Enabling computer-based education in the developing world requires addressing significant resource limitations. Students often sit with two or more peers at a computer, and learning in this environment can be a challenge. For this reason, the idea of multiple-mouse interfaces has gained traction, allowing each student to directly interact with educational applications. However, major roadblocks exist to adoption and use of these technologies.
This workshop aims at bringing together researcher and presentations related to diagnostic methods and sensors for enhancing the reliability and improving fault detection for the power distribution grid. Among other, our goal is to stimulate the discussion on how such sensors and diagnostics/fault information can be integrated into the upcoming “Smart Grid” infrastructure.
How can science support efforts to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons and strengthen non-proliferation? Science and scientists have been engaged in support of many security building and arms control and disarmament efforts within different political and administrative frames.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded $24.5 million to researchers
at the University of California, Berkeley, to head an ambitious,
multi-institutional center that could one day lead to a million-fold reduction
in power consumption by electronics.
Dr. Aravind from Aravind Eye Hospitals was interviewed recently and
discussed TIER's role in setting up the vision centers. The largest and
the most productive eye care facility in the world, it sees over 1.4
million patients and performs over 200,000 sight restoring surgeries
each year. Two-thirds of its services, are free.
The Dynamic Autonomous Sprawled Hexapod is a micro-robot made of paperboard and off-the-shelf electronics that could assist in recovery from natural disasters by crawling into spaces too dangerous for rescue workers to enter.
The latest CITRIS newsletter is now online, witha story about a micro-robot made of paperboard and off-the-shelf electronics that could assist in recovery from natural disasters, and an interview with Greg Niemeyer, who creates games that can help engage people with serious issues, particularly that of climate change.
