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Kinetica Dynamics: Skyscraper stabilizer

Brian Owens · May 17, 2017 ·

Kinetica Dynamics may be a young start-up, but its approach to stabilizing tall buildings is based on a well-established idea.“It’s a reinvigoration of an old vibration damping technology,” says Michael Montgomery, an engineer and the company’s co-founder and chief executive. The technology, a polymer that diminishes vibration and shock, is bonded tightly to the structure […]

SSIMWave: Seeing the screen

Brian Owens · May 17, 2017 ·

“We want to become synonymous with good user experience for video,” says Abdul Rehman, co-founder and chief executive of SSIMWave. The start-up, which was spun out of the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2013, wants to improve how people watch videos online. The company’s technology is based on a family of algorithms developed by […]

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