STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY
Stony Brook, NY:
Interdisciplinary Team Explores Ways to Support Aging in Place
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Fan Ye is part of a team of researchers from across Stony Brook University’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences , School of Medicine , and School of Nursing that is studying new Internet-of-Things technologies to address the challenges of growing older and “aging in place.” The Internet of Things (IoT) is a vast universe of potentially controllable objects, such as smart lights and indoor climate controls, that can transform the environments in which we we live and work.
Professor Fan Ye works on hardware and software that leverages the Internet of Things…
Google wants to use naked mole rats to find the secret to slow aging
Calico Labs — the mysterious life-extension research and development company backed by Google and pharmaceutical giant AbbVie — is harnessing a colony of walking, toothy scrotums known as naked...
How to Fuel Energy and Explore Possibility
The need for a quick solution prevents leaders from asking powerful questions. What if questions are more powerful than statements? Powerful questions: #1. Ignite curiosity. Curiosity comes before …
Why Feedback Matters: Exploring Typeform Surveys
If you’ve never heard of Typeform, don’t worry. A lot of people haven’t. However, allow me to introduce you. Typeform is a great tool that can stand in place of programs like SurveyMonkey or Qualtrics. As users take a survey, it can provide an awesome...
Intelligence at the edge: 4 tips to begin exploring IoT
The Internet of Things can give government managers actionable information, rather than raw data, more quickly, which allows them to do their jobs more efficiently and effectively.
What is transfer learning? Exploring the popular deep learning approach
Transfer learning is the reuse of a pre-trained model on a new problem, and it's currently very popular in deep learning.
Exploring the Meaning of the Concept of Culture in a Society
When we evaluate a society, one of the factors we try to determine is the level of culture to which that society has attained. A society can be highly developed technologically, industrially, econ…
Exploring the human benefits of artificial intelligence
Despite the challenges, organizations are digitally transforming to compete for customers and AI promises a way forward. Are you ready?
Is This Going to Be A(nother) Dark Age?
Three Stages of Human History — And Why We’re Stuck in the Second
Is America Entering a Dark Age?
Like ancient Greeks in a Dark Age, Americans use what our ancestors in a previous generation built but cannot match their achievements, or even keep them in good shape.
3 ways the Internet of Things will (probably) change the world
Gary Barnett, Chief Analyst for Ovum's Software team, talks about three ways the Internet of Things will fundamentally affect and evolve everyday global proc...
What's the Future of Work in the Age of AI?
It’s now critical that businesses develop upskill strategies to help employees change proficiencies and gain the necessary skills to exploit the power of AI.
Explore the big ideas around complex, interconnected systems
Jane Drake, Head of Curriculum Innovation and Alignment, asks “how might education hope to solve the complex problems surrounding us? How can education tackle environmental issues, disease, social media, conflict, food security or financial crisis?”<br>Complexity advisor Roland Kupers adds: “Deeply interconnected systems behave in ways that surprise. Whether it‘s the economy, social norms, the human body or ecosystems, the interconnected nature of systems leads to…
Machine learning in the age of Augmented Innovation
At the core of artificial intelligence sits machine learning (ML), which uses big data and data mining to give AI its heartbeat. Find out how ML is poised to make life better.
From Salon Marketplace: Explore STEM concepts with this build-it-yourself drone
Assembling this Drone can teach you a thing or two about STEM development
Does blockchain have a place in synthetic biology?
While there are several blockchain companies working on solutions to secure genomic data, the industry is very young.
In the robot age, are you sure you're a human?
In a rapidly changing world, it's important to hold on to what defines us: purpose, empathy and a passion for learning.
Machine Learning: The Foundation for New-Age Predictive Analytics
Three examples highlight the power of machine-learning predictive analytics.
The people, places, and things driving the gene-editing revolution
Like evolution itself, the field of gene editing is constantly branching in new directions, but the same names and terms keep popping up.
