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Emerging Technologies
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The Power of Invention—and the Value of Diversity and Inclusion
May 4, 2021
Inventions benefit society and improve lives. Their economic impacts show the value of investing in more young people and their opportunities for learning. Policymakers could support programs that encourage more women, racial/ethnic minorities, and people from lower-income families to become inventors.
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Engineers and Engineering
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How the Drinking Bird Foiled a Spruce Goose Engineer
Jun 29, 2017
The famous drinking bird toy gave RAND's Dick Murrow an idea that might help Egyptian farmers. But Murrow, who previously led Howard Hughes's Spruce Goose design team, couldn't secure funding to get the concept off the ground.
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Autonomous Vehicles
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The Brains Behind Autonomous Vehicles May Need a License to Drive
Isaac R. Porche III
Sep 27, 2016
VentureBeat
Autonomous vehicles require exquisite software. To make this software secure, industry and government should consider educational standards and licensure requirements for the engineers who create it.
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Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Infrastructure Design Must Change with Climate
Robert J. Lempert @RobertLempert
Aug 12, 2016
Orange County Register
Until recently, infrastructure engineers could use data on past weather to predict future climate. But this is no longer an option. More and more, engineers must consider the effects of climate change. Failure to do so would threaten public safety.
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Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Why Engineers Need to Be Thinking About Climate Change
Kenneth Kuhn
Feb 22, 2016
Inside Science
As sea levels rise and extreme weather events become more common, evacuation routes in coastal areas will become more important. Transportation engineers need to be more proactive as they try to anticipate damage to transportation infrastructure assets such as pavement, bridges, and culverts.
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Engineers and Engineering
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Test Your RAND Knowledge on Jeopardy!
May 5, 2015
RAND was once a category on the long-running TV game show Jeopardy! How much money could you have won? Take the quiz and find out.
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Military Aircraft
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Thomas V. Jones, Risk-Taking CEO Who Propelled Northrop's Expansion, Revolutionized Aerospace Industry
Jan 17, 2014
Thomas V. Jones, the Stanford-educated engineer who authored a bestselling RAND report in the early 1950s on U.S. Air Force transport options before becoming chief executive of Northrop, died January 7 at the age of 93.
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Data Science
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Willis Ware Inducted Into the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame
Oct 17, 2013
The board of advisors for the National Cyber Security Hall of Fame has chosen Willis H. Ware, computer scientist emeritus at RAND, as one of its five inductees for the Class of 2013.
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Engineers and Engineering
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James Drake, 'Father of Windsurfing' and RAND Engineer, Dies at 83
Jun 22, 2012
James Drake, a former RAND aeronautical engineer who is also considered the father of windsurfing died on June 19 in his hometown of Pfafftown, North Carolina. He was 83.
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commentary
Making Europe a Home Fit for the Next Einstein
Erik J. Frinking, Titus Galama
Feb 22, 2006
Financial Times
Published commentary by RAND staff: Making Europe a Home Fit for the Next Einstein, in the Financial Times.
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