HOUGHTON - Nina Mahmoudian has received the National Science Foundation's prestigious CAREER Award, which provides $500,442 to help overcome the biggest limitation for autonomous vehicles - energy efficiency. The grants are given to early career researchers who excel in both research and education, both of which are important parts of Mahmoudian's Nonlinear and Autonomous Systems
SOUTHFIELD - Lawrence Technological University will host a free Innovation, Design & Manufacturability Workshop on June 9 from 8 a.m. to noon with lunch to follow. The workshop will be held in room M336 in LTU�s Buell Management Building on the LTU campus at 21000 West 10 Mile Road, Southfield. The workshop facilitators are Jeff
TROY - Automation Alley Wednesday announced that participants in the upcoming #hack4detroit event will use the city of Detroit's new Open Data Portal to create an app to benefit the city. The winning individual or team will receive a $5,000 grand prize. #hack4detroit is a 24-hour hackathon and will take place at Grand Circus Detroit
BEVERLY HILLS - On May 29, TYE Detroit's 4th regional business plan contest will showcase three teams of high school students presenting their business plans. The winning team will be awarded a check of $1,000 to further their entrepreneurial idea and also represent TYE Detroit at the global business plan competition next month in Atlanta
DETROIT - Don't miss this rousing discussion that is being repeated everywhere as the deadline for the launch of Windows 10 approaches in the summer of 2015. Rick Broida wants to replace his mother's aging computer and Foster Braun needs to replace his wife Ginny's aging, refurbished Core Duo PC to make the move to
DETROIT - Gadget Guy Rick Broida talks about all the free utilities to make your computing easier. Those include Norton Identity Safe, PhraseExpress, WizMouse, and M8 Free Clipboard http://www.internetadvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IA-1606-Free-Computer-Utilities.mp3
ANN ARBOR - On this edition of MITechNews.Com Update, Editor Mike Brennan is interviewed by Internet Advisor Co-Host Foster Braun and talks about hot tech jobs, Toyota at Comic Con in Detroit, and Hivelend winning the Ann Arbor SPARK bootcamp. http://www.internetadvisor.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/IA-1607-MiTechNews-5-16-15.mp3
LANSING - Some element of cost - whether the premium, deductibles, co-pays or other factors - was the primary issue individuals considered when purchasing health insurance, reports a new study by the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation. Cost factors were far more important to persons buying individual coverage than they were for employer-based coverage
LANSING - The Michigan Agency for Energy, created through an executive order by Governor Rick Snyder, officially opened its doors for business on Monday with the goal of being the single entity dedicated to getting all of the state government departments and commissions the information and context they need to support the state's energy priorities.
LANSING - An economist with the University of Michigan's Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics said Friday job growth will likely pull back from its "unsustainable robust growth" of recent years, but said the unemployment rate will continue to decline. Between the second quarter of 2000 and the third quarter of 2009, Michigan lost 858,400, according