A Digital Doctor On Your Wrist
Tomorrow's wristwatches may tell you much more than the time. Department
of Bioengineering chair Thomas F. Budinger is developing a wrist-worn
biomonitoring alert system that will not only transmit a digital
call for help if you've fallen but also detect when it's time for
a nap or if your "last meal was cooked in old fat, like a McDonald's
hamburger."
The Art of Engineering, The Engineering of Art
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Avant garde artists, innovative engineers, and forward-thinking administrators from UC Berkeley gathered recently at the Intel Research Laboratory for a daylong event designed to ignite communication and cross-disciplinary collaboration among the campus' most creative minds.
From Russia With Love: Isotopes and
the Future of Semiconductors
Hearing Eugene Haller talk about his research is like reading
a spy novel written by Albert Einstein. Haller studies isotopes
- natural constituents of an element that have the same atomic
number but different atomic weights - and how these new materials
might lead to superpowerful computer chips or even quantum computers.
The cloak-and-dagger part lies in where Haller scores his isotopes:
former nuclear weapon laboratories in Russia.
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Peg Skorpinski photo |
Organic Transistors and the Death of the Bar Code
The future of the ubiquitous UPC bar code is grim. In development
at UC Berkeley are smart tags printed directly on product packaging
that could revolutionize the supply chain, including your weekly
trip to the supermarket.
Great moments of innovation from the annals of
Berkeley Engineering history.
Celebrating Black History Month...
1948: Howard P. Grant becomes the first black graduate of the
College of Engineering
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