The Helsinki Accord: These Engineers Are Building The Industrial Internet For...
Let’s be honest: November isn’t the best time to visit Helsinki. But the gloom that envelops the Finnish capital every autumn didn’t stop some 15,000 visitors from descending on Slush, one of the...
View ArticleGive and Take: How GE Oil & Gas Shops for the Future at the GE Store
For retailers, Black Friday and Cyber Monday can make or break a year. For global industrial companies like GE Oil & Gas, demand for solutions, resources, and technology doesn’t come up on a single...
View ArticleMad Money: GE CEO Outlines Future of Company
Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE, recently spoke with CNBC Mad Money’s Jim Cramer about the company’s digital industrial future — and the outlook appears bright.“The long-term bets we’ve made on...
View ArticleSee the Heart in 7 Dimensions: This Team of German Researchers Attacks...
By the time you’re done reading this story, heart disease will have killed nearly 40 people in Europe. The picture elsewhere isn’t much different. The World Health Organization reported earlier this...
View ArticleFrançois Austin: Progress Toward Balanced, Sustainable Energy World Remains Slow
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, François Austin discusses the need for greater international cooperation on sustainable energy. Energy sustainability is not...
View ArticleStrong Safety: Innovative Materials Could Reduce Football Brain Injuries
Making football safer may not only be about the equipment players wear; it could have just as much to do with the turf under their cleats. This systemic approach to improving safety in football was...
View ArticleGiulio Boccaletti: The Next Agriculture Revolution — More Crop Per Drop
As farmers once again rise to the challenge of overcoming resource scarcity with the help of water-conservation technologies, other industries should take note. Part of a series exploring what can be...
View ArticleAdventures in Electricity: Old GE Comics Still Teach Powerful Lessons
In the 1950s, GE hired renowned comics artists, including George “Inky” Roussos of Batman fame, to draw a series of books called Adventures in Science. The series covered everything from space travel...
View ArticleSeeking the Unseen: The GE Health Cloud Floats on a Century of Medical...
Thomas Edison’s light bulb patent was 15 years old when Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays and proved their power by imaging the bones inside his wife’s hand. “I’ve seen my death,” she reportedly said...
View ArticleSwimming With Current: New Chief Digital Officer makes Intelligent...
In October, GE launched Current, a startup focusing on bringing to market a holistic energy-as-a-service offering absent from the industry today. Former IBM Watson executive John Gordon just became...
View ArticleHigh-Tech Harriet Turbines Make Generating Energy From Shale Gas In...
Two of the world’s most efficient gas turbines, made by GE in Greenville, South Carolina, will drive a new power plant built by Moxie Energy and Caithness Energy in Salem Township in Luzerne County,...
View ArticleJulia Roig: How Businesses Can Help Deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals
Achieving the SDGs will require the private sector to work in authentic partnership with civil society and resist going back to business as usual. Through an incredibly participatory process, the...
View ArticleBuddy Bots: These Robots Will Guard Workers From Dull, Dirty and Dangerous Labor
He’s a coworker unlike any other — not afraid to wade into dangerous situations, take on boring tasks for hours on end or answer obscure maintenance questions you may have. “He” is really an it, a...
View ArticleBusiness Insider: GE CEO Says Let’s End The Debate Over Whether We Are In A...
In his piece in Business Insider, Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO, called for an end to the debate over whether we were in a tech bubble. “I believe that this is shortsighted and rooted in the belief...
View ArticleChild’s Play: Machines Learning Like Kids Will Usher In The Next Industrial...
If you ask Hollywood, the world teeming with robots and artificial intelligence is a no-brainer. Movies like “The Terminator,” “WALL-E” and “Blade Runner” have all cast intelligent automata as the...
View ArticleNavi Radjou: Fighting Global Warming with Frugal Innovation
Businesses can do more with less and find a sustainable path to growth by following the principles of frugal innovation. Heads of state from around the world have gathered in Paris with a lofty goal —...
View ArticlePresent Perfect: When Reality Trumps Imagination
In the 1950s, GE hired renowned comics artists, including George “Inky” Roussos of Batman fame, to draw a series of comic books called Adventures in Science. “In the public relations field, although...
View ArticleFrom Gigabytes To Gigawatts: The Power Plant Of The Future Will Look Like...
Over the next decade, the global population is expected to grow by 1 billion people to more than 8 billion, and everyone will need electricity. GE expects demand for power to grow 50 percent over the...
View ArticleThe Connector: Meet Joe Salvo, the Man from Digital Future
When Joe Salvo bought his house in Schenectady, NY, in 1986 he purchased a piece of history. GE built it in 1905, not long after Thomas Edison and his compatriots opened the company’s labs and moved...
View ArticleRelatively Speaking: When Albert Einstein Came To GE
A century ago this November, Albert Einstein published 10 equations that rocked the foundations of physics and changed how we view the universe. Einstein’s general theory of relativity upended our...
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