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A project from Boğaziçi University and MIT to save İstanbul from flooding
“Drainage by Design: Optimizing Stormwater Infrastructure in Istanbul” project is among new studies that have been supported as part of MISTI (MIT Science and Technology Initiatives) - Boğaziçi International Research, Education, and Support Program that aims to carry out joint projects between academics and students from both Boğaziçi University and Massachusetts Technology Institute (MIT) and funded by Limak Foundation. Prof. Dr. Cem Avcı from Boğaziçi University Civil Engineering Department conducts the project together with researcher Dr. Mehmet Emre Çamlıbel and remarks that they will investigate the effects of climate change on Istanbul’s stormwater infrastructure and make suggestions in terms of optimization of the infrastructures in the city.
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Are the time machines coming true?
The subject of whether traveling through time is possible came up again recently when Gordey Lesovik from Moscow Physics and Technology Institute made a statement. He said in his statement: “We succeeded to create an artificial condition in reverse motion of the time’s thermodynamic direction.” What does his statement mean? We asked Prof. Dr. Metin Arık from Boğaziçi University Physics Department, whether it is possible to travel through time. He said that the experiment does not make traveling through time possible as in the science-fiction movies, rather it is just a development in terms of the thermodynamic of the time.
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GaN will replace silicon and shape the future
Asst. Prof. Nazlı Dönmezer from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Boğaziçi University is conducting research on strength-based technologies that will shape the future of energy.
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Boğaziçi University will build Turkey and Europe’s first carbon negative integrated biorefinery
Boğaziçi University is continuing to work at full speed on a green and sustainable future. İstanbul Microalgae Biotechnologies Research and Development Center (İMBİYOTAB), which began working in 2017 in the Sarıtepe Campus, is now building the first carbon negative biorefinery of Europe to do studies on algae. The project titled "Integrated Biorefinery Concept for Bio-economy Driven Development" and led by Dr. Berat Haznedaroğlu from the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Boğaziçi University is also backed by the Competitive Sectors Program, which is designed to balance the regional differences across Turkey and promote economic development, and coordinated by the Ministry of Industry and Technology, the Directorate General for European Union and Foreign Affairs, and EU Financial Programs Department. İMBİYOTAB also signed a cooperation agreement with Turkish Airlines to produce domestic bio-jet fuel.
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A “Smart” Center for the Future Technology
Boğaziçi University Kandilli Campus is witnessing infrastructure investments in order to turn it into a new research campus. Telecommunications and Informatics Technologies Research Center (TETAM), founded in the Kandilli Campus in 2013, is one of the main examples to this end. Built with the fund granted by the Ministry of Development, TETAM aims to provide the researchers working in the telecommunications and informatics fields with ample means and to transform the Kandilli Campus into an interdisciplinary research campus.
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Future nightmare of humanity is not evil robots, it's unemployment
We asked our questions about robots and future to the experts Prof. Dr. Levent Akın, Prof. Dr. Ethem Alpaydın and Prof. Dr. Cem Say from Boğaziçi University Computer Engineering department, who are known for their work on AI.
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Computers are becoming experts on human nature
Assoc. Prof. Ali Albert Salah from Boğaziçi University Computer Engineering department tells his work on computers’ analyzing social and emotional cues from humans.
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Prof. Ario Ceccotti: Timber should receive the attention it deserves
Boğaziçi University Civil Engineering Department has broken new ground in construction industry in the new academic year. Prof. Ario Ceccotti, internationally credited timber engineering expert, has started tutoring in Timber Engineering in Boğaziçi University.
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Turkey’s One and Only Biotechnology Invention is Patented on Three Continents
A vaccine developed by Boğaziçi University has been patented by the European Patent Office.
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It is Time for a Robotics Law
Developments in robotics technology have given rise to a variety of discussions on the potential social, economic and cultural implications of robotics. Potential ethical problems and lack of a legal framework are giving rise to scary scenarios about robots. Should we fear artificial intelligence, or are we worrying needlessly? Will it be possible to create a new legal framework and a system of ethics to parallel the advances in robotics technology?
We talked with Professor Cem Say, Professor Levent Akın, and Professor Ethem Alpaydın of Boğaziçi University Computer Engineering Department, and Burçak Ünsal, who teaches Cyber Law at BU Department of Management and Information Systems and is a member of BU Information Systems Research Center.
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The Internet of Things will Interconnect 4 billion People by 2020
Experts from industry will be guest lecturers in a new course offered by Boğaziçi University on the Internet of Things, the rapidly growing technology that will affect all parts of life, from smart cities to various smart applications in agriculture and the healthcare sector.
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Technology is Essential for Smart Agriculture
A team of scientists from Boğaziçi University is working on a project aimed to produce climate simulations for Turkey for the years 2030 and 2050, and study the transformation of agricultural cultivation areas. We talked with Professor Gökhan Özertan of Boğaziçi University, Department of Economics, whose research involves the use of technology in agriculture and the impact of technology on productivity.
