Enter the 2019 R&D 100 Awards! ThreatSEQ is a 2018 R&D 100 Award winner. All of the R&D 100 Awardees were announced at the R&D 100 Awards Gala held in Orlando, Florida on Nov. 16, 2018. The R&D 100 Awards have served as the most prestigious innovation awards program for the past 57 years, honoring R&D pioneers…
Programming Plants: ‘Cyber-Agriculture’ Could Be Future of Food Production
Combining agriculture, computer power, statistical models and chemical analysis, researchers have learned how to maximize the flavor of basil plants, a preliminary step toward optimizing food growth, and open-sourcing the technology to do so. The scientists, from the Open Agriculture (OpenAg) Initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), say that “cyber-agriculture” could additionally aid…
Dynamic Simulation Tool Protects Power Grids from Cascading Failures
Enter the 2019 R&D 100 Awards! The Dynamic Contingency Analysis Tool is a 2018 R&D 100 Award winner. All of the R&D 100 Awardees were announced at the R&D 100 Awards Gala held in Orlando, Florida on Nov. 16, 2018. The R&D 100 Awards have served as the most prestigious innovation awards program for the past…
NASA Software Innovation Models Aircraft Ice Accumulation
Enter the 2019 R&D 100 Awards! LEWICE3D is a 2018 R&D 100 Award winner. All of the R&D 100 Awardees were announced at the R&D 100 Awards Gala held in Orlando, Florida on Nov. 16, 2018. The R&D 100 Awards have served as the most prestigious innovation awards program for the past 57 years, honoring…
Software Innovation Boosts Efficiency for World’s Fastest Supercomputers
Supercomputers are built for speed and efficiency, to handle massive volumes of data that would quickly overwhelm the typical household machine. But even high-performance computing (HPC) has room for improvement, especially as the amount of data that researchers are working with will continue to increase, as indicated by the U.S. Department of Energy’s 2015 High Energy…
Creating ‘DNA Barcodes,’ Researchers Work to Speed up Forensic Analysis
Enter the 2019 R&D 100 Awards! FastID and TachysSTR was a 2018 R&D 100 Award winner. All of the R&D 100 Awardees were announced at the R&D 100 Awards Gala held in Orlando, Florida on Nov. 16, 2018. The R&D 100 Awards have served as the most prestigious innovation awards program for the past 57 years, honoring R&D…
