UC Berkeley's New Fat Pipes
Just as the multimedia capabilities of the Internet are finally
brought home through fast cable modems and DSL lines, UC Berkeley
students are helping create whole new Internet that makes today's
high-bandwidth connections and content pale in comparison.
Art, Technology,
Process, and Product
David Pescovitz photo
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At a recent wine
and cheese celebration at UC Berkeley Richmond Field Station's art
studios, talk of TCP/IP and wireless sensor networks seamlessly
flowed into heated discussions about the aura and authenticity of
art in the digital age. This surreal cross-disciplinary dialogue
between artists and engineers was old-hat to the student hosts demonstrating
their final projects from the Spring 2002 course "Tangible
Interfaces: Crafting the Ubiquitous Experience."
The Tinkertoys of Nanotechnology
Alex Zettl is an expert builder with the tinkertoys of nanotechnology,
carbon nanotubes. By altering the properties and formation of these
rolled up crystalline sheets of atoms, the UC Berkeley physicist
has forged some of the world's smallest bearings, switches, diodes,
and sensors.
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The
Death and Rebirth of Silicon
The future of computing
is headed toward a brick wall. Within a decade or so, the silicon
industry's rule of thumb known as Moore's Law — which predicts
that the number of transistors that can be packed on a silicon integrated
circuit doubles every 18 months — will be vetoed by the laws
of physics and economics. Or will it?
Great moments of innovation from the annals of
Berkeley Engineering history.
1963-64: The invention of the mouse
by Douglas Engelbart (EE, '55)
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