Dedication to Education & Beyond

In anticipation of the upcoming RoboCup 2010, in Singapore, The Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted perennial power-school Carnegie Mellon University.

This year’s team from CMU, the CMDragons, developed a new type of robot for the competition. According to one of the computer-science developers, this year’s robots “understand the law of physics.”

Read the full article for more on the algorithm that the CMDragons hope will power their robots to the top.

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In an article titled “Electronics Pioneer Sheds Light on the Satisfactions of Science,” the story of Jagdish Narayan, Ph.D., is told.

Mr. Narayan has been a materials science and engineering professor for 27 years at North Carolina State University. His “stat sheet reads, more than 500 journal papers and 11,000 citations, 35 patents, at least a dozen major awards and honors, and the fastest combined master’s and doctorate from a major research university.”

However, he questions whether or not anyone outside of academia recognizes innovative thinking. Undaunted, Mr. Narayan continues to pursue research and innovation. Dr. John C.C. Fan, president of the Kopin Corporation (CA A ’66), says of Mr. Narayan, “He’s definitely a pillar in the materials-science community.”

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This week the University of Maryland, College Park, and Lockheed Martin finally formalized a physical agreement of a long-standing partnership.

C.D. Mote Jr., CA A ’59, president of the university, and Ray O. Johnson, OK G ’84, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Lockheed Martin in Bethesda, signed a memorandum of understanding that will bring funding, collaboration, and research and development, to the university in support of Lockheed.

Read the article for more plans from the newly formed partnership.

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