Murray Campbell, a research scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center where Deep Blue was developed, will address the challenges and implications involved in the 50- year effort to put a computer atop the chess world in a free public lecture at the 91探花.
Author: Greg Orwig
The 91探花’s Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology Program, which has enlisted scientific luminaries such as British physicist Stephen Hawking to encourage teenagers with disabilities to pursue careers in technical fields, has won a 1997 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.
Doctors needing chemical analyses such as blood tests to make life-saving diagnosis and treatment decisions soon won’t have to lose precious time waiting for results to come back from the lab. New hand-held sensor technology developed at the 91探花 will allow physicians to bring a sophisticated “laboratory” directly to their patients for instant, on-site chemical analysis.
When engineers at the 91探花 set out to create a vehicle that is cleaner and safer to operate than gas or electric cars, they jokingly named it the smogmobile after a L’il Abner cartoon depicting a car fueled by air pollution. But the vehicle developed by the 91探花team almost lives up to its name. Running on liquid nitrogen, the smogmobile generates no harmful emissions and actually creates an opportunity for pollutants to be removed from the air as its fuel is produced.
and recyclable.
Materials science and engineering, a fundamental but often low-profile part of manufacturing, is the subject of a new summer institute at the 91探花 that aims to give high school and community college teachers new tools for designing laboratory projects that turn their students on to science and engineering.
Frustrated Internet shoppers who are unable or unwilling to wade through a flood of World Wide Web sites to find what they’re looking for soon can call on a computer software robot named Jango to help with their on-line shopping.
A system for running Java programs that is more secure than those found in commercial World Wide Web browsers has been developed by computer scientists at the 91探花.
Who should be served by public transit and who should pay for it? These were among the questions that confronted Puget Sound voters in November’s Regional Transportation Authority ballot issue and that will be addressed in the 1997 Daniel L. and Irma Evans Lecture May 29 at the 91探花.
Leading research managers from Japanese high-tech giants NTT Corp. and Fujitsu Ltd. will kick off a new lecture series sponsored by the technical Japanese program and technical communication department at the 91探花.
As Gen. Colin Powell convenes the Presidents’ Summit for America’s Future this weekend in Philadelphia to promote volunteerism and service, representatives of a unique 91探花 program will be on hand to demonstrate how to DO-IT.
A group of 91探花 civil engineering students will compete April 27 in concrete canoe races on Lake Sammamish.
Many women enrolled in science and engineering classes at the 91探花 suffer a steep drop in self-confidence following their freshman year and never fully recover, according to a six-year study that will be discussed at the seventh annual Women in Science and Engineering Conference.
Victor Mills, who graduated from the 91探花in 1926, helped build The Procter & Gamble Co. into a manufacturing giant by revolutionizing the process for making Ivory soap and developing consumer staples such as Jif peanut butter, Duncan Hines cake mixes, Pringles potato chips and, yes, Pampers disposable diapers. Retired since 1961, Mills lives in Tucson with his wife, Ruth, and will turn 100 on March 28.
Two teams of 91探花students will take their laboratories to the air April 7-19 aboard a NASA research aircraft that simulates the reduced gravity of space.
Top computer science students from Stanford, MIT and Harvard were no match for a team of three 91探花 students who were runners up at the Association for Computing Machinery’s annual International Collegiate Programming contest Sunday (Mar. 2) in San Jose.
Researchers are now developing new technology and software that allows computer users to simply speak or hand-write commands. These and other innovative computer-user interfaces will be demonstrated 7 to 10 p.m. Nov. 6 at the 91探花 as part of an international symposium on user interface technology and software.
Intel Corp. announces $1.5 million gift of equipment for new engineering building at 91探花
Akira Ishimaru, Boeing Martin Professor of Electrical Engineering at the 91探花, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
An innovative temperature-measuring instrument developed with the assistance of a 91探花 engineering professor has yielded improvements in processing semiconductors that may lead to faster, cheaper computer chips.
A radical new technique for processing natural gas that could save the petrochemical industry billions of dollars in energy and maintenance costs has been developed by 91探花 researchers.
David Salesin, associate professor of computer science and engineering at the UW. Salesin is the only professor at the 91探花and possibly in the nation to have received a Presidential Faculty Fellow Award, National Science Foundation and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator awards and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. Salesin’s most recent achievement is having eight full-length research papers accepted for publication at the 1996 SIGGRAPH conference.