Steve Watson

Shabib Alrashdi is addressing the profitability challenge of biochar production, a charred biomass known for improving sandy soil fertility and acting as a carbon sink. His proposed solution involves identifying the labile carbon fraction and degree of aromaticity in different types of biochar, aiming to determine the quantity and kinetics…

Fabrice Cotton: Breaking the Wall of Earthquakes – Falling Walls Science Summit 2023 Earthquakes pose significant dangers to societies, leading to loss of life, injuries, and displacement of people. These events cause extensive damage to infrastructure, disrupt essential services, and have a profound economic impact, requiring substantial resources for recovery.…

How embracing Disorder in nanotechnology may lead to Quantum Machines While most of us are just trying to keep up with the latest marvels of the digital age, like talking smart phones and robotic vacuum cleaners, some are focused instead on finding ways to reinvent computing altogether. One of the…

Miniaturizing engines and machines to sizes less than a few millimetres remains an unmet challenge because of the complexity of their design and their fundamental physics that does not favor down-sizing. Materials that respond like muscles by changing their shape or size on demand offer an alternative way to power…

The nominating institution Sophya on the breakthrough: The ENTIRE world is dearly missing the organic, face-to-face, synchronous interaction that was life before coronavirus. Today, schools, companies, teams, startups, and even families feel socially disconnected, isolated, lonely, and unproductive. Sophya solves these problems by combining breakthrough ‘social’ technology with the right…

Bryan John Magoling is addressing the global issue of breast cancer, which poses a significant threat to women’s lives. His research involves using a genetic reporter called PalmGRET to label and track extracellular vesicles (EVs) in the body, revealing that EVs released by cancers promote tumor growth. By modifying the…

“Critically Extant” is a project that explores just how little we know about the natural world by testing the limits of the data openly available to us. To achieve this, AI algorithms were trained on millions of open source images of nature and some ten thousand species. The resulting models…

Nominated by: Brian Schmidt, Australian National University Presented by: Christian Freier

How Artificial Intelligence Research Tries to Build Intelligent Autonomous Systems Can robots be creative enough to build their own language? Computational linguistics explores semiotics, its origins, evolution and dynamics with an interdisciplinary approach aimed at finding out statistics and rules to construct a computational model of natural language. Luc Steels,…

We are developing an Artificial-intelligence based system and a mobile app that lead malaria elimination campaigns. We are one of the top-10 teams in the IBM Watson XPRIZE AI For Good competition, 2021.   Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Digital Health, Public Health.