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Ford's New Silicon Valley Lab Opens, Ready to Engage Bay Area Tech and Startup Community to Accelerate Innovation

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif/PRNewswire/ --?

• Ford Silicon Valley Lab now officially open for business in?Palo Alto, Calif.
• Ford frames Silicon Valley Lab's mission around three priorities: big data, open-source innovation and user experience to enhance future personal mobility

The Ford Silicon Valley Lab (SVL) is now officially open for business, ready to engage the tech community in the quest for the next great idea.

Ford Executive Chairman?Bill Ford?today comes to the spiritual home of the computer and consumer electronics industry to celebrate the grand opening of the Ford Silicon Valley Lab and to participate in the Computer History Museum's?"Revolutionaries" lecture series.

"We have been innovating for more than a century at Ford, but we acknowledge we don't have a monopoly on creativity," said Ford. "Our new office will complement our existing research efforts by allowing us to tap into the region that has been driving consumer technology forward in recent decades."

While Ford is strongly associated with the industrial heartland of America, the company has global reach with Research and Innovation facilities in?Dearborn, Mich.; Aachen,?Germany;?Nanjing,?China; and technology scouts in?Tel Aviv, Israel.

"We want Silicon Valley to view Ford as a platform that is open, accessible and ready for their innovative ideas and technologies," said?Paul Mascarenas, chief technical officer and vice president of Ford Research and Advanced Engineering. "We are looking for unexpected solutions for the future, and we believe Silicon Valley is the right place to round out our global research organization."

"We view technology as more than just an impressive list of microprocessors, sensors and software," he added. "It is the enabler of a safe, intuitive and enjoyable time behind the wheel."

Ford's Silicon Valley Lab will serve as a local touch point for the many relationships Ford already has withBay Area?technology companies and startups. Its core mission, though, is to operate as an independent lab focused on three key areas supporting the future of personal mobility:

• Big data ? Ford is increasingly a data-driven company, fusing both internal and external sources to shape product and marketing offerings and support strategic decision making. In addition, vehicle data from the growing list of sensing technologies built into the car can be used locally to create a more personalized, convenient and productive driving experience, then aggregated to help address congestion and improve efficiency.
• Open-source innovation ? Viewing the car as a platform and providing access to real-time data allows for the rapid development of custom hardware and software applications. Ford has extensive experience in development of on-board and off-board applications for the SYNC? in-car connectivity system. Now the Silicon Valley Lab is looking at open-source development using the research platform OpenXC developed with Bug Labs.
• User experience ? Information and services need to be presented to the driver in ways that don't take away from the primary task of operating the vehicle. Ford is rethinking how drivers and passengers interact with vehicles as well as how vehicles should interact with them. Innovations in design and new technologies can help to optimally organize, filter and deliver content.

"As new ways of processing, curating and filtering information are conceived, the possibilities for enhancing personal mobility are virtually limitless," said?Venkatesh Prasad, general manager of the new lab and senior technical leader of open innovation. "With many of the finest forward-thinking minds in the world located in the San Francisco Bay region, the Ford Silicon Valley Lab is ideally positioned to interact with and forge connections to local innovators and grow the relationships with our current partners."

The Ford SVL team is now ready to listen, learn and even teach at its location in downtown?Palo Alto. For more information or to contact the lab, visit?http://fordsvl.com.

About Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company??(NYSE:?F), a global automotive industry leader based in?Dearborn, Mich., manufactures or distributes automobiles across six continents. With about 166,000 employees and about 70 plants worldwide, the company's automotive brands include Ford and?Lincoln. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford and its products worldwide, please visit?http://corporate.ford.com?.

SOURCE Ford Motor Company

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Poor role models: Children say two-thirds of parents do 'almost no physical activity'

ScienceDaily (June 20, 2012) ? Children who said their parents do almost no physical activity have a 50 per cent greater risk of being unfit than children with more physically active parents, according to new research.

In the year the Olympics are coming to Britain, the study found two-thirds of children think their parents do almost no physical activity, meaning they are proving to be poor role models for their offspring. Researchers from the University of Essex asked more than 4,000 schoolchildren to rate how active they thought their parents were. The researchers then got the children to complete a test of their cardio respiratory fitness (the 'bleep' test) and compared the results.

A quarter of the children who took part in the test were classed as 'unfit' but this likelihood was strongly influenced by how active they perceived their parents to be. While one in five children said at least one of their parents was active but only one in ten said they had two active parents. Fathers were perceived as more active than mothers and the association with children's fitness was stronger between fathers and children than mothers and children.

Dr Gavin Sandercock, who led the research, which has been published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, said: "To be classed as fit in our test the children had to run at a speed equivalent to a medium jogging pace (7 mph) and its quite frightening that a quarter of children can't do this." He added: "We know that being unfit is much worse for your health than being obese and we are now finding out that it is also much more common."

The researchers highlighted that as parents act as role models for their children, particularly girls, parents need to be seen to be active to show their children how to live a healthy, active life. Dr Sandercock said some parents may actually be active but their children do not realise it.

However, the data tends to back up previous studies which show that adults are not getting enough physical activity. To be active in the study parents had to be perceived by their children to do two or three sessions of physical activity per week including walking, cycling, running, going to play sport, going to a gym or an exercise class.

Dr Sandercock added: "As parents we don't need to be Olympic athletes to be good role models for our children. We need our children to know that we encourage and support their physical activity and, most importantly, we need our children to see us being active ourselves."

The research follows recent calls for fitness testing in schools and calls by sports medicine practitioners to assess fitness PE in the way numeracy and literacy are assessed in maths and English. "We can't carry on putting all the pressure on schools to get children fit and active when some parents might not be playing their part. Children spend less than 15 per cent of their time at school and only two hours a week doing PE," said Dr Sandercock. He added: "If genetics was the main reason for the association we would see that mums' activity levels were more important as some key genes for fitness come from your mother's side. As dads' activity levels were the best predictors of children's fitness we think the effect is environmental."

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Landing Engineering Roles Has Just Gotten Easier | Self ...

The amount of roles available in the country is certainly not low and it seems that the most difficult problem lies in the people, as they don?t know exactly where to look for them and eventually submit their application and land an engineering job. Truth be said, those that are still considering newspapers and local mags so as to find a job will have few possibilities of finding one, as there are too few postings made there and when they?re going to call, somebody else will have taken the job.

The engineering roles are paid rather well and for people that also have some good experience in the field, earning more than 50 thousand dollars each year is very easy. Before imagining and talking about cash though, people will have to find these roles.

In that respect they can check the web roles sites where there are high possibilities for them to find many bosses trying to find engineers. As an example, they can check www.jobsearch.com.au and browse through the roles classes there till they find the employer and the job they are looking for.

Individuals need to keep in mind that when they?ll submit their application they must ensure there aren?t any mistakes in it and that it also contains each bit if info about their prior working experience and any special suggestions from their past bosses. This can certainly increase the probabilities for an individual to get the job he or she applies for.

Last although not least, the engineering roles are one of the very finest paid jobs in the country so everyone will send in their application to the employer hiring such professionals. Hurrying up can also imply that individuals will have a higher possibility of being hired if they qualify for the job and will likely be among first to send out their application.

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