Self-Driving Cars, Communications, Big Data & More

Associate Vice President for Policy, OSU/OH-TECH
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Ohio Technology Consortium
Wednesday, December 4, 2013 - 11:16am

Communications access key, FCC leader tells Ohio State audience (The Columbus Dispatch) – Tom Wheeler, the new head of the FCC, gave his first major policy presentation on The Ohio State University campus to discuss his goals and plans for the organization.

 

Can three Northeast Ohio health care heavyweights tame big data? (Crain’s Cleveland Business) – Case Western Reserve’s medical school has teamed with The Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals to launch the Institute of Computational Biology to apply big data solutions to the records they have collected over the years

 

China chasing U.S. lead in 3-D printing (USA Today) – In the past year China has begun to invest heavily in 3-D printing technology after observing the vast potential that the process has for industry.

 

Digital textbooks are the future for learning (Lancaster Online) – Despite challenges of switching to digital textbooks many teachers are embracing them due to their vast potential to aid in instruction.

 

University of Michigan aims to put fleet of self-driving cars on the road by 2021 (MLive) – The University of Michigan’s Mobility Transformation Center has begun work on creating a fleet of autonomous vehicles to be used by the university in seven years.