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Smart Technology Research

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We started smart gun research and design in 2016. In summer 2017, our teams were selected as finalists and had a presentation in NYPD Headquarters and a conference call with one of the jurists. Last week (September 19) we presented the results of our study in Smart Gun Expo at Brooklyn Borough President Hall. Though these processes, we learned many social aspects of smart guns. Other finalists did also great work including teams from NYU and Pratt Institute. The winner is Team Autonomous Ballistics from NYU. Congratulations, Team Autonomous Ballistics! The following links are articles about the Expo:

Students from NYU Tandon win $1M smart gun design contest
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/students-nyu-tandon-win-1m-smart-gun-design-contest-article-1.3505054

Local students win $1M grant for unorthodox smart gun technology, but it’s not a smart gun at all
http://pix11.com/2017/09/20/local-students-win-1m-grant-for-unorthodox-smart-gun-technology-that-doesnt-involve-a-gun-at-all/

NYU students win $1 million ‘Smart Gun’ competition
http://brooklyn.news12.com/clip/13731490/nyu-students-win-1m-smart-gun-competition
http://brooklyn.news12.com/story/36399373/nyu-students-win-1-million-smart-gun-competition

This Million-Dollar Smart-Gun Idea Isn’t a Gun At All
https://www.thetrace.org/rounds/smart-gun-brooklyn-challenge-holster/

Brooklyn engineering school team wins $1 million smart gun competition (VIDEO)
http://www.guns.com/2017/09/22/brooklyn-engineering-school-team-wins-1-million-smart-gun-competition-video/

Local college team wins $1m Smart Gun Design Competition
https://www.caribbeanlifenews.com/stories/2017/9/2017-09-22-nk-smart-gun-design-competition-cl.html

Sharp shooters: NYU students win $1-million prize for designing smarter firearm
https://www.brooklyndaily.com/stories/2017/39/dtg-bb-borough-president-picks-winning-smart-gun-design-2017-09-22-bk.html

Brooklyn Daily Eagle: We had presentations in Smart Gun Expo yesterday

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Autonomous Ballistics, a team from New York University Tandon School of Engineering, won the $1 million prize in a Smart Gun Design Competition funded by Borough President Eric Adams. Shown from left: Sy Cohen, mentor Professor Anthony Clarke, Ashwin Raj Kumar and Borough President Eric Adams. Photo by Mary Frost

Autonomous Ballistics, a team from New York University Tandon School of Engineering, won the $1 million prize in a Smart Gun Design Competition funded by Borough President Eric Adams. Shown from left: Sy Cohen, mentor Professor Anthony Clarke, Ashwin Raj Kumar and Borough President Eric Adams. Photo by Mary Frost

‘It’s not going to make it slower, it’s not going to make it faster, it’s only going to make it safer’

By Mary Frost

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Autonomous Ballistics, a team from New York University Tandon School of Engineering, took home the $1 million prize in a Smart Gun Design Competition funded by Borough President Eric Adams.

And the winning team’s design is not a gun — but a smart holster.

At a ceremony on Monday at Borough Hall, a panel of judges announced that the smart holster was the most promising proposal to prevent unauthorized users from firing a gun, a thorny issue with political and social ramifications in a society sick of gun violence, yet where gun ownership is the rule in many parts of the country…

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2017/9/18/nyu-tandon-team-wins-1m-prize-brooklyn-bp-smart-gun

Sustainable Society Research – Gun Deaths Are Mostly Suicides –

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Gun Deaths Are Mostly Suicides

Margot Sanger-Katz @sangerkatz OCT. 8, 2015 When Americans think about deaths from guns, we tend to focus on homicides. But the problem of gun suicide is inescapable: More than 60 percent of people in this country who die from guns die by suicide….  https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/upshot/gun-deaths-are-mostly-suicides.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/09/upshot/gun-deaths-are-mostly-suicides.html