Technion medical student celebrates kidnapping and murder
The tweet above was posted by one Murad Abu Elheja, a medical student at the Technion (an Israeli university) in Haifa.
In response, the Technion reports that the student has been summoned for 'disciplinary action.' I would bet on him not being expelled, and that one day he will be a doctor in an Israeli hospital.
Please send this to the Technion (email addresses below) and urge that this 'Palestinian' scum be expelled. Especially if you are a Technion donor or alum.
Dr. Qanta Ahmed is a subspecialist board certified sleep disorders
specialist and faculty attending physician in the Department of Medicine
as part of the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine at
Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, New York. Dr. Ahmed is
appointed Associate Professor of Medicine at the State University of New
York (Stony Brook). She practices sleep disorders medicine in Garden
City at the Winthrop University Sleep Disorders Center where she treats
adolescents and adults of all ages.
Dr. Ahmed is also a non-fiction
author. Her first book, In the Land of Invisible Women (Sourcebooks
2008) details her experience of living and working in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia and has been published internationally in 13 countries
including in translation and is now in its 12th edition. A graduate of
the University of Nottingham, England, she has been a physician for 20
years.
Please listen to what Dr. Ahmed has to say about the Technion (which made this video) and about BDS in general.
A better way for Chris Christie to cause traffic jams on the George Washington Bridge
Just yesterday, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was cleared of wrongdoing in the creation of some purposeful traffic jams on the George Washington Bridge. Now, it turns out that his aides could have created traffic jams without lane closures, and their method of doing so would likely have been much harder to detect.
Two students and two faculty advisers at the Technion managed to hack into the popular traffic navigation Waze, which was purchased by Google a few months ago, and which seems to be ubiquitous among drivers using iOS and Android phones. The four managed to create fake traffic jams on Waze as part of an academic project in the university's computer science department.
Essentially, the system automatically creates multiple new
fictitious users on Waze that report fake GPS locations to “trick” the
navigation system into believing there is a traffic jam.
The
students were able to simulate a traffic jam that lasted for hours on
end causing motorists on Waze to deviate from their planned routes.
Doctoral
student Nimrod Partush initially came up with the idea for the project
while stuck in a traffic jam with his adviser, Prof. Eran Yahav, last summer.
“I
told Eran that if we would cause Waze, before we started driving, to
report that there was a huge traffic jam on the coastal road [Route 2],
the application would divert all drivers to Route 4 and we could drive
to Tel Aviv on the coastal road without any traffic,” Partush said in a
statement released by the Technion.
Yahav later recommended that
Partush present the idea to [Computer Science students Shir] Yadid and [Meital] Ben Sinai, two students he
believed would be interested in developing the idea further.
“We
didn’t know what we were getting into,” said Yadid and Ben Sinai.
“Success in the project was not guaranteed, and though the idea did not
sound innovative, its implementation was complex and therefore it
required a lot of time and effort.”
Following Yadid and Ben
Sinai’s success in implementing the system, the advisers notified Waze
of the “cyber-attack” and explained to the company the manner in which
the students were able to hack the application.
“We believe that following our report, Waze will find a way to prevent such attacks,” said Partush.
I would bet that Yadid and Ben Sinai - and probably Partush too - end up with consulting contracts with Waze, if not employment contracts. And Google is probably breathing a sigh of relief.
InSightec® is the pioneer and global leader in MR guided Focused
Ultrasound Surgery (MRgFUS) . InSightec developed ExAblate, a product
which pioneers the use of MRgFUS, and provides a personalized
non-invasive treatment that can replace invasive procedures and offer
therapeutic alternatives to millions of patients with serious diseases
around the globe. Interview with Technion alumni Dr. Kobi Vortman,
Founder and President and Baruch Avruch, Vice President of Operations
from InSightec. Film made by Cadenza Film Productions http://www.cadenza.co.il/
Follow this link to learn more about Technion: http://pard.technion.ac.il
This video has over one and a quarter million hits since January 21 - I don't recall any other video of this type getting that many hits that quickly.
Okay, this is impressive. Scientists at the Technion in Haifa have managed to find a way to make microscopes have ten times more resolution.
Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has registered a patent for a new technique that improves tenfold the performance of any type of sophisticated microscope and imaging system without making hardware changes.
The discovery, which has just been published in the Nature Materials journal, has aroused great interest in the scientific world and industry, being described as a “breakthrough with the potential to change” these fields.
Their innovative method substantially improves the resolution – the ability to distinguish between details – of images seen through microscopes.
“When you look through an optical microscope at an object with features [optical information] smaller than one-half the wavelength of light, you necessarily see a blurred image,” explained Prof. Moti Segev of the Technion’s physics department. “The reason for this is that the information about the structure of very small features does not propagate through space and thus does not reach the eye or the microscope camera.”
Methods exist to achieve a resolution under one-half of the wavelength of light, he said, but they all require point-by-point scanning of the object, meaning that these approaches may be used only for a static object, which does not change during the scan.
Scientists have tried for many years to find algorithms to reconstruct the subwavelength information lost between the object and the microscope camera. But until now, all such attempts were largely unsuccessful. The main reason is that “noise” – random scattering of light, which is inevitable in optical systems – has thus far prevented algorithmic reconstruction of features smaller than one-half the wavelength of light from measurements of the blurred image.
Now the Technion team has presented a breakthrough algorithmic method for improving the resolution of microscopes to considerably under one-half the wavelength of light.
This video was put out by the Technion to celebrate the 100th anniversary of their ground breaking. It's a little pretentious (Zionists weren't the only Jews who dreamed of returning to the Jewish homeland and the Technion does not have sole proprietorship of Israeli high tech and never has), but it's still kind of neat to watch.
“More than any other university in Israel, the Technion, which is involved in the research and development of military and arms technology, is directly implicated in war crimes. Its joint programs with the Israeli military and its cooperative research programs with two of Israel’s major weapons corporations, Elbit and Rafael, renders Technion a full participant in the actions carried out by the Israeli military.... The Cornell administration cannot plead ignorance of these facts. We refuse to collaborate with this.”
No one asked them to be part of it. They can always drop out of school. Heh.
Yet another Israeli - the third in recent years - has won a Nobel prize in Chemistry. The winner is Daniel Shechtman of the Technion. Shechtman is the tenth Israeli or Israeli-born scientist to win a Nobel Prize, and the third to win for chemistry.
Shechtman discovered quasicrystals, which have non-repeating patterns the committee described as "fascinating mosaics of the Arabic world reproduced at the level of atoms."
Prior to his discovery, crystals were thought to only have repeating patterns. The controversy of his finding was so great that Shechtman was asked, at one point, to leave his research group. His research, ultimately, prevailed, using Arabic mosaic patterns, which rely on mathematical non-repeating patterns, as a model.
Schechtman's discovery was made in 1982. Ironically, Israel Radio reports that Schechtman is actually a Physicist, and while it was widely believed he would eventually win a Nobel prize, it was expected to be in Physics and not in Chemistry.
Shechtman, 70, is a distinguished professor at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavie congratulated Shechtman on his win.
"This is a day of celebration not just for the Technion but for the entire State of Israel. We are very excited. We always knew that Prof. Shechtman's discoveries changed the face of science, and it was clear to us that he would win the desired prize at some point. We are happy that it happened this year."
Lavie described Shechtman as a "very unique scientist."
"On the one hand his exceptional international status, but on the other hand he's one of the must beloved and modest people in the Technion. We heard of his win just like everyone else. The tension was high and within a few minutes the news of his win spread like wild fire," said Lavie.
Knesset Education Committee Chairman Alex Miller congratulated Shechtman as well.
"This win proves once more that the human capital is the most important strategic asset of the State of Israel. Investing in education and in qualitative and investigative higher learning not only results in economical and cultural growths but also brings great honor to Israel around the world."
...
Yoav Shechtman, Prof. Daniel Shechtman's son told Ynet that announcement had taken the family by surprise: "You don't know that you've won until the very last moment," he said. "It's a great joy, the family feels wonderful. We are delighted about it." An overwhelmed Shechtman told AP: "It feels wonderful."
This little tidbit will be of interest to at least one reader: Israel Radio reported that Schechtman's Bachelor's degree from the Technion was in Mechanical Engineering.
UPDATE 5:51 PM
Reader Reuven K notes:
Back then, those who studied materials were part of the Mechanical Engineering faculty. The Technion only opened a separate Faculty of Materials Engineering in 1981. Even today, within Mechanical Engineering faculty there are those whose research is mostly in materials.
Here's a special treat. Watch just some of the Technion robots in action. Students and Faculty members from Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science create these amazing robots in the Biorobotics and Biomechanics, Control and Robotic and Intelligent Systems laboratories.
I am an Orthodox Jew - some would even call me 'ultra-Orthodox.' Born in Boston, I was a corporate and securities attorney in New York City for seven years before making aliya to Israel in 1991 (I don't look it but I really am that old :-). I have been happily married to the same woman for thirty-five years, and we have eight children (bli ayin hara) ranging in age from 13 to 33 years and nine grandchildren. Four of our children are married! Before I started blogging I was a heavy contributor on a number of email lists and ran an email list called the Matzav from 2000-2004. You can contact me at: IsraelMatzav at gmail dot com
