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TI collaborates with University of Texas at Dallas to improve wafer production efficiency – applying big data approaches to test data
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There’s a new field in engineering – it’s called adaptive test. This new field has multiple sub-areas with innovation potential, and one of these areas – which TI has partnered with University of Texas at Dallas researchers to study -- is test-cost reduction. It involves developing...
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May 9, 2013
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TI India Educators Conference: fierce competition, incredible innovations, and the hunt for a $10,000 prize
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Vaishnavi Govindarajan and Priyanka PR, fourth-year engineering students of M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology in Bangalore, were busy putting the final touches on "eLock-Holmes," a device used to detect a person's emotions. A wristband with silver chloride electrodes attached to a Bluetooth...
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May 3, 2013
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Georgia Tech students working to improve Parkinson’s patients’ lives
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It was a light-bulb moment: the idea sparked with a TI wristwatch. Georgia Institute of Technology bioengineering PhD student Teresa Sanders, a TI Fellow through the TI Leadership University Program, was working with Emory University Parkinson’s Disease specialists, and received an eZ430-Chronos...
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Apr 30, 2013
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You might own a car that drives itself – sooner than you think. Autonomous vehicles are in the not-so-distant future.
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Imagine a car that can fully function alone. It can take an elderly family member to the pharmacy for a prescription. It can drive a blind person to the park. It’s intelligent enough – and capable enough – to take you wherever you need to go without human input. All you have to do is...
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Apr 22, 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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TI collaborates with university in Bangladesh to create medical device for rural dwellers
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TI design engineer and TI Bangladesh Diversity Initiative (BDI) member Noor Elahi was in Bangladesh in the 1990s. While visiting remote health centers, he found that rural dwellers weren’t able to easily and affordably access the healthcare they needed: the 20-50 bed health complexes outside urban...
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Mar 12, 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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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 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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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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TI Sponsors Melaka, Malaysia Book Donation Program
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TI collaborated with The Asia Foundation's Books for Asia (BFA) program this year to distribute 5,000 new books to all secondary schools in the state of Melaka, Malaysia, and an additional 7,000 in the rest of the country. TI, which has operated a major facility in Kuala Lumpur for more than 40...
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Nov 21, 2012
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Solar Car Created by TI and Venezuelan University Races in Chilean Challenge -- Today
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It’s speeding across the Chilean desert, kicking up sand while racing more than eight other vehicles in an attempt to nab the top spot at the Atacama Solar Challenge – it’s an eco-friendly solar car loaded with Texas Instruments (TI) parts. And the creative team behind it – TI...
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Nov 15, 2012
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From Breakthrough Idea to On-the-Market Product: TI’s Temperature Sensor
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The Breakthrough Ideas program launched by Texas Instruments (TI)’s Analog Technology Development department is for those who walk the talk. It’s for those who truly love to invent – and go for it. That’s the story behind the first project launched in the program, the TMP006 temperature...
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Nov 9, 2012
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From Idea to Product: TI’s Breakthrough Ideas Program Fosters Employee Innovation
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“The best way to have a good idea is to have many ideas,” chemist and biologist Linus Pauling said. His statement was one of the foundations for Texas Instruments’ Analog Technology Development (ATD) group’s innovation-focused program, Breakthrough Ideas. It’s a program...
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Oct 30, 2012
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China Education Officials Visit TI Campuses
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A graphing calculator – let alone a full multimedia classroom or library – can change the way a student approaches science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning. And multiple schools in Nanbu County, China, received this technology – and professional training – in...
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Oct 25, 2012
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TI Accelerates Autism Research – With a Robot Named Zeno
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It’s scary, frustrating, trying -- to know your child is demonstrating unusual behaviors or showing signs of limited cognitive development. Yet you can’t reach a diagnosis – and are forced to wait months to get one. That’s the struggle parents of autistic children often face...
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Sep 12, 2012
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TI Partners with Texas A&M to Tackle Tough Circuit-Stability Solution
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As a graduate student, the best way to learn -- and be challenged – is by tackling a real-world problem or research project. But it’s rare for a student to be pulled onto an assignment with a major company, working side-by-side with experts, taking on a start-to-finish challenge that makes...
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Sep 11, 2012
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Imagine the world of tomorrow, today
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At TI, we are focused on pioneering products that transform billions of lives. We believe that imagination and innovation can overcome even the toughest challenges and create lasting change that builds a better world for everyone. We push boundaries, dream big and ask “why not?” every day...
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Aug 17, 2012
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Spoke Ink wins 2012 Intern Design Challenge
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Forget about sticking baseball cards in the spokes to give your bicycle some added style and flair. This is 2012, after all, and if you’re going to make any real impact, you’ve got to go with lights and color. At least that’s the decoration of choice for a trio of summer interns...
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Aug 14, 2012
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TI makes game day an experience for athletes, coaches and fans alike
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TI’s technologies enhance today’s high-performance sports for everyone involved. Athletes in the game: Cardio workouts are a part of any athlete’s practice regimen, whether they compete on the track, on the basketball court or in the swimming pool. TI technologies power advanced...
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Aug 9, 2012
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Engibous Prize winners aiming to wipe out eye diseases
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More than 310 million people worldwide suffer from diseases of the eye. Nearly 90 percent of them live in developing countries, and nearly all of their diseases can be prevented with early detection. The challenge in wiping out these disorders is access to affordable healthcare. That’s where...
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Jul 31, 2012
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