Electrical Engineering

How do we move past silicon? | Stocksy/Javier Pardina

Jul 19, 2021

Srabanti Chowdhury: New forms of semiconductors are key to the future

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking Issue #123

This next phase of semiconductor discovery will transcend electrical engineering and involve many other academic disciplines. | Stocksy/PER Images

Jul 8, 2021

Can Stanford University help solve the global semiconductor crisis?

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society Issue #120

Engineers are concerned about everything from the availability of raw materials to how many miles can I go before I run out of juice? | iStock/Jeff_Hu

Jun 30, 2021

Simona Onori: How ready are we for our electric future?

Electronics & Networking, Energy, Transportation & Robotics

Bendable, shapeable computer circuits, worn on or implanted in the human body, could perform many health-related tasks. | iStock/Ilya Lukichev

Jun 17, 2021

Engineers develop a new technique to manufacture flexible electronics

Electronics & Networking, Health Issue #119

New research allows a patient with paralysis to “write” their thoughts at some 17 words per minute, setting a new record. | Stocksy/Chris Zielecki

Jun 3, 2021

Krishna Shenoy: How brain-computer connections could end paralysis

Electronics & Networking, Health Issue #119

New software and hardware taps into the brain to convert thoughts about handwriting into text on a computer screen. | Unsplash/Aaron Burden

May 26, 2021

New software turns ‘mental handwriting’ into words on computer screens

Artificial Intelligence, Health Issue #118

The technique puts new power in the hands of engineers. “How they will use it is up to them,” says Professor Shanhui Fan. | Stocksy/Sam Burton

Apr 23, 2021

A new optical device enables engineers to fine tune the color of light

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data Issue #115

The future will be dominated by AI | iStock/mmustafabozdemir

Mar 29, 2021

Kunle Olukotun: How to make AI more democratic

Artificial Intelligence, Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society

The transition to 5G will affect every device connected to the internet, including drones. | Adobe Stock/Andy Dean

Mar 25, 2021

A new initiative aims to ensure 5G networks are reliable and secure

Computation & Data, Security, Transportation & Robotics Issue #114

Photonic components need to become much smaller and cheaper to compete with silicon. | Adobe Stock/Amgun

Feb 9, 2021

David Miller: How light could transform computing

Computation & Data, Materials

We’ll need new and better instruments and processes to understanding the workings of the brain. | Adobe Stock/highwaystarz

Feb 5, 2021

Jin Hyung Lee: How can we systematically cure brain diseases?

Artificial Intelligence, Health Issue #110

“We’re opening up a window onto a world of cognition that has been opaque to science until now.” | Image by Gil Costa

Jan 29, 2021

Researchers develop a system that shows decision making in real time

Health Issue #113

Hardware and software innovations give eight chips the illusion that they’re one mega-chip working together to run AI. | Stocksy/Javier Pardina

Jan 11, 2021

New hybrid chips can run AI on battery-powered devices

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data Issue #110

A protoype of the RT-ELISA, essentially an entire lab within a chip with tiny pipes and valves no wider than a human hair | Photo by Caitlin Maikawa

Jan 4, 2021

A new lab-on-a-chip turns blood test snapshots into continuous movies

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking, Health Issue #108

An artist’s rendition of the photoacoustic airborne sonar system operating from a drone to sense and image underwater objects. | Image by Kindea Labs

Nov 30, 2020

Stanford engineers combine light and sound to see underwater

Electronics & Networking, Environment Issue #109

Researchers trained the learning robot — the goalie — to block more than 90% of the shooter robot’s attempts. | Image courtesy of Dorsa Sadigh

Nov 20, 2020

To cooperate better, robots need to think about hidden agendas

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #106

Ready, aim, sterilize: a light-based device helps resource-strapped health care providers protect themselves against COVID-19. | Shutterstock/wacomka

Nov 9, 2020

Two engineers design and donate a technique to make N95 masks reusable

Health, Technology & Society Issue #114

A rendering of the laser scanning process. | Image by Stanford Computational Imaging Lab

Oct 16, 2020

“This is really something where we make the invisible visible”

Technology & Society Issue #107

In comparing conventional holography with a camera-in-the-loop neural approach, the latter significantly improves image quality. | Image courtesy of HAI

Aug 20, 2020

Using AI to Revolutionize Real-Time Holography

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

Look familiar? An early image of distributed tutored video instruction, circa 1994/95 | Courtesy Jim Gibbons

Aug 14, 2020

Lessons in remote learning from the 1970s: A Q&A with James Gibbons

Technology & Society Issue #99

Neural implants can use thought signals from the brain’s movement centers to aid patients with neurological disorders. | iStock/DrAfter123

Aug 14, 2020

How thoughts could one day control electronic prostheses, wirelessly

Health Issue #100

A technique called COSMOS captures movies of neural activity throughout the curved cerebral cortex of a mouse brain. | Image by Isaac Kauvar and Timothy Machado

Jun 5, 2020

Stanford researchers show how decisions light up the brain

Computation & Data, Health Issue #98

It could be years before wireless chargers become embedded in highways, but there are fewer roadblocks for robots and aerial drones. | Unsplash/Kimi Lee

May 5, 2020

How we might recharge an electric car as it drives

Electronics & Networking, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #101

A new algorithm pushes out only as much data as the viewer’s internet connection can receive without degrading quality. | Adobe Stock/PerlaStudio

Apr 17, 2020

Computer scientists create a ‘laboratory’ to improve streaming video

Computation & Data