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Chapter News
Mu Nu's Podcast Series Features Industry Leaders and
Professors Focused on Innovation for Greater Impact
By Gilberto Manunza, Corresponding Secretary of the Mu Nu Chapter of IEEE-HKN, Matteo Sartoni, Vice President Elect
of the Mu Nu Chapter of IEEE-HKN, Riccardo Zaccone, Graduate Student Member of the Mu Nu Chapter of IEEE-HKN,
Veronica Montanaro, Web Correspondent Elect of the Mu Nu Chapter of IEEE-HKN
Research Radio season two was born from the idea
of giving a more applied perspective into innovative
technologies. During this event series we interviewed
companies having a great impact on our society and
professors working on cutting-edge technologies.
The format of each episode consisted of an online
interview livestreamed on YouTube plus a Q&A
session with the participants. To keep the audience's
attention, we gave a reward to the most active
participants by sharing a survey on the covered topics.
Research Radio-Innovation #1:
Eugenio Sapora, Too Good To Go
Our guest was Eugenio Sapora, the Italian
country manager of Too Good To Go, a
company whose mission is to inspire and
empower everyone to take action against
food waste. To do so, their app permits
customers to order leftover, but still good,
food from restaurants, at a discounted price.
Eugenio touched upon the social and
economic aspects of this mission and the
technical details around their IT infrastructure.
The survey's winners received some free
orders from the company's app.
Research Radio-Innovation #2:
Alessio Tommasi, Gemmate Technologies
For this episode we had the pleasure to host
Alessio Tommasi, technical manager of Gemmate
Technologies, a company involved in additive
manufacturing. This technology was analyzed from
multiple aspects, ranging from the economic benefits
to the technological aspects and touching upon
topics like fast prototyping and connections with AI.
For this event, the survey's winners received some
Amazon coupons offered by the company.
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About this Month's THE BRIDGE Cover
Shown is NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, supported by the Qualcomm Flight™ Platform designed
to meet the unique challenges of flight operation on Mars. Qualcomm Technologies, which includes
Qualcomm Government Technologies and Qualcomm CDMA Technologies, worked closely with JPL
to develop technologies and solutions that powered the Mars helicopter for its inaugural flight. The
Qualcomm Flight Platform was developed with autonomous flight in mind, featuring 4K ultra-HD
video, heterogeneous mobile computing, navigation via visual inertial odometry, and flight assistance
- all in an extremely small and durable package. These critical features came to mind when JPL
considered the constraints of remotely operating a helicopter on Mars, and the complex algorithms
it would need to compute. On April 19, 2021, Ingenuity successfully completed the first powered
controlled flight by an aircraft on a planet besides Earth, taking off vertically, hovering and landing.
Since then, it has made a total of 9 successful flights Cover image Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Qualcomm Flight is a product of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries.
© 2021Qualcomm. All Rights Reserved.
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