Electrical Engineering News
PhD candidates Jayant Charthad and Steven Bell receive 2015 Centennial Teaching Assistant Award
Friday, June 19, 2015
Electrical engineering students honored for outstanding teaching among TA's in the schools of humanities and sciences, earth sciences, and engineering.
Stanford engineers find a simple yet clever way to boost chip speeds
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Inside each chip are millions of tiny wires to transport data; wrapping them in a protective layer of graphene could boost speeds by 30 percent.
Stanford engineers discover the limitation of a popular technique for one-way optical data transmission on computer chips
Monday, June 8, 2015
Backward leakage of light beams constrains ability to keep optical information flowing in only one direction, research shows.
Stanford engineers' breakthrough heralds super-efficient light-based computers
Thursday, May 28, 2015
Light can transmit more data while consuming far less power than electricity, and an engineering feat brings optical data transport closer to replacing wires.
Krishna Shenoy and Joanna Wysocka named HHMI investigators
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
The funding will aid Shenoy’s efforts to develop brain-machine interfaces and allow Wysocka to continue exploring the earliest steps of human development.
Stanford engineers observe the moment when a mind is changed
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
A new algorithm enables a moment-by-moment analysis of brain activity each time a laboratory monkey reaches this way or that during an experiment. It's like reading the monkey's mind.
Stanford Engineering Hero Ted Hoff honored as the principal architect of the microprocessor
Monday, May 4, 2015
Hoff led the team of engineers that produced the revolutionary Intel 4004 microprocessor in 1971.
Nicholas McKeown among 10 Stanford professors elected to AAAS 2015 class
Thursday, April 23, 2015
American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the country's oldest and most prestigious honorary learned societies.
ACM Council on Women honors Jennifer Widom as innovator in database systems
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Professor of computer science and electrical engineering is named 2015-2016 Athena Lecturer for launching new research areas in the database field.
Five faculty members receive NSF Early Career Development awards
Thursday, April 2, 2015
Assistant professors Amin Arbabian, Michael Lepech, Marco Pavone, Manu Prakash and Sindy Tang awarded grants to help promising junior faculty pursue outstanding research while also improving education.
Stanford Engineering’s Dan Boneh honored for innovations that have simplified cryptography
Monday, March 30, 2015
Computer science and electrical engineering professor will receive 2014 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award.
Stanford engineers working to pack more laser beams, and data, into fiber optic strands
Friday, March 27, 2015
As digital traffic soars, researchers strive to send multiple laser beams, each with it’s own data stream, through fiber optic strands that can only handle a single beam today.
Engineering a rowing team
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Engineering is a popular and useful major for members of Stanford's rowing team.
Subhasish Mitra elected ACM fellow
Friday, February 6, 2015
The Association for Computing Machinery honored the Mitra, an associate professor of computer science and electrical engineering, for contributions to the design and testing of robust computing systems.
Bernd Girod elected to National Academy of Engineering
Thursday, February 5, 2015
Electrical engineering professor honored for his contributions to video compression, streaming and multimedia systems.
EngX: The Internet of Everything
Friday, January 9, 2015
In a video that elaborates on the theme of his Stanford Engineering EngX presentation, Professor Thomas Lee says that it's possible to connect a trillion devices to the Internet and that the Internet of Things is actually the Internet of Everything.
EngX: Ant-size radio to control Internet of Things
Friday, January 9, 2015
In a video that elaborates on the theme of his Stanford Engineering EngX presentation, Stanford's Amin Arbabian, an assistant professor of electrical engineering, describes the radio that his team built to control the Internet of Things. The size of an ant, the radio is so energy efficient that it gathers all the power it needs from the same electromagnetic waves that carry signals to its receiving antenna.
EngX: Security of the Internet of Everything
Friday, January 9, 2015
In this short version of his Stanford Engineering EngX presentation, Electrical Engineering Professor Mark Horowitz talks about the security of the Internet of Everything.
Stanford faculty awarded seed grants for innovative energy research
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Stanford's Precourt Institute, Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and TomKat Center have awarded eight seed grants to Stanford faculty for early-stage energy research.
Stanford team combines logic, memory to build a 'high-rise' chip
Monday, December 15, 2014
Stanford researchers are building layers of logic and memory into skyscraper chips that are smaller, faster, cheaper – and taller.
Four Stanford Engineering professors named IEEE fellows
Friday, December 5, 2014
Thomas Lee, Sanjay Lall, Boris Murmann and Christos Kozyrakis were recognized for their extraordinary achievements in engineering.
Stanford Engineering alum James Spilker wins 2015 IEEE Edison Medal
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Spilker, a consulting professor at Stanford Engineering, was honored for "contributions to the technology and implementation of civilian GPS navigation systems."
Stanford Engineering's Jim Plummer to be awarded IEEE Founders Medal
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Former dean of School of Engineering honored for his role in fostering innovative, interdisciplinary and globally focused education.
Stanford engineers invent high-tech mirror to beam heat away from buildings into space
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
A new ultrathin multilayered material can cool buildings without air conditioning by radiating warmth from inside the buildings into space while also reflecting sunlight to reduce incoming heat.
Making Personalized Medicine Practical
Monday, November 10, 2014
Personalized medicine will bring with it the problem of storing and processing the vast amounts genetic information needed to tailor medical care to individual needs. Stanford electrical engineers have an answer.
