Electronic Engineering: Research Guide

This week’s roundup of data news from September 26 to October 2, 2026, features an AI-powered helmet that helps firefighters navigate smoke-filled buildings and smart glasses that help people with…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Sebastian Schultheiss, CEO of Computomics, a Germany-based company that uses machine learning to help plant growers predict crop performance and make informed…

Researchers at University College London have created a collection of visuals showing how different people’s brains respond to real‑world experiences. The collection includes MRI scans of 40 participants watching Back…

Researchers at Heidelberg University in Germany have created a dataset mapping the surface type, width, and usability of 9.2 million kilometers of major roads worldwide. Built from geospatial imagery, the…

At the frontier of AI, closed models currently outperform open models on the most demanding measures of raw model capability, even though open models can offer significant advantages in cost,…

The backlash against data centers is growing, driven by concerns about their environmental impact, effects on local communities, and demands on public infrastructure. But the backlash is also developing a…

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from September 19, 2026, to September 25, 2026, features Google testing AI-driven computing in space and a robotic system taking over tire changes…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Julia Tan, CEO of Geospan, an Australia-based company developing AI-powered road-intelligence tools. Tan explained how Geospan uses existing roadside cameras to detect…

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have built an interactive visualization called LandScan Mosaic that maps building‑level population patterns across a full day. It shows AI‑derived estimates of how many…

Researchers at IBM and NASA have created a lunar dataset to train a new foundation model for Moon exploration. The dataset contains more than 30 layers of maps and images…

Economy 2030: An Agenda for Tech-Enabled Growth sets out a series of steps to reignite the UK's economic dynamism, productivity and growth by leveraging the country's strength in technology, readying the economy for the decade ahead.

Recent incidents involving rogue artificial intelligence (AI) agents hacking external systems have raised concerns over how to stop autonomous AI systems if they behave in unpredictably harmful ways. One proposal…

​​​​​​ 본 보고서는 글로벌 및 국내 AI VC 투자를 국가·투자단계·기업·거래규모·기술분야별로 다차원 비교 분석하여, 투자 확대 이면의 자금집중 구조와 국내 투자환경의 특성을 함께 조명한다. 글로벌 AI 벤처투자는 전체 VC 시장에서 차지하는 비중이 빠르게 확대되고 있다. 투자금액 비중은 2021년 23.5%에서 2026년 상반기 75.9%로 상승한 반면 거래건수 비중은 20.4%에서 36.6%로 비교적 완만하게 증가해, 최근 시장 확대가 거래건수 증가보다 개별 거래의 대형화에 크게 영향을 받은 것으로 나타났다. 투자 확대와 함께 자금 ..

This week’s roundup of data news highlights from September 13, 2026, to September 18, 2026, features MIT’s robotic laboratory for automating optics experiments and an AI model that responds to…

The Center for Data Innovation recently spoke with Mario Bustamante, CEO of Instacrops, a Chile-based agricultural-technology company developing AI agents that help farmers use real-time field data to make growing…

Researchers at Google have partnered with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to create a visualization mapping a male fruit fly’s brain. The visual shows a complete connectome, or map, of…

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a tactile dataset to help robots improve how they handle objects. The dataset contains 100 hours of high-quality recordings of how…

WASHINGTON—In response to the House’s 417-3 passage of the Ratepayer Protection Act, which now heads to the Senate, the Center for Data Innovation released the following statement from Associate Director…

As China races to develop open AI models, expand computing infrastructure, and accelerate AI adoption, some U.S. policymakers are considering proposals that would give the government a greater role in…

Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the company earlier this month and warned that the people building advanced AI “earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end…

Digital infrastructure is not an input to the technology sector – it is the layer on which all future economic activity will be built, and the UK's position is one of genuine strength but mounting risk.