Sign language translator turns gestures into spoken letters
By far one of the greatest challenges of sign language has been to translate it for everyday folk that wouldn't know where to begin a conversation with the deaf. Read more
News: ECE
Cornell students come up with auto composing keyboard
ubergizmo: Cornell students Charong Chen and Siyu Zhan have managed to come up with an electric keyboard that can create and playback its own composition. Read more
Cornell students steer Pong using brain waves
engadget: We here at Engadget are always fans of brain wave experiments, and so we were delighted when two Cornell University electrical engineering students, Chuck Moyes and Mengxiang Jiang, wrapped up a final project using brain waves in the best way possible: playing Pong. Read more
Cornell ECE student team Sandeep Gangundi, Xiyu Wang and Marc Vaz win the 2012 BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) contest 'People's Choice Award
The Air Drano student project is essentially a system that detects the position of your fingers on a sheet of paper using a camera. Once the "hit position" is detected an audible sound is synthesized emulating either ... Read more
National Science Foundation awards Cornell ECE professor Alyosha Molnar the prestigious CAREER award
The intellectual merit of this research is in understanding the capabilities and limitations of imaging systems using diffractive angle-sensitive pixels to analyze the light field. Read more
"Cornell ECE Alum receives highest distinction, election to the National Academy of Engineering!!!"
Cornell ECE Alum Mark Adamiak EE '75, EE M.Eng. '76 was elected to the prestigious National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Read more
“Christopher Batten wins the prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER Award.”
Systems across the computing spectrum, from cell phones to supercomputers, are increasingly using a heterogeneous mix of general-purpose multicores augmented with programmable graphics processing units (GPUs). Read more
Portable device to detect disease in 30 minutes
Futurity: BEE Prof. Dan Luo has devised a method of “amplifying” very small samples of pathogen DNA, RNA, or proteins using synthetic DNA. ECE Prof Edwin Kan designed a computer chip that quickly responds to the amplified samples targeted by Luo’s method. Read more
“US Air Force Young Investigator Research Award”
Cornell ECE assistant professor A. Kevin Tang is one of 48 scientists and engineers across the United States to receive a prestigious Young Investigator Research Award from the US Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research. Read more
"Cornell ECE Professor Stephen Wicker is quoted by the New Yorker magazine on the increasingly important subject of privacy in cellular telephones"
Professor Wicker teaches and conducts research into privacy-aware information networking technologies. His recent publications have attracted national attention, including print, television, and radio interviews. This attribution in the New Yorker is the latest evidence of a growing interest in protecting privacy in a digital world. Read more