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Women at Work in 2025
Peggy kicks off Women’s History Month by unpacking the history of women in the workplace and looking at where we are today, in anticipation of Intl. Women’s Day on March 8. She says we are making progress, but not fast enough, especially considering many industries have a dire worker shortage. She also: Discusses three new… -
The Energy Conversation
Peggy Smedley and Ani Aprahamian, Frank M. Freimann professor of physics, University of Notre Dame, talk about her research, energy conversion, and how nuclear energy fits into the equation. She says energy is essential to our lives and we have seen increased use of energy in the last 200 years. They also discuss: How we… -
A Window to Tomorrow
Peggy Smedley and Brian Comiskey, futurist and senior director, Innovation & Trends, Consumer Technology Assn., talk about some of the big CES trends that will shape what happens next in 2025. He says even though we are looking back, the beauty of the show is it is about being a window to tomorrow, setting up…
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Satellite offers many opportunities for greater connectivity in all walks of life. To help, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Astrolight, are collaborating to advance satellite connectivity. The partnership involves integrating Astrolight’s ATLAS-1 optical terminal into PeakSat, a CubeSat mission that must enable laser communication from low Earth orbit to ground stations in Greece. PeakSat aims to establish optical communication links between LEO satellites and ground stations and is scheduled for launch in the fourth quarter of 2025. Here we see a transition from traditional radio frequency-based communication to more advanced laser technology. In this case, the main objective is to consider the operational performance of the Holomondas OGS, which will be done by testing various scenarios, elevation angles, weather conditions, and illumination environments. Here is how this can help: Ensure precise alignment. Develop a scalable, secure, and efficient communication infrastructure. Enable higher data rates. Achieve better security. Have better resistance to interference Reduce spectrum licensing challenges. Looking to the future, we may see more similar partnerships. Currently, technology transfer from academia to industry takes approximately up to five years. Such collaborations as one with Astrolight can speed this process…
Like many industries, the healthcare industry is facing a shortage of skilled physicians, including a shortage of roughly 20,000 surgeons in the next 10 years. Enter AI (artificial intelligence)-powered surgical technology. Traditional surgical navigation systems often rely on static 2D imagery. Proprio Paradigm’s platform leverages AI to enhance precision, which ultimately means more data and insights to help address the critical global worker shortage gap. Here is how this can help in healthcare: Address unmet medical needs. Lead to better surgical decision making. Improve patient outcomes. New collaboration launched in Australia and New Zealand, but we can expect similar technologies around the world in the future. In what other ways can we address the shortage of skilled physicians in the healthcare…
The opportunities gen AI (artificial intelligence) brings to most industries are significant—dare we say remarkable? But let’s be clear, there are still some challenges. For example, most LLMs (large language models) are trained on publicly available data and the vast majority of enterprise data remains untapped, and much work needs to be done to address this. And again, dare we say address this sooner, rather than later? Enter Granite 3.0, IBM’s third-generation Granite flagship language models, which was announced earlier this week at IBM’s second annual TechXchange event. By combining a small Granite model with enterprise data, especially using the…
We have come a long way with safety. If you journey back to the year 1960 and walked a construction jobsite, you would see very different work conditions than you see today. Hard hats were not mandatory yet and PPE (personal protective equipment) wasn’t the common three-letter jobsite acronym that it is today. Workers would be hanging from the top of buildings, with little gear to protect them. We have certainly come a long way, right? Yes and no. The reality is every year, one in 100 construction workers still get hurt bad enough to need time off work. We…
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