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Student Startup Aims to Prevent Traffic Jams

By Guest PostDecember 4, 2012Technologyaaron tushabe, akhtar badshah, analyze, andrew lin, anton posternikov, anton stepanov, asthma, australia, bing maps, christian breuggeman, cloud service, CO2, coca cola, crunch data, cy khormaee, david musinguzi, egypt, enable talk, grants program, graphmasters, health buzz, hon weng chong, imagine cup, joseph kaizzi, joshua okello, josiah kavuma, kim ramchen, london starbucks, mahsa salehi, maxim osika, Microsoft, navigation software, network, nunav, pneumonia, prevent, student startup, team greenway, team lifelens, team stethocloud, team vivid, traffic jams, valeriy yasakov, windows azure, youthspark initiative

Winners of the second annual Imagine Cup Grants program, part of Microsoft’s YouthSpark initiative, include student startups aiming to eliminate traffic jams and bring cheap, effective ways to diagnose childhood pneumonia.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Dec. 4, 2012 — Traffic jams typically produce little more than frustration, profanity, and CO2. Four years ago, though, they happened to give Christian Brüggeman an idea.

He was sitting in a London Starbucks with a friend and fellow computer science student. As they chatted, they noticed that one street outside was choked with cars while another was practically empty.

They wondered why drivers weren’t taking advantage of every possible route. If cars could be directed along less-congested roads, wouldn’t that prevent back-ups before they began? (more…)

Air Quality Worsened by Paved Surfaces

By Guest PostJune 11, 2011Environmentair pollution, atmospheric measurements, brad smull, china meteorological administration, coastal cities, computer simulations, emissions, fei chen, ground-level ozone, Houston, houston area, Japan, land and sea temperatures, los angeles, national center for atmospheric research, national science foundation, ncar, nsf, pavement, petrochemical facilities, pollutants, sea, shanghai, smog, traffic jams, unhealthy air, united states, university of tsukuba, urban areas on air pollution, urban development, urbanization, warm summer weather, weather patterns, wind patterns

*Widespread urban development alters weather patterns*

New research focusing on the Houston area suggests that widespread urban development alters weather patterns in a way that can make it easier for pollutants to accumulate during warm summer weather instead of being blown out to sea.

The international study, led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), could have implications for the air quality of fast-growing coastal cities in the United States and other mid-latitude regions overseas. (more…)

Volcanoes More Dangerous to Earth than Nuclear Bombs

By PravdaSeptember 2, 20101 commentEnvironmentantilles, april, atlantis, catania, crete-mycenaean, eruption, etna, Europe, eyyafyatlayokudlya, Hiroshima, Iceland, indonesian volcano, kamchatka peninsula, krakatau, martinique, mediterranean, minoan civilization, mont pele, peak sarychev, pompeii, santorini, sergei balmasov, sergei fedorov, soufriere, st vincent, tambora volcano, traffic jams, vesuvius, volcanic activity, volcanologist

Many still remember traffic jams in Europe, caused by the April eruption of Eyyafyatlayokudlya. Scientists around the world genuinely fear the catastrophic consequences of volcanic activity.

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Student Startup Aims to Prevent Traffic Jams

Air Quality Worsened by Paved Surfaces

Volcanoes More Dangerous to Earth than Nuclear Bombs