If you want to know which city has the fastest internet connection in the U.S., you will be surprised to know it is not Silicon Valley. You need to pack your bags and move your business to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the internet speed is 1 Gigabyte-per-second, available to every home and business – over 150,000… Read More
Traveling 5 times the speed of sound: be ready by Suf Alkhaldi
Due to our ability to move in a relatively short number of years to solve gigantic problems, I am more optimistic about our future, believing that our future is much brighter than our present. Every time we encounter a problem and we lose hope in solving it, we need to remember what the history of… Read More
Recent Google court victory of scanning books by Suf Alkhaldi
The recent decision to support scanning books from the libraries around the US is a great victory for Google and the dissemination of information. In 2004, Google scanned books at many university libraries, around 20 million books, most of which were out of print (1). The project goal was to place these books on the… Read More
How women contribute to innovation by Suf Alkhaldi
On my recent vacation this past summer to Amman, Jordan, I was amazed by the number of women who have engineering and science degrees. Talking to many of them, since my niece Sally is a civil engineer, was really inspiring. These women are bright lights proving that engineering and science are not fields only for men in… Read More