Origami, the Japanese art form that dates to the 17th century, creates unique patterns and shapes from paper folding. Today, origami inspires engineers to design active materials and smart structures that bend, stretch, and curve, overcoming traditional design constraints and rendering products and systems with remarkable performance characteristics and features. Origami enables products with the …
Targeted surveillance (or targeted interception) is a form of surveillance, such as wiretapping, directed towards specific persons of interest and is distinguishable from mass surveillance (or bulk interception). Both untargeted and targeted surveillance is routinely accused of treating innocent people as suspects in unfair ways, of violating human rights, international treaties and conventions, as well …
Artificial brainpower (AI), the study of making more brilliant and insightful human-like machines, has started an inescapable discussion of Artificial Intelligence Vs. Human Intelligence. Indeed, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are built to make machines learn independently and make decisions just like we humans do. While trying to make more intelligent machines, …
Behavioral economics sheds light on most everyday activities and why we consume goods and services the way we do, why we make certain choices about ourselves or others, and how we decide courses of action. It is an incredible lens that exposes our inner biases and approaches to decision-making. Traditional economic research assumes that people’s …
STORM. What comes to mind when you hear this term? Images of rolling dark clouds and gusty winds? Your ears are undoubtedly ringing with the sound of thunder. You could be looking up at the sky for lightning bolts. But what about a SOLAR STORM? Would you believe that the Earth is occasionally hit by …
Social entrepreneurship, at the core, means conducting business for the collective good of all. These people pursue noble causes and have the potential to solve problems that affect the community at large. They often believe that this practice helps connect them to their life’s purpose, helps others find theirs, and makes a difference in this …
What is a Bloom Filter? A Bloom filter is a probabilistic data structure that is based on hashing. It is an extremely space-efficient data structure and is typically used to add elements to a set and test if an element is in a set. When testing if an element is present in the bloom filter, …
“Somewhere behind the athlete you’ve become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back… play for her” – Mia Hamm FLY A dreamer was born, a twinkle in his eye You crawled, you walked and …
Got the college of your dreams but not the branch, well don’t lose hope yet as one of my favorite quotes is about to become your knight in shining armor. “There’s always a light at the end of the tunnel” In this case, the tunnel being your journey through 1st year and the light …
A few days ago, I was relaxing on the couch, playing FIFA, and my mom asked me, “Why do you love video games so much?” Sometimes I wonder about it. Actually, it’s something I think about a lot. So let us break it down and see why we love video games so much and why …