Given sufficient time, instruction, and support, participants can collaborate to devise tools and methods suited to local needs, and make progress toward hashing out complex, systemic problems.
Indeed, two ambitious initiatives are currently devising tools for imaging and controlling brain activity, ultimately to create a working computational model of the entire brain 1.
In our case it was a matter of defining several key areas of health care reform that could have interfaced with HIV/AIDS stresses in the health sector, and of devising tools that could collect comparable data.
Microsoft has been devising tools to improve productivity by working out what people are doing.
Today, scientists are devising numerous tools and techniques that will be needed to transform nanotechnology from computer models into reality.
To allow more time for complex decisions and preparations in the face of rising weather threats, scientists are now looking to medium-range forecasting — predicting high-impact events one to two weeks in advance — and are devising new tools and technologies to sharpen their weather vision.
Devising economic tools and ensuring the political will to make the above happen.
Each year it awards upwards of $1 million in grants and fellowships, called Magic Grants, to fund projects and prototypes that devise new tools and new ways to tell stories.
A professor of energy in both the materials science and biological engineering departments, she joined MIT's David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research in 2010 and began working to devise diagnostic tools and treatments for cancer as well.
So, for example, if there are violent unrests in the banlieues, we are called to train psychologists and sociologists to devise tools to calm people down, and urbanists to design neighbourhoods that would dissuade and impede outbursts of rebellion.
