February 5, 2011
Researchers Hope Sharing Costs Will Spur Optical Chips
February 4, 2011
UW, Backed by Intel and U.S. Military, Sets Up Center to Merge Electronics, Photonics
February 3, 2011
New center aims to dramatically lower barrier to making silicon photonic chips
February 2, 2011
Jandhyala to Chair Panel on “Cloud Computing for Electronic Co-Design: Challenges and Opportunities”
Professor Vikram Jandhyala will chair a panel on “Cloud Computing for Electronic Co-Design: Challenges and Opportunities” at DesignCon 2011 being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA between January 31 to February 3, 2011. This panel brings together experts from Texas Instruments, IBM, Cadence, Synopsys, Amazon Web Services, and Physware who will…
February 1, 2011
Alumnus Pamela Bhatti Receives the NSF CAREER Award
UW EE Alumnus Pamela Bhatti received the NSF CAREER Award to develop a MEMS-based biomimetic angular rotation sensor and vestibular prosthesis. Bhatti received her MS degree from the EE department in 1993 (Biorobotics Lab). After gaining some experience working in industry, she later obtained her PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Bhatti has…
January 9, 2011
Encouraging Women in Industry to Apply for Faculty Jobs
January 8, 2011
Hacking Kinect for Robotic Surgery
Students from EE’s Biorobotics Lab have adapted Microsoft’s Kinect gaming system for robotic surgery research. Visiting graduate student Fredrik Ryden has been working with Professors Howard Chizeck and Blake Hannaford on this project. The original video demonstrating the haptics-Kinect work was posted on YouTube last December and has received nearly 27,000 hits. Since then the…
January 7, 2011
Two More EE Students Awarded Mary Gates Scholarships
Congratulations to Gen Vigil and Ryan Charrier who have received Mary Gates Scholarships for 2010-2011! EE undergraduate student Elliot Saba also received the scholarship award as well. Vigil was awarded the Mary Gates Research Scholarship, and her faculty advisor is Professor Karl Böhringer. She has helped design, build and test a low-cost, point-of-care microfluidic device…
January 6, 2011
Encouraging women scientists in industry, government to enter academia
January 5, 2011
Patel’s Energy Work Noted in PCAST Report to White House
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released and presented its report entitled “Designing a Digital Future for the White House and Congress: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology” to the White House and Congress. The report includes work from Assistant Professor Shwetak Patel’s research group on energy and water…
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