Origami Engineering

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 …

The Pegasus Project

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 …

AI will overpower humans. True or false?

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, …

Fly

“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 …