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Discovery: UTA Prof Gets $6.575M in Grants; UNT, University of Dallas Put Telescope Online

by | Mar 22, 2019
You’ll also find news about how SMU Cox School MBA students are doing research for Arcis Golf, and how a $625K grant is aimed at improving healthcare at the Dallas VA Medical Center in this report on research and development activity in North Texas.
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A rendering of the Hyperloop One station shown in a slide presentation by Steven Duong earlier this month.
Transit in a Tube: Feds Back Hyperloop One at SXSW
by | Mar 21, 2019
A federal council from the U.S. Department of Transportation aims to eliminate roadblocks to innovative transit like the Virgin Hyperloop One, self-driving vehicles, and high-speed railways.
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Dallas Invents: 97 Patents Granted for Week of March 12
by | Mar 20, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 12 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Futurewei Technologies' foldable mobile device • IBM's cognitive geofencing • Lockheed Martin's aircraft laser detector • Uniloc's pedestrian traffic monitoring and analysis
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Discovery: UTD Scientist Finds Cause for Hot Batteries; BRIT, UNTHSC Collaborate on Research
by | Mar 15, 2019
In this roundup of research and development activity involving institutions in North Texas, you'll also read about a UTA professor that's using $900K in research grants to focus on monitoring structural integrity.
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Interplanetary Internet: Hypergiant and Arch Mission Partner to Connect the Solar System

by | Mar 11, 2019
The two organizations plan to launch a series of satellites, starting in 2020, to serve as relay points in the Interplanetary Internet. Hypergiant's AI-driven Smart Satellite Platform allows for data to be continuously sent from Earth that is also easily retrievable in the case of a cataclysmic event.
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That’s in Dallas: Apply Now to Showcase Your Innovation at Dallas Startup Week
Amazing things are invented, created, and produced right here in North Texas, every day. Dallas Startup Week is ready to show off that "wow" factor.
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International Women’s Day: Meet 12 Women Who Are Shaping Innovation in Dallas
by | Mar 8, 2019
From a startup founder assisting women with low sexual desire, to a cohort of business owners who have teamed up for success, to brilliant minds shaping healthcare—meet some of Dallas' female entrepreneurs.
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Discovery: UTSW Studies Tiny Membrane Protein, UTD Prof Gets $2.4M for ‘Atomically Precise Manufacturing’
by | Mar 8, 2019
You'll also find out about a UT Dallas physicist developing a new way to control light that comes from crystal seminconductors in this roundup of research and development activity in North Texas.
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Dallas Invents: 110 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 26

by | Mar 6, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 13 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Avaya's method for securing account access by verifying account with email provider • Asphalt Sciences' method of dissolving tire rubber • Bell's aircraft with autonomous and remote flight control capabilities • IBM's intelligent driving recommendation system • Toyota's systems for locally aligning map data • Verizon's wireless infrastructure with distributed fiber networks
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Meet the Innovators: Dale Carman, Groove Jones
by | Mar 4, 2019
Dale Carman says great augmented and virtual reality has the potential to trigger your "lizard brain into believing what you see is real." He and his team at Groove Jones want to do just that with projects such as the new Dallas Mavericks’ AR mural of player Luka Doncic in downtown Dallas.
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Technology Puts DFW Ahead of the Experiential Retail Trend, 5G is Coming, Cowboys Coworking
by | Mar 2, 2019
From tech bytes (Cien, Fujitsu, AuGames, Groove Jones) to spaces and places (ZIPZONE, ParkHub, Cognizant, JLL) to our weekly top 10 (Traffic-Control Signals Cut Stoplight Wait), here's your rundown on ideas and innovation in North Texas.
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Texas’ Booming Life Sciences Sector Draws Financial Advisory Firm to Dallas
by | Mar 1, 2019
Danforth Advisors LLC provides integrated and scalable consulting teams ranging from controller through CFO for life sciences companies, freeing time for innovation.
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Pictured: a 24 inch servo. [Image: courtesy MμZ Motion]

MμZ Motion Brings Innovation to Collaborative Robotics

by | Feb 28, 2019
Advancements in collaborative robotics can increase productivity, work output, and quality of life. But humans need not fear being replaced, says the founder and CEO of MμZ Motion.
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Dallas Invents: 147 Patents Granted for Week of Feb. 19
by | Feb 27, 2019
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patents out of 250 metros. Patents granted include: • Armor Defense's system to detect and extract malicious instructions on a virtual machine • American Airline's departure sequencing system that includes an airport state analyzer, a taxi-out predictor, and a pushback optimizer • IBM's root cause analysis of performance problems of a computer system • SanDisk Technologies' flash card end of life prediction based on memory wear • an unassigned patent for a pull tab simulating a cannabis leaf cutout
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Go Time: Traffic-Control Signals Cut Stoplight Wait by 40% in Richardson
by | Feb 26, 2019
The self-syncing stoplight technology, developed at UTD, can be used in any city that deploys programmable traffic controllers with internet access.
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