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Greek researcher awarded prestigious McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair

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[:el] University of Minnesota Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Georgios Giannakis has been awarded a prestigious McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair by University President Eric Kaler. This is one of the University’s highest faculty awards. Professor Giannakis, who also serves as director of the...
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Making robots work

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[:el] Dr. Lydia E. Kavraki a Computer Scientist and the Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science and Bioengineering at Rice University. She is known for her work on motion planning and bioinformatics. In May 2016 she won the Presidential Award for Mentoring. The award is...
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He engineered a soft robotic glove for people with disabilities

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Panagiotis Polygerinos is an Assistant Professor of Engineering with the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University. His research interests focus on the realization of tasks that are essential to the design, implementation and integration of novel, affordable, robotic systems and mechatronic...
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Aims to make the internet safer

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[:el] Michalis Faloutsos is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside. He has developed a novel method for detecting fraudulent websites, namely typosquatting and sites that distribute viruses, for identifying and classifying applications over the network and detecting intrusions...
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Developed a new discipline called Computational Physiology

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[:el] Ioannis Pavlidis is an Eckhard-Professor of Computer Science at the University of Houston and Director of the Computational Physiology Laboratory. He is mostly known for one of his latest researches in which he collaborated with the Texas A&M University Transportation Institute, and found out...
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Created software that caught the eye of the New York Times

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[:el] Katerina Iliakopoulou is a software engineer at the New York Times. She owes her current job there to the hard work she did during her dual master degree in Journalism and Computer Science at Columbia University in the city of New York. In order to...
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New potential treatment breakthrough for advanced brain cancer

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[:el] Doctors at UCLA, Cleveland Clinic, University of California San Diego School of Medicine and additional institutions have achieved a milestone in the development of a treatment for people with recurrent glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer, by successfully demonstrating a...
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How did the priceless treasures from the exhibition get across the Atlantic?

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[:el] How did the priceless treasures from ‪The Greeks: From Agamemnon to Alexander exhibition get across the Atlantic? National Geographic published a video that let us know some of the secrets of the delicate trasportation from Greece to the US. Hundreds of Greek Artifacts are on the...

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