Good Timing For Nanoscale Atomic Clocks
The
radio spectrum is a dwindling natural resource. By some estimates
in less than a decade there will be no more frequencies left for
the next-generation of palmtop computers and handheld communicators.
But according to mechanical engineering professor Albert P. Pisano,
outfitting every wireless device with a nano-mechanical clock could
reopen the radio spectrum for tomorrow's new business.
Seeing in the Dark
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Hesham Kamel is
drawing a scene of a lighthouse on his laptop computer that he will
never see. That's because Kamel is blind. But thanks to the Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences PhD student's Integrated Communication
2 Draw (IC2D) software prototype, Kamel can create diagrams, pictures,
even animations using just a keyboard and computer screen reader
for the blind.
Intelligent
Systems Research Finds Its Center
In the 1950s, scientists set out to build computer systems that
could, in some sense or another, think. Artificial intelligence
was a grand vision and an even grander challenge, one that by its
very complexity demanded a disciplinary divide-and-conquer approach.
But according to a group of UC Berkeley researchers, the time has
come to reunify fifty years of fragmented research to solve large-scale
societal problems.
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 Photo courtesy Boris Rubinsky
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Open
Sesame for Cells
This
month, Boris Rubinsky, professor of bioengineering and mechanical
engineering, and his former graduate student Yong Huang are receiving
what the Chicago Tribune calls an "Oscar of invention" and others
refer to as a "Nobel Prize of applied research." The 2002 R&D 100
Award from R&D Magazine is for the pair's "bionic chip," a device
that may help revolutionize medicine by merging electronic circuitry
with living tissue.
Valerie Taylor (EECS '91), the
just-announced winner of the College of Engineering's first ever
Outstanding Young Leader Award, builds bridges across the digital
divide.
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