It takes someone special to look at the island of Manhattan – possibly the most transformed, altered landscape on earth – and see the beaver dams, streams, marshes, and rolling hills that it once was... and want to bring that back to life. That someone special is Dr. Eric Sanderson, the originator of the Mannahatta project, now called the Welikia project. Discove ...
Discover how Ph.D. candidate at the University of Bristol, Dulce Rodriguez, turned her interest in how technology impacts society into a full-blown research project that aims to create a blended intergenerational learning environment. ...
Recently, the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE® announced its winners. We caught up with Ed Hepler, ex-InterDigital engineer and hardware development lead of the winning bootstrap operation, Final Frontier Medical Devices, after the winning announcement in this CREATORS sit-down. ...
A professor of Electrical Engineering at L’École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS) in Montreal and the chair holder of the Richard J. Marceau Chair on Wireless IP Technology for Developing Countries, François Gagnon has begun a project to bring the Internet to the most sparsely populated areas of the developing world. InterDigital sat down with Gagnon to discuss th ...
In 2009, Dr. George Smith received the Nobel Prize for Physics along with his partner William Boyle for their invention, the charge-coupled device (CCD). The CCD made digital imaging possible, from the earliest fax machines through modern cell phone cameras, changing the technology landscape forever. In this video, Dr. Smith sits down with one of our top innovato ...
Joe Giersch, a biologist from USGS, sat down with InterDigital to discuss technology’s role in the study of stream ecology, and explain why we should all know about the insect, Lednia tumana, that he has spent his life studying. ...