ICYMI: from big physics and data to $1 trillion solar storms
Jan. 5, 2015
This first full business week of 2015 provides an opportunity to take a look at ten items you may have missed in the run-up to and aftermath of the holidays:
- MIT offers Online X program on big data.
- Are you ready for a self-flying airliner—or at least one without a copilot?
- SEMI, IPC praise passage of manufacturing innovation act.
- NI highlights ‘Big Physics’ experiments
- Researchers apply graphene to lithium-sulfur battery
- Electronics plays role in traffic fatality reduction.
- NOAA’s DSCOVR satellite to warn of trillion-dollar solar storms.
- From street theft to credit mules, smartphones at risk.
- Math can shed light on spread of behaviors in social networks.
- Ferrari cruises to victory using ANSYS simulation.
About the Author
Rick Nelson
Contributing Editor
Rick is currently Contributing Technical Editor. He was Executive Editor for EE in 2011-2018. Previously he served on several publications, including EDN and Vision Systems Design, and has received awards for signed editorials from the American Society of Business Publication Editors. He began as a design engineer at General Electric and Litton Industries and earned a BSEE degree from Penn State.
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