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Dream Big, Start Small: NYU Startups Disrupt Big Industries
By Liyan Chen, forbes.com, November 19th, 2012
Back in Hawaii, Christopher Bradley got to observe the health industry on a daily basis. He found that his father, a family physician in Honolulu, wasted a lot of time on medical records instead of focusing all his energy on helping patients, because there was no technology in place to solve the...
Featured Ideator: Anne Laure Fayard
Open Ideo, November 19th, 2012
Born in France, Anne-Laure Fayard currently lives in New York where she works as faculty at NYU-Poly. She has been collaborating on OpenIDEO across a number of challenges and has involved students from her course on design thinking as well. Her Shift Van concept was a winner on our Amnesty...
Stress Best
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb, economist.com, November 17th, 2012
WHAT is the opposite of fragility? Though not quite right, “resilience” and “robustness” are two words that come to mind. If fragility means something that breaks under stress, its exact opposite should mean something that grows stronger under pressure. There is no word that...
Hack Today, Secure Tomorrow
By Sarah Pizon & Melissa Noel, nycitynewsservice.com, November 17th, 2012
Brooklyn - More than 130 student hackers participate in the ninth annual Cyber Security Awareness Week challenge at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. High schoolers and graduate students engaged in a fierce two-day “hack-a-thon” competition designed to recruit the...
Learning to Love Volatility
By Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Wall Street Journal, November 16th, 2012
Several years before the financial crisis descended on us, I put forward the concept of "black swans": large events that are both unexpected and highly consequential. We never see black swans coming, but when they do arrive, they profoundly shape our world: Think of World War I, 9/11, the...
Citizen Science — Aquatic Robot Division
By Kathy Ceceri, wired.com, November 15th, 2012
You can play an important role in the exploration of a strange, dank, inhospitable environment which may harbor life forms still unknown to modern science. The place? The Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, a former toxic waste dump now designated as a Superfund clean-up site. Your job? Help researchers and...
Robo-Fish Attracts Living Kin with Tail Wave
By Charles Choi, livescience.com, November 14th, 2012
Robotic fish can make real fish like them simply by waving their artificial tails in a special way, researchers say. These droids could lead real fish away from perils such as underwater turbines, and help scientists learn more about how real animals behave, investigators added. Roboticists have...
With a wag of its tail, robo-fish draws attention of real thing
By Charles Choi, msnbc.msn.com, November 14th, 2012
Robotic fish can make real fish like them simply by waving their artificial tails in a special way, researchers say. These droids could lead real fish away from perils such as underwater turbines, and help scientists learn more about how real animals behave, investigators added. Roboticists...
Robot-fish interact with live fish
royalsociety.org, November 14th, 2012
Researchers at The Polytechnic Institute of New York University explored the interactions of zebrafish with a robotic-fish that autonomously observed and adapted to the live fish's motion. An experimental setup was designed to allow the robotic-fish to change the movement of its tail as the...
I Like You When You Beat Your Tail Like That
By Virginia Morell, news.sciencemag.org, November 13th, 2012
All it takes is proper tail technique to turn a giant robot fish into a pickup artist. Scientists from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University constructed a fishy-looking robot with an enlarged abdomen (a shape that's attractive to both male and female zebrafish), and a flexible caudal...
