G’day Sunshine!  We’re getting ready for our next tech adventure, this time with sunnies, hats, sunscreen and a whole lot of solar and cognitive power. It’s the World Solar Challenge and we’re taking you with us on a road trip through the Outback to outthink the solar car racing competition. For this grueling weeklong, 3,000km trek across Australia, The University of Michigan team is supplying the purpose-built solar car while IBM scientists are providing the sun chasing tech to help them win the race. So stay with us. It’ll be a scorcher.

9 years ago

When the University of Michigan’s solar car team decided to get a leg up on the competition for the upcoming World Solar Challenge across the Australian Outback, what’d they do? They called some IBM scientists. With the help of the IBMers’ solar forecasting and cognitive computing know-how, the students honed their weather predicting, a.k.a. ‘sun chasing’ techniques, to give the team’s car, Aurum, a chance to finish first. Tune in here October 18 – 25 to see if the team achieves its “moment in the sun.” 

9 years ago