News: ECE

Cornell researchers have created a digital age active-reading system using an array of tablets to combine the best features of paper and electronic text. Read more

Incorporating concepts from developmental biology, researchers have used computers to evolve soft-bodied robots with various gaits and gallops. Read more

They are Brian Crane (chemistry and chemical biology), Gary Evans (design and environmental analysis and human development) and Natalie Mahowald (atmospheric sciences). Read more

Haym Hirsh, professor and chair of computer science at Rutgers University, has been named Cornell’s dean of Computing and Information Science, effective July 1. Read more

Irwin Mark Jacobs '54, founding chairman and CEO emeritus of Qualcomm, and his wife, Joan Klein Jacobs '54, have made a $133 million gift to create the Joan and Irwin Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute. Read more

Cornell researchers have created compartment nanoparticles that could carry two or more different drugs to the same target. Read more

Ilan Shomorony and Alireza Vahid, along with their advisor Salman Avestimehr were awarded the fellowship for their project titled “Collaborative Interference Management.” Read more

Mind mapping: Building on prototypes developed at the Cornell NanoScale Facility, French scientists have produced the world's first microscopic transistors that can amplify signals from within the brain. Read more

'Cornell Dots' may not only help light up cancer cells, but could provide a new patient-friendly, viable option to battle cancer. Researchers have created pores in the nanoparticles that can carry medicine. Read more

If you want to see the future of technology, look at what today's students are inventing. An array of examples was on display April 3 at the annual BOOM (Bits on Our Minds) exhibition in the Duffield Atrium. Read more