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A family that competes together, stays together
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Some families consider ‘quality family time’ to be a day at the park. Or popping popcorn and renting a movie. Or a trek to the zoo. But for the Moutinho family in Maine, ‘quality family time’ means building robots and winning competitions. It all began when the daughter of...
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May 23, 2013
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TI inspires budding engineers at Santa Clara career fair
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TI and the Frank Greene Scholars Program (GSP) - a long-term initiative that promotes the development of a community of college-bound scholars focused on extending their academic gifts in science and math - recently sponsored a career fair at TI's Santa Clara, Calif., site. TI hosted 60 middle and...
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May 10, 2013
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National Math and Science Initiative endows UTeach program at two North Texas universities
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The National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) recently awarded $12 million in challenge grants to endow the highly successful UTeach programs at 12 American universities, including two supported by the Texas Instruments Foundation. NMSI awarded $1 million to each of 12 universities that have raised...
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Apr 26, 2013
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TI hosts talk with academy founder who is making STEM resources available to all
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TI recently hosted a conversation about science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education with Salman Khan, founder and executive director of the Khan Academy . Khan, who shared his perspective on the future of education, was joined by representatives of the Dallas Regional Chamber, EducateTexas...
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Apr 18, 2013
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Curious about yesterday’s TI/UC Berkeley Electronics Design Lab opening? You’ll want to watch this.
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<p>TI and the University of California, Berkeley, opened the doors yesterday to the newly renovated Electronics Design Lab. It’s packed with sleek workstations and tools designed to inspire engineering students and ignite their interest in the subject – all in a collaborative...
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Apr 12, 2013
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The TI-revamped UC Berkeley lab opens April 11. But a cool new space isn’t all that will be on display.
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You might have seen our recent post with background info on TI’s new, high-tech engineering Electronics Design Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. If you missed the news, it’s a state-of-the-art engineering lab and maker lounge that is the result of a $2.2 million gift from TI...
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Apr 4, 2013
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TI is opening a shiny new engineering lab at UC Berkeley. We get the details from TI chief technology officer Ahmad Bahai.
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In just two weeks, TI and the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering open the doors to a state-of the-art engineering lab and hacker/maker lounge that will provide a hands-on, dynamic learning environment for more than 1,000 students yearly. It’s the result of a $2.2 million...
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Mar 28, 2013
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Mentorship and commitment to STEM earns TI’s Melendy Lovett a Maura Award
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She’s known among her peers as one with a steadfast commitment to advancing women and girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields (she has mentored more than 100 girls). She’s president of TI’s Education Technology unit, leading a global business focused on driving...
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Mar 22, 2013
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One to Watch: TI Volunteer Fern Yoon
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TI analog applications engineer Fern Yoon has always been curious about how things work. As a child, she enjoyed taking apart electronic devices and putting them back together in her family's home in Malaysia. She recently turned this innate curiosity into a passion for helping children through United...
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Mar 15, 2013
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Brain power: TIer leads youths to robotics competition
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TI engineer Rachel Moore is a proud, self-described “nerd.” The test engineer in TI’s Multi-Cell Battery Charge Management (MBCM) group, who we covered in this story, has always been interested in math and science. While at Texas Tech University, she spent three summers working as...
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Mar 14, 2013
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The here and now – and the future -- is all about robots.
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Robots aren’t coming -- they’re here, now, technology of the present. You likely use them every day. (Have a remote-controlled vacuum cleaner? Yep. What about educational toys? They’re there.) But many of their best applications – exploration, search and rescue, assembly and construction...
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Mar 8, 2013
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Tech Talk: Quick chat with Georgia Institute of Technology’s Steven McLaughlin
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Steven McLaughlin, Georgia Institute of Technology professor and Steve W. Chaddick School Chair of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has an extensive resume. It includes a long list of awards (for one, he was awarded the Knight of the French National Order of Merit, the second-highest...
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Feb 26, 2013
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She’s inspiring both intern and professional female engineers: TI vice president Cecelia Smith leads Society of Women Engineers lunch
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Engineers are the solution – people who make a real impact in the world by finding ways to solve everyday problems. This mantra was the motto for the 2013 Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Region C Conference held in Dallas earlier this month. One of the women who helped get this message across...
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Feb 22, 2013
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Bridge vibrations converted to power? With energy harvesting, you bet. That’s the focus of a TI partnership with Penn State
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What if you could: Convert the mechanical vibrations of cars and trucks crossing over a bridge into usable electric energy that can power sensors which monitor the bridge’s structural integrity of that same bridge? Use solar-powered sensors for wireless monitoring of a farm’s crops in a field...
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Feb 19, 2013
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TI Foundation gift to United Way funds grants to North Texas math teachers
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United Way of Metropolitan Dallas recently announced the first recipients of I Rock Math grants, an initiative funded by the Texas Instruments (TI) Foundation that is designed to help public school teachers use innovative teaching practices to develop pre-algebra skills in sixth- and seventh-grade students...
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Feb 9, 2013
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Showing love to Shanghai children who have autism
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The members of TI's TEXIN Caring Volunteer Team in Shanghai care about children in their community who have autism, and they have taken the lead to demonstrate that. Last year, as part of TI's 25th anniversary celebration events in mainland China, TEXIN members formed a volunteer team to help...
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Feb 2, 2013
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TI’s Women’s Initiative Aims to Help Women Achieve Career Growth – And Life Balance
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In an age when there’s a constant struggle for work-life balance, from raising a family to staying sharp at every meeting to igniting a passion for engineering in the community, it’s now more important than ever to stay steps ahead. That’s exactly what TI’s Women’s Initiative...
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Jan 31, 2013
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TI’s DSP Academic Symposium Attracts Leading Engineers
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It was a reunion of top academics, the leading digital signal processing (DSP) pioneers. These founding fathers – world-renowned engineers from leading universities – recently gathered to celebrate the retirement of TI Principal Fellow Gene Frantz, a 39-year TIer, at an Innovators Challenge...
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Jan 22, 2013
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One to Watch: Innovative Robot Designer Gautham Ramachandran
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Robotic testing machines that can mimic interactions such as finger swipes, taps and pinches – and are essential to developing touch screen controller chips – can cost $80,000. Or more. But TIer Gautham Ramachandran has designed an innovative tester robot that costs less than $1,000. The...
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Jan 3, 2013
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TI Gets Involved In New Perot Museum in Dallas
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As the new Perot Museum of Nature and Science opened recently, TI and its employees were directly involved, welcoming visitors to the TI Engineering and Innovation Hall and promoting learning science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in fun, interactive ways. The TI Hall in the new museum is...
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Jan 1, 2013
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There are Infinite Possibilities with the Cloud. Why Not Brainstorm?
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TI Principal Fellow Gene Frantz imagines a world where customers enter a restaurant and are handed an Infinite Coffee Cup. The cup may be customized – it could come in different colors, such as a favorite color or the color of a preferred political party, or can even be printed with a daily horoscope...
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Dec 27, 2012
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TI CEO honored for STEM education leadership
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Rich Templeton, TI chairman, president and CEO, was recently named the 2012 recipient of The Semiconductor Industry Association's (SIA) highest honor, the Robert N. Noyce Award, for his leadership in STEM reform and his commitment to industry innovation. SIA presents the Noyce Award annually in...
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Dec 20, 2012
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TI Collaborates with University of Florida Student on FRAM Research
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A research connection – a new idea that needed explaining. That’s what former University of Florida (UF) student and now full-time TIer Tony Acosta had stumbled upon. He thought he had found a link between graduate school research and discoveries he had made as a TI intern. He just needed...
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Dec 18, 2012
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Belgium Students Take the Win at TI’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Analog Design Contest
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They were up against more than 500 students in 115 teams from 29 countries. They had worked hard for two months – full-time. They were vying for a $10,000 prize. They wanted the top title at the third-annual Texas Instruments (TI) Analog Design Contest in Europe. Belgium’s Katholieke Universiteit...
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Dec 11, 2012
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TI Boosts Analog Technology in Malaysia – in the College Classroom
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It’s the technology behind smartphones, tablets, video surveillance, electric cars and e-bikes. The technology that drives the digital world. We’re talking analog chips. It’s technology that needs to be in more schools so it can be learned and studied at a young age. That’s...
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Dec 6, 2012
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