Wing inserts on Formula One racecar helps to provide faster racing speeds. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) initiated Formula SAE in 1979, a program in which students design, build, and race an open wheeled, single-seated racecar. Within the program Global Formula Racing (GFR) emerged in 2010, a team in which students from Germany and […]
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Book: Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge
YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email. Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge Edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke, professor of anthropology, and Rebecca Hardin (University of Wisconsin […]
Japanese man’s childhood dreams give birth to giant robot
(Reuters) – Like many Japanese, Kogoro Kurata grew up watching futuristic robots in movies and animation, wishing that he could bring them to life and pilot one himself. Unlike most other Japanese, he has actually done it. His 4-tonne, 4-meter (13 feet) tall Kuratas robot is a grey behemoth with a built-in pilot’s seat and […]
Electric Vehicle Maker to Open Chicago Plant
A company that makes commercial vehicles powered entirely by electricity for FedEx, Coca-Cola, DHL and other corporations is opening a manufacturing plant in Chicago. Smith Electric Vehicles Corp.’s new plant is expected to create hundreds of jobs and boost the city’s growing battery and electric vehicle sector. Mayor Rahm Emanuel welcomed the company’s decision and […]
Clear Talk purchases Verizon Wireless B-block spectrum
Verizon Wireless today announced Clear Talk as the third buyer of its spectrum in the lower 700 MHz B-block. Clear Talk, a wireless service provider with operations in multiple states, last week signed an agreement to acquire from Verizon Wireless 10 lower 700 MHz B-block licenses covering five markets in Texas, as well as markets […]
Ericsson files patent suit against Samsung
Ericsson on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against Samsung for infringing its patents. The suit comes after the companies have spent nearly two years at the negotiating table in an attempt to reach an agreement on Samsung’s use of Ericsson’s patents, which fall under Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) licensing terms. Ericsson’s patents are seen as […]
SeaChange’s Davi moves to Synacor
SeaChange CTO Steve Davi has jumped ship for Synacor, where he will serve as senior vice president of software engineering. The move was apparently precipitated by SeaChange’s decision to eliminate the position of a corporate CTO. A SeaChange spokesman said, via email: “SeaChange senior management enacted a strategy last quarter to eliminate the position of […]
Comm giants respond to Chicago broadband RFI
Chicago may end up succeeding where so many other cities have failed with its plan to build a municipal broadband network. Two dozen communications companies have responded to the city’s request for interest (RFI). Companies including Cisco, Alcatel, AT&T, Verizon, Level 3 and Motorola Mobility, as well as smaller local-based groups like the Center for […]
Research in the News: Yale researcher says whooping cough vaccines effective, despite outbreaks
Despite recent outbreaks of pertussis (whooping cough) — a highly contagious bacterial disease that is preventable by the current pertussis vaccines — Yale researcher Dr. Eugene Shapiro maintains in an editorial that the vaccines are effective and should still be administered. Shapiro said that although acellular vaccines may be suboptimal, they are still quite effective […]
The music of the silks
CAMBRIDGE, MA — Pound for pound, spider silk is one of the strongest materials known: Research by MIT’s Markus Buehler has helped explain that this strength arises from silk’s unusual hierarchical arrangement of protein building blocks. Now Buehler — together with David Kaplan of Tufts University and Joyce Wong of Boston University — has synthesized […]