SOUTHFIELD — Early spring means that it’s Robofest season – all over the world. Robofest is a festival of competitions and events with autonomous robots that encourages students – from fifth grade to college – to have fun, while learning the principles of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), along with computer science. Students design,
ANN ARBOR — A nonprofit organization and a board of directors have been formed to handle operations for the new American Center for Mobility. The center, located in Ypsilanti Township at Willow Run Airport, is intended to help accelerate the development of autonomous and connected vehicles, as well as lead to economic development in Michigan.
ANN ARBOR - The India Business Conference on March 25-26 is one of the largest conferences hosted at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. Each year, IBC brings together leaders from business and a variety of other fields, Michigan's world-class faculty, and its diverse student body. IBC serves as a platform to explore
GRAND RAPIDS – Open Systems Technologies has been named by the Association for Corporate Growth of Western Michigan’s as its 2016 Outstanding Growth Award recipient. The $160 million information technology consulting firm joins the ranks of influential past winners including Wolverine World Wide, Herman Miller and Rockford Construction Company. The annual award honors a local
ANN ARBOR - An international team of engineers and biologists will gain unprecedented insights into how birds fly so efficiently and then turn that knowledge to building unmanned aircraft with shapeshifting wings. These planes should be lighter, faster and dramatically more maneuverable than today's stiff-winged aircraft. Recently awarded a $6 million grant from the Air
LANSING - Michigan House Democratic Rep. Jeremy Moss and Republican Rep. Ed McBroom joined forces a year ago to develop a plan to open up legislative communications to the public, and on Wednesday the 10-bill package was introduced with an exemption for all constituent communications unless it is from a registered lobbyist. Eight of the
LANSING - The Joint Capital Outlay Subcommittee is being asked to give authorization to nine new projects that, when constructed, would total $184 million. The projects include the four highest-scoring university projects and the top three community college projects. The two state projects were automatically added to the list. If approved, the institutions could begin
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University is ranked 17th on the Princeton Review’s just-published list of 2016’s top 50 undergraduate schools to study game design. The Princeton Review chose the colleges and universities based on a survey it conducted in 2015 of 150 institutions offering game design coursework or degrees in the United States, Canada, and
SOUTHFIELD - The percentage of women serving and leading as Chief Information Officers (CIO’s) for major organizations is still in the dismal single digits. But in this episode, Diva Tech Talk had the privilege of interviewing two of them: Mary Alice Annecharico, Senior VP and CIO for Henry Ford Health Systems, and Donna Roach, CIO
FERNDALE - Well, we lost one guest to the flu and another to some minor dental chaos, but that didn’t stop us. For episode 135 of our weekly live podcast broadcast we were joined for chats about Penguicon, Lawrence Technology Services and Automation Alley. Automation Alley can be found at: https://www.automationalley.com/ Penguicon is at: https://2016.penguicon.org/ Lawrence Technology
