2008
Students in the d.School are working, both in their designs and through fund-raising activities, to help victims of the cyclone in Myanmar Stanford Daily (5.20.2008)	View »
In the May 9 issue of Science, engineers and physicists from Stanford and the University of California-Santa Barbara demonstrated a potential progenitor of an essential component of quantum computers, a logic gate that enables interaction between just two particles of light. Stanford Report (5.14.2008)	View »
CEE Professor Anne Kiremidjian explained on NPR's 'Day to Day' that many buildings in the earthquake-affected area of china lacked steel reinforcement despite China's adoption of stricter earthquake codes since the last comparable disaster. NPR (5.14.2008)	View »
Electrical Engineering Professor David A.B. Miller has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Stanford Report (5.07.2008)	View »
Stanford is teaming up with six leading computing companies in a new lab that will attempt to ease developing software for parallel processing. New York Times (4.30.2008)	View »
Dean Jim Plummer and EE & CS Professor Mark Horowitz have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Stanford Report (4.30.2008)	View »
Computer science Professor Daphne Koller is the first ever recipient of the $150,000 ACM-Infosys award for her groundbreaking contributions to artificial intelligence. Wall Street Journal (4.28.2008)	View »
Bioengineering postdoc Thomas Snyder is once again the world champ of sudoku, the popular puzzle game. Stanford Medical School (4.22.2008)	View »
Now playing on YouTube; Dr. Von Sirlevson's Automated Locomotive Computation Engine YouTube (4.20.2008)	View »
Junior the robotic car wowed crowds at the Long Beach Grand Prix as it drove itself around a course. Long Beach Press Telegram (4.20.2008)	View »
With an engineer's eyes, EE Professor Emeritus Martin Hellman has taken a look at the risk that nuclear deterrence could fail. IEEE Spectrum (4.01.2008)	View »
ME Professor Emeritus A. Louis London, an expert on heat exchangers who had taught at Stanford for half a century beginning in 1938, died March 18 at Marin General Hospital following a stroke, his family said. SF Chronicle (3.28.2008)	View »
Stanford electrical engineers have created a camera with thousands of lenses that can capture scenes in fine 3D detail by measuring the distance from the camera to many points in the scene. Stanford Report (3.19.2008)	View »
A genomics analysis system created by computer science researchers can determine the ancestry of individuals with high accuracy and considerable precision going back as far as 20 generations. Stanford Report (3.19.2008)	View »
Two CEE professors, Jennifer Davis and Alexandria Boehm, have won a grant to study water and sanitation in Africa. Stanford Report (3.10.2008)	View »
A new $17 million, five-year Department of Energy grant will fund research on simulating hypersonic flight, which refers to speeds five times faster than the speed of sound and up. Palo Alto Weekly (3.07.2008)	View »
Wall St. Journal columnist Lee Gomes reflects on helping judge the entries in the 2008 Stanford Innovation Challenge, a contest among young entrepreneurs to create as much value as possible from a pile of rubber bands. Wall St. Journal (3.05.2008)	View »
The life and scholarship of late computer science Professor Gene Golub inspired former students and colleagues in cities around the world to hold symposia in his memory Feb. 29. Science Blog (2.29.2008)	View »
The San Francisco Chronicle stopped by the 'Startup 101' job fair during Entrepreneurship Week and found a bustling scene of economic optimism San Francisco Chronicle (2.29.2008)	View »
Stanford electrical engineers have for the first time demonstrated that carbon nanotubes can act as the wiring on computer chips and deliver commercially relevant speed. Semiconductor International (2.16.2008)	View »
A group of space exploration experts concluded after a two-day meeting that NASA needs more funding and enhanced international collaboration if the U.S. is to realize the vision of once again sending human explorers beyond low-earth orbit. Reuters (2.15.2008)	View »
MS&E Professor William Perry led a group of prominent engineers who have compiled a list of 14 Grand Engineering Challenges for the 21st Century. Wired Science (2.15.2008)	View »
Stanford University Professor Emeritus James M. Gere, 82, who taught engineering for 34 years and co-founded the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, died Jan. 30 in Portola Valley from a rare form of cancer. Stanford Report (2.13.2008)	View »
David Luenberger, a professor of Management Science and Engineering and an expert on finance, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Engineering. NAE (2.08.2008)	View »
The new 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 Report (1.23.2008)	View »
Alan T. Waterman Jr. was a runner, a mountain climber and a professor of electrical engineering whose work on radio waves pushed him into the contentious Vietnam-era turmoil over military research on the Stanford campus. Stanford Report (1.23.2008)	View »
CS Associate Professor Ron Fedkiw shared an Academy Award with two collaborators Feb. 9. Fedkiw and the two employees of Industrial Light and Magic (one man is a former student) created a fluid simulation model to generate oceans and fire for movies such as those in the Harry Potter, Star Wars and Pirates of the Caribbean series. IEEE Spectrum (1.16.2008)	View »
ChemE Professor Chaitan Khosla and colleagues report the first-ever determination of the 'open' structure of an enzyme with a key role in Celiac Sprue disease, a condition that makes ingestion of gluten harmful, generating new hope in the fight against the disease. Chemical & Engineering News (1.09.2008)	View »
Climate-warming carbon dioxide spewed by coal-fired power plants and fossil-fueled vehicles has been causing hundreds of premature U.S. deaths each year over the several decades, according to a study by CEE Professor Mark Jacobson. Reuters (1.04.2008)	View »
2007
Drew Endy is an inventive scientific heir of the original genetic engineers at Stanford and UCSF who started to revolutionize biology and medicine around the time he was born in 1970. Now he's coming to join the Bioengineering faculty at Stanford. SF Chronicle (12.26.2007)	View »
C. Allin Cornell, 69, a professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering who played a pioneering role in earthquake shaking predictions and modern seismic building codes, died Dec. 14 at Stanford Hospital after a lengthy battle with cancer. Stanford Report (12.20.2007)	View »
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 Report (12.18.2007)	View »
A new design for silicon-based chips makes it possible to mechanically stretch them out to cover large areas. These expanded chips, which could be thousands of times the size of the original, could be used to make cheaper solar panels, sensor networks, and flat-screen TVs. Technology Review (12.14.2007)	View »
Ginzton Lab researchers at Stanford have constructed a special kind of quantum matter that could be a steppingstone to simulate the previously unpredictable behavior of multiple-particle systems Stanford Report (12.05.2007)	View »
CEE researchers have found that linking wind farms together can greatly increase their reliability and commercial viability Stanford Report (12.05.2007)	View »
The Materials Research Society gave its highest honor, the Von Hippel Award, to materials science and engineering Professor Emeritus William Nix on Nov. 28. MRS (11.28.2007)	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 (11.21.2007)	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 »
ME Associate Professor Juan Santiago is working to develop a new type of chemical sensor that may be markedly better at sniffing out explosives, narcotics or environmental toxins than sensors now on the market. Stanford Report (11.14.2007)	View »
Junior the robot car and the Stanford Racing Team returned from their second-place finish at the DARPA Urban Challenge to a celebration on campus KPIX (11.05.2007)	View »
Cardinal linebacker and MS&E major Clinton Snyder has played admirably through injury this year San Jose Mercury News (11.02.2007)	View »
Read an interview with CS and EE Professor Sebastian Thrun, leader of the Stanford Racing Team. The team is competing in the DARPA Urban Challenge. San Jose Mercury News (10.21.2007)	View »
BioE Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth and collaborators have discovered some of the biochemistry of waking up. The research used a unique technique that Deisseroth and his research group invented. Stanford Report (10.19.2007)	View »
When Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shared in the Nobel Peace Prize, several Stanford faculty who have contributed to the IPCC, including MS&E Professor (Research) John Weyant took part in the celebration. Stanford Daily (10.17.2007)	View »
Funded by a new type of $2 million, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the multidisciplinary 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 Report (10.17.2007)	View »
MS&E Professor Bob Sutton has won a Quill Award for his latest book about how to deal with jerks at work Stanford Daily (10.11.2007)	View »
AA Consulting Professor G. Scott Hubbard recalls the impact of the Sputnik launch 50 years ago SF Chronicle (10.07.2007)	View »
In the lab Bioengineering Professor Stephen Quake and student H. Christina Fan have reduced the time required to complete a prenatal birth defects test from two weeks to two hours. American Chemical Society (9.18.2007)	View »
Former NASA Ames research center director G. Scott Hubbard will boost space research in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Department in his new role as a consulting professor. Stanford News Service (9.12.2007)	View »
Stanford researchers are shedding some new light on the impact of cigarette smoking in cars. A new study found that even with the windows down, smoke particulate levels were still quite higher than what is considered healthy. KCBS (9.09.2007)	View »
CS graduate student Manu Kumar's EyePoint interface uses a four-step process that incorporates a user's hands and eyes to increase accuracy and eliminate the false positives that come from using eye movements alone. The technique brings a more natural way of interaction to a broader band of users. Computerworld (8.20.2007)	View »
Karl Deisseroth, professor of bioengineering and of psychiatry, uses light pulses to activate or inactivate genetically modified brain cells thousands of times a second. New York Times (8.15.2007)	View »
Ronald N. 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 Sunday. He was 86. Stanford News Service (8.14.2007)	View »
CEE Assistant Professor Alexandria Boehm and her team has detected the presence of bacteria from human waste in the sands of Lover's Point beach in Monterey, CA Bay City Newswire (8.14.2007)	View »
A dozen Bay Area students, each the first in their families to go to college or be college-bound, celebrated completing 8-week paid internships in the labs of Stanford scientists and engineers. San Jose Mercury News (8.13.2007)	View »
BioE Professor Stephen Quake's microfluidic silicone chips advance life sciences and medical resarch by automating biology experiments in tiny reaction volumes. KGO-TV (8.12.2007)	View »
Hundreds of alumni and their children learned all about bioengineering at Stanford Engineering's Camp EDAY 'Engineering From Head to Toe' July 21 Stanford News Service (8.08.2007)	View »
India-born EE Professor Krishna C Saraswat has become the first recipient of the Techno Visionary award of the Indian Semiconductor Association for lifetime achievement in the field of electronics. Hindustan Times (8.01.2007)	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 Report (7.25.2007)	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 Report (7.12.2007)	View »
Umran Inan, a professor of electrical engineering, was awarded the 2007 Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research during the Electrical Engineering Department's diploma ceremony last month. Stanford Report (7.11.2007)	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 (7.11.2007)	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 (7.09.2007)	View »
A group of engineering and medical researchers, led by BioE Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth, has made a key finding regarding the physiology of depression in rats. Stanford School of Medicine (7.05.2007)	View »
Alumni in the news: Fomer water polo player and current astronaut Steve Smith (BS 1981 EE, MS 1982 EE) has been voted into the Academic All-America Hall Of Fame. CSTV (6.25.2007)	View »
The Board of Trustees last week approved the site and concept for a new $12.7 million Mechanical Engineering building on the east side of Lomita Mall. The three-story building will bring two groups in the Department of Mechanical Engineering—Mechanics and Computation, and Biomechanical Engineering—under one roof. Stanford News Service (6.20.2007)	View »
Junior the robot car performed well during its site visit with evaluators from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which is holding a race of robot cars Nov. 3 KTVU (6.14.2007)	View »
Medical school surgical students can work with advanced simulations in a new center thanks to a gift by EE Professor Emeritus Joe Goodman and his wife, Hon Mai. San Jose Mercury News (6.02.2007)	View »
Charitopia, is the brainchild of Stanford scientists using computational logic to bring intelligent matchmaking to the world of donations. Stanford News Service (5.24.2007)	View »
With funding from the Global Climate and Energy Project, Stanford engineers such as ME Professor Fritz Prinz and CEE Professor Alfred Spormann are doing far-sighted research in alternative energy. SF Chronicle (5.21.2007)	View »
Using technology developed for Stanley the robot car, Google hopes to map the world's cities in all three spatial dimensions. CS and EE Associate Professor Sebastian Thrun will help lead this effort at Google. San Jose Mercury News (5.19.2007)	View »
Bosch has established an endowment chair at Stanford University, known as the Robert Bosch Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The Bosch endowment to Stanford will fund new research programs, innovative teaching ventures as well as encourage academic entrepreneurship throughout the mechanical engineering department. Bosch (5.16.2007)	View »
CS research scientist Charles Petrie wants to create 'wizard' 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 (5.02.2007)	View »
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 (5.02.2007)	View »
CS Professor and Chair Bill Dally, CS and EE Professor Pat Hanrahan and Chemical engineering Professor and Chair Chaitan Khosla have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. San Francisco Chronicle (5.01.2007)	View »
Alumni in the news: GPS capabilities may be coming indoors thanks to Rosum, a startup founded by alumus and consulting professor James Spilker and advised by alumnus and AA Professor Emeritus Bradford Parkinson. Businessweek (4.26.2007)	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 News Service (4.25.2007)	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. CS Professor Michael Genesereth and student Michael Kassoff have developed one such spreadsheet. Stanford News Service (4.25.2007)	View »
A study published April. 18 by CEE Associate Professor Mark Jacobson suggests that widening the use of ethanol could pose a greater health risk becaue of the production of ozone. SF Chronicle (4.18.2007)	View »
MS&E Professor Bob Sutton, author of a best-selling book on bad bosses, talks about the topic on NPR's All Things Considered program NPR (4.11.2007)	View »
BioE researchers led by Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth have developed a way to use light to control brain cell activity. The research, published April 5 in Nature, will lead to more precise brain research and possibly to new therapies. Newsday (4.05.2007)	View »
Stanford Engineering ranks second in the annual U.S. News survey of the nation's best graduate schools. The gap with MIT is down to only one point. U.S. News & World Report (4.04.2007)	View »
For his remarkable acheivements in developing biological means for treating wastewater, CEE Professor Emeritus Perry McCarty will be awarded the prestigious Stockholm Water Prize Associated Press (3.22.2007)	View »
Back before the Internet even existed, CS senior research scientist emeritus Les Earnest created what would become the first proto-blogging tool. News.com (3.20.2007)	View »
A global effort to ensure that the world's poorest people have access to adequate sanitation is in danger of falling short, says CEE Assistant Professor Jennifer Davis. Stanford News Service (3.13.2007)	View »
Entrepreneurship Week, which drew over one thousand students, industry professionals, and professors, included an entrepreneur mixer, a technology showcase, and even a venture capitalist speed dating session. It culminated with the judging of a competition called the Innovation Challenge. What could students do with a stack of Post-it Notes? Stanford Daily (3.07.2007)	View »
Teachers can use a host of technologies to enhance their courses and students' learning experiences, Byers said. These include videos, podcasts, course-specific websites with available resources and links, wikis, animations, simulations and course discussion boards. But simply having technology at hand is not enough, Byers said. Instructors must stimulate their students to want to use it. Stanford Report (3.07.2007)	View »
No mouse, no problem. Manu Kumar, a doctoral student who works with computer-science professor Terry Winograd, has developed a novel user interface that is easy to operate. It is based on tracking the user's eye movements. Technology Review (3.02.2007)	View »
The Stanford Racing Team's entry in the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge, a race of autonomous robot cars through simulated city streets, is Junior. Junior's debut came at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Feb. 17 in San Francisco. Reuters (2.20.2007)	View »
Alumni in the news: Jerry Yang (BS, MS 1990 EE) and Akiko Yamazaki (BS 1990 IE) are donating $75 million to fund environmental and other programs at Stanford. Stanford News Service (2.15.2007)	View »
MS&E Professor Bob Sutton, an organizational psychologist, talks about the pros and cons of dating in the workplace on a Valentine's Day edition of NPR's Morning Edition. NPR (2.14.2007)	View »
Professors Robert Gray (EE), Mark Horowitz (EE & CS), Teresa Meng (EE) and Sebastian Thrun (CS and EE) have been elected as members of the National Academy of Engineering. National Academy of Engineering (2.12.2007)	View »
Siegfried S. Hecker, a prominent U.S. expert on nuclear technology and policy, has been appointed co-director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He also is a research professor in the Department of Management Science and Engineering. Stanford News Service (2.07.2007)	View »
Midomi.com, the new Web site founded by Keyvan Mohajer (PhD 2007 EE), lets you search for songs by singing them. ZD Net (1.26.2007)	View »
The Stanford community mourns the death of EE graduate student Mengyao 'May' Zhou. She was found dead in her car Jan. 25. Greg Boardman, vice provost for student affairs, is encouraging members of the community, particularly students, to take advantage of the broad network of professional and peer resources available to them. Stanford News Service (1.26.2007)	View »
The National Academy of Sciences will present Shanhui Fan, assistant professor of electrical engineering, with the annual Award for Initiatives in Research — and with it, a $15,000 prize. Stanford Daily (1.19.2007)	View »
CEE Associate Professor Mark Jacobson has found that 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, Stanford News Service (1.19.2007)	View »
Associate Professors Nick McKeown (CS and EE) and Oyekunle Olukotun (EE) have been named fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery ACM (1.08.2007)	View »
Aware that people base their sense of privacy on certain social norms, CS Professor John Mitchell is working to implement an appropriately nuanced approach to data privacy in computer systems. The Economist (1.04.2007)	View »
2006
Research in the neuroscience group of EE Assistant Professor Krishna Shenoy probes why we can't quite repeat a motion perfectly, even after years of practice: our brains appear to plan movements anew each time we make them. BBC News (12.21.2006)	View »
EE Professor Greg Kovacs and colleagues have sent e-coli bacteria into space to test the effect of radiation exposure on DNA. Bay Cities News (12.19.2006)	View »
A group led by ChemE Associate Professor Zhenan Bao has developed a method of making flexible electronics with higher-performance transistors than current methods use. CBC (12.14.2006)	View »
EE Professor Kunle Olukotun interviews Stanford President John Hennessy and Cal Professor David Patterson about the state and future of computing. ACM Queue (12.12.2006)	View »
MSE and EE Associate Professor Shan Wang has created a chip using magnetic nanotechnology that can detect DNA strands. Technology Review (12.12.2006)	View »
CS and EE Associate Professor Dawson Engler has received the ACM SIGOPS Mark Weiser award for his research on techniques for automatically identifying errors in software systems. Coverity (12.11.2006)	View »
MS&E Professor William Perry is a member of the Iraq Study Group, which today released its much-anticipated report on Iraq policy to the president. U.S. Institute for Peace (12.06.2006)	View »
EE Professor Emeritus Tom Kailath will receive the IEEE Medal of Honor, the highest award of the technology professional association IEEE (12.05.2006)	View » [pdf]
Professors and students from several Stanford Engineering departments and from elsewhere around the university presented research advances at the annual conference of the American Institute of Chemical Engineering in San Francisco. The advances they reported concerned Alzheimer's disease, fuel cells, and digital displays. Stanford Engineering (11.30.2006)	View »
Students from all over the world can earn a Masters degree online through the Honors Cooperative Program, a service offered by the school's Stanford Center for Professional Development San Jose Mercury News (11.21.2006)	View »
Alumni in the news: Ginger Turner, who earned an MS in Management Science and Engineering in 2005, has been named a Rhodes Scholar. Houston Chronicle (11.20.2006)	View »
The National Building Museum announces CEE Professor Emeritus Paul Teicholz as the fifth recipient of the Henry C. Turner Prize for Innovation in Construction Technology. The museum is honoring Teicholz for his development and integration of information technology into the building and design industries. National Building Museum (11.20.2006)	View » [pdf]
Time magazine has named Stickybot, a robot with gecko-inspired feet that can climb straight up plate glass, to its list of the best inventions of 2006. Time Magazine (11.06.2006)	View »
Nokia has opened a new Silicon Valley research center and engaged with Stanford Engineering in a broad research partnership. PC Magazine (11.03.2006)	View »
AA Professor Antony Jameson, a renowned expert on computational fluid dynamics, will receive the prestigious Elmer A. Sperry Award in Reno in January. AIAA (10.31.2006)	View »
Charles Simonyi (PhD 1977 CS), a software executive credited with leading the development of Microsoft Word, will launch into space next March on a 10-day vacation. Seattle Post-Intelligencer (10.27.2006)	View »
Stanford's Global Climate and Energy project has awarded $1 million in grants to advanced energy projects, including ones by ChemE and ME professors. GCEP (10.23.2006)	View »
In September 2006, 71 years after the Navy Blimp the Macon plunged into the Pacific, a team of marine researchers, including Stanford engineers, 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 »
Despite earning a large sum from the sale of YouTube to Google, CS graduate student Jawed Karim is focused on his schoolwork. New York Times (10.12.2006)	View »
MS&E Professor Jim Sweeney will direct a new institute for energy efficiency research endowed with a $30 million gift from alumnus Jay Precourt. Stanford News Service (10.06.2006)	View »
Bioengineering Associate Professor Kwabena Boahen is the third member of the department in the last three years to win a prestigious NIH Director''s Pioneer Award. Stanford Medical Center (9.27.2006)	View »
EE Professor John Cioffi, the leading pioneer of DSL broadband technology, has won the Marconi Prize, one of the top honors in telecommunications. Stanford Engineering (9.27.2006)	View »
ChemE and BioE Professor Jim Swartz is a master of making proteins for all kinds of applications. He recently won an important award for his fundamental work in that area. One application he and his students have recently been working on could result in a new and better way of delivering vaccines. Stanford Engineering (9.27.2006)	View »
AA Associate Professor Claire Tomlin, whose work applies not only to airplanes but also living cells, has won a 2006 MacArthur 'Genius Grant.' MacArthur Foundation (9.19.2006)	View »
Stanford's research direction is one in which 'odd couples' from seemingly unrelated disciplines collaborate to solve important problems such as those in human health and the environment. Quite often, these collaborations involve engineers. SF Chronicle (9.18.2006)	View »
Alumni in the news: Minoru 'Sam' Araki, former president of Lockheed Missiles and Space, helps lead a recollection of how Stanford and the defence contractor helped seed the growth of Silicon Valley. SF Chronicle (9.15.2006)	View »
ChemE Professor Curt Frank and students are working with medical and bioengineering researchers to develop an artificial cornea. Stanford News Service (9.13.2006)	View »
Ed Boyden, a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of BioE professor Karl Deisseroth, has been named to Technology Review magazine's list of the top 35 innovators under 35. Technology Review (9.08.2006)	View »
EE Professor Robert Dutton will receive the 2006 Phil Kaufman Award from the EDA Consortium for his contribution to computer simulations of integrated circuits. EE Times (9.06.2006)	View »
Hispanic Business magazine has included Stanford Engineering among its top 10 graduate schools for hispanics. Hispanic Business (9.05.2006)	View »
Three ME students have developed a device that can turn book pages for an avid reader who is suffering from ALS. San Mateo Daily Journal (9.05.2006)	View »
CS Professor John Mitchell, CS and EE Associate Professor Dan Boneh and their students have won a Horizon Award from Computerworld for developing a browser plug-in that protects people from prevalent e-mail 'phishing' scams. Computerworld (8.21.2006)	View »
U.S. News ranks Stanford Engineering number two (tied with Cal and a hair behind MIT) in listing of engineering programs for undergraduates. U.S. News (8.18.2006)	View »
Forbes featues two robotics projects at Stanford: Stickybot, a collaboration between ME Professor Mark Cutkosky and Cal biologist Bob Full; and Stanley, the autonomous robot car of CS and EE Associate Professor Sebastian Thrun Forbes (8.18.2006)	View »
Gene Alexander, a former research engineer in the biomotion lab of ME Professor Tom Andriacchi, has founded a company based on the lab's markerless motion capture technology OC Register (8.14.2006)	View »
Looking for a great example of female leadership in business and technology? Forbes magazine profiles Judy Estrin (MS EE 1977) who has started many companies, and serves on the board of many others. Forbes (8.14.2006)	View »
A team of Stanford researchers including MSE Assistant Professor Nick Melosh, are working with Chevron to develop 'diamondoids,' a promising nanoscale material. Stanford News Service (8.09.2006)	View »
BioE Assistant Professor Karl Deisseroth received a Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering from President George W. Bush at the White house July 26. MSE Acting Assistant Professor Wendelin Wright also received the honor. The White House (7.26.2006)	View » [pdf]
Gerald G. Fuller, a professor of chemical engineering, has been awarded the 2006 Allan V. Cox Medal for Faculty Excellence Fostering Undergraduate Research. Stanford News Service (7.26.2006)	View »
At the AlwaysOn Stanford Summit University President John Hennessy, also a CS and EE professor, reflected on topics ranging from the early days of Yahoo! to the university's relationship with government and industry. ZD Net (7.25.2006)	View »
Alumni in the news: Former Stanford basketball player Debi Gore-Mann (BS 1983 IE) has been named the athletic director at the University of San Francisco. She is the school's first female athletic director SF Chronicle (7.22.2006)	View »
CEE Assistant Professor Alexandria Boehm has co-authored a study with a UCLA colleague estimating that pollution sickens 1.5 million California beachgoers resulting in millions of dollars in costs annually. Associated Press (7.19.2006)	View »
The Times of London reports on CS Assistant Professor Andrew Ng's efforts to build a robot capable of helping around the house. One key chore: building an IKEA bookcase. The New York Times recently cited the project as evidence of a renaissance in the field of Artificial Intelligence. New York Times, London Times (7.18.2006)	View »
In research with hopeful implications for the severely paralyzed, electrical engineering Assistant Professor Krishna Shenoy and his research group have enabled a monkey to control a comptuer with four times the performance anyone has achieved before. KGO (7.12.2006)	View »
Stanford researchers, and colleagues at four other universities, have joined in a new research effort to advance the development of semiconductors based on ''non-classical'' elements. EE Times (7.11.2006)	View »
In a story inspired by the movie The Devil Wears Prada MS&E Professor Bob Sutton offers some insights on the phenomenon of bad bosses. Associated Press (7.06.2006)	View »
Stanley the robot car will spend his summer vacation at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. CNET News.com (6.27.2006)	View »
Nanosolar, a company headed by CS alumnus Martin Roscheisen, plans to build the world's largest solar cell plant in the Bay Area. San Jose Mercury News (6.21.2006)	View »
EE Professor Emeritus Thomas Kailath is the 2006 winner of the IEEE's Jack S. Kilby signal processing medal. Indiawest (6.20.2006)	View »
Betty Shanahan, the CEO of the Society of Women in Engineering, offered her advice to help the school break down barriers that have traditionally excluded women from engineering in a speech on campus May 30. A video is available with free registration. Stanford Report (6.14.2006)	View »
EE Professor Yoshio Nishi laid out the future of computer chips for more than 200 colleagues at a conference June 11. EE Times (6.12.2006)	View »
Four graduate students will head to China this month as part of a pilot exchange program with Tsinghua University. Stanford Engineering (6.07.2006)	View »
Electrical engineering postdoctoral researcher Michelle L. Povinelli has won a 2006 Fellowship for Women In Science from cosmetics maker L'Oréal. L'Oreal (6.07.2006)	View »
Every year Stanford Engineering gives Terman Awards not only its top seniors but also the K-12 teachers who got them there. Check out coverage of winners in Colorado and Massachusetts. Rocky Mountain News, (6.01.2006)	View »
Alumni in the news: Jean-Lou Chameau (MS 1977, PhD 1981 CEE) has been named the eighth president of Caltech. Caltech (5.26.2006)	View »
Holt Ashley, a professor emeritus of aeronautics and astronautics and of mechanical engineering whose methods changed the design of structures from wings to wind turbines, died May 9. He was 83 Stanford News Service (5.24.2006)	View »
ChemE Professor Stacey Bent describes a substantial advance toward artificial implantable retinas in Technology Review magazine. Technology Review (5.23.2006)	View »
Meet Stickybot, the latest nature-inspired robot to come out of the lab of ME Professor Mark Cutkosky. Modeled on a gecko, this robot can climb straight up a glass window. New Scientist (5.23.2006)	View »
CEE Professors Craig Criddle and Peter Kitandis and colleagues are using bacteria to reduce uranium contamination near nuclear weapons labs and mines. Stanford News Service (5.19.2006)	View »
Going on 50 years now, Don Knuth's love for computers (and the Art of programming them) remains deep and strong. Stanford Magazine (5.16.2006)	View »
CEE student Christine George is among 18 nationwide named to the Nissan-WWF Environmental Leadership Program. The program provides opportunities for development, research and financial support to students with great potential for environmental advocacy. Nissan, WWF (5.16.2006)	View »
KGO-TV takes a look at a computer system developed by Bioengineering Professor Charles Taylor that can help predict the outcome of a surgical procedure. KGO-TV (5.12.2006)	View »
How cool is the d.school (the new design institute)? As part of a class this quarter, students are promoting a hip-hop concert on campus. Stanford Daily (5.09.2006)	View »
SF Channel 2 (KTVU) reporter John Fowler reports on how high-tech research on osteoarthritis may lead to the development of a therapeutic shoe. The research is in the lab of ME Professor Tom Andriacchi. KTVU (5.09.2006)	View »
Stanford Engineering will defend its robotic driving title in the next DARPA Grand Challenge. This time ithe race will be on simulated city streets. CNET (5.03.2006)	View »
The Cleveland Browns drafted EE graduate student and nose tackle Babatunde Oshinowo in the sixth round of the NFL draft April 30. Columbus Dispatch (5.01.2006)	View »
Alunmi in the news: Ron Patrick (PhD 1989 ME) has a need for speed so great that he has attached a jet engine to his VW beetle. It's an unusual hobby, but to him 'it's entertainment.' San Francisco Chronicle (4.29.2006)	View »
ME Assistant Professor Wei Cai, part of a team of researchers based at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, have made a major discovery about the strength of crystalline materials (including common metals). Their results appear in the April 27 issue of Nature. Physorg.com (4.28.2006)	View »
Microsoft names CS Assistant Professor Scott Klemmer as a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow, recognizing his work in human-computer interaction. Microsoft (4.26.2006)	View »
Alumni in the news: Alaska resident Bill Leighty (BS 1966 EE) returns to his Iowa roots with a plan to deliver clean hydrogen fuel via pipeline to power vehicles more sustainably. Des Moines Register (4.23.2006)	View »
From the days of studying the bouyancy of her lollipop to her current work investigating the electrical properties of organic materials, ChemE Associate Professor Zhenan Bao is an explorer extraordinaire. Stanford News Service (4.19.2006)	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 (4.17.2006)	View »
Thomas Connolly, an ME professor emeritus who lead nuclear research in the department beginning in the late 1950s, died April 3. He was 83. Stanford News Service (4.12.2006)	View »
Alumni in the news: Airgo Networks has won EE Times magazine's Startup of the Year award. The company was founded by Greg Raleigh (MS 1994, PhD 1999 EE), a former student of EE Professor John Cioffi. EE Times (4.10.2006)	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. SCPD (4.07.2006)	View »
Four alumni who helped make major advances in the Global Positioning System are joining the Space Technology Hall of Fame. Palo Alto Online (4.04.2006)	View »
New BIO Associate Professor Kwabena Boahen looks to the powerful and efficient human brain as a model for building comptuer chips. San Francisco Chronicle (4.03.2006)	View »
Check out videos of the Computer Science 40th Anniversary. A simple, free registration with the Stanford Center for Professional Development to view online seminars is required. SCPD (3.31.2006)	View »
The annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of graduate schools put Stanford Engineering in second place overall. Five departments and programs have top two rankings as well. US News and World Report (3.31.2006)	View »
In U.S. News and World Report MS&E Professor Bob Sutton and business Professor Jeff Pfeffer discuss the need for executives to base decisions on evidence and logic rather than ideology and fads. They have a new book on the subject, 'Hard Facts, Half-Truths and Total Nonsense.' U.S. News & World Report (3.27.2006)	View »
Mike Langberg of the San Jose Mercury News finds at the CS department 40th anniversary that Stanford is still Silicon Valley's "secret sauce." San Jose Mercury News (3.22.2006)	View »
MSE Professor Michael McGehee and colleagues have developed an ultra-thin plastic that transmits charge with unprecedented speed. The material holds great promise for electronics. Associated Press (3.22.2006)	View »
Catch NOVA's exclusive Web coverage of "The Great Robot Race," the DARPA Grand Challenge of robot cars that Stanford's car, Stanley, won back in October. The TV episode aired March 28 on PBS. PBS (3.16.2006)	View »
Alumni in the news: Kaoru Yano (MS 1975 EE) has been named president of Japanese electronics giant NEC Corp. Associated Press (3.15.2006)	View »
Stanford joins UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC Santa Barbara in forming the Western Institute for Nanotechnology, a research partnership focused on 'spintronics,' in which the quantum spin of particles is exploited for computation. San Jose Business Journal (3.09.2006)	View »
Video: Palo Alto Mayor Judy Kleinberg and former Mayor Jim Burch honored the Stanford Racing Team and the Stanford Solar Car Project at City Hall in early March Stanford News Service (3.07.2006)	View »
Alumni in the news: The Financial Times profiles Sabeer Bhatia (MS 1993 EE) the prolific entrepreneur best known for co-founding Hotmail. Financial Times (3.07.2006)	View »
Remembered as a prolific electrical engineer and a beloved carillonneur, Professor Emeritus James Angell died Feb. 13. He was 81. Stanford News Service (3.02.2006)	View »
MSE and EE Professor Shan Wang will play a major role in a new center for cancer nanotechnology based at the medical school. San Francisco Business Times (3.01.2006)	View »
CEE Professor emeritus Paul Roberts died Feb. 12. Roberts devoted his career to the protection of natural resources. He was 67 Stanford News Service (3.01.2006)	View »
When a huge burst of gamma rays struck the earth in Dec. 2004 EE professor Umran Inan took notice. In this video he explains what we learned from the blast from space. Stanford News Service (3.01.2006)	View »
Alumni in the news: Inc. magazine profiles Method, a maker of environmentally friendly household products, co-founded by Adam Lowry (BS 1996 ChemE). Inc. (2.27.2006)	View »
Computer science assistant professor Scott Klemmer told an audience at the recent American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in St. Louis that computer interface design must respect the innately physical nature and capabilities of human beings. Stanford Report (2.21.2006)	View »
Former NASA Ames Director G. Scott Hubbard has been appointed a visiting scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering. San Francisco Business Times (2.15.2006)	View »
Stanford and Indian IT firm Tata Consultancy Services have announced a research partnership focused on security and privacy. Network World (2.14.2006)	View »
EE Professor Arogyaswami J. Paulraj has joined dozens of other Stanford Engineering professors as an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. Medical School professor Gary Glover was also elected Feb. 10. Stanford News Service (2.13.2006)	View »
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