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Jotted — an automated note-taking tool created by Arizona State University students Brinlee Kidd and Sylvia Lopez — was named the winner of the 2021 Red Bull Basement global competition, beating finalists from 44 other countries to earn the top prize. The Global Final, originally scheduled for December 2021, was postponed until March 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Brinlee Kidd and Sylvia Lopez are looking to make an impact on college campuses around the world via Red Bull Basement.
May 14, 2021 A crash course in the Academic, Knowledge and Learning enterprises that will guide the university’s efforts going forward Broadening access to higher education. Advancing research that helps people. Taking responsibility for the communities it serves. These are promises laid out in Arizona State University’s charter, and now — to better fulfill those promises — they are the three “pillars” around which the university will organize its efforts going forward. The Academic, Knowledge and Learning enterprises are all led by women: Nancy Gonzales has b...
Arizona universities play key role in Covid recovery People use a footbridge over University Avenue on the campus of Arizona State University on Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020, in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Matt York) My parents arrived in Arizona from India in the early 1990s, settling in an economy disrupted by a national recession in 1991. Despite this, Arizona’s rugged desert landscape and dry heat quickly became home for my family. Throughout the last decade of the 20th century my family grew slowly, first with the addition of a loving American Eskimo and later with my own birth, and as my family...
Mar 16, 2021 12:22pm XPrize previously launched competitions for the use of artificial intelligence models against the pandemic as well as a million-dollar challenge to design a next-generation face mask. (Getty Images/Naeblys) Nine teams have been selected as the winners of XPrize’s $6 million COVID-19 testing competition, with the goal of providing affordable and accurate diagnostics to help ensure the safety of everyday activities. Five grand prize winners brought forward unique antigen- and RNA-based tests that aim to meet the public’s high demand for diagnostics while also h...