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Metro students make bicycle models with high-tech tools

Thu, 06/19/2014 - 8:51am

Thirteen Nashville public high school students are spending their summer mornings on the Vanderbilt campus building bicycle models using software tools developed to revolutionize the manufacturing of military vehicles.

Two Vanderbilt projects showcased at SmartAmerica Challenge EXPO

Thu, 06/19/2014 - 8:39am

ISIS team participated in the Smart America Challenge in Washington, DC.  Below is a link to the news story on the Research page at VU.  http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2014/06/smartamerica-challenge-expo/

Also, please take special note of the demo video explaining "Smart Roads". 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aWI3WK2STJc

Wired magazine article quotes Peter Volgyesi. "Inside the New Arms Race to Control Bandwidth on the Battlefield "

Fri, 03/07/2014 - 3:58pm
Wired magazine has just published a fascinating article about the challenges the US military is facing when it comes to the radio spectrum. The article quotes Peter Volgyesi who led the ISIS team winning the first round of DARPA's Spectrum Challenge. The second, final round is coming up in a couple of weeks!

Story on Fox News on ISIS-Researchers work to secure military smartphones

Thu, 02/13/2014 - 7:47am

Researchers work to secure military smartphones
by Kris Osborn
Published February 12, 2014 Military.com

Soldiers in Afghanistan are experimenting with smartphones engineered to better protect operational datas designed by scientists at Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems, or ISIS.

Story on Defense Tech website-Vanderbilt Works to Secure Military Smartphones

Fri, 02/07/2014 - 1:04pm

An article appeared on the Defense Tech website about work that ISIS researchers are doing on Secure Military Smartphones. 

Here is an excerpt from the story:

"Soldiers in Afghanistan are experimenting with smartphones engineered to better protect operational datas designed by scientists at Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems, or ISIS.

The Next Generation of MOOCs and Their Impact on the Future of Teaching-Doug Schmidt

Fri, 01/31/2014 - 8:18am

The current generation of MOOCs offered by Coursera, edX, and other providers has been perceived mostly as things, such as “digital textbooks” or “educational TV shows,” usually created as a series of videos and associated digital content by a single “star” instructor and broadcast to a grateful world.