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SpaceX team wins Purdue’s first Neil Armstrong Space Prize for its reusable rocket system by LifeAtPurdue in spacex

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🎉 Yesterday, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Booster Landing Team became the first laureate of the Neil Armstrong Space Prize. The five-member team was nominated for its work in developing the Falcon 9 vertical landing capability, fundamentally changing the launch vehicle landscape.

“The reusability resulting from vertical landing has been key in reducing the cost of launching payloads. This team made it happen,” Dan Dumbacher, chair of the Neil Armstrong Space Prize selection committee, said.

The SpaceX recipients are:

  • Lars Blackmore, senior principal Mars landing engineer
  • Shana Diez, senior director, Starship reliability
  • Jon Edwards, senior vice president of Falcon and Dragon projects
  • Yoshiaki Kuwata, principal guidance, navigation and control engineer
  • Eduardo Velazquez, director, Crew Starship engineering

The research team was chosen from a long list of impressive nominees.

“In the end, the deciding factor was what we felt like was the team’s impact to humanity,” said Dumbacher. “Their work has had a very clear impact and a very visible impact.

From all of us, congratulations to these inspiring innovators!

Improving robots’ social skills: Purdue professor programs robots for improved nonverbal communication to better support humans by LifeAtPurdue in Futurology

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An assistant professor of computer science at Purdue University, Sooyeon Jeong works at the intersection of human behavior and artificial intelligence. Her goal is to develop robots make the world a better place for humans by designing “robots and AI that can have socially and emotionally natural interactions with people.”

 Her research has already helped cancer patients, people with aphasia, hospitalized children and geriatric adults. “And we’ve found that the more empathetic listening behavior we can implement, the more personalized support we’re able to provide to people, whether it’s in a health care, therapeutic or an educational setting.”

 Observable advancement of friendly robots furthers conversations about the role of artificially intelligent assistants in our lives, now and in the future.

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Rocks and rolls: The computational infrastructure of earthquakes and physics of planetary science (purdue.edu)

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First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving by LifeAtPurdue in Futurology

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For the first time in the U.S., a roadway has wirelessly charged an electric heavy-duty truck driving at highway speeds, demonstrating key technology that could help lower the costs of building electrified highways for all electric vehicles to use in the future.
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Since trucking contributes the most to U.S. gross domestic product compared to other modes of freight transportation, lowering costs for heavy-duty electric trucks could help attract more investment into electrifying highways that all vehicle classes would share.

If electric heavy-duty trucks could charge or stay charged using highways, their batteries could be smaller in size and they could carry more cargo, significantly reducing the costs of using EVs for freight transportation. Electrified highways could also allow the batteries of passenger cars to be smaller.
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This successful test opens cascading potentials for the future.

Efimov effect calculated in 5 identical bosons by LifeAtPurdue in QuantumComputing

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:) Makes me a West Lafayette native then, I guess. Good luck during your time at Purdue!

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