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Rich and Mary Templeton give $51 million to transform engineering at Union College and recruit more women to tech careers
Inspired by TI’s founders, who established a company-wide tradition of giving back, Rich and Mary Templeton have given $51 million to their alma mater, Union College, to transform its engineering and liberal arts programs and help recruit more women into technology careers.
Fueling the next generation of advanced driver assistance systems
Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are expanding to more mainstream vehicles. Our Jacinto™ 7 processor platform is helping fuel the technology shift, enabling manufacturers to create better ADAS technology and automotive gateway systems that act as communication hubs.
How intelligent, automated robots on wheels are changing last-mile delivery
Multiple sensing and processing technologies are enabling a new wave of last-mile delivery service on college campuses – automated, wheeled robots. But automated delivery could mean much more on a global scale, improving urban congestion and air quality.
Engineering hope for rare diseases
Since learning about her son’s rare disease, Batten, Gina Hann has been on a nonstop journey to bring hope to other families dealing with a similar diagnosis and to make gene therapy for rare diseases more accessible.
How sensor-rich smart stores will make shopping a breeze
Data moves at almost the speed of light, but groceries don't. As the spread of high-speed internet renders information transmission ever-faster, the efficiency of the necessary physical transactions involved in buying and selling goods has lagged behind. That's about to change.
Why the future of automation is being propelled by innovation at the edge
The future of intelligent machines rests on innovation at the edge – the embedded technology that enables real-time sensing and processing for more dynamic decision-making.
How smart, adaptive headlights will make your drive safer
Smart headlights may soon brighten America’s roads and safety prospects. Using pixelated light sources, sensors, cameras and sophisticated software to direct a vehicle's high beams, the headlights provide the optimal light for every driving condition, while eliminating blinding glare.
Updated robotics kit brings technology to life for university students
The TI Robotics System Learning Kit family – with the TI-RSLK MAX being its newest addition – is a low-cost robotics kit and curriculum for the university classroom that is simple to build, code and test with solderless assembly.
There’s more than one right answer in Jacob Day’s engineering class
Jacob Day took a five-year break from his career as an analog design engineer at our company to teach students that the best way to learn engineering is through trial and error. “The educational system tends to teach kids to solve problems based on a recipe that leads to a single, correct solution," he said. “But the real world isn't like that. There’s more than one right answer.”
How education is opening doors in Bangalore
Thanks to a partnership between our company, non-governmental organizations and some of the government schools in Bangalore, India, motivated students are embracing education as the path out of poverty and into a better future.