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VLAB’s Sara Fernandez on Living to 100, Robots in Healthcare and the Artificial Pancreas

Dr. Sara Fernandez, PhD, is chairing the VLAB panel Breakthroughs in Diabetes on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at the Stanford Faculty Club. I was lucky enough to spend a few minutes with this prominent Silicon Valley “woman in STEM” (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to get her take on the artificial pancreas — which she describes as almost [...]

By | 2019-02-24T20:26:02-08:00 February 23rd, 2019|AI / Machine Learning / Deep Learning, Biotech, Blog, Events, Volunteers|Comments Off on VLAB’s Sara Fernandez on Living to 100, Robots in Healthcare and the Artificial Pancreas

VLAB Panel Chair Ksenia Zvyagintseva On Her Job in Supply Chain Management and Going the Extra Mile

Mathlete and Supply Chain Expert Ksenia (pronounced “Senia”) Zvyagintseva is chairing VLAB’s Jan. 22, 2019 evening panel called Young Entrepreneurs: Meet the New Generation of World-Changers at the Stanford Faculty Club. She is quite the impressive woman in STEM (science technology engineering and mathematics): Ms. Zvyagintseva, 24, holds a combination degree in mathematics and computer [...]

By | 2019-01-18T14:03:44-08:00 January 18th, 2019|AI / Machine Learning / Deep Learning, Blog, Education, Entrepreneur Spotlight, Event Summary, Events, VLAB, Volunteers, Young Entrepreneurs|Comments Off on VLAB Panel Chair Ksenia Zvyagintseva On Her Job in Supply Chain Management and Going the Extra Mile

An Interview with Smart Building Event Co-Chair Josh Bradshaw

An Interview with Smart Building Event Co-Chair Josh Bradshaw Monique Hodgkinson, VLAB Marketing Co-Chair, recently caught up with Josh Bradshaw, Co-chair for the VLAB Smart Building event on Feb 16, 2016, to talk about the event.   Monique: First, some background. How long have you been involved with VLAB?   Josh: The first VLAB event [...]

By | 2017-05-18T17:47:10-07:00 February 4th, 2016|Blog, Events, Smart Buildings|Comments Off on An Interview with Smart Building Event Co-Chair Josh Bradshaw

Drone Swarms Poised To Invade Stanford Campus

Attendees of VLAB’s Drone Swarms: The Buzz of the Future event will experience the invasion themselves on Stanford’s campus. Liquid Robotic SV3 Wave Gliders on their way to launch A massive change is taking place in the industry with commercial applications of drone swarms. These groups of mostly autonomous, robotic devices are [...]

By | 2017-06-29T13:54:16-07:00 October 12th, 2015|Blog, Drone Swarms|Comments Off on Drone Swarms Poised To Invade Stanford Campus

Big Data from Space: Actionable Intelligence on Earth

“Space is no longer being defined by larger, more established companies, but rather new companies that are extending the boundaries.” Amaresh Kollipara The Industry Value Chain On Dec 7, 1972, the Apollo 17 crew took the first picture of the whole Earth, entitled “The Blue Marble.” The industry involving space has evolved greatly since that [...]

By | 2017-05-18T17:47:12-07:00 November 3rd, 2014|Aerospace, Blog, Event Summary, VLAB|1 Comment