Author Says Technology Brings False Promises to Schools When it comes to technology, too often educators think the more the better, the sooner the better, according to author Todd Oppenheimer.
The days of a battery - powered exosuit for high - performance runners are still beyond the horizon, as the actuator unit (including motors, electronics, and power supply) in this study was off - board, but
the authors say technology is moving toward making an untethered assistive exosuit possible in the near future.
Not exact matches
The end - to - end manufacturing hype ignores 3D printing's cost and speed limitations
says Duncan Stewart, Head of
Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Research at Deloitte Canada, and
author of the consulting firm's much - cited annual TMT Predictions report.
If installed in smartphones, the
authors say, this
technology could provide a simple, low cost form of early detection.
The study's analysis «challenges a simple narrative that the internet as a
technology is what fragments public discourse and polarizes opinions,» the
authors say.
But while it may be tempting to single out Ellison as the ruthless villain of high
technology, «none of these guys are nice,»
says Jeffrey Pfeffer, a business professor at Stanford University and
author of Power: Why Some People Have It — And Others Don't.
«China has engaged for a very long time in the theft of our intellectual property as well as practices like forced
technology transfer,»
said Navarro,
author of several books anti-China books including «Death by China.»
The
author of The Lights In the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating
Technology and the Economy of the Future says improving technology is going to mean there won't be enough work to go around for everyone, and that this is i
Technology and the Economy of the Future
says improving
technology is going to mean there won't be enough work to go around for everyone, and that this is i
technology is going to mean there won't be enough work to go around for everyone, and that this is inevitable.
«We the public should feel safe,»
said Wesley Cook, a structural engineer at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and
Technology who
authored the 2014 bridge failure study.
«Automation is having a big impact,»
said Martin Ford,
author of «Rise of the Robots:
Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future,» due to be published May 5.
«Behind every successful entrepreneur today is the right smartphone,»
says Jennifer Jolly, consumer
technology journalist and
author of USA Today's Tech Now series.
«Thinking about who your customers are and how they might be changing becomes a really, really low priority item» amid the daily chaos of overseeing sales, accounting, hiring, and
technology,
says Peter Francese, the paper's
author.
«The retailers need to know how much of the beacons they want to use and figure out whether they should crawl, walk or run (with the
technology),»
said Schafer, who is a director at the National Retail Federation in the U.S. and
author of Branded, a book about retailers and social media.
The late sci - fi
author Arthur C. Clarke famously
said that any sufficiently advanced
technology is indistinguishable from magic.
«This is an important issue to study because mental health problems and social isolation are at epidemic levels among young adults,» lead
author Brian Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on media,
technology and health
said in a statement.
«There's an old
saying that goes, «If you paid for porn, you flunked the Internet,»»
says Patchen Barss,
author of The Erotic Engine, an upcoming book on the way pornography shaped modern
technology.
«Airless
technology is a sophisticated process with numerous benefits and for many prestige and masstige beauty and personal care brands, it's a «must have» solution,»
said Doug Kliska, executive vice president of global business development at TricorBraun and the white paper
author.
The study provides what the
authors say is good clinical evidence that helmet design can lower the risk of concussion, not in a laboratory, but in games and practices, by showing that a helmet model introduced in 2000 provides better protection against concussion than an older helmet employing 20 - year - old design
technology.
Schumer helped
author the legislation that established the registry but he
said technology has gotten ahead of the law and now cell phones have become the target.
There was an ancient paradigm about the «fitness cost of antibiotic resistance,» but the emergence of the new
technologies of high - throughput sequencing has changed the field, allowing researchers to study bacterial pathogenesis at the genome scale,»
said Dr. David Skurnik, senior
author of a new Bioessays article.
«When we first began this study, there had not been a lot of experimental research done,»
said Prof Gail Tripp, one of the
authors of the paper and director of the Human Developmental Neurobiology Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and
Technology Graduate University (OIST).
«ELISA is an important
technology for biochemical analysis of proteins and hormones and is critical for the diagnosis of many diseases, such as HIV and Lyme Disease,»
said corresponding
author Anna Pyayt, PhD, assistant professor at the University of South Florida College of Engineering.
«Virtual house calls for chronic diseases like Parkinson's are not only as effective as in - person care but broader adoption of this
technology has the potential to expand access to patient - centered care,»
said Ray Dorsey, M.D., the David M. Levy Professor of Neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and lead
author of the study.
«Chronic inflammation of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each of these factors contribute to the development of intestinal bowel disease,»
said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss
Technology Development Fellow and first
author on the study, speaking about the limitations of conventional in vitro and animal models of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation of the intestines.
«Everybody assumes that [agricultural] research as presently configured will just pull this rabbit out of the hat and produce more food than an entire previous history of humanity,»
said Val Giddings, the lead
author of the paper and a senior fellow at the Information
Technology and Innovation Foundation.
«I am not surprised that MOFs surpass existing solids in their water capacity uptake,»
says senior
author Mohamed Eddaoudi, of the King Abdullah University of Science and
Technology.
«Early evidence on the potential value of e-cigarettes for cessation or reduction of cigarette smoking has been mixed,»
said lead
author Brian A. Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on Media,
Technology and Health, and dean of Pitt's Honors College.
It really forces them to grapple with the question of what sleep is,»
says Ravi Nath, the paper's first
author and a molecular geneticist at the California Institute of
Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.
Stuart Sandin, a professor of marine ecology at Scripps, who is Edwards» PhD advisor and senior
author on the paper,
says the mosaic
technology can help scientists» understanding of marine ecology catch up with their knowledge of terrestrial ecology.
«This regenerative
technology, termed AAV gene transfer, provided long - lasting benefit to the entire musculature of affected dogs that would have otherwise perished, extending a healthy lifespan for more than 4 years,»
said Dr. Martin Childers, senior
author of the Muscle & Nerve study and a UW Medicine researcher in Seattle.
Japan's nuclear plant crisis with the radioactivity contamination from spent fuel pools is likely to put an overdue spotlight on stalemated U.S. policies for managing reactor fuel,
authors of a Massachusetts Institute of
Technology report on the nuclear fuel cycle
said yesterday.
«If you can make heat behave as a wave and have interference while controlling how far it moves, you could basically control all the properties behind heat transport,»
said Martin Maldovan, an assistant professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and School of Physics at the Georgia Institute of
Technology, and the paper's
author.
While SLIPS was an important advance, it was also «a proof of principle» — the first step toward a commercially valuable
technology,
said lead
author Nicolas Vogel, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in applied physics at Harvard SEAS.
This allows us to reveal how drugs affect heart functions in a scenario where the two cell populations are closely coupled,»
said Ben Maoz, Ph.D., a co-first
author on the second study, who also is a
Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and a member of Parker's group.
But one requirement lies at the center of most of the SDGs: that people have access to clean, affordable energy,
says a new study with Francesco Fuso Nerini, Assistant Professor in the Division of Energy Systems Analysis at KTH Royal Institute of
Technology, as lead
author.
The methods enable us to do this under relevant and even real operation conditions and, hence, to directly adjust the catalytic activity of materials,»
says Andreas Gänzler, scientist of KIT's Institute for Chemical
Technology and Polymer Chemistry (ITCP) and main
author of the study «Tuning the Structure of Platinum Particles on Ceria In Situ for Enhancing the Catalytic Performance of Exhaust Gas Catalysts» published in the latest issue of the journal Angewandte Chemie (Applied Chemistry).
«Developments in biomedical
technologies are accelerating rapidly, raising new societal debates about how we will use these
technologies and what uses are appropriate,»
said lead
author Cary Funk, an Associate Director of Research at Pew Research Center.
«Carbon capture and storage is seen as essential
technology if the UK is to meet its climate change targets,»
says lead
author Professor Mike Bickle, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Carbon Capture and Storage at the University of Cambridge.
«This tool is a
technology that is transformative in the evaluation of pancreatic cysts,»
said co-lead
author Douglas K. Pleskow, MD, Clinical Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Director of the Colon and Rectal Cancer Program at the Cancer Center at BIDMC.
«This research shows how
technology can be used to dramatically change the way preventive services are delivered and improve preventative health care,»
says senior
author Grant M. Greenberg, M.D., M.H.S.A., M.A., assistant professor and associate chair for information management and quality at the Department of Family Medicine at the U-M Medical School and member of the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation.
«This study has important ramifications for health care reform and how practitioners approach adherence assessment and intervention in routine care,»
says Kevin Hommel, PhD, director of the Center for Health
Technology Research at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and the study's lead
author.
«Our results show that there is a profound cultural difference» in the way people respond to consonant and dissonant sounds,
says Josh McDermott, a cognitive scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Cambridge and lead
author of the paper.
«Sleep disturbances are common in dementia but little is known about the various stages of sleep and whether they play a role in dementia risk,»
said study
author Matthew P. Pase, PhD, of Swinburne University of
Technology in Australia.
«This
technology is potentially revolutionary because it works in the visible spectrum, which means it has the capacity to replace lenses in all kinds of devices, from microscopes to camera, to displays and cell phones,»
said Federico Capasso, Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering and senior
author of the paper.
«When we modeled future shoreline change with the increased rates of sea level rise (SLR) projected under the IPCC's «business as usual» scenario, we found that increased SLR causes an average 16 - 20 feet of additional shoreline retreat by 2050, and an average of nearly 60 feet of additional retreat by 2100,»
said Tiffany Anderson, lead
author and post-doctoral researcher at the UH Mānoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and
Technology.
In either case, the detection of hydrated salts on these slopes means that water plays a vital role in the formation of these streaks,»
said Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of
Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, lead
author of a report on these findings published Sept. 28 by Nature Geoscience.
«The brown dwarfs we were turning up before this discovery were more like the temperature of your oven,»
said astronomer Davy Kirkpatrick, a WISE science team member at the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena, and lead
author of a study on the 100 new brown dwarfs.
Nevertheless,
says lead study
author Isabelle Deltour of the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology in Copenhagen, «The Nordic countries are a good model for studying the association» due to broad early adoption of the
technology and thorough medical records.
That will come in about 40 years» time, with improvements in speech recognition and generation
technology,
says David Levy, AI researcher and
author of the book Love and Sex with Robots.
«My work has focused on developing
technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,»
says Dr. Helen Huang, senior
author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.