The recent workshop on Regulatory Reforms and the Digital Ecosystem organized by Alexis Xavier gave Engineers’ Forum an opportunity to meet with Mr Emeka Mba, a former Director General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission who presented a paper titled “Future of Contents: Impact of Convegence and Regulations on New Business
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Students of Engineering in the University of Lagos exhibited their various inventions at the just concluded Engineering Career Expo, ECX 2019 at the school's Main Auditorium . Prior to the event, students who made presentations had been on a seven months intensive workshop training. A Discussant panel that comprised of
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Good news for human kind. A cocktail-making robot, called Makr Shakr failed to overpower a human being in preparing a cocktail. The competition between man and the robot was set in a London bar. Product Manager, Makr Shakr, Lorenzo Risitano explains how the robot works. “Right now, he’s taking, let’s say, some
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Stanford engineers have developed experimental stickers that pick up physiological signals emanating from the skin, then wirelessly beam these health readings to a receiver clipped onto clothing. It’s all part of a system called BodyNet. We tend to take our skin’s protective function for granted, ignoring its other roles in signaling
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Guest writer, writer and content strategist, Nicole D Garrison, is exploring the benefits of bio-metric technologies and their practical application in various sectors. The use of bio-metric technology has been a hotly debated topic in recent years. It’s extreme usefulness for identification is widely acknowledged, but security becomes a significant problem;
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Scientists have figured out the number of planets in the universe that resemble Earth and orbit stars like the Sun, the Independent reports. Researchers with NASA's Kepler Mission used the Kepler Space Telescope's findings to create new models of imaginary universes that they then watched to see how many stars and
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A departing Google employee has described “the burden of being black” at the tech giant in an internal memo that also alleges racist and insensitive behavior from some employees in the company. The memo, which was obtained by Motherboard, is titled “The Weight of Silence.” “Over the last five years, I’ve heard
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The Egyptian government has said it expects the 1.6 gigawatt solar park it is building in the south of the country to operate at full capacity in 2019. The country’s investment ministry disclosing this in a recent statement said the $2 billion project, set to be the world’s largest solar installation,
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Privacy researchers in Europe believe they have the first proof that a long-theorised vulnerability in systems designed to protect privacy by aggregating and adding noise to data to mask individual identities is no longer just a theory. The research has implications for the immediate field of differential privacy and beyond
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The Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), a division of The Nigerian Society of Engineers, organized a training on 'Business Entrepreneurship to Strengthen Businesses and Produce Superior Outcomes', one in many, proposed to be held quarterly every year. The training which was an intimate and interactive session was held
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