Khari Douglas will be covering the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) on the CCC blog all week. Stay tuned and check out the HLF blog for more coverage of the event.  It may not be your forte, but communicating your research results is an important part of the scientific process. In order to help young researchers improve their skills in this domain, the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum included an interactive session titled, “Pitch Your Science News and Opinion Stories to News and Magazine Editors.” This session was hosted by Susan D’Agostino, Associate Editor of the Bulletin of Atomic Science, a media organization that focuses on man-made threats to human existence, and the […]

MIT Technology Review publishes an annual list of 35 innovators under the age of 35, and they recently released their list of innovators for 2020. The list features over 20 innovators who are solving problems related to or using computer science. Some highlights from the list include: Leila Pirhaji, ReviveMed – Pirhaji built an AI-based tool for measuring tiny molecules in the body called metabolites, and her work could help us better detect and treat diseases. Measuring and identifying metabolites is expensive and time-consuming, and fewer than 5% of metabolites in a patient can be identified using common technologies. So Pirhaji developed a platform that uses machine learning to do it much […]

In February, the MIT Technology Review published their list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2015. Recently they released their follow up list, detailing how those technologies have advanced since then. Some computing-related highlights include: Car-to-car Communication: Car-to-car communication technology allows cars to broadcast their position, speed, brake status and other data to vehicles nearby them, which can help drives navigate more safely. Soon this technology will be widely available with Mercedes-Benz confirming that its 2017 E-Class models will feature the technology and General Motors will reportedly have the technology in its 2017 Cadillac CTS. Project Loon: Project Loon is a project developed by Google X (now run by Alphabet, Google’s parent company), […]