Preview: Water Quality Drifter at the TXST Innovation Lab
Texas State students hope to wow attendees of the Texas State Innovation Lab and Reception with projects they have been working on this past semester.
2018
Preview: The American Solar Car Challenge at the TXST Innovation Lab
A team of electrical engineering seniors from Texas State University will present a two semester-long project with solar car technology at this year’s TXST Innovation Lab, an exclusive look at student projects and innovation. The Innovation Lab features more than a dozen student teams who’s work ranges from media, engineering, design and health. Daniel Caballero, […]
Preview: Meet Nikos Acuña and Tap into the Enthusiasm of a Futurist
Nikos Acuña cannot wait for the future. A futurist, author, and recently named Chief Visionary of Sizmek, Acuña’s belief that artificial intelligence will guide us to the tomorrow of our dreams is both an optimistic and precisely-measured prediction. “We are the tool-forging species,” Acuña reminds us in one of his videos, explaining that AI is a technology we […]
Preview: Generous Parental Leave: A Liberty or A Luxury?
Katie Bethell is making parental leave a topic of conversation for everyone. From business owners, to employees, to policy makers. Be sure to check out her panel and walk away with useful tips on how you can make difference in your own community.
SXSW 18: Behind the Data
In 2018, SXTXState introduces a new feature, a Data page analyzing panel and topic trends throughout the SXSW Festival. Working with data and creating visualizations are important parts of the curriculum in Texas State’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, so adding a data element to this year’s coverage is a natural progression of our […]
Preview: HEXDesign brings dating, health care apps to TXST Innovation Lab
What’s next in dating and health care smartphone apps, and how does one design for certain demographics or disabilities? Communication design majors and recent graduates at Texas State University took on this unique challenge in their project, HEXDesign, which will be presented during the TXST Innovation Lab at SXSW. HEXDesign is a collective of eight […]
Preview: Back-End to the Future: A/B Testing What Counts
Vanessa Janowski is the co-founder of Vari Solutions, a company that assists growing technology businesses to target areas for improvement, helps them with better understanding their users, and how to develop data solutions to build their company. Vanessa will be joined by Ivy Reyes of Shutterstock, Maisy Samuelson of Pinterest, and Cinna Wu of Facebook […]