ANN ARBOR - Consumers have taken a liking to products they can interact with such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri, and iRobot's pet-like Roomba vacuum. Ironically, in spite of the increasing popularity of these humanized products, people have never reported feeling more alone or isolated. This raises an interesting question: are these anthropomorphic products capable
ANN ARBOR - Airbus is partnering with the University of Michigan by funding an $8.5 million joint center to study computer simulation tools and techniques for designing and evaluating future aircraft. The agreement was signed this week at the Paris Air Show. Concepts like elongated wings could reduce fuel burn, emissions and the cost of
TROY - Altair on Tuesday announced that its PBS Professional has been chosen to manage workload for the new Cray supercomputing system to be installed at for the Australian national weather service. PBS Professional was selected as part of a Cray contract to provide the Bureau of Meteorology with a Cray XC 40 supercomputer and
LANSING - Many of the region's marketing professionals will gather at Digital Summit Detroit, Sept. 22-23, to discuss the latest trends and trajectory of arguably the most transformative field of business. The summit will be held at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit. The Michigan Film & Digital Media Office is a headlining
FLINT - Roger Fischer and Dennis LaPorte, Baker College of Flint students, have each been awarded a $1,500 scholarship funded by Mi-Light, the Michigan photonics cluster, to pursue an associate degree in photonics and laser technology. Photonics is the science of using a photon, a unit of light, to generate energy or to detect or
SAN FRANCISCO - Just as we expected, Apple announced the next versions of its best-selling smartphones, the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. However, despite introducing a new color (rose gold), the iPhone 6S looks a whole lot like last year's iPhone 6- and most other iPhones - that came before. This follows the pattern that Apple
DETROIT - IT In The D's next Pink Slip Party event is scheduled for September 17 at The Majestic Theater, where as many as a thousand people show up, including over a hundred and fifty recruiters, tons of people specifically looking for jobs, and a whole bunch of folks just looking to meet people in
PLYMOUTH - Comcast has named Mikel Slater vice president of Human Resources for Comcast's Heartland region, encompassing Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky. As a key member of the region's senior leadership team, Slater is responsible for partnering with organization leads to develop and implement the HR strategy for attracting and retaining top talent and meeting the
DETROIT - TEDxDetroit 2015 has released its speaker list for the Oct. 8 event at the Fox Theatre and it includes influencers like NASA's Dr. Cathy Olkin and the Consumer Electronic Association's Gary Shapiro. In its seventh year, the day-long event, sort of a peep rally for business and innovation, will draw upwards of two
EAST LANSING - James Klausner, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Florida, has been named chair of the Michigan State University Department of Mechanical Engineering, effective Jan. 1, 2016. Klausner will replace Alejandro Diaz, who served as chair of the mechanical engineering department from 2009 to 2015. Diaz is now focused
