SETTING THE BENCHMARK

Advanced optics are increasingly used to create more capable medical, industrial, and defense products, becoming smaller, cheaper, and more common. Yet, manufacturing these systems remains challenging—manual alignment is slow and error-prone, adhesives must be dispensed with high accuracy, and...

Minnesota, known as the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", is less well known for the vital role it played in the evolution of High-Performance Computing (HPC). Although the region has been instrumental in shaping computer hardware and software, it has often been overlooked since Minnesota's early computer...