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IEEE Spectrum
August 2012
Steve Furber |
Low-Power Chips to Model a Billion Neurons A miniature, massively parallel computer, powered by a million ARM processors, could produce the best brain simulations yet   |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Versace & Chandler |
MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors DARPA's new memristor-based approach to Artificial Intelligence consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
Clark Nguyen |
Radios With Micromachined Resonators Future wireless designs will replace electronics with precision mechanical components. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2009
Jeffrey T. Borenstein |
Flexible Microsystems Deliver Drugs Through the Ear A microelectromechanical systems-based microfluidic implant could open up many difficult-to-treat diseases to drug therapy |
Industrial Physicist
Konstantin Likharev |
Hybrid Semiconductor-Molecular Nanoelectronics Many physicists and engineers believe that the impending crisis due to limitations in CMOS technology may be resolved only by a radical paradigm shift from purely CMOS technology to hybrid semiconductor-molecular circuits. |
Technology Research News
February 11, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Noise boosts nanotube antennas Sometimes adding a little noise can help a signal come through loud and clear. This is true for the neural network between your ears, and it turns out to also be true for carbon nanotubes. The result could be better cell phones, chemical detectors and video screens. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2012
Liu et al. |
MEMS Switches for Low-Power Logic A modern twist on a trusted old technology -- the electromechanical relay -- could lead to ultralow-power chips |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Samuel K. Moore |
New Class of Digital Signal Processor Wipes Out Wasted Power Hearing aids, power converters, medical implants, and telecommunications could benefit from continuous-time digital signal processing |
Technology Research News
March 9, 2005 |
Artificial Cochlea Tells Tones Apart The artificial cochlea makes it easier to study the precise mechanics of the ear. It also paves the way for economical microphones that work as well as ears, and could eventually be used as cochlear prostheses. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Six Paths to Longer Battery Life These six technologies could save on smartphone power |
Technology Research News
January 15, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Heat's on silicon A researcher from Texas A&M University has shown that the laws of physics are close to catching up with Moore's Law in a way not widely thought about. The culprit is heat. |
Technology Research News
April 23, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Nanocomputer skips clock Harnessing nanotechnology to build computer chips could lead to ultrafast, ultracheap, low- power computers. But today's chip designs don't translate well to the molecular scale. One proposal calls for throwing out the clock. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2009
John Keller |
Signal Conversion Comes to Grips with a Network-Centric World Analog-to-digital converter and digital-to-analog converter designers struggle to keep pace with an RF spectrum burdened with wireless PDA users, broadband Internet surfers, and traditional radio communications. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Miguel Miranda |
The Threat of Semiconductor Variability As transistors shrink, the problem of chip variability grows |
Popular Mechanics
September 27, 2007
Wayne Ma |
Bionic Woman: Hollywood Sci-Fi vs. Reality Experts tell us which, if any, of TV's new Bionic Woman far-out science is (super)humanly possible. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2011
Keane & Kim |
Transistor Aging Measuring the degradation of microprocessors is tricky. Doing it better would unleash more processing power. |
Technology Research News
May 5, 2004
Eric Smalley |
Y Switches Set up Low-Power Logic Researchers are looking into Y-branch switches, which have the potential to use less energy because they turn circuits on and off by directing electrons in one of two directions rather than opening and closing the circuit. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2012
Rachel Courtland |
Wi-Fi Radio Takes a Digital Turn Intel's new transceiver pushes RF circuitry further into the digital realm, but will it make it out of the lab? |
Wired
November 2005
Michael Chorost |
My Bionic Quest for Bolero A deaf man's pursuit of the perfect audio upgrade to his cochlear implant. |
Wired
February 2000
Kevin Warwick |
Cyborg 1.0 I was born human. But this was an accident of fate - a condition merely of time and place. I believe it's something we have the power to change. I will tell you why... |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Apte et al. |
Advanced Chip Packaging Satisfies Smartphone Needs Clever chip packaging means mobile devices can be smaller and smarter |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2010
David Lammers |
The Era of Error-Tolerant Computing Errors will abound in future processors...and that's okay |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
R. Stanley Williams |
How We Found the Missing Memristor The memristor -- the functional equivalent of a synapse -- could revolutionize circuit design |
Technology Research News
May 5, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Chaos Seems to Aid Learning Researchers in Japan have built a computer simulation of the inferior olive, a portion of the brain that probably relays errors in movement to the cerebellum. The model shows that chaos can be useful in the brain for efficient learning. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2005
Harry et al. |
Balancing Act New advances in sensory enhancement technology may directly improve mechanical sensory function to help prevent falls in the elderly and foot injuries and amputations in people with diabetes. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2011
Taylor & Cox |
Behind Intel's New Random-Number Generator This random-number generator uses digital circuits to stump the smartest hackers. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Jose M. Carmena |
How to Control a Prosthesis With Your Mind New brain-machine interfaces that exploit the plasticity of the brain may allow people to control prosthetic devices in a natural way. |
Wired
August 2001
John Hockenberry |
The Next Brainiacs If puppetry is the clever mapping of human characteristics onto a nonhuman object, then disability is the same mapping onto a still-human object. Getting good at being disabled is like discovering an alternative platform. Science is bringing us closer to becoming puppet masters... |
CIO
August 18, 2011
Agam Shah |
IBM Brings Brain Power to Experimental Chips IBM makes chips based on the structure and operation of the human brain. |
BusinessWeek
November 14, 2005
Bruce Einhorn |
Listen: The Sound Of Hope Cochlear implants could be a boon for the deaf - and a booming business. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Ivan Arnato |
Light Moves Light is becoming the tool of choice for researchers who want to precisely manipulate neurons and other cells. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2010
Mitchell Lazarus |
The Great Radio Spectrum Famine Mobile broadband is consuming the available radio spectrum. Serving up more won't be easy |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2013
Andrew J. Steckl |
Electronics on Paper Paper electronics could pave the way to a new generation of cheap, flexible gadgets |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2008
Morgen E. Peck |
Scheme to Let Robot Take Over Brain-Computer Interface MEMS-based system could position electrodes in brain tissue to improve neural prosthetics. |
InternetNews
February 2, 2005
Michael Singer |
HP's 'Crossbar Latch' to Replace Transistors? The company's Quantum Science Research group comes up with new signal technology that could power computers. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Logan Ward |
Your Upgrade Is Ready Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to our bodies capabilities. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. |
Home Toys
August 2005 |
Making a Case for Advanced AC Power Conditioning The sensitivity and sophistication of today's electronic circuits require serious AC power conditioning. Anything less is too costly to consider, and will limit the performance users demand. |
Technology Research News
February 12, 2003
Eric Smalley |
Logic scheme gains power Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have pushed an alternative computer chip architecture a step forward by finding a way to refresh the short-lived signals the scheme uses to represent the 1s and 0s of digital information. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2006
Samuel K. Moore |
Psychiatry's Shocking New Tools Electronic implants and electromagnetic pulses are picking up where psychoactive drugs have failed. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2009
Neil Savage |
Engineers Evolve Transistors for Next-Gen Chips Evolutionary algorithms lead to new logic and memory that may smooth the way as CMOS nears its size limits |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2010 |
Blackfin Digital Signal Processor Introduced by Analog Devices The new DSP chip enables designers to apply advanced power control techniques to yield greater energy efficiency. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2009 |
Analog Devices Introduces Level-Translating A-D Converter Driver Digital signal processing specialist Analog Devices is introducing the AD8275 level-translating analog-to-digital (A-D) converter driver, which simplifies signal conditioning for high-voltage industrial and instrumentation designs. |
Home Toys
December 2004 |
An Introduction to DVI and Digital Connectivity In the evolving world of high-tech displays, new connector types abound, and most are of great significance and value to consumers. This is especially true with the latest wave of digital video connections found on everything from today's newest flat panel monitors to HDTV sets. |
Popular Mechanics
November 18, 2009
Douglas Fox |
IBM Reveals the Biggest Artificial Brain of All Time This computer simulation, as large as a cat's brain, blows away the previous record -- a simulated rat's brain with 55 million neurons -- built by the same team two years ago. |
Bio-IT World
November 12, 2002
Michael Gross |
Biotronics: A Collision of Continents Biology and technology have evolved and merged to create the brave new world of biotronics. |
Chemistry World
May 17, 2013
Jon Cartwright |
3D printer churns out bionic ear Engineers in the US have created a bionic ear that can be manufactured using a 3D printer. The device is the first to use 3D printing to interweave electronics and biological tissue, and may pave the way for other bionic implants. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
Bohr et al. |
The High-k Solution Microprocessors coming out this fall are the result of the first big redesign in CMOS transistors since the late 1960s. |
Chemistry World
October 10, 2012
Elinor Hughes |
Batteries not included Enzyme-based biofuel cells have been plugged into lobsters and they generated enough power to run a digital watch. |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
R. John Davenport |
Hanchuan Peng: SmartScopes Even when he launched his career as an engineer and computer scientist, Hanchuan Peng was drawn to the beauty of biology. He is a leader in developing sophisticated ways to make sense of biological images. |
Wired
March 2007
Sunny Bains |
Mixed Feelings See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses and build a few new ones. |
