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Carnegie Mellon Professor Leads RoboTutor Team to Win $1 Million Global Learning XPRIZE
Led by Professor Jack Mostow, professor emeritus in the School of Computer Science‘s Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the RoboTutor LLC team recently won $1 million as a Global Learning XPRIZE finalist for its educational technology. The software, aptly named RoboTutor, is designed to teach young children, between 7 and 9 years of… Read More
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UCLA Researchers Create ‘Personalized Cooling System’ for Mobile Electronics
A team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science and SRI International, an independent, nonprofit research center, have created a thin flexible device that functions as a cooling mechanism to prevent overheating in mobile electronics. This is the first demonstration of a physical object that can change a material’s… Read More
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Southern Cross University Researchers Use Sexuality of Coral Reefs to Restore Damaged Reefs
A team of researchers from Southern Cross University in Australia has successfully used the sexuality and reproduction capability of coral reefs to repair damaged reefs in the Philippines. The research is led by Professor Peter Harrison, founding director of the Marine Ecology Research Centre and director of the Institute for Development, Environment and Sustainability (IDEAS)… Read More
