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This podcast is hosted by edWeb.net.The webinar recording can be accessed here.Listen for a lively discussion with three recent graduates from Metuchen High School (NJ). As high school students passionate about equitable and accessible mental health care, they were astonished to see that their school's mental health resources webpage was dated, difficult to use, and not as helpful as it intended to be. So, they embarked on a mission to develop the world's first machine learning chatbot, dedicated to serving as a comprehensive directory for high school students.Their chatbot is designed to bridge the gap and provide assistance in coping with stress, anxiety, and various mental health challenges. The chatbot is a neural network built with a TensorFlow sequential model. They collaborated with the Hamilton Lab at the Rutgers University Department of Psychology in New Brunswick to compile training data for the model. With a focus on user experience, Myndful.AI offers a sleek and intuitive interface for direct FREE communication with the chatbot, as well as a convenient menu that provides quick access to curated resources addressing various mental health concerns.Through this edWeb podcast, listeners are able to learn about artificial intelligence applications in the classroom and how this emerging technology can be used to support students and their mental health. In an increasingly technological era, it is important that both students and educators learn how to use technology for good to best prepare for the future.Myndful.AI is currently available to all students nationwide. They have created custom pages for schools across New Jersey with school-specific resources. Myndful has been used nearly 40,000 times in the past three months and serves 5,000. Myndful has won many awards including the Congressional App Challenge.This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 educators and counselors who want to learn more about innovative and student-driven ways to support the mental health and wellness of their students.This edWeb podcast is part of Mental Health & Wellness Week. Join us for a week of advice, resources, and solutions that address educator and student mental health and wellness.edWeb.net edWeb is an award-winning professional learning network that serves the global education community.Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Learn more about viewing live edWeb presentations and on-demand recordings, earning CE certificates, and using accessibility features.
We discussed a number of things including: 1. State of the #drones industry, regionally, nationally and globally 2. Outlook for sector and funding forecast 3. What's next in drones at Rutgers and at Dronedek 4. Talent pipeline opportunities and challenges Laurent joined the Rutgers University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2019, after serving as a scientific researcher at ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab for 9 years, and as a "guidance and control" expert for 7 years inside the French DoD. He has thus collaborated with European Aerospace Industry leaders for around fifteen years. Burlion's research develops and applies advanced flight control algorithms to uncertain systems and is motivated by aerospace applications including spacecraft, aircraft, and drones. He led a project on vision-based landing of aerial vehicles, at the request of Airbus between 2013 and 2017. He also worked on advanced controls for the prevention of, and the recovery from, aircraft excursions from nominal flight regimes. At Rutgers, Burlion is setting up a new lab in which drones can perform indoor and outdoor flights. The drones are either directly bought "off the shelf " or "homemade" by graduate and undergraduate students. Innovative algorithms are implemented to both improve the reliability and enlarge the flight envelope of autonomous quadcopters and airplanes. He is also working on offshore floating wind turbines and nanosatellites. ---- Dan O'Toole is a serial entrepreneur and business leader who is among the first in the United States to secure patents for a smart mailbox designed to securely accept packages delivered by drone. DRONEDEK holds a First-Position Patent Portfolio for the next-generation mailbox of autonomous and drone delivery. Two issued US Utility Patents, two additional utility patents are under examination now and two PCT's. In all 111 patent claims already awarded or filed for. Dan is a Ball State University graduate and lives in Carmel, Indiana with his family.
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EDWARD TENNER is a distinguished scholar of the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and a visiting scholar in the Rutgers University Department of History. He was a visiting lecturer at the Humanities Council at Princeton and has held visiting research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Pennsylvania. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Wilson Quarterly, and Forbes.com, and he has given talks for many organizations, including Microsoft, AT&T, the National Institute on White Collar Crime, the Smithsonian Associates, and TED. His book, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, written in part with a Guggenheim Fellowship, has been translated into German, Japanese, Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, and Czech.
In this episode, Dr. Donna Nickitas, Editor of Nursing Economic$, talks with Dr. Jennifer Francis, a Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, MA, and an Affiliate with the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences.Dr. Francis is world-renowned for her research on Arctic climate change impacts and the resulting effect on weather in other regions of the world. Her research has focused specifically on the connection between the rapidly warming Arctic and a weakened jet stream. She is regularly quoted in major media outlets, including The New York Times and The Washington Post. She recently testified to the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on climate change and its connection to extreme weather. Dr. Francis received her PhD in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Washington and her undergraduate degree from San Jose State.Her article, "Clarity and Clouds: Progress in Understanding Arctic Influences on Mid-Latitude Weather," was published in the January/February 2019 issue of Nursing Economic$, as part of its special issue on "Climate Change & Health-Related Environmental Risk."To purchase your copy of this special issue of Nursing Economic$, order online at:http://www.nursingeconomics.netTo learn more about Woods Hole Research Center: https://whrc.org/Jennifer A. Francis, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, MA, and an Affiliate with the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Learn more about Dr. Francis and her research by visiting her website: https://www.jenniferafrancis.com/Donna M. Nickitas, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNE, FAAN, is Dean and Professor, the Rutgers School of Nursing, Camden, NJ, and the Editor of Nursing Economic$.© Jannetti Publications, Inc.All rights reserved. No portion of this podcast may be used without written permission.To learn more about Nursing Economic$, visit http://www.nursingeconomics.netProduction management by Carol M Ford Productions, LLC, for Anthony J. Jannetti, inc.Music selection:Scott_Holmes — "Think Big"http://www.scottholmesmusic.com
‘The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do’. Edward Tenner is a distinguished scholar of the Smithsonian's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and a visiting scholar in the Rutgers University Department of History. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Wilson Quarterly, and Forbes.com.
One of the great promises of the Internet and big data revolutions is the idea that we can improve the processes and routines of our work and personal lives to get more done in less time than we ever have before. Technology has enabled a widespread increase of efficiency-enhancing algorithms, multitasking, a sharing economy, and life hacks, and has led our society to perform at higher levels and move at unprecedented speed. But Edward Tenner—distinguished scholar of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation—asks: what if we’re headed in the wrong direction? Tenner joined Town Hall’s Executive Director Wier Harman onstage for a study of the long-term history of technology and the latest headlines and findings of computer science and social science. Sharing wisdom from his book The Efficiency Paradox: What Big Data Can’t Do, Tenner questioned our ingrained assumptions about efficiency and examines whether relying on the algorithms of digital platforms can in fact lead to wasted efforts, missed opportunities, and above all an inability to break out of established patterns. Join Tenner and Harman for a conversation on smarter ways of thinking about efficiency, and what we and our institutions can learn from the random and unexpected when equipped with an astute combination of artificial intelligence and trained intuition. Edward Tenner is a distinguished scholar of the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation and a visiting scholar in the Rutgers University Department of History. He was a visiting lecturer at the Humanities Council at Princeton, and has held visiting research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Pennsylvania. His essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Wilson Quarterly, and Forbes.com, and he has given talks for many organizations, including Microsoft, AT&T, the National Institute on White Collar Crime, the Smithsonian Associates, and TED. He is the author of the book Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, written in part with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recorded live at Fr. LeRoux Conference Center by Town Hall Seattle on Thursday, May 3, 2018.
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Does it seem like winter will never end? Host Jenna Flanagan talks to Anthony Broccoli, a professor and chair of the Rutgers University Department of Environmental Sciences, who offers an explanation for the seemingly never-ending season. Professor Broccoli explains how rising global temperatures may actually be prolonging the colder than normal temperatures and illuminates the impact rising sea levels. MetroFocus airs 7 nights a week on the tri-state region's local PBS stations THIRTEEN, WLIW21 and NJTV. Get the full schedule here:metrofocus.org/tv-schedule/ Get more stories like this at metrofocus.org Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/MetroFocus/ Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/metrofocus Join the conversation with #MetroFocus