Challenges In The News 05/03/08

Also then seeking a more tractable challenge was the Swiss-born biochemist Alfred Tissiers, then studying oxidative metabolism at the Molteno Institute in Cambridge.

Yanik’s system traps a pulse of light in an arrangement of microscopic cavities. A fundamental challenge in designing the system was that the faster light can enter the cavities, the faster it escapes, severely limiting how long it can be stored. To overcome this problem, Yanik developed a way to adjust the cavities’ refractive index, a property related to the way a material bends or reflects light.

The true challenge, Tan says, will be to make EEG interfaces simple enough for the masses.

“We’re facing a grand challenge: consolidating that which we’ve achieved so far, setting the framework for future development, and creating a sector that makes our country proud.”

Settling on just 35 was a challenging task, one that led to lively discussions around conference tables and in hallways.

Taking on the Challenges – Despite the challenges in accessing investment, funding opportunities for biotechnology companies have increased dramatically in recent years as venture capitalists in Spain have learned more about the sector, and as companies start to mature and attract investment from outside the country. Many companies describe recent large-scale investments from Europe.

Put together a team with a great engineer, a crazy designer, a good businessperson, and a good human-factors scientist or psychologist of some kind, and put them in a room together. It’s a big challenge, but they come to a point, surprisingly quickly, where they realize that what they can achieve together is much more than they could do individually.

The iPod. All you can tell at this point is that it’s a stunning visual design. But whether it’s going to be important, influential, successful – all those things are yet to be discovered. It’s a much more challenging task to move into the telephone world now than it was to be at the leading edge of the iPod world.

Navy’s sonar challenge is rejected

Triple the challenge – More athletes are looking to push themselves further – and into triathlons. People are looking for the next thing- they’re reaching, trying new things.

The challenge is to avoid creating a lumbering business stuck in a conglomerate quagmire.

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