Bomb-Resistant Buildings
UC Berkeley civil engineers are borrowing from suspension bridges to protect buildings from terrorist explosives. Professor Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl and his graduate students recently successfully tested a cable system that keeps a collapsing floor hanging on even if a support column is blown out.
Reading the Book of Life
In February 2001, Eugene Myers watched proudly as Celera Genomics announced
a completed draft of the human genome sequence. Now, the former
vice president of Informatics Research at Celera Genomics has joined
UC Berkeley as a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Sciences. His research goal? To decode a human cell.
The Lighter Side of Next-Generation Lithography
Soon, Moore's
law will collide with a much less flexible set of laws — the
laws of physics. Within the next decade, the technology used to
manufacture integrated circuits, optical lithography, may reach
its practical limits. Prof. Jeffrey Bokor is preparing extreme ultraviolet
lithography (EUVL), widely accepted as the heir to the optical lithography
throne, for prime time.
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A
Symphony of Data
What
is the best way to interact with the massive datasets — from
seismological statistics to anatomical models — now available
online? Try playing them like musical instruments.
Obituary: William S. Jewell, professor emeritus of operations
research and early proponent of interdisciplinary research
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