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"Levi and his co-authors, former Sauder PhD students Qianqian Du and Huasheng Gao, investigated the birth-date effect in a sample of 375 CEOs from S&P 500 companies between 1992 and 2009. "Our study adds to the growing evidence that the way our education system groups students by age impacts their lifelong success," says Prof. Levi. "We could be excluding some of the business world's best talent simply by enrolling them in school too early.""

"Arches is an open-source, web-based, geospatial information system for cultural heritage inventory and management. Purpose-built for the international cultural heritage field, Arches is designed to record all types of immovable heritage, including archaeological sites, buildings and other historic structures, landscapes, and heritage ensembles or districts."

"Gedrucktes Essen: Algen, Gras und Insekten als Nährstofflieferanten Bis jetzt ist es nicht viel mehr als ein interessantes Konzept, aber der Nasa ist es immerhin 125.000 Dollar wert. So viel investiert die amerikanische Raumfahrtbehörde in die Entwicklung eines 3-D-Druckers für Lebensmittel. Dabei geht es weniger um die Realisierung von Science-Fiction-Visionen wie dem Replikator aus "Star Trek". Vielmehr stellt sich mit Blick auf künftig geplante Langzeitmissionen zum Mars die Frage nach der Lebensmittelversorgung der Astronauten. Der Entwurf des Nasa-Partners Systems & Materials Research Corporation (SMRC) sieht dabei vor, dass ein 3-D-Drucker die verschiedenen Bestandteile menschlicher Ernährung in pulverisierter, lagerfähiger Form verarbeitet. Zucker, Proteine und Kohlenhydrate würden dann je nach zuvor vom Computer geladenen "Rezept" zusammengestellt und tellerfertig produziert. Die ersten Entwürfe für das Astronautenessen der Zukunft sehen allerdings noch etwas fremdartig aus und erinnern ein wenig an Hundekuchen. Hinter SMRC steht Anjan Contractor, ein Ingenieur mit einiger Erfahrung im Bereich des dreidimensionalen Druckens. In den kommenden Wochen will er sich zunächst an die Umsetzung eines vergleichsweise einfachen Rezepts machen und mit einem 3-D-Drucker eine Pizza herstelle"

The Intelligence in Wikipedia Project aims to accelerate the extraction of Wikipedia knowledge, e.g. with construction of infoboxes, and link the resulting schemata together to form a knowledge base of outstanding size. Not only will this `semantified Wikipedia' be an even more valuable resource for AI, but it will support Faceted browsing and simple forms of inference that may increase the recall of question-answering systems.

"uBiome is a citizen science project that allows the public access to cutting edge sequencing technology to understand their health through the microbiome. How does the microbiome affect my health? We are all covered in trillions of microbes -- in fact, they outnumber human cells 10:1. The trillions of bacteria live on and in us are collectively called the microbiome. Like the rainforest, the healthy human microbiome is a balanced ecosystem. The correct balance of microbes keeps potential pathogens in check and regulates our immune system. Microbes also perform essential functions such as digesting food and synthesizing vitamins. Studies have also linked the microbiome to human mood and behavior, as well as many gut disorders, eczema, and chronic sinusitis."

"A new bioprinter developed at a hackerspace can print living cells for less than the cost of an iPod touch. 3-D bioprinters have the potential to change the way medical research is conducted, even print living tissue and replacement organs, but they are expensive and highly specialized. They literally build living structures, like blood vessels or skin tissue, cell by cell, revolutionizing biomedical engineering. Unfortunately, they're expensive, rare, and require a Ph.D. (or two) to operate successfully. Frustrated by their cost and exclusivity, a group of makers at the DIYbio hackerspace BioCurious are developing a system open to anyone with a soldering iron and a serious passion for cell biology."

"After many centuries of splints and cumbersome plaster casts that have been the itchy and smelly bane of millions of children, adults and the aged alike, the world over, we at last bring fracture support into the 21st century. The Cortex exoskeletal cast provides a highly technical and trauma zone localized support system that is fully ventilated, super light, shower friendly, hygienic, recyclable and stylish."

The goal of the Parallella project is to democratize access to parallel computing through providing an affordable open hardware platform and open source tools, and supporting learning and the development of software which is able to harness the power of parallel systems.

cp. Olaf Blanke, http://ed.iiQii.de/gallery/Science-TheOnlyNews/OlafBlanke_inco_epfl_ch "I am interested in the neurobiology of visual perception, visual cognition, and motor control. Neurocognitive processes underlying social perception and social cognition form the second focus of my research."

Stratosphere is a DFG-funded research project investigating "Information Management on the Cloud" and creating the Stratosphere System for Big Data Analytics. The current openly released version is 0.2 with many new features and enhancements for usability, robustness, and performance. See the Change Log for a complete list of new features.

online submission and editorial system for Artificial Intelligence

"The ArticuLab's mission is to study human interaction in social and cultural contexts as the input into computational systems that in turn help us to better understand human interaction, and to improve and support human capabilities in areas that really matter."

QuaLIS is an Enterprise scale Web based Laboratory Information Management Software (LIMS) that helps global organisations standardise on a single LIMS system.

"Currently making 1.67TB of research data available. Sharing data is hard. Emails have size limits, and setting up servers is too much work. We've designed a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant repository for data, with blazing fast download speeds."

"Buddy Platform connects the world's IoT devices and systems for real-time intelligence and decision making"

The Rhizomik initiative is inspired by the rhizome metaphor when working with knowledge from a scientific, technological but also philosophical point of view. This metaphor has accompanied us in our research about knowledge in many different fields, fundamentally Semantic Web, Human-Computer Interaction, Web Science, Complex Systems and Cognitive Science.

Planetary Resources is establishing a new paradigm for resource discovery and utilization that will bring the solar system into humanity's sphere of influence. Our technical principals boast extensive experience in all phases of robotic space missions, from designing and building, to testing and operating.

The Registry is a continuously growing collection of genetic parts that can be mixed and matched to build synthetic biology devices and systems. Founded in 2003 at MIT, the Registry is part of the Synthetic Biology community's efforts to make biology easier to engineer. It provides a resource of available genetic parts to iGEM teams and academic labs. You can register a new lab here.

Synthetic Biology Open Language (SBOL) is a software standard for the electronic exchange of specifications and descriptions of genetic parts, devices, modules, systems, and engineered genomes.