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Cooler Chip Designs
Every six months or so, new integrated circuits with more transistors packed
into the same amount of space continue to step up the already-dazzling graphics
capabilities of our desktop PCs and the power of the portable devices in
our pockets. In the background though, chip designers are faced with a potential
showstopper: the challenge of power consumption and dissipation. To cool
things off, UC Berkeley professor Borivoje Nikolic of the Department of Electrical
Engineering and Computer Sciences, is developing techniques to dramatically
reduce power consumption, and hence temperature, without sacrificing much
performance.
Mechanical Engineering In Orbit
As much as
two-thirds of the Universe is made up of energy that's a complete
mystery to scientists. In 1998, researchers at the Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory and their colleagues around the
world reported data strongly suggesting that this so-called
dark energy is the cause of the accelerating expansion of the
universe. To prove it, a team of physicists, astronomers, and
engineering, including UC Berkeley mechanical engineering professor
David Auslander, are designing a satellite that will bring
scientists closer to the valuable data hidden in the depths
of space.
Electronic
Design Automation pioneer Dean Richard Newton wins Phil
Kaufman Award
Newton recognized for his seminal contributions to the field of integrated
circuit design.
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Faces in the News
While humans have a relatively easy time matching our contorting faces to names,
computers are notoriously bad at it. If software could automatically and accurately
identify people's faces though, myriad applications emerge--from intelligent
surveillance systems to software that helps us navigate massive collections of
photographs. UC Berkeley PhD candidate Tamara Miller and computer science professor
David Forsyth are tackling the latter in an effort to advance the science of
computer face recognition as a whole.
1965: Professor Lotfi A. Zadeh invents fuzzy sets, the basis of fuzzy logic
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