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| Daphne Koller, CS |
Intelligent software can help biologists interpret tremendous amounts of data. |
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| Ray
Levitt,
CEE |
Sustainability initiative expands to encompass
the environment we build. |
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| Bill Dally, EE; Mark Horowitz, EE |
Lean machines: Research aims to produce more efficient computer chips |
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| Engineering Therapies for Human Health, BIO |
Bioengineers at Stanford are making proteins to fight infections and cancer. |
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| Shanhui
Fan, EE; Roger Howe, EE |
Squeezing light into small spaces a
feat of physics |
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Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency |
Designing and constructing energy efficient buildings requires better tools and technologies. |
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Sebastian
Thrun, EE/CS |
Junior the robot car finished a strong second in the DARPA Urban Challenge. |
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Christopher Jacobs, ME |
Stanford researchers have discovered that strong bones may depend on tiny hairs. |
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Subhasish
Mitra, EE/CS |
Algorithm may help chipmakers work with
tangles of nanotubes. |
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Ken
Salisbury, CS |
Project aims to accelerate development
of personal robotics. |
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Howard
Zebker, EE |
Monitoring changes in polar ice caps
is vital for understanding our fragile environment, but it’s too
hard to do directly. |
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Margaret
Brandeau, MS&E |
The policy response to the HIV epidemic
affects thousands of lives. |
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| Bruce Clemens, MSE |
Hydrogen faces hurdles to becoming a clean energy source. Nanotechnology advances may help make the promised "Hydrogen Economy" a reality |
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Nick
McKeown, EE |
How should the Internet look in 15
years? A lot different, says a team of researchers who are taking a nothing-is-sacred
approach to rethinking the global computer network's infrastructure |
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| Richard Luthy, CEE |
After defying cleanup for decades, toxins may yield to new approach |
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Nick
Melosh, MSE |
Researchers can now
demonstrate electronic control over important protein and molecular activity.
This emerging union of technology and biochemistry could have important
applications in health and biology research. |
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Butrus
(Pierre) Khuri-Yakub, EE |
Microelectronics and nanotechnology
may deliver a versatile new way to see into the body. Research
on “photoacoustic” imaging could help bring a key diagnostic
technology to patients. |
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David Mazieres, CS |
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. |
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Sarah Billington, CEE
Craig Criddle, CEE |
Can new building materials save trees, reduce
global warming and provide energy? Stanford engineers
are developing and testing biocomposites to do all that. |
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| Chaitan
Khosla, ChemE |
Fighting Celiac disease is a challenge
of chemistry and Chemical engineering professor Chaitan Khosla and his
group are making great advances in meeting it. |
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Krishna
Saraswat, EE
Paul McIntyre, MSE |
Silicon will struggle to deliver further
advances in nanoelectronics, but help is on the way. Researchers led by
electrical engineering Professor Krishna Saraswat are reviving the use
of the element germanium to keep advances coming in computer chips. |
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| Krishna
Shenoy, EE |
New hope for paralyzed patients exists
at the intersection of information technology and medicine. Researchers
at Stanford have significantly advanced technology to control computers
directly from the brain. |
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| Martin
Reinhard, CEE |
Fresh water is a scarce resource in
high demand. Through his study of urban river systems, Martin Reinhard
helps water districts evaluate new options for safely meeting a variety
of needs. |
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| Jennifer Cochran, BIO |
Stanford bioengineers take research
from the benchtop to the bedside. Take for example, the treatment bioengineering
Assistant Professor Jennifer Cochran is developing with surgery professors
based on her enhanced protein for healing skin wounds. |
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| Shan
Wang, MSE/EE |
What is common to cancer detection and
the future of computing? They are both applications of breakthrough work
in magnetic nanotechnology underway in the lab of MSE and EE Associate Professor
Shan Wang. |
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| Jennifer
Widom, CS/EE |
Uncertain information is part of life
and therefore needs to be part of technology. A new database system that
accounts for data’s uncertainty and origin could enable applications
in science, commerce and even fighting crime. |
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| Reginald
Mitchell, ME |
Coal combustion can be cleaner than
you might think. ME Associate Professor Reginald Mitchell researches a variety
of ways to make coal a clean source of energy for a growing world. |
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| Stephen
Quake, BIO |
‘Microfluidic’ integrated
circuits can revolutionize biology just like microelectronic integrated
circuits revolutionized information. Stanford now has a foundry for making
these “labs on a chip.” |
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| Kenneth
Goodson, ME |
Nanotechnology innovations have to work
in practice, not just on paper. By studying the heat generated in transistors,
ME Professor Kenneth Goodson provides crucial guidance for electrical engineers. |
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| Andrew
Ng, CS |
Stanford researchers have begun building
a robot smart enough to be a personal aide. The artificial intelligence
and robotics experts hope to help the elderly and disabled and to revolutionize
their field. |
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| Fritz
Prinz, ME/MSE |
With some breakthoughs, fuel cells will
power future cars without hurting the environment. Fritz
Prinz’group has recently made one such advance. |
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Jim
Swartz, ChemE/BIO |
Harnessing the machinery of cells to
engineer protein filaments could give doctors the ability to grow new tissues
for patients and may have future applications in nanotechnology and materials. |
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| Jelena
Vuckovic, EE |
Jelena Vuckovic's work in "nanophotonics"
is helping ensure a bright future for computing and communications.
Recent innovations have applications that industry could need soon. |
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| John
Mitchell, CS; Dan
Boneh, CS/EE |
Two Stanford computer scientists are
fighting “phishing,” an online con that tricks users into giving
away their most sensitive Web passwords. |
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Dick
Luthy, CEE;
Gil
Masters, Professor Emeritus, CEE |
Sustainable living: Stanford plans to
build a Green Dorm |
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| Karl
Deisseroth, BIO |
Precision psychiatry: Engineering therapies
for better mental health |
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| Kyeongjae
Cho, ME |
Stanford software brings precision and
practicality to nanotechnology |
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| Mark
Brongersma, MSE |
Are plasmonics circuitry wave of future? |
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| Scott
Delp, BIO; Russ
Altman, Medicine |
Engineers have long been involved in
developing ways to gather biomedical information. But the explosion of data
available… now makes finding new computational techniques "fundamental
to advancing biomedical science." |
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| Lynn
Orr, Earth Sciences; Chris
Edwards, ME |
"If you think back to the energy
crises of the 1970s, there were lots of guesses about what the situation
was going to be like right now, and they were all pretty much wrong." |
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| David
A.B. Miller, EE |
Ginzton Lab Director David Miller’s
own research interests include using optics in communications and sensing
systems, and he finds ultracold atoms filled with potential. |
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| Cal
Quate, EE; Hongjie
Dai, Chemistry |
Quate’s group… is working
on increasing the speed of scanning probe microscopes by creating arrays
of hundreds of cantilevers on a single 4-inch wafer of silicon, each cantilever
holding a scanning probe and its tip. |
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