Thomas Esch

We are peer to peer learning community platform with the purpose of empowering the next generation of youths in Myanmar towards economics and technological advancement in Myanmar. Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Covid-19, Digitalisation, Education, Robotic.

As universities face the challenge of COVID-19, the EdTech industry has promised frictionless solutions to maintain educational continuity. These “solutions,” however, are often driven more by the needs of the industry than by the needs of students. The ACE Framework is an educator-created guide for course- and institutional-level design to…

PRESENTED BY Luisa Javier NOMINATED BY King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Tags: Disinfectant, Organic, Eco friendly

The nominating institution RWTH Aachen on the breakthrough: With the free and open source app phyphox many sensors (even present in old and cheap smartphones) become accessible for students and turns their smartphones in mobile physics labs. Phyphox offers tools and instructions from school to university level and from individual…

Novel Catalytic Reactions: The world is not making adequate progress to meet SDG 7 to “ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all” which is intertwined with economic and social development. Emmie Chiyindiko is working to provide affordable, abundant, and reliable clean power to build livelihoods, improve…

I tell the story of the NASA Space Pen in 60 seconds. It starts out by saying “What you’ve been told about the NASA Space Pen is a lie”

How Video Games Can Improve Brain Functioning and Treat Mental Illnesses “Do you suffer from schizophrenia? Do you hear distressing voices? There’s an app for that.” The claim of the latest “web-tutor” might sound like a scam, but it actually introduces us to an entirely new approach in treating mental…

The nominating institution EagleBurgmann on the breakthrough: With two product innovations a significant source of direct natural gas emission at gas compression can be eliminated: Leakage of the shaft seals and venting of the casings of centrifugal compressors. The saving potential sums up to more than 20 million t/a CO2e…

Gerhard Widmer talked about what makes music come alive, what it means for a computer to learn fundamental principles of expressive (piano) performance, and how, by using this learned knowledge, it can contribute to expressive music making – not as a replacement for human pianists, but as a musical companion.

How the Digital Humanities Help Us Think About the Past to Invent the Future The digital technologies of our times have revolutionised not just the way we live and work in the present, they also change our understanding of the past. Today’s archaeologists are equipped with gene sequencers and 3D…