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High-Tech Toast To Better Wines
Between the rows of ripening grapes at the Robert Mondavi Vineyard in Napa Valley,
a UC Berkeley researcher pushes a wheelbarrow outfitted with a ground-penetrating
radar device. The field trip is part of a project that combines time-tested agricultural
methods with high-technology geophysics to improve the quality of Northern California's
finest wines.
Ultimate Auto-Pilot
In the near future, fleets
of small airplanes may traverse our skies monitoring traffic conditions, collecting
data from environmental sensors and scoping out forest fires. The unusual thing
about these aircraft is that their cockpits will be empty. UC Berkeley civil
engineering professor Raja Sengupta is leading a College of Engineering project
to build intelligent guidance systems for the next generation of unmanned air
vehicles (UAVs).
Objects
May Be Closer Than They Appear
Each year, approximately
400 people die trying to beat an oncoming train at railroad crossings.
More than 1,000 others are injured. Why is it that so many people
misjudge the speed of an oncoming train? That's the question Theodore
E. Cohn, a Berkeley professor of vision science and bioengineering,
hopes to answer.
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Diagnosis
On A Chip
Beginning next summer, a tiny bio-chip developed at UC Berkeley will help researchers
in Nicaragua understand and screen for a tropical disease that incapacitates
as many as 100 million people each year. Melding microbiology with microcircuitry,
the two millimeter square ImmunoSensor provides a quick, inexpensive test for
the Dengue virus, commonly known as "break-bone fever," even when the nearest
clinical laboratory may be hundreds of miles away.
1974:
The release of INGRES and the birth of the database industry
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go?
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