This is a brilliant blog post by Tim Urban on the developments of computing power published on the WaitButWhy website. I really enjoyed reading it, although my wife thought it is rather long. So i made a shorter version here with the main points. The full version can be found here. Part 2 is also published … Continue reading
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Official opening of the TU/e High Tech Systems Center
On Jan 8, 2015 we openend officially our new High Tech Systems Center (HTSC) at Eindhoven University of Technology. It was a successful event, with almost 300 participants from industry, government and academia. We launched our video, which shows in a compact way our ambition, and the departments which co-operate in the center: Symposium. The … Continue reading
Inspiring the next generation of female engineers
The engineer of the future is a female. I like that statement. It expresses that we need diversity among engineers. We know we also need many more engineers in the future. So we should use the other 50%! See also this blogpost (in Dutch). It is not easy, however, to study as a female engineering student. See also the … Continue reading
The Bosgra Collection
My promotor and advisor Prof Okko Bosgra, who died last year, was highly respected by me and all of his students. What we all remember was his enormous knowledge of the literature, and we were all well aware that he had a huge collection of books and papers stored in his house. A while ago, Anna Bosgra asked Tom … Continue reading
Professionele ongehoorzaamheid
Na eerst 12 jaar in het bedrijfsleven te hebben gewerkt, en nu inmiddels al weer 15 jaar bij de universiteit, denk ik regelmatig na over veranderingsprocessen in organisaties, en hoe je (cultuur)verandering voor elkaar kunt krijgen. Ik heb ervaren dat je meer kunt realiseren door regelmatig buiten de lijntjes te acteren, maar de bestaande orde achteraf … Continue reading
Preceyes wins Euretina Innovation Award
Eindhoven University of Technology spinoff company PRECEYES has been awarded the EURETINA Science and Medicine Innovation Award 2014 for their high-precision surgery assistant. The award is an important endorsement by the European Society of Retina Specialists, supporting PRECEYES in their search to funding for productization of their technology. PRECEYES develops a high-precision assistant to support eye … Continue reading
Stella goes USA
‘Stella’, the world’s first solarpowered, energy positive family vehicle arrived in the U.S. Set to make its national debut at ITS World Congress in Detroit, September 7-11, Stella will demonstrate the benefits of EV’s, solar technology and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. Following ITS World Congress, Stella will travel to Los Angeles for National Drive Electric Week (NDEW), kicking … Continue reading
Hightechsystemen centraal op 58e Dies Natalis
De TU Eindhoven markeert zijn 58e verjaardag met de lancering van het High Tech Systems Center (@TUeHTSC). Met de oprichting van dit nieuwe onderzoekscentrum, wil de TU/e voorop lopen in het onderzoek naar en ontwikkeling van de machines van de toekomst. Het HTSC integreert disciplines uit de werktuigbouwkunde, elektrotechniek, fysica, wiskunde en informatica. De TU/e viert donderdag 24 … Continue reading
Automotive 4 Kids – Sioux event
Op zondag 30 maart was het Automotive event voor kinderen, georganiseerd door Sioux. Op de Automotive Campus, in Helmond, met hulp van AutomotiveNL en de gemeente Helmond, Driven-by-Helmond. Het was genieten: er kwamen ongeveer 600 kinderen met hun ouders, en er waren een heleboel auto’s, activiteiten, demonstraties en heerlijk weer. Via het Tesla Forum had ik … Continue reading
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