In anticipation of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter games, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has partnered with NBC Learn to feature the “Science and Engineering of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.” The series highlights the physics, engineering, chemistry, design and mathematics behind the olympics. One of the segments titled, “Olympic movement and robotic design,” features Raffaello D’Andrea, Professor of Dynamic Systems and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Switzerland. The segment highlights the Quadrocopter, which is similar to a helicopter, except with four independent rotors that allow it to move with more agility. The video shows the Quadrocopter working through a slalom course and also shows the […]

The Mozilla Gigabit Community Fund was announced on February 6, 2014 as a partnership between the Mozilla Foundation, the National Science Foundation (NSF) and US Ignite.  The Community Fund will support local innovators in Chattanooga and Kansas City as they build real-life open source applications for gigabit networks to foster the creation of next generation networks. “We are thrilled that the Gigabit Community Fund is bringing together  practitioners and innovators from public and private sectors to enable novel gigabit applications for learning and workforce development. These new apps will have the potential to boost productivity and safety — starting as an experiment in these two communities and growing across the U.S.” – Farnam Jahanian, Assistant […]