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5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
Engineers are turning trees into power plants, using sound waves to hear the footsteps of disease, and building an AI that can warn you when you are talking too much. Enough said. This AI Can Tell You...
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Mother Of Invention: This Barrier-Busting Electrical Engineer Joined Edison,...
When Edith Clarke was born, the odds that she would one day join a group of celebrated inventors including Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell seemed microscopic....
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Fast Company Magazine Names Two GE Businesses Among The Most Innovative...
GE made history last year when its wind turbines started producing electricity at America’s first offshore wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island. The landmark project, the first of several planned...
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How Do I Love LED? Let Me Count The 5 Ways
For the first time, revenue from LED light bulbs matched traditional lighting product revenues last year. By 2020, LED light bulbs will outnumber traditional lighting. How do I love LED? Let Bill...
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The Hardiman Strikes Back: The Age Of Robotic Snakes And Dexterous...
Fifty years ago, GE engineer and robotics pioneer Ralph Mosher presented a groundbreaking paper at the Automotive Engineering Congress in Detroit. “Man and machine can be combined into an intimate,...
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Da Vinci Code 2.0: How 3D Printing And Digital Technologies Are Altering The...
You won’t find the Italian commune of Cameri in many tourist guides. Located on the flat and fertile plains that stretch seemingly forever between Italy’s industrial dynamos of Milan and Turin, tiny...
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Try This At Home! This Kid Built An Incredibly Detailed Model Of A Boeing 777...
Luca Iaconi-Stewart says he’s “a crazy guy who loves aviation.” That might be an understatement. The 24-year-old spent the last seven years in his parent’s house building an exquisitely precise replica...
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GE Invests $4.3 Billion To Build Next-Gen Jet Engines, Open New Factories In...
The GE9X jet engine that GE Aviation is developing for Boeing’s next-generation wide-body passenger jet, the 777X, is wider than the body of a Boeing 737 and more powerful than America’s first manned...
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What Drones May Come: The Flight Plan For The Future Of UAVs
Get a taste of a drone-enabled future by looking at innovations and explorations from researchers, students and employees at one of the nation’s largest university systems, led by Brandon Stark. He’s...
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Digital Medicine: How Can AI Help You?
Before Albert Hsiao became a radiologist, he didn’t know performing electrical measurements in the cerebellum of rats or learning about neural networks in college would be relevant to caring for...
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A Pinky Promise: Even The Most Advanced Machines Didn’t Prepare This Doctor...
When women visit Jin-Chung Shih, it’s almost always because their doctor suspects there’s a problem with the pregnancy. Shih runs the labor ward at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, and a...
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Lights, Electricity, Action: When Ronald Reagan Hosted “General Electric...
In 2015, the National Geographic Channel launched a new television series called “Breakthrough,” focusing on scientific discovery. The series was developed by the channel and GE, and produced by Oscar...
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