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Peter Wall Institute’s Major Thematic Grant awarded on Nanomaterials for Alternative Energy Applications

By Eugene Barsky on March 19, 2012

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies has announced that a Peter Wall Institute Major Thematic Grant of $500,000 has been awarded to Dr. Michael Wolf, Principal Investigator (Chemistry) for a project entitled “Nanomaterials for Alternative Energy Applications” for the period 2012-2016. http://www.pwias.ubc.ca/awards/thematic-programs/major-thematic-grants.php

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Stanford Researcher Explains How Google’s Self-Driving Vehicle Works.

By Eugene Barsky on October 20, 2011

From ASEE daily briefing: Popular Science (10/20, Kane) reports, “Sebastian Thrun, a Stanford professor and head of the project, and Google engineer Chris Urmson, delivered a keynote speech at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in San Francisco, explaining how the” Google’s self-driving fleet of Priuses work. “The ‘heart of the system’ [...]

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Singing about Engineering, Math and Science

Singing about Engineering, Math and Science

By Aleteia Greenwood on August 12, 2011

A team of scientists is investigating the ‘usefulness of music in science and math education’, and have created a website, with the help of an NSF grant, that includes a database of songs about engineering, math and science. Sing About Science & Math: songs for teaching, learning and fun My favourites: Graphene – the Musical [...]

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Kilobots demonstrate some interesting swarm behaviors

By Eugene Barsky on June 17, 2011

From ASEE update: Popular Science (6/16, Dillow) reports on Kilobots, small robots designed by Self Organizing Systems Research Group at Harvard that according to the article “demonstrate some interesting swarm behaviors, even if they’re not necessarily ‘doing’ anything yet.” The article features a video of the small robots performing a variety of tasks. The robots [...]

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International Business Times article on a Study that Finds Biofuels May Be Less Green Than Fossil Fuels.

By Eugene Barsky on May 17, 2011

From ASEE daily news digest: The International Business Times (5/17) reports that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a study funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and Air Force Research Labs, found that “biofuels may pollute the environment much more heavily if the process used to make them isn’t done in the right [...]

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The machine vs. us or the real end of librarianship?

By Eugene Barsky on February 15, 2011

This week, IBM computer named Watson will play against the two best human Jeopardy players, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Watson is an effort by I.B.M. researchers to advance a set of techniques used to process human language. It provides striking evidence that computing systems will no longer be limited to responding to simple commands. [...]

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Google Translate – Useful Tool or Gibberish Generator?

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 19, 2010

Putting Google to the Test in Translation An article posted in the March 9, 2010 issue of the New York Times compares how well Google Translate, Yahoo Babel Fish and Microsoft Bing Translator compare against the skills of a human translator. Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems [...]

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Engineers Unravel Mechanics Of How Cats Drink.

By Eugene Barsky on November 12, 2010

** hats off to ASEE daily alert for this one: The New York Times (11/12, Wade) reports, “It has taken four highly qualified engineers and a bunch of integral equations to figure it out, but we now know how cats drink. The answer is: very elegantly, and not at all the way you might suppose.” [...]

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Web of Science Journal Selection Process

By Kevin Lindstrom on September 24, 2010

Wondering why some journals are in the Web of Science database and others are not? Read the full article here The Thomson Reuters Journal Selection Process Why be selective Thomson Reuters is committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the world’s most important and influential journals to meet its subscribers’ current awareness and retrospective information retrieval [...]

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RefWorks workshops for the Sciences

RefWorks workshops for the Sciences

By Eugene Barsky on September 20, 2010

Katherine Miller from Woodward library and myself are offering a few RefWorks workshops for our Science and Engineering faculty, students and staff: Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 9:30AM – 11:30AM in Koerner 217 – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1087 Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM in Woodward B25 – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1090 If you need a personal training about [...]

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