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2009
Silicon computer chips depend on metal wiring that is fast becoming a source of delay and wasted power. Many engineers would rather use light to transmit data over the longer distances on chips, much in the same way that the light in fiber optic cables efficiently carries virtually all long-haul telecommunications traffic. One of the key problems in realizing the goal, creating an intense light source that is compatible with silicon, now seems much closer to being solved based on advances reported by engineers including a team at Stanford University.
Stanford Engineering (07.08.2009) 		View »
A century after German physicist Gustav Mie derived the math to explain why the colors in some stained glass windows look especially resplendent in the sunlight, a team of Stanford engineers has built upon his work to potentially improve a means of harvesting energy from the sun.
Stanford Engineering (07.06.2009) 		View »
When cutbacks are necessary, can a good boss do right by the company's finances and by its staff? Some pain is probably unavoidable, but Stanford management science and engineering Professor Bob Sutton says that psychological and organization theory research suggests clear ways to handle such situations with a minimum of harm to the people and company involved. He makes that case in this month's issue of Harvard Business Review.
Stanford Engineering (06.01.2009) 		View »
The class, CS 193p, has been available for free on iTunes at Stanford all quarter.
Stanford News Service (05.18.2009) 		View »
As a key player in the race for clean energy, Stanford University has won a $20 million federal grant to launch the Center on Nanostructuring for Efficient Energy Conversion.
Stanford News Service (05.07.2009) 		View »
It is said that each of us marches to the beat of a different drum, but new Stanford University research suggests that brain cells need to follow specific rhythms that must be kept for proper brain functioning. These rhythms don’t appear to be working correctly in such diseases as schizophrenia and autism, and now two papers published online by the journals Nature and Science demonstrate that precisely tuning the oscillation frequencies of certain neurons can affect how the brain processes information and implements feelings of reward.
Stanford Medical School (04.26.2009) 		View »
Stanford civil and environmental engineering researchers are leading an effort, seeded by Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment and now funded by the National Science Foundation, to get to the heart of poor sanitation on the continent and then to find the most workable ways to improve it. They have been conducting extensive surveys of residents of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.
Woods Institute for the Environment (04.22.2009) 		View »
Jennifer Widom is one of 12 Stanford Professors elected to membership this year.
Stanford News Service (04.20.2009) 		View »
Last year Joel Sadler and his classmates faced a daunting challenge in their Biomedical Device Design and Evaluation course: Create a low-cost, high-performance prosthetic knee joint for amputees in the developing world. Dubbed the JaipurKnee Project, the team aimed to help rectify lives ravaged by war and diseases such as diabetes. Over the course of a year, the team manufactured a prosthetic that cost only $20.
Stanford News Service (04.15.2009) 		View »
Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have a subterranean ocean of hydrocarbons and some topsy-turvy topography in which the summits of its mountains lie lower than its average surface elevation, according to new research.
Stanford News Service (04.03.2009) 		View »
Want to know how to write programs for the iPhone and iPod touch? Beginning this week, a Stanford computer science class on that buzzworthy topic will be available online to the general public for free.
Stanford News Service (04.01.2009) 		View »
In a new study that was published March 19 in the online journal Science Express, Stanford University researchers used light to illuminate how deep-brain stimulation works, generating surprising insights into the diseased circuitry and also suggesting new ideas to improve Parkinson’s therapy.
Stanford Engineering (03.18.2009) 		View »
Stanford University researchers have developed a synthetic wood substitute that may one day save trees, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and shrink landfills.
Woods Institute for the Environment (03.17.2009) 		View »
A clever but simple new way of making transistors out of high-performance organic microwires presents a potential path for products such as smart merchandise tags, light and cheap solar panels, and flexible 'digital paper.' Engineers at Stanford and Samsung report the new method in a paper to be published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Stanford Engineering (03.16.2009) 		View »
scientists have taken a big step toward folding your personal genetic profile into many of the prescriptions you carry away from the pharmacy. Most immediately, the advance will likely lead to the safer, more effective use of a common anticoagulant called warfarin that, when taken in the wrong amount, can be very dangerous. In the future, it could affect how doctors prescribe dozens of common medications.
Stanford Medical School (02.18.2009) 		View »
It has been widely assumed that the effluent from pens would be benignly diluted by the sea if the pens were kept a reasonable distance from shore, said Jeffrey Koseff, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and co-director of Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment. But early results from a new Stanford computer simulation based on sophisticated fluid dynamics show that the icky stuff from the pens will travel farther, and in higher concentrations, than had been generally assumed, Koseff said.
Stanford News Service (02.17.2009) 		View »
The United States cannot maintain its position as a technological leader without increased participation of women and minorities, says Stanford University's Arthur Bienenstock, a physicist, professor of materials science and engineering, and 2008 president of the American Physical Society.
Stanford News Service (02.17.2009) 		View »
At the AAAS Conference in Chicago, bioengineering professors Christina Smolke and Drew Endy presented research on molecular medicines that are 'smart' enough to target only cells with disease. They are a product of an emerging field called 'synthetic biology.'
Stanford News Service (02.13.2009) 		View »
Stanford engineers have released free, open-source software that can greatly ease experimental design and troubleshooting, smoothing the way for new medical and chemical discoveries. Spresso, available for download at http://microfluidics.stanford.edu, is like a double shot of caffeine for researchers seeking to do electrophoresis experiments that no one has done before.
Stanford Engineering (02.11.2009) 		View »
William J. Dally, Chaitan Khosla, Mendel Rosenblum, Lawrence M. Wein and Paul G. Yock were among the 65 new members announced last week. Their election brings the number of Stanford members of the academy to 88, plus one foreign associate.
Stanford News Service (02.10.2009) 		View »
Engineering professors are principal investigators in three new energy resarch projects with a total of $5.6 million in funding. Two of the projects are aimed at improving solar energy technology.
GCEP (02.04.2009) 		View »
The National Academy of Engineering announced this week that the $500,000 Bernard M. Gordon Prize, its top award for teaching, would honor two directors of the entrepreneurship program in Stanford's School of Engineering.
Stanford Engineering (01.06.2009) 		View »
2008
The best ways to improve energy security, mitigate global warming and reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution are blowing in the wind and rippling in the water, not growing on prairies or glowing inside nuclear power plants, says Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford.
Stanford News Service (12.10.2008) 		View »
Stanford University’s Clean Slate Internet Design Program, a nothing-is-sacred research effort to rethink the globe’s ossified communications infrastructure, today announced the formation of the Clean Slate Lab, in which professors, students, research staff and professional engineers will deploy prototypes of program ideas in research and operational networks. Stanford created the lab with Deutsche Telekom in Germany and NEC in Japan as the founding sponsors.
Stanford Engineering (12.02.2008) 		View »
A team led by Stanford researchers has developed a prototype blood scanner that can find cancer markers in the bloodstream in early stages of the disease, potentially allowing for earlier treatment and dramatically improved chances of survival.
Stanford Engineering (12.01.2008) 		View »
What if you could somehow reach inside a video and insert videos or still images on any surface (e.g. hang a painting on a wall, or replace what's on TV?). A group of Stanford University researchers specializing in artificial intelligence have developed software that makes doing so relatively simple. The researchers, computer science graduate students Ashutosh Saxena and Siddharth Batra, and Assistant Professor Andrew Ng, see interesting potential for the technology they call ZunaVision.
Stanford News Service (11.14.2008) 		View »
People playing an online game have to be nimble to keep up with the action. To ensure the best performance, the network should be similarly agile, but the current nature of the Internet is inflexible in many ways. On Oct. 30, however, a consortium of academic researchers will demonstrate a prototype-stage technology called OpenFlow that could enable programmers to infuse the Internet infrastructure with new capabilities.
Stanford Engineering (10.28.2008) 		View »
A new method of prenatal testing, developed by scientists at Stanford University, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, requires only a maternal blood sample to spot chromosomal disorders such as Down syndrome.
Stanford Medical Center (10.06.2008) 		View »
Bosch has endowed a chair in the mechanical engineering department and joined as a founding member of CarLab, focusing on interdisciplinary research into automotive vehicle safety, the environment and enjoyable transportation.
Bosch (10.02.2008) 		View »
“The true function of these regions remains a mystery, but it’s clear that the genome really does need and use them,” said Gill Bejerano, PhD, assistant professor of developmental biology and of computer science. In fact, these so-called “ultraconserved” regions are about 300 times less likely than other regions of the genome to be lost during mammalian evolution, according to research from Bejerano and graduate student Cory McLean published in the Oct. 2 issue of Genome Research.
Stanford Medical Center (10.02.2008) 		View »
At Stanford, Fondahl became an influential expert on the use of mathematic techniques to graphically schedule the interwoven, overlapping activities of major construction sites, revealing the bottlenecks—materials, equipment, blueprints, number of workers, improper sequencing of events—that could slow down a project.
Stanford News Service (09.24.2008) 		View »
The Stanford School of Engineering today announced the debut of Stanford Engineering Everywhere (SEE), the pilot of a free online service that provides Stanford’s popular introduction to computer science and other computer science and electrical engineering courses. Each consists of complete video lectures and materials such as handouts, assignments, exams and transcripts. With SEE, Stanford Engineering is releasing the courses under a Creative Commons license, explicitly encouraging educators and learners around the world to incorporate the video courses and materials into their educational endeavors and to form virtual communities around the classes.
Stanford Engineering (09.17.2008) 		View »
As GCEP marks its fifth anniversary this year, the theme of the conference will be 'Energy Research—Five Years and Beyond.' Researchers from Stanford and around the world will discuss the project's progress and the opportunities that could lead to energy technologies with significantly reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
GCEP (09.12.2008) 		View »
The Jen-Hsun Huang School of Engineering Center will be a modern, inspiring and sustainable destination for the entire science and engineering community on campus and will anchor the new Science and Engineering Quad.
Stanford Engineering (09.10.2008) 		View »
Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. Release follows, but video is also available.
Stanford News Service (09.02.2008) 		View »
The fight against the liver disease hepatitis C has been at something of an impasse for years, with more than 150 million people currently infected, and traditional antiviral treatments causing nasty side effects and often falling short of a cure. Using a novel technique, medical and engineering researchers at Stanford University have discovered a vulnerable step in the virus’ reproduction process that in lab testing could be effectively targeted with an obsolete antihistamine.
Stanford Medical Center/Stanford Engineering (08.31.2008) 		View »
Stanford University and the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI) today announced a research partnership in which they will investigate the process of innovation using Design Thinking, a methodology that melds an end-user focus with multidisciplinary collaboration and iterative improvement to produce products, services or experiences. HPI Professor Hasso Plattner is providing the funding for the eight-year, $16 million joint research program.
Stanford Engineering (08.19.2008) 		View »
In the Open Programmable Mobile Internet 2020 project, Nick McKeown and his colleages at Stanford University address fundamental issues emerging in the forthcoming broadband wireless mobile revolution. It aims to create an 'open' alternative to mobile ubiquitous computing and communication that can spur innovations.
National Science Foundation (08.18.2008) 		View »
Nanotechnology is the key to a new, noninvasive biomedical imaging technique that could detect early stages of cancer. The method holds promise for determining not just where tumors are located but also for monitoring their treatment, said scientists at the Stanford University researchers who demonstrated the new approach in mice. The lead author is an electrical engineering student.
Stanford Medical Center (08.17.2008) 		View »
Bioengineering Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth will use a $1.5 million science and engineering grant from the Keck Foundation to advance his research on controlling cells with pulses of light. The technique, which has found enthusiastic users across the country, shows promise as a tool for improving disease research and could lead to new therapies for certain ailments.
Stanford Medical School (08.04.2008) 		View »
Engineers will look at coastal pollution and water recycling projects
Woods Institute for the Environment (07.14.2008) 		View »
in a Stanford Materials Science and Engineering Laboratory, Assistant Professor Yi Cui has grown what is surely the smallest replica of the 'tall tree' ever created. His version, constructed of lead selenide nanowires, is roughly a million times smaller than 'El Palo Alto,' the living, breathing redwood near El Camino Real.
Stanford News Service (07.11.2008) 		View »
Using an unusual microscope with a tip the size of a needle, Stanford researchers are now able to look at tiny fibers of working muscles in live humans, with minimum discomfort to the patient—a development patients are sure to welcome.
Stanford News Service (07.09.2008) 		View »
A team of Stanford and Samsung engineers has tackled one of the most frustrating problems holding back the progress of research on carbon nanotubes: reliably separating nanotubes that conduct electricity from those that semiconduct electricity. In the July 4 edition of the journal Science, the researchers describe their technique to sort the nanotubes while simultaneously laying them out on a silicon wafer.
Stanford Engineering (07.03.2008) 		View »
Stanford has offered to pay up to $1 million to fund the energy study and retrofit of the 20-year-old, eight-story building at 150 W. Hedding St. The work is expected to reduce both the operating costs of the jail and its greenhouse gas emissions.
Stanford News Service (06.23.2008) 		View »
Stanford engineers have unveiled a method for making integrated circuit chips with complex nanotube components on the VLSI scale and with the parallelism that the semiconductor industry must employ to make chips that are economical. They also demonstrated a design technique that allows nanotube logic gates to work even when the nanotubes are unpredictably aligned.
Stanford Engineering (06.20.2008) 		View »
The Woods Institute for the Environment has awarded planning grants to 17 Stanford faculty members to develop a campus-wide research agenda for the sustainable built environment (SBE), an emerging field that promotes the sustainable development of buildings and urban areas.
Stanford News Service (06.17.2008) 		View »
Hybrid vehicles running on electric motors are moving so quietly that pedestrians, especially blind people, can't hear them. Last month federal lawmakers introduced a bill called the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2008. If the bill passes, the Department of Transportation will do a study to establish minimum sound levels for all hybrid vehicles, whether they're idling, speeding down the freeway or slowly making their way through parking lots and residential streets. Two engineering students have developed a system that allows a Prius to emit noise to enhance pedestrian safety.
Stanford News Service (05.28.2008) 		View »
Stanford chemists have developed a new way to make transistors out of carbon nanoribbons. The devices could someday be integrated into high-performance computer chips to increase their speed and generate less heat, which can damage today's silicon-based chips when transistors are packed together tightly.
Stanford News Service (05.27.2008) 		View »
The Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency has awarded its first competitive research grants to members of the Stanford faculty. John P. Weyant, deputy director of the institute, said that three faculty projects will receive a total of $358,000 over the next 11 to 18 months for research designed to enhance energy efficiency in the transportation, building and electricity sectors.
Stanford News Service (05.21.2008) 		View »
Faculty and alumni of Stanford's venerated Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics celebrated their 50 years of collective adventure in academic aerospace May 8, 9 and 10. Also see this video of students explaining a couple of current research examples.
Stanford Engineering (05.21.2008) 		View »
Computers based on the powerful properties of quantum mechanics have the potential to revolutionize information technology and security, but for decades they have remained more theoretical than practical, and difficult to scale up. That is changing, however, as demonstrated in a report this week in the journal Science. In the paper, engineers and physicists from Stanford and the University of California at Santa Barbara demonstrate a potential progenitor of an essential component of quantum computers, 'a logic gate' that enables interaction between just two particles of light.
Stanford Engineering (05.08.2008) 		View »
Stanford and many of the biggest companies in computing will announce Friday, May 2, a joint effort to address a major missed opportunity in information technology: the dearth of software that can harness the parallelism of the multiple processors that are being built into virtually every new computer. The Pervasive Parallelism Lab (PPL) pools the efforts of many leading Stanford computer scientists and electrical engineers with support from Sun Microsystems, Advanced Micro Devices, NVIDIA, IBM, Hewlett Packard and Intel.
Stanford Engineering (04.30.2008) 		View »
ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) announced today that Daphne Koller, a professor at Stanford University, has been awarded the first-ever ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in Computing Sciences. Koller, 39, is being recognized for her innovative approach to Artificial Intelligence (AI) that allows computers to reason and learn about the world from real-world data. By combining the previously incompatible tools of logic and probability that are the basic principles of intelligent reasoning, she created a new field of learning that has transformed the way computers can process vast amounts of diverse, uncertain, often-conflicting data to solve complex real-world problems.
ACM/Infosys (04.28.2008) 		View »
A conference devoted to exploring ways to broaden the use of clean, sustainable energy will take place April 30 and May 1 at Stanford University. Energy Crossroads, a student organization founded at Stanford that aims to reduce society's dependence on fossil fuels, is presenting the conference, 'From Vision to Action: Sparking Global Change.'
Stanford News Service (04.22.2008) 		View »
Tom Byers and Tina Seelig, co-founders of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP), received unanimous votes from the judges to receive the award, which recognizes faculty members who foster an environment of innovative thinking among students through inventive teaching methods and hands-on opportunities.
Olympus/NCIIA (03.24.2008) 		View »
Going back 20 generations the software can identify what continent or broad global region an individual's ancestors were from. But going back about 10 generations the software can be much more precise, making distinctions as fine-grained as the traditional gene pools of nearby population groups—hypothetically differentiating Greek from Italian, or Russian from German.
Stanford Engineering (03.19.2008) 		View »
Stanford electronics researchers, led by electrical engineering Professor Abbas El Gamal, are developing such a camera, built around their ''multi-aperture image sensor.'' They've shrunk the pixels on the sensor to 0.7 microns, several times smaller than pixels in standard digital cameras. They've grouped the pixels in arrays of 256 pixels each, and they're preparing to place a tiny lens atop each array.
Stanford News Service (03.19.2008) 		View »
The promise of an airplane capable of cruising at hypersonic speeds is exhilarating: traveling from San Francisco to Sydney in 90 minutes, or taking off from an ordinary airport and flying into orbit around the Earth. An important reason why such technology is still experimental, however, is that hypersonic vehicles are incredibly expensive and risky to build and test. As a result, accurate computer simulation is critical. To fill that need, a new $17 million, five-year cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) will fund researchers based at Stanford as they strive to develop predictive simulations of hypersonic flight vehicles.
Stanford Engineering (03.07.2008) 		View »
The results were remarkable: a new, more effective and inexpensive mosquito net design for impoverished areas battling malaria; the 'Do Bands' campaign to inspire people to get things done, which raised over $500 for charity and spawned a new social network online; hilarious, late-night infomercial spoofs touting new products such as 'Shoe Bands' and 'The Habit Breaker;' a model used to teach aspects of Einstein's theory of relativity; a new painting technique; a community art project; and so much more. Winning submissions can be viewed at http://eweek.stanford.edu
Stanford Engineering (03.05.2008) 		View »
Stanford is joining a team of universities working to build a major science and technology university along a marshy peninsula on Saudi Arabia’s western coast. Stanford’s main role will be to assist in the selection of an initial cohort of 10 faculty members in the fields of applied mathematics and computer science and to help create a curriculum in these disciplines. In addition to the release at the link that follows, Yi Cui, a materials scientist, has won a KAUST award.
Stanford News Service (03.04.2008) 		View »
Drug-resistant bacterial infections are a growing concern, and much research has been devoted to finding new classes of antibiotics to fight them. Stanford researchers may have found some answers in peptoids, a class of manmade molecules very similar to natural proteins that play an important role in the human immune system.
Stanford News Service (03.03.2008) 		View »
Stanford University engineering students know their field is more than mathematics and theory. Factory production lines—engineering you can see and touch—give us bikes, cars, laptops, medical devices and much more. Now, a long-standing Stanford organization that combines engineering and business education has been revamped to teach students how to turn good ideas into real products and distribute them in the real world.
Stanford Engineering (02.27.2008) 		View »
The U.S. National Academy of Engineering (NAE) today announced the grand challenges for engineering in the 21st century. A diverse committee of experts from around the world, led by Stanford engineering Professor William Perry and convened at the request of the U.S. National Science Foundation, revealed 14 challenges that, if met, would improve how we live.
National Academy of Engineering (02.15.2008) 		View »
NASA’s program for human exploration must lead to Mars and beyond, and achieving that goal will require future presidents to embrace international collaboration and to fund NASA at a level that will also sustain its vital science programs, stated the organizers of a space exploration workshop today after intensive discussions Feb 12 and 13.
Stanford Engineering (02.14.2008) 		View »
In a paper published Feb. 13 by the journal Nano Letters, electrical engineers at Stanford University and Toshiba report using nanotubes to wire a silicon chip operating at speeds comparable to those of commercially available processors and memory.
Stanford Engineering (02.13.2008) 		View »
The Make3d algorithm, developed by Stanford computer scientists, can take any two-dimensional image and create a three-dimensional 'fly around' model of its content, giving viewers access to the scene's depth and a range of points of view.
Stanford Engineering (01.23.2008) 		View »
The rushing floodwaters in Evan Almighty, the heaving seas of the latter two Pirates of the Caribbean movies and the dragon's flaming breath in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire all featured computer-generated fluids in spectacular action. The science behind those splashy thrills will be recognized Feb. 9 with an Academy Award for Ron Fedkiw, associate professor of computer science at Stanford, and two collaborators at the special effects firm Industrial Light and Magic (ILM).
Stanford Engineering (01.16.2008) 		View »
Competition for federal funding is fierce, and the odds seem even slimmer for unconventional research, regardless of its potential. But two Stanford professors will receive awards from the venture capital firm Mohr Davidow Ventures to finance their work over the next year for just that kind of outside-of-the-box thinking.
Stanford News Service (01.09.2008) 		View »
Millions of people are participating in virtual worlds but very few of them have the artistic ability to create objects for those environments. A computer science professor at Stanford has developed a way to create unique and beautiful 3D trees for virtual worlds that requires no artistic ability on the part of the user.
Stanford News Service (01.04.2008) 		View »
A Stanford engineer has spelled out for the first time the direct links between increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and increases in human mortality, using a state-of-the-art computer model of the atmosphere that incorporates scores of physical and chemical environmental processes.
Stanford News Service (01.03.2008) 		View »
2007
Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras, cell phones, and countless other devices.
Stanford News Service (12.18.2007) 		View »
Like geological ninjas, earthquakes can strike without warning. But there may be a way to detect the footfalls of large earthquakes before they strike, alerting their potential victims a week or more in advance. A Stanford professor thinks a method to provide just such warnings may have been buried in the scientific literature for over 40 years.
Stanford News Service (12.12.2007) 		View »
'This is basically the first study that's a detailed look at places where we could develop offshore wind energy in California,' says CEE doctoral student Michael Dvorak. 'Some of the studies have looked at the wind speeds offshore, but they hadn't looked at the [water] depth and wind speeds at this high of resolution.'
Stanford News Service (12.10.2007) 		View »
A team of scientists led by Jelena Vuckovic, assistant professor of electrical engineering, has succeeded in directly probing a solid quantum system with light. This finding could be a milestone on the road to building a functional 'quantum computer,' a machine where information is coded in individual particles that flip between different states instead of in transistors switching on and off. The finding could lead to better quantum cryptography and faster optical data connections. Their study was published in the Dec. 6 issue of Nature.
Stanford News Service (12.07.2007) 		View »
Wind power, long considered to be as fickle as wind itself, can be groomed to become a steady, dependable source of electricity and delivered at a lower cost than at present, according to scientists at Stanford University.
American Meteorological Society (11.21.2007) 		View »
Gene H. Golub, a professor emeritus who helped found the Stanford Computer Science Department in the 1960s, died Nov. 16, at Stanford Hospital, a few days after being diagnosed with leukemia. He was 75.
Stanford News Service (11.20.2007) 		View »
Nix is being recognized for “his original contributions on the deformation and failure of materials, particularly in the areas of thin films, small volumes, and high-temperature alloys; for pioneering mechanical test methods; and for educating and mentoring future generations of materials scientists.”
Materials Research Society (11.15.2007) 		View »
Volkswagen of America announced a contribution of $5.75 million to Stanford University to create the Volkswagen Automotive Innovation Lab (VAIL), on the Stanford University campus, and a new program for supporting automotive teaching and research.
Volkswagen of America (11.15.2007) 		View »
A casual conversation between two professors on a train from Oxford to London has led to the development of a new type of sensor that may be markedly better at sniffing out explosives, cocaine or environmental toxins than sensors now on the market.
Stanford News Service (11.14.2007) 		View »
Junior, the robotic car of the Stanford Racing Team, on Sunday claimed a $1 million prize for finishing second in the DARPA Urban Challenge after successfully navigating through traffic with no human help, relying instead of its own electronic eyes and brain.
Stanford Engineering (11.05.2007) 		View »
By flickering a special light inside the brains of sleeping mice to wake them up, Stanford researchers have shown that they can induce behavior in a living mammal by directly controlling specific neural cells. In so doing, they have answered fundamental questions about the process of waking up. The research was published online by the journal Nature.
Stanford Engineering (10.17.2007) 		View »
Funded by a new type of $2 million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation, a multidisciplinary Stanford team hopes to learn how electrical, mechanical and chemical stimulation can be applied to stem cells to generate tissue for repairing damage, such as that caused by heart attacks.
Stanford Engineering (10.17.2007) 		View »
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the founding of Fairchild Semiconductor, the Stanford Silicon Valley Archives and Stanford's Bill Lane Center for the Study of the North American West will co-sponsor a panel discussion from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4 in Cubberley Auditorium.
Stanford News Service (09.24.2007) 		View »
When Stanford students come back to school this month after a hot summer, they'll be in the ideal frame of mind to consider a new engineering degree that is rare, if not unique, in the United States: the atmosphere and energy major.
Stanford Engineering (09.19.2007) 		View »
In a study scheduled for the Oct. 1, 2007 issue of ACS’ journal, Analytical Chemistry, Stanford University bioengineering professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute researcher Stephen R. Quake and his graduate student H. Christina Fan point out that most existing pre-natal tests depend on a technique termed karyotyping. It requires a two-week wait for anxious parents. But laboratory studies with a new method produced accurate results within two hours. The test is a variation of the famed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) — the basis of the genetic engineering revolution — which produces thousands of identical copies of minute samples of DNA.
American Chemical Society (09.18.2007) 		View »
Former NASA Ames Research Center Director G. Scott Hubbard has accepted a consulting professor appointment in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. At Stanford, Hubbard will focus on developing the space research capabilities of the department. That effort will include topics such as advanced technology development, future space mission concepts, education in program management and assessment of the national policy implications of both human and robotic space exploration.
Stanford Engineering (09.12.2007) 		View »
It's Labor Day weekend and you have packed the family into the car for the two-hour drive to grandma's house. Because of the heat, you crank the AC and keep the windows closed. The problem is you are a smoker and after just two cigarettes you will have exposed your spouse and kids to particulates at a level well above government safety standards. That's the bottom-line finding of measurements recently published by engineering researchers at Stanford University.
Stanford Engineering (08.28.2007) 		View »
Bracewell, professor emeritus of electrical engineering whose work in magnetic resonance imaging and radio astronomy made him an internationally renowned scholar and a pillar among the technical sciences faculty at Stanford, died at his home on campus Aug. 12
Stanford News Service (08.14.2007) 		View »
Just when you thought it was safer to stay out of the water. Microbes that result in beach closures and health advisories when detected at unsafe levels in the ocean also have been detected in the sand, according to a recent study by a team of Stanford scientists.
Stanford News Service (08.07.2007) 		View »
The findings of a working group at Stanford's Energy Modeling Forum may surprise policymakers, who often think that energy independence is the only way to secure energy supplies. In a report released Tuesday, July 24, and available on the Energy Modeling Forum's website, the group finds that increasing international interdependence on natural gas may help to stabilize supply and moderate future price increases.
Stanford News Service (07.25.2007) 		View »
The science of plasmonics describes how metals can essentially transmit and manipulate light waves at length scales much smaller than their wavelengths. Now, by redoing a classic optics experiment with plasmonics, engineers at Stanford have made key insights into the nature and the practical limits of this up-and-coming nanoscale information technology.
Stanford Engineering (07.11.2007) 		View »
William 'Bill' Rambo, a professor emeritus of electrical engineering who developed a jammer to counter German anti-aircraft radar during World War II, died peacefully at his home in Morrison, Colo., on Feb. 22 after a brief illness. He was 90.
Stanford News Service (07.09.2007) 		View »
Infants learn how to move by recognizing which movements and positions cause them physical discomfort and learning to avoid them. Computer science Professor Oussama Khatib and his research group at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are using the same principle to endow robots with the ability to perform multiple tasks simultaneously and smoothly.
Stanford News Service (07.05.2007) 		View »
Junior received evaluators from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on June 14 and completed all four tests well within the 4-hour time allotted. Check out video of the event as well as a technical tour of the car.
Stanford News Service (06.26.2007) 		View »
Carbon nanotubes make promising transistors but they tend to grow with unpredictable kinks and bends that could cause bad wiring connections. This week at the Design Automation Conference in San Diego, a group of Stanford engineers will present a way to design circuits that should work even when many of the nanotubes in them are twisted and misaligned.
Stanford Engineering (06.04.2007) 		View »
Researchers in the Graduate School of Business joined with colleagues including two students in the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering to publish a plan for combatting mosquitoes, which carry West Nile Virus among other pathogens.
Graduate School of Business (06.01.2007) 		View »
In a study to be published in the October issue of the journal FASEB (Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology), Researchers including Materials Science and Engineering Professor Reinhold Dauskardt provide new insight into the pathophysiology of scarring. It’s the first step in an ongoing, multidisciplinary attempt at Stanford to battle disfiguring scarring—dubbed “Scar Wars” by one researcher.
Stanford School of Medicine (05.30.2007) 		View »
When students move out of their dorms next month, fewer of their possessions may be headed for the trash heap, thanks to a new website that matches people with items to donate and charities needing specific goods. Charitopia, http://charitopia.org, is the brainchild of Stanford computer scientists using computational logic to bring intelligent matchmaking to the world of donations.
Stanford News Service (05.24.2007) 		View »
The Clean Slate Design for the Internet program at Stanford University today announced the appointment of esteemed networking researcher Guru Parulkar as its executive director. Parulkar, currently with the National Science Foundation, will come to Stanford full-time in August.
Stanford Engineering (05.11.2007) 		View »
While the health risks associated with indoor secondhand smoke are well documented, little research has been done on exposure to toxic tobacco fumes outdoors. Now, Stanford University researchers affiliated with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering have conducted the first in-depth study on how smoking affects air quality at sidewalk cafés, park benches and other outdoor locations.
Stanford News Service (05.02.2007) 		View »
Planning a vacation. Coordinating relief efforts after a disaster. Running a business. Getting things done takes a lot of human effort. That may change if Charles Petrie, a senior research scientist in the Stanford Logic Group of the Computer Science Department, has his way. Petrie wants to create software to enable computers to negotiate with each other over the Internet to achieve goals that now require human time and toil.
Stanford News Service (05.01.2007) 		View »
The U.S. Army has awarded a $105 million, five-year grant to a multi-institution consortium led by Stanford University to build a new home for the Army High-Performance Computing Research Center. The facility will enable advanced simulations to develop new materials for military vehicles and equipment, improve wireless battlefield communication, advance detection of biological or chemical attacks and stimulate innovations in supercomputing itself. The research may spawn civilian innovations as well.
Stanford Engineering (04.25.2007) 		View »
Logical spreadsheets—data management systems that use logic instead of math—allow easier manipulation of data, an idea that could have profound implications in fields ranging from hotel management to insurance sales. Computer science professor Michael Genesereth and student Michael Kassoff have developed one such spreadsheet.
Stanford News Service (04.25.2007) 		View »
If every vehicle in the United States ran on fuel made primarily from ethanol instead of pure gasoline, the number of respiratory-related deaths and hospitalizations would likely increase, according to a new study by Stanford University atmospheric scientist Mark Z. Jacobson. His findings are published in the April 18 online edition of the journal Environmental Science & Technology.
Stanford News Service (04.18.2007) 		View »
New Stanford-led research published in the April 5 issue of Nature describes a technique to directly control brain cell activity with light. It is a novel means for experimenting with neural circuits and could eventually lead to therapies for some disorders.
Stanford Engineering (04.04.2007) 		View »
Funded projects in the School of Engineering include research into advanced car batteries, fuel cells and environmentally benign power from coal.
GCEP (03.26.2007) 		View »
Perry L. McCarty, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford University, has been awarded the 2007 Stockholm Water Prize for pioneering work in the design and operation of water and wastewater systems. The prize, which was announced March 22 at the Swedish embassy in Washington, D.C., includes a $150,000 award and a crystal sculpture, which will be presented by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden on Aug. 16 in Stockholm.
Stanford Engineering (03.22.2007) 		View »
Today, more than 2.5 billion people don't have basic hygiene facilities, according to the United Nations. Civil and environmental engineering professor Jennifer Davis warns that a UN goal to cut that number in half by 2015 may be missed by a very wide margin.
Stanford News Service (03.14.2007) 		View »
The Internet is enough of a marvel that most people would never ask, 'Is this really how we would build it if we could design it all today?' But asking that very question is the job of a broad-based team of Stanford researchers. Taking a nothing-is-sacred approach to better meet human communications needs, this month they are launching a new program called the Clean Slate Design for the Internet.
Stanford Engineering (03.14.2007) 		View »
Contrary to tales of doom about the decline of America's computer science industry, the biggest problem facing computing today is not a lack of jobs but a shortage of qualified workers to fill those jobs, says Stanford Professor Eric Roberts, who spoke about the crisis in computer science education at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) on Feb. 19 in San Francisco.
Stanford News Service (02.19.2007) 		View »
On Feb. 19 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, movie lovers got a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the physics-based simulations that breathe life into fantasy.
Stanford News Service (02.19.2007) 		View »
Stanley made it through the still desert. The robots in the 2007 Urban Challenge, however, will have to handle traffic. It is a tougher test that calls for a new generation of technology. Enter “Junior,” the Stanford Racing Team’s new brainchild.
Stanford Engineering (02.17.2007)		 View » [pdf]
Four professors, Robert Gray, Mark Horowitz, Teresa Meng and Sebastian Thrun have been named members of the National Academy of Engineering. This is one of the highest engineering honors in the country.
Stanford News Service (02.12.2007) 		View »
A suite of new technologies can enable Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), a revolutionary method for automatically assessing the integrity of aerospace and other complex structures. As these technologies are gaining significant attention from industry, a new international aerospace group has been launched to promote industrywide cooperation on the use and development of SHM. SHM has the potential to replace manual inspections, thereby reducing cost and airplane downtime for maintenance.
Stanford Engineering (02.05.2007) 		View »
Just as technology entrepreneurship is surging with renewed vigor, the newly released 'Technology Ventures: From Idea to Enterprise,' Second Edition, published by McGraw-Hill's Higher Education division, is the only textbook on the market that walks students and entrepreneurs through the step-by-step process unique to starting a technology venture.
Stanford Engineering (01.24.2007) 		View »
Aerosolized particles created from vehicle exhaust and other contaminants can accumulate in the atmosphere and reduce the speed of winds closer to the Earth's surface, which results in less wind power available for wind-turbine electricity and also in reduced precipitation, according to a study by Stanford and NASA researchers.
Stanford News Service (01.19.2007) 		View »
'He knew how to live,' said Thomas Kane, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering. 'Art, science, music—with anything he was interested in, he didn't waste time on anything less than the best. I think this was someone who, first and foremost, knew how to get the best out of life.'
Stanford News Service (01.16.2007) 		View »
2006
If you've ever wondered why your golf swings, fastballs or free throws don't quite turn out the same way each time, even after years of practice, there is now an answer: It's mostly in your head. That's the finding of new research published in the Dec. 21 issue of the journal Neuron by electrical engineers at Stanford University.
Stanford Engineering (12.20.2006) 		View »
In a study published in the Dec. 14 issue of the journal Nature, researchers at Stanford and the University of California-Los Angeles point the way toward manufacturing truly useful flexible electronics with high-performance organic transistors.
Stanford Engineering (12.13.2006) 		View »
Stanford electrical engineering Professor Emeritus Thomas Kailath is an intellectual knight whose quests have taken him to the fore of many electrical engineering fields, with mathematics—largely self-taught—as his sword. Now, for vanquishing some of his discipline's greatest challenges, he is poised to receive the IEEE Medal of Honor.
Stanford Engineering (12.05.2006) 		View »
Sometimes it seems like the human default setting is to not trust. Nations have armies, corporations have lawyers, and doors have locks. Yet people often give too much trust to their software. Perhaps it is time for computers to have HiStar, a new Unix-like operating system that pares trust among software programs down to a bare minimum. Programs can still get legitimate jobs done, even without the presumption of trust. It's just much harder to try any funny stuff, like leaking sensitive data over networks.
Stanford Engineering (11.29.2006) 		View »
The National Building Museum announces civil and environmental engineering Professor Emeritus Paul Teicholz as the fifth recipient of the Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology. The prize honors Teicholz for carrying the architecture, construction, and engineering fields into the information age through his development and integration of information technology into the building and design industries. Teicholz will receive the award Feb. 1 at Stanford, where he will talk publicly with CEE Professor Bob Tatum about his career and his work.
National Building Museum (11.20.2006) 		View »
At the annual meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) in San Francisco Nov. 13-17, Stanford University researchers will report advances in areas such as Alzheimer's disease, fuel cells, electronics and nanotechnology.
Stanford Engineering (11.09.2006) 		View »
Stanford scientists plan to make a robot capable of performing everyday tasks, such as unloading the dishwasher. By programming the robot with 'intelligent' software that enables it to pick up objects it has never seen before, the scientists are one step closer to creating a real life Rosie, the robot maid from The Jetsons cartoon show. Video (flash) is also available. Also see this story.
Stanford News Service (11.08.2006) 		View »
With a new $6.5 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), researchers from Stanford and three other universities have begun a large-scale research effort to understand and improve field communications for soldiers and first responders. The work could affect people in other ways through improved data security, automated homes and highways, novel biomedical applications and ubiquitous access to multimedia data and entertainment.
Stanford Engineering (10.30.2006) 		View »
Professors in the chemical engineering and mechanincal engineering departments have received new research grants for advanced energy projects from Stanford's Global Climate and Energy Project
Global Climate and Energy Project (10.23.2006) 		View »
In September 2006, 71 years after the Navy blimp the USS Macon plunged into the Pacific, a team of marine researchers, including engineers from Stanford University, conducted the first comprehensive survey of the airship's final resting place on the floor of Monterey Bay more than 1,000 feet below sea level.
Stanford News Service (10.18.2006) 		View »
Stanford students have studied in Kyoto, Moscow, Oxford and Paris through the Overseas Studies Program, but in 2000 at his 35th class reunion alumnus Steve Durst asked, 'What about Stanford on the Moon?' That was the topic of a conference held Oct. 13.
Stanford News Service (10.17.2006) 		View »
Stanford University alumnus Jay A. Precourt has committed $30 million to establish the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency at the university. The gift will provide program funds, endow new energy-related faculty positions and help support Stanford's new Environment and Energy Building currently under construction. Management science and engineering professor James Sweeney is the institute's inaugural director.
Woods Institute for the Environment (10.05.2006) 		View »
For his work setting key standards for DSL, EE professor John Cioffi is the 2006 Marconi Fellow. Bestowed by the foundation named for the inventor of the radio, the fellowship is widely considered the most prestigious in telecommunications. Cioffi will receive the award at a gala Oct. 12 at the Menlo Circus Club in Atherton, Calif, after a daylong symposium at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Stanford Engineering (09.25.2006) 		View »
Aeronautics and Astronautics professor Claire Tomlin, whose research on air traffic control has also found application in studying genetics, has won a MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant.'
Stanford News Service (09.19.2006) 		View »
Bioengineering professor Kwabena Boahen has won a $2.5 million NIH Director's Pioneer Award. He is one of three Stanford professors to be so honored this year, and it is the third year in a row that a member of the bioengineering faculty has received the award.
Stanford Medical School (09.19.2006) 		View »
Scientists are taking the amazing protein-making parts out of cells and putting them into systems to mass-produce designer proteins for a wide variety of medical uses. At the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Sept. 13 in San Francisco, Stanford engineering Professor James Swartz discussed advances in such cell-free protein synthesis, including production of versatile, nanoscale viral spheres that can act as delivery trucks for a new class of potentially more effective vaccines.
Stanford Engineering (09.13.2006) 		View »
Researchers including chemical engineering professor Curt Frank have developed a new material that can be used to make artificial corneas.
Stanford News Service (09.12.2006) 		View »
The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) will hold an energy research symposium Sept. 18-20 at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center. Researchers from Stanford and around the world will discuss developments that may spur energy technologies with significantly reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Stanford News Service (08.18.2006) 		View »
Stanford and Chevron MolecularDiamond Technologies have teamed up to develop a novel class of nanomaterials derived from petroleum. Diamondoids—essentially diamond molecules—may find application in displays, sensors, hydrogen membranes for fuel cells and more.
Stanford News Service (08.02.2006) 		View »
In the July 13 edition of Nature, a group led by Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor Krishna Shenoy reports unprecedented performance of a brain-computer interface. Monkeys were able to move a computer cursor directly from their brains, four times faster than ever before.
Stanford Medical Center (07.12.2006) 		View »
Stanley the robotic car that won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge will be on display at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC this summer.
Smithsonian (06.26.2006)		 View » [pdf]
Rather than trying to 'fix' women to act more like men, professors and employers should strive to create environments that are more inclusive of women, who generally have a different—but effective—working style, said Betty Shanahan, CEO of the Society for Women in Engineering, in a talk invited by Stanford Engineering Dean James Plummer. 'Our goal is not to turn women into a group of white men in high heels,' she said.
Stanford News Service (06.12.2006) 		View »
A novel laser engineered to home in on tiny tumors may someday enhance early detection of cancers in breast, skin and other tissues, researchers report. Using a high-frequency laser to probe tissue biopsies from mice, a team of scientists at Stanford, the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland and the University of California-Davis has developed an experimental technology that ultimately may bring higher resolution and fewer risks than mammography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Stanford News Service (06.08.2006) 		View »
This month, four Stanford graduate engineering students will head to China as part of a pilot academic and industrial exchange program between Tsinghua and the Stanford School of Engineering.
Stanford Engineering (06.07.2006) 		View »
For a cut in the skin to begin healing, healthy skin cells must gather in the affected area and then multiply. When Jennifer Cochran joined the Stanford Bioengineering faculty as an assistant professor in 2005, she had engineered proteins to greatly enhance the wound-healing process. Coming to Stanford gave her the opportunity to team up with doctors at the Medical Center. Now they are working together to turn her engineered proteins into therapies for patients, such as diabetics, who suffer from chronic skin lesions. Initial results look promising
Stanford Engineering (05.23.2006) 		View »
In an era of increasing global parity, the School of Engineering must deliver innovative teaching, pursue a compelling research agenda, and take specific steps to lower the barriers for the best students to attend if it is to remain a global leader, says Dean James D. Plummer.
Stanford Engineering (05.22.2006) 		View »
CEE Professors Craig Criddle and Peter Kitandis and colleagues have developed a technique to use bacteria to reduce uranium contamination in groundwater and soil near nuclear weapons labs and mines.
Stanford News Service (05.19.2006) 		View »
Behind every top graduating senior at the Stanford School of Engineering is an influential teacher who helped inspire the student to be the best. The school honored the 22 students (the top 5 percent) at the top of the class, and the teachers those students chose to share their Frederick Emmons Terman Scholastic Achievement Awards, at a recent ceremony on campus attended by teachers from across the U.S. and overseas.
Stanford Engineering (05.18.2006) 		View »
A magnitude 6.5 earthquake could severely damage the San Francisco Bay Delta levee system and cut off vital water supplies for millions of Californians, according to findings presented by a panel of experts at a May 10 press conference in the Blume Earthquake Engineering Center. For more contact Mark Shwartz at (650) 723-9296.
Stanford News Service (05.17.2006) 		View »
A team of 11 researchers, including 10 at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and one at Stanford University, has gained a fundamental new insight into the physical strength of crystalline materials, which perhaps surprisingly include the industrial mainstays of aluminum, iron, gold and silicon. Findings of the study, which was led by Lawrence Livermore researcher Vasily V. Bulatov, appear in the April 27 issue of the journal Nature.
Stanford Engineering (04.26.2006) 		View »
Detecting cancer and reinventing computing are two challenges that seemingly have little, if anything, to do with each other. That is, unless you are a nanotechnologist like Shan Wang, an associate professor of materials science and engineering and of electrical engineering at Stanford. To him, the problems are two sides of the same coin, or more aptly, opposite poles of the same magnet.
School of Engineering (04.19.2006) 		View »
Two engineering professors, Zhenan Bao (ChemE) and Tim Roughgarden (CS), are among five Stanford faculty members who have won prestigious research fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Stanford News Service (04.17.2006) 		View »
The Stanford Center for Professional Development's Stanford Advanced Project Management program has won the 2005 Distinguished Non-Credit Program Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education.
Stanford News Service (04.07.2006) 		View »
This much is sure: Information is sometimes uncertain and sources are sometimes flawed. A new prototype database system created at Stanford is the first to have both data uncertainty and lineage (sourcing) built in, a development that could enable diverse applications such as tracking wildlife, improving Internet comparison shopping and even fighting crime.
School of Engineering (03.22.2006) 		View »
Microchips that function as the brain does or see like our eyes do were once consigned to an unrealized world of flying cars and robot housekeepers. Thanks, in part, to a Stanford researcher, such 'neuromorphic' processors are becoming more of a reality.
Stanford News Service (03.22.2006) 		View »
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, the University of California-Santa Barbara, the University of California-Berkeley and Stanford are teaming up to launch what will be one of the world's largest joint research programs focusing on the pioneering technology called 'spintronics.'
Stanford News Service (03.09.2006) 		View »
Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) Director Franklin M. Orr Jr. announced several new research programs and two one-year exploratory research efforts totaling close to $8 million at Stanford and outside the university. The new research activities will focus on solar energy, biohydrogen generation and advanced combustion.
GCEP (03.07.2006) 		View »
Good computer interfaces and devices are the ones that acknowledge the inherently physical and social nature of human beings, says CS Assistant Professor Scott Klemmer. Designers should prototype and revise often to ensure they are accounting for human factors, he told an audience at the AAAS conference in St. Louis Feb. 18.
Stanford Engineering (02.21.2006) 		View »
G. Scott Hubbard conceived the Mars Pathfinder mission and holds the Carl Sagan Chair for the Study of Life in the Universe at the SETI Institute. At Stanford Hubbard hopes to analyze the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology at the frontiers of research.
Stanford News Service (02.15.2006) 		View »
Electrical engineering Professor Arogyaswami J. Paulraj and bioengineering consulting professor John Linehan are the latest Stanford Engineering professors to receive this honor, one of the highest in the field. Paulraj's research focuses on smart antennas for enhanced wireless communication.
Stanford News Service (02.13.2006) 		View »
Tata Consultancy Services has announced a research relationship with Stanford computer security and data privacy researchers.
TCS (02.13.2006) 		View »
Astronaut Ellen Ochoa will speak about her career at NASA at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, in Cubberley Auditorium. Her talk, which is free and open to the public, is part of the Call to Serve campaign, a national outreach initiative to encourage students to consider government careers and inspire a new generation to public service.
Stanford News Service (02.07.2006) 		View »
Stanford engineers have solved the mystery of why nanotubes can be seen with an electron microscope and the explanation not only could help researchers understand what they see in nanotube images but also suggests new nanotube applications such as ultra-sensitive detection of electrons and ultra-precise electron beams for microelectronics manufacturing.
Stanford Engineering (02.07.2006) 		View »
The State of the Union Address Jan. 31 emphasized technology as a way of breaking the U.S. oil addiction. Stanford Engineering has active research programs in fuel efficiency, solar energy, fuel cells, wind energy and biomass (coal) burning. Call David Orenstein at (650) 736-2245 for source recommendations.
Stanford Engineering (01.31.2006)		 View » [pdf]
A study published in the January 2006 issue of Limnology and Oceanography, establishes groundwater as an important source of nutrients to coral reefs around the world. Groundwater also may increasingly contribute to reef pollution, report Stanford authors including two Civil and Environmental Engineering students.
Stanford News Service (01.23.2006) 		View »
Stanford now has a foundry for making microfluidic chips, feats of miniscule plumbing where more than a hundred cell cultures or other experiments can take place in a rubbery silicone integrated circuit the size of a quarter. The foundry can serve any academic researcher, at Stanford or elsewhere.
Stanford Engineering (01.18.2006) 		View »
Electrical engineering Associate Professor Howard Zebker uses a satellite technology known as Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) to study earthquake- and volcano-ridden regions across the globe such as the western United States, the volcanically active islands of Hawaii and the Galapagos archipelago. Zebker and his research team has focused its efforts on expanding the applications of InSAR and honing its capability to generate more robust measurements of Earth movements. He presented at the AGU conference Dec. 8.
Stanford News Service (01.11.2006) 		View »
2005
Robots can tell how far away objects are from just one still image using new software developed by CS Assistant Professor Andrew Ng. The innovation, while not perfect, makes it much cheaper and easier to enable robots to navigate and avoid collisions.
Stanford Engineering (12.05.2005) 		View »
Paulson was a professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering department. He was a construction expert who worked to ensure housing for the poor.
Stanford News Service (12.05.2005) 		View »
A system designed by CS Assistant Professor Scott Klemmer lets field biologists keep taking notes by hand, but it automatically digitizes those notes and synchronizes them with GPS information, digital photos and other data.
Stanford News Service (12.05.2005) 		View »
EE and applied physics Professor Yoshihisa Yamamoto's research in quatum computing and ocmmunications has earned him the Medal with Purple Ribbon from Emperor Akihito of Japan.
Stanford Engineering (11.21.2005) 		View »
Arrow, a professor emeritus of economics and of operations research, is recognized for his research into risk and making decisions with imperfect information.
Stanford News Service (11.15.2005) 		View »
EE Assistant Professor Jelena Vuckovic has developed a new kind of laser for data communications and other applications that is more efficient and is theoretically faster than other technologies.
Stanford Engineering (11.07.2005) 		View »
Researchers in the CS department have developed a camera system that can focus on all depths of field within a photo simultaneously. In other words, everything is in focus, whether it is near or far.
Stanford News Service (10.31.2005) 		View »
Electrical engineers have developed a tiny silicon and germanium modulator-- a shutter --that can encode a laser beam with data at speeds up to a billion times a second. The breakthrough could help usher in an era of faster computing and communications.
Stanford Engineering (10.26.2005) 		View »
Mechanical Engineering Professor Fritz Prinz and his research group have succeeded in drastically cutting the operating temperature of a solid oxide fuel cell, without cutting any of the power it can deliver. The advance is crucial for the fuel cells to be used in cars someday.
Stanford Engineering (10.19.2005) 		View »
Stanford nanotechnology researchers and technology industry leaders will dedicate the latest nanotechnology research facility on campus—the newly renovated Stanford Nanocharacterization Laboratory, where researchers will be able to study materials at the scale of tenths of billionths of a meter.
Stanford Engineering (10.04.2005) 		View »
The design institute, headed by mechanical engineering Professor David Kelley, will bring students and faculty from many disciplines together to solve complex problems by designing elegant, user-focused products, environments and services.
Stanford Engineering (10.03.2005) 		View »
The National Institutes of Health have given bioengineering and psychiatry assistant professor Karl Deisseroth a 2005 Pioneer Award for his research into neural circuitry. Two medical school professors were also received the honor.
NIH (09.29.2005) 		View »
The founding fathers of the semiconductor industry will discuss the birth of Silicon Valley at a Stanford panel on Sept. 27, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Shockley Semiconductor Lab.
Stanford News Service (09.20.2005) 		View »
Stanford University has launched a new research center, dedicated to advancing the Global Positioning System to provide position information with centimeter accuracy, anytime, anywhere. Introducing the Stanford Center for Position Navigation and Time.
Stanford Engineering (09.19.2005) 		View »
One of the great challenges in the field of nanotechnology is optical imaging—specifically, how to design a microscope that can resolve DNA molecules that are only three nanometers wide, when the contours of its surface are obscured by light waves, which are hundreds of nanometers long. Now, researchers from Stanford University have greatly improved the optical mismatch between nanoscale objects and light by creating the ''bowtie nanoantenna,'' a device 400 times smaller than the width of a human hair that can compress ordinary light waves into an intense optical spot only 20 nanometers wide.
Stanford News Service (08.25.2005) 		View »
Stanford University and five other institutions have been awarded a five-year, $7.5 million federal grant to establish a national research center dedicated to designing more trustworthy voting systems in the United States.
Stanford News Service (08.15.2005) 		View »
The Global Climate and Energy Project has awarded grants to five research groups including three teams of engineering professors. Two engineering projects seek to develop new solar cell technologies. The other involves developing fuels for cleaner combustion.
GCEP (08.11.2005) 		View »
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf is the keynote speaker at the Summer Forum July 28. Cerf will join faculty and industry experts in discussing the future of the Internet including panels on wireless networks, security and the role of traditional media
School of Engineering (07.13.2005) 		View »
Computer science faculty members John Mitchell and Dan Boneh and their students have developed powerful browser extensions to help prevent users from falling victim to a fast-growing online con.
School of Engineering (07.13.2005) 		View »
Converting the U.S. vehicle fleet from gasoline to hydrogen fuel cell power and using wind power to produce the hydrogen fuel could prevent millions of cases of respiratory illness and tens of thousands of hospitalizations, says civil and environmental engineering professor Mark Jacobson.
Stanford Report (06.24.2005) 		View »
Graduate engineering students working with Thomas Andriacchi, professor of mechanical engineering and orthopedic surgery, recently developed a 'smart' ankle brace for the elderly to correct imbalances and prevent falling.
Stanford News Service (06.20.2005) 		View »
See the full press kit for Stanley, an autonomous robotic Volkswagen Touareg designed to win a 170-mile race through the desert this October.
Stanford Racing Team (05.18.2005) 		View »
More precise and effective treatments and research techniques for depression, autism and schizophrenia are under development in the lab of bioengineering Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth, also an assistant professor of psychiatry.
School of Engineering (05.04.2005) 		View »