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Researchers Improve Fast-Moving Mobile Networks, 5.25.2012. "Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) allow people in multiple, rapidly-moving vehicles to communicate with each other -- such as in military or emergency-response situations. Researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a method to improve the quality and efficiency of data transmission in these networks."
Improving Fast-Moving Mobile Networks, 5.25.2012. "Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) allow people in multiple, rapidly-moving vehicles to communicate with each other – such as in military or emergency-response situations. Researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a method to improve the quality and efficiency of data transmission in these networks."
Researchers improve fast-moving mobile networks, 5.25.2012. "Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) allow people in multiple, rapidly-moving vehicles to communicate with each other – such as in military or emergency-response situations. Researchers from North Carolina State University have devised a method to improve the quality and efficiency of data transmission in these networks."
Sharp tuning makes wireless charging efficient, 5.24.2012. "Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new way to fine-tune wireless power transfer (WPT) receivers, making the systems more efficient and functional. Wireless charging is hot design trend for mobile phone and other such wireless device charging and also for electric vehicle charging."
Researchers solve tuning problem for wireless power transfer systems, 5.18.2012. "Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new way to fine-tune wireless power transfer (WPT) receivers, making the systems more efficient and functional. WPT systems hold promise for charging electric vehicles, electronic devices, and other technologies."
Wireless Power Transmission Made Better by Old Electronics Principles and New Circuitry, 5.18.2012. "State University researchers have recently implemented what is being used in radios for decades in wireless power transfer (WPT) receivers – the ability of the receiver to keep track of the transmitter’s frequency if the differences are really small. This could ultimately impact electric vehicle wireless power transfer systems by making them more efficient and reliable.
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Realiability boost for wireless power transfer, 5.18.2012. "Electric vehicles could soon be charged wirelessly, thanks to a new way of fine-tuning wireless power transfer (WPT) receivers that makes them more efficient and functional."
Neutrino-based communication is a first, 3.19.2012. "The first ever transmission of information using a beam of neutrinos has been achieved by physicists in the US. The demonstration is highly preliminary – it operates at less than 1 bit/s – and will require a lot of development before it can have any useful application."
A first! Neutrino message sent through ground , 3.15.2012. "For the first time, scientists have used neutrinos – the exotic fundamental particles that routinely pass right through Earth – to send a message through the ground. Researchers have long been intrigued by the communication possibilities of neutrinos, because these particles can easily travel through matter, including a planet, without stopping, slowing down or being misdirected."
Tiny particles send a message for the first time, 3.15.2012. "Researchers have long been intrigued by the communication possibilities of neutrinos, because these particles can easily travel through matter, including a planet, without stopping, slowing down or being misdirected."
For the First Time, a Message Sent With Neutrinos, 3.15.2012. "In a major step for truly wireless communications, scientists have figured out how to send a message with neutrinos, transmitting a single word through 780 feet of bedrock and translating it at the other end."
Message Beamed Through Rock With Exotic Particles, 3.15.2012. "Neutrinos are extremely tiny particles with almost zero mass and neutral charge. Thus they are impervious to electromagnetic forces and respond very weakly to gravity. They almost never collide with other particles, generally passing straight through the atoms that make up matter."
Researchers send 'wireless' message using elusive particles, 3.14.2012. "A group of scientists led by researchers from the University of Rochester and North Carolina State University have for the first time sent a message using a beam of neutrinos – nearly massless particles that travel at almost the speed of light. The message was sent through 240 meters of stone and said simply, "Neutrino.""
'Wireless' message sent using neutrinos, 3.14.2012. "A wireless message has been sent using a beam of neutrinos, nearly massless particles that travel at near the speed of light, U.S. researchers say. The message -- sent by a group of scientists led by researchers from the University of Rochester and North Carolina State University on a beam of neutrinos 00 traveled through nearly 800 feet of stone and said simply, "Neutrino.""
Researchers Send 'Wireless' Message Using a Beam of Neutrinos, 3.14.2012. ""Using neutrinos, it would be possible to communicate between any two points on Earth without using satellites or cables," said Dan Stancil, professor of electrical and computer engineering at NC State and lead author of a paper describing the research."
Scientists send encoded message through rock via neutrino beam, 3.14.2012. "Humankind is constantly inventing new ways to stay in touch. But in some situations it’s difficult to keep the lines of communication open. A space shuttle’s radio falls silent when the craft slips behind a neighboring planet. A submarine loses contact when deep water blocks signals from the surface."
New method for estimating parameters may boost biological models, 3.6.2012. "Modeling biological systems can provide key insights for scientists and medical researchers, but periodic cycles that repeat themselves—so-called oscillatory systems—pose some key challenges. Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new method for estimating the parameters used in such models—which may advance modeling in research areas ranging from cancer to fertility."
Computer science professor discovers faster processor, 2.27.2012. "For the last year, Zhou and doctoral student Yi Yang have been working on collaborating the central processing unit and graphical processing unit in computer systems and models. Zhou's research takes what experts at Intel and Advanced Micro Devises have designed, central processing units and graphics processing units, and gives the hybrid chips a more practical usage."
The Engineering of the Insect, 2.18.2012. "Dr. Alper Bozkurt's research was recently recognized in one of the most circulated newspapers of the Netherlands. Bozkurt's team is developing microscale sensors, actuators and methodologies to unlock the mysteries of biological systems. The aim is to engineer these systems directly or develop new engineering approaches by learning from these systems."
A Hub for Smart Grid Research, 2.16.2012. "Faculty and student researchers at NC State’s FREEDM Systems Center are developing what can be called the “brain” of the smart electrical grid — devices and networks that will one day seamlessly connect rooftop solar panels with batteries that store energy in the basements below."
North Carolina State Rolls Out Experimental Open Source WiFi Network, 2.9.2012. "North Carolina State University's (NCSU) Centennial Campus has implemented one of the country's first large-scale, outdoor, experimental wireless networks using open source software. The project is called CentMesh, which stands for Centennial Outdoor Wireless Mesh Network Testbed for Research and Education, and was developed by Dr. Rudra Dutta and Dr. Mihail Sichitiu."
Researchers boost processor performance by getting CPU and GPU to collaborate, 2.8.2012. "The current generation of hybrid CPU/GPU systems, including Intel's "Sandy Bridge" and AMD's "Llano" has helped create more energy-efficient systems and reduce manufacturing costs, Zhou said. "However, the CPU cores and GPU cores still work almost exclusively on separate functions. They rarely collaborate to execute any given program, so they aren’t as efficient as they could be. That’s the issue we’re trying to resolve.”"
Chips with collaborating CPU and GPU lead to faster processors, 2.7.2012. "Want to get your computer to run faster? Well, consider its graphics processing unit (GPU) and central processing unit (CPU). The two work away at their own tasks, each one rarely helping the other shoulder its workload. Researchers from North Carolina State University, however, are in the process of changing that."
NC State Researchers Teach GPGPUs New Tricks, 2.7.2012. "CPUs and GPUs fetch data from off-chip main memory at approximately the same speed, but GPUs can execute the functions that use that data more quickly. So, if a CPU determines what data a GPU will need in advance, and fetches it from off-chip main memory, that allows the GPU to focus on executing the functions themselves – and the overall process takes less time."
Engineers Boost Computer Processor Performance, 2.7.2012. "Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that allows graphics processing units (GPUs) and central processing units (CPUs) on a single chip to collaborate – boosting processor performance by an average of more than 20 percent."
Engineers Up Computer Processor Performance By Over 20 Percent , 2.7.2012. "GPUs were initially designed to execute graphics programs, and they are capable of executing many individual functions very quickly. CPUs, or the “brains” of a computer, have less computational power – but are better able to perform more complex tasks."
Wiping Old Data, 2.6.2012. "It's certainly true that strong magnets can erase data on hard disk drives, said Daniel Stancil, head of the electrical and computer engineering department at N.C. State University."
Siemens partnership boosts new Masters program, 1.11.2012. "N.C. State's forays into power engineering received a kick-start with the addition of a three-part partnership with international electrical engineering giant Siemens. Becoming a full industry member with the University's FREEDM Systems Center and a major financial contributor to the brand new power engineering masters program, Siemens joins a healthy and growing number of partnerships in the FREEDM Center and the College of Engineering."
Remote Control Bugs, 12.9.2011. "Imagine grabbing a remote control and steering your very own moth around the room. It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it's close to becoming reality. An engineer at North Carolina State University found a way to implant electronics into insects and control them using electrical impulses. "
NC State engineer honored by President Obama , 11.30.2011. "Jay Baliga, a North Carolina State University professor who invented a semiconductor chip that has transformed society, seemed born for engineering greatness. He was honored with the National Medical of Technology and Innovation in October after a humble upbringing in a remote Indian village."
N.C. State wins $1.5 million research grant from Intel, 11.15.2011. "N.C. State University has received one of its largest corporate grants to finance a private research project for Silicon Valley computing giant Intel. Intel's $1.5 million contract with N.C. State pays for 13 professors, researchers and graduate students -- including an electrical and computer engineering professor from Duke University -- to improve on 3D computer chip technology."
Research team to develop energy-efficient 3D CPU, 11.15.2011. "Researchers from North Carolina State University are developing a 3D central processing unit (CPU) with the goal of boosting energy efficiency by 15 to 25%. The work is being done under a $1.5 million grant from the Intel Corporation. The computer industry has a great deal of interest in 3D integrated circuits, which are vertically integrated chips that are connected by vertical electronic connections—called through silicon vias—that pass through silicon wafers."
More Reliable Power in a Cabinet?, 10.28.2011. "New technology being developed by North Carolina-based CREE and North Carolina State University will eventually allow utilities to convert high-voltage power in a 100-pound box, rather than an 10,000 pound sub-station, says Rajeev Ram, program director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPAe)."
NC Now, 10.26.2011. "How some businesses in our state are going green. And NCSU researcher Jay Baliga has won the National Medal of Technology"
NCSU prof to receive medal for device, 10.21.2011. "B. Jayant Baliga's most important invention - a kind of switch for efficiently controlling the flow of electrical power - is obscure but nearly everywhere, and without it life would be really, really different. The device, called an insulated gate bipolar transistor, can now be found in seemingly everything that uses or creates electricity, including household appliances, computers, cars, industrial and medical equipment, windmills and solar panels."
Raleigh's Smart Grid Bid, 10.13.2011. "Alex Huang keeps busy as a full-time electrical engineering professor at North Carolina State University, but outside the classroom he has his hands in a really big project. He wants to help the U.S. update its energy infrastructure and make the transition to the so-called smart grid—a digitized power grid that would allow users and power companies to communicate better, boosting efficiency and reliability."
Power IC pioneer to get U.S. tech medal, 10.4.2011. "B. Jayant Baliga, an engineering professor at North Carolina State University and a pioneer in the development of power semiconductors, was one of five inventors named last week by U.S. President Barack Obama to be a recipient of the 2010 National Medal of Technology and Innovation."
President Honors NCSU Professors, 9.28.2011. "President Barack Obama on Tuesday named N.C. State professor B. Jayant Baliga as one of the five inventors awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, according to The Associated Press. That came on the heels of a Monday announcement by the White House that Dr. Michael Escuti, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, would receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers."
Three Win White House Science, Technology Medals, 9.28.2011. "Three Indian American academics are among the 12 recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and the National Medal of Science, the White House announced Sept. 27. North Carolina State University Prof. Jayant Baliga, father of the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor, and Purdue University Prof. Rakesh Agrawal, who simplified a process for making large quantities of liquefied natural gas, are both recipients of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation."
NCSU team working to defend against Wi-Fi attacks, 9.26.2011. "The next time you're mainlining caffeine at the local coffee shop only to be disrupted by the Wi-Fi connection's glacial speed, take a look around. It may be your neighbor - not your computer - that's slowing you down. Researchers at N.C. State University are one step closer to improving wireless security against such attacks after developing a way to measure the impact the jams cause on Wi-Fi technologies."
Measuring impact of Wi-Fi denial-of-service attacks , 9.14.2011. "A research team at North Carolina State University has proposed a way of measuring the impact of wireless denial-of-service attacks on Wi-Fi networks. It's a step toward building focused counter-measures that can make such attacks costly to pull off."
Study Examines Wi-Fi Attacks -- and Security Responses, 9.14.2011. "U.S. researchers say they can measure how seriously differing types of attacks would disrupt a Wi-Fi Relevant Products/Services network Relevant Products/Services -- a step toward improved security Relevant Products/Services technologies."
Power Up! Checking the Grid, 9.1.2011. "Electrical engineers created models that can track how power systems respond to outages. Researchers can use the results to understand and predict the behavior of the power grid in similar future situations; already in use along the west coast of the United States, the models help power system operators anticipate problems and plan ahead."
The Most Creative Teachers in the South, 8.23.2011. "We hunted in colleges throughout the region to find influential educators admired by their students and colleagues, whose classrooms serve as forums for social change, whose homes become their classrooms, and, in some cases, whose assignments become homes."
It's Electric, 7.22.2011. "Host Frank Stasio talks with Ewan Pritchard, program manager for North Carolina State University's Advanced Transportation Energy Center, about the future of electric cars and why we might be seeing more of them on I-40 very soon."
Note To Smart Grid: Heal Thyself, 6.29.2011. "Huang is Director of the FREEDM systems center--which stands for Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management. It's a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center involving four universities. They're developing the FREEDM system, which is a smart grid, but it's more than that. Mariesa Crow, electrical engineer at Missouri University of Science and Technology, calls it, "...it's kind of like a smart grid on steroids"."
NCSU takes leading role in developing Smart Grid, 6.20.2011. "It takes up enough space to cover a billiards table, but next year it will fit inside a backpack. The electronic contraption, only in its first generation, was named this year by experts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology as one of the 10 most important technology innovations of 2010. MIT ranked the "smart transformer," created by the FREEDM Systems Center in Raleigh, alongside recent advances in cancer genomics and synthetic cells."
New Parallelization Technique Boosts Ability To Model Biological Systems, 6.9.2011. "Researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for using multi-core chips more efficiently, significantly enhancing a computer's ability to build computer models of biological systems. The technique improved the efficiency of algorithms used to build models of biological systems more than seven-fold, creating more realistic models that can account for uncertainty and biological variation. This could impact research areas ranging from drug development to the engineering of biofuels."
Smart Transformers Lead to Renewable Energy, 6.7.2011. "Consumers know all too well the inconvenience, expense and discomfort of a power failure in the aftermath of a severe thunderstorm, or the disturbances that result from brownouts during an extended heat wave. In our energy-hungry society, it can be unnerving even when the lights start to flicker."
Nurturing a smarter electric grid, 5.28.2011. "If you live in the Triangle, you may know that Forbes magazine named tech-savvy Raleigh as America's "most wired" city. Did you know we're also a hot spot for the "smart grid"? Smart grid is the idea of turning the electric power network into an "energy Internet," sending electricity, as well as information, back and forth between utilities and consumers. By harnessing two-way communication and automation, and responding to vast quantities of data, smart grid will make the antiquated U.S. electric grid more efficient and reliable. It will also make solar and wind power more viable, by keeping power steady when it's not sunny or windy."
Researchers tackle multi-core computer chip shortcomings, 5.26.2011. "Multi-core processors promise a big performance boost for servers, PCs and even smartphones, but much work remains to get the most out of these new chips. North Carolina State University researchers are among those seeking to maximize what multi-core processors have to offer."
Triangle is central for Smart Grid, 5.24.2011. "The Triangle has quietly emerged as a national hub for an industry that barely existed just five years ago: Smart Grid. The term describes the digital technology that's increasingly used to monitor and manage the movement of electricity from the power plant to the home and business."
Hardware Encryption Developed for New Computer Memory Technology, 5.18.2011. "Security concerns are one of the key obstacles to the adoption of new non-volatile main memory (NVMM) technology in next-generation computers, which would improve computer start times and boost memory capacity. But now researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new encryption hardware for use with NVMM to protect personal information and other data."
College Entrepreneurs, 5.10.2011. "In the Garage, students can design prototypes, meet with investors or brainstorm with their peers. Host Frank Stasio talks about college entrepreneurship with [...] Tom Miller, executive director of N.C. State's Entrepreneurship Initiative"
NCSU Researchers Develop a Novel Method to Steer Laser Beams, 5.10.2011. "The team led by associate professor of electrical engineering, Dr. Michael Escuti, used 'polarization gratings' to steer the laser beams. These gratings comprised of a thin liquid crystal layer on a glass plate. A device that would allow the passage of laser beam through a stack of polarization gratings was developed. Manipulating the optical properties of individual gratings, the researchers redirected the beam to the desired direction. Addition of more gratings increased the number of angles exponentially."
Laser steering system uses liquid crystal to destroy the enemy on the cheap, 5.3.2011. "It might look like a poor man's game of Pong now, but a new laser steering system coming out of North Carolina State University could make blowing things up Star Wars-style cheaper and more efficient. [...] The system's creators point out its not only hyper accurate, but also less expensive than existing arrangements due to the use of liquid crystal."
Researchers develop efficient laser-beam direction method, 5.3.2011. "Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed what is claimed to be an energy-efficient method of directing laser beams that is both precise and relatively inexpensive. 'In many cases, it is much easier to redirect a laser beam at a target than to steer the laser itself. We intended to develop a way to do this efficiently and without moving anything,' said Dr Michael Escuti, an associate professor of electrical engineering at NC State and co-author of a paper on the research. 'We also wanted to be able to steer the beams over a wide range of angles, which is important for practical applications."
Smart Transformers, 5.1.2011. "In a lab wired up to simulate a residential neighborhood, Alex Huang is working to revamp aging power grids into something more like the Internet—a network that might direct energy not just from centralized power stations to consumers but from any source to any destination, by whatever route makes the most sense. To that end, Huang, a professor of electrical engineering at North Carolina State University, is reinventing the transformers that currently reduce the voltage of the electricity distributed to neighborhoods so that it's suitable for use in homes and offices."
Less is More: Researchers Pinpoint Graphene's Varying Conductivity Levels, 4.18.2011. "Did you know that pencil lead may just end up changing the world? Graphene is the material from which graphite, the core of your No. 2 pencil, is made. It is also the latest "wonder material," and may be the electronics industry's next great hope for the creation of extremely fast electronic devices. Researchers at North Carolina State University have found one of the first roadblocks to utilizing graphene by proving that its conductivity decreases significantly when more than one layer is present."
Software tool allows programs to run faster without sacrificing security, 4.3.2011. "Protecting computer systems from malicious attack using complex software solutions is a constant, but necessary, struggle. As threats become more sophisticated, the technology used to fight them off can impact more and more on system performance. According to researchers from North Carolina State University, programs that have built-in safety features can be slowed down by as much as a 1,000 percent."
New software tool makes programs run more efficiently, 4.1.2011. ""Computer programs are incorporating more and more safety features to protect users, but those features can also slow the programs down by 1,000% or more. Researchers at North Carolina State Univ. have developed a software tool that helps these programs run much more efficiently without sacrificing their safety features."
With jolt from ABB, N.C. State plans $1.2M engineering boost, 3.7.2011. "N.C. State expects its Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering to receive a $1.2 million jolt thanks to a $632,000 boost from ABB Inc. The university will put that money toward annual scholarships and faculty support for power engineering research and education. School officials expect matching grants from the UNC Distinguished Professors Endowment Trust Fund and the C.D. Spangler Foundation."
A Flash Memory That Doubles as DRAM, 3.1.2011. "Engineers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have refurbished flash memory in an attempt to create something new: a 'unified memory' type that can be fast but volatile, like the memory workhorse dynamic RAM, or slow but nonvolatile, like the flash storage in MP3 players."
Power, speed and other highlights at IEDM , 2.5.2011. "In the same section, North Carolina State University and Nitronex presented a normally-off nitride semiconductor transistor that included a silicon dioxide (SiO2) gate tunnel dielectric and tantalum nitride (TaN) floating gate layers [20.6]. The structure is described as being a metal-oxide-semiconductor-heterostructure field-effect transistor (MOS-HFET)."
Argon Holds High-Power Potential For GaN Electronics, 2.3.2011. "By implanting a buffer made of argon, researchers have created GaN devices that can handle 10 times as much power as those without. Gallium nitride (GaN) based materials hold promise for emerging high-power devices that are more energy efficient than existing technologies. However, these GaN devices traditionally break down when exposed to high voltages."
Gallium nitride boosted into high-power realm, 2.2.2011. "Gallium nitride is lauded as the next-generation material for high-power electronics, but until now has been plagued by breakdown above about 250 volts, according to researchers at North Carolina State University. The researchers claim to have discovered a technique to raise breakdown to 1,650 volts, thereby boosting power handling by 10 times."
Argon buffer helps GaN devices handle higher voltages, 2.2.2011. "Researchers in the US believe they have solved the problem of gallium nitride (GaN) failing when exposed to a high voltage. GaN is said to be a promising material for use in emerging high-power devices that are more energy efficient than existing technologies. However, the material's sensitivity to high voltages has proved a stumbling block."
Concept enables PC operating systems to survive attacks, 1.27.2011. "In certain computer security attacks, an outside party compromises one computer application (such as a web browser) and then uses that application to submit a 'system call' to the operating system, effectively asking the operating system to perform a specific function. However, instead of a routine function, the attacker uses the system call to attempt to gain control of the operating system."
Voids cut defects 2–3 orders of magnitude in GaN-on-sapphire, 1.27.2011. "Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that reduces defects in gallium nitride (GaN) epitaxial films grown on sapphire substrates, enabling the creation of more efficient light-emitting diodes ('Embedded voids approach for low defect density in epitaxial GaN films', Appl. Phys. Lett. 98, 023115 (2011), 17 January)."
Hardware, software advances help protect operating systems from attack, 1.26.2011. "The operating system (OS) is the backbone of your computer. If the OS is compromised, attackers can take over your computer — or crash it. Now researchers at North Carolina State University have developed an efficient system that utilizes hardware and software to restore an OS if it is attacked."
New backup could restore compromised operating systems, 1.26.2011. "At issue are security attacks in which an outside party successfully compromises one computer application (such as a Web browser) and then uses that application to gain access to the OS. For example, the compromised application could submit a "system call" to the OS, effectively asking the OS to perform a specific function."
Voids Slash Defect Density in GaN LEDs, 1.26.2011. "Defects in the gallium nitride LED film are drawn to voids and become trapped leaving the portions of the film above the voids with far fewer defects. Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique that reduces defects in the gallium nitride (GaN) films used to create LEDs grown on sapphire substrates."
Computer memory heralds green PCs, 1.25.2011. "A new form of computing memory which could lead to faster starting, user-friendly computers has been developed by US researchers. The device, developed by a team at North Carolina State University, claims to combine the advantages of two commons forms of memory used today."
GaN depo process said to make brighter LEDs, 1.25.2011. "A new gallium nitride (GaN) process purifies that high-energy material by eliminating up to 1,000 times as many defects as are typically present, according to its inventors at North Carolina State University (NCSU). The NCSU researchers predict that light-emitting diodes (LEDs), power transistors and other devices cast in GaN will be able to double their outputs by switching to the new process."
'Universal' memory aims to replace flash/DRAM, 1.20.2011. "A single "universal" memory technology that combines the speed of DRAM with the non-volatility and density of flash memory was recently invented at North Carolina State University, according to researchers."
A Way to Make the Smart Grid Smarter, 12.22.2010. "New semiconductor-based devices for managing power on the grid could make the "smart grid" even smarter. They would allow electric vehicles to be charged fast and let utilities incorporate large amounts of solar and wind power without blackouts or power surges. These devices are being developed by a number of groups, including those that recently received funding from the new Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E) and the National Science Foundation. "
Strange New Tricks With Light, 12.17.2010. "Three centuries after Isaac Newton published his Opticks, that ages-old science got really weird. In the past decade, physicists and engineers pioneered new ways to guide and manipulate light, creating lenses that defy the fundamental limit on the resolution of an ordinary lens and even constructing "cloaks" that make an object invisible—sort of."
NCSU professor helps design in-shoe radar, 12.3.2010. "Dan Stancil isn't falling for it. The head of N.C. State University's Electrical and Computer Engineering department has helped design a gadget that would pick up where a GPS signal can't reach - such as underground, deep inside a building, or between tall buildings - and help the user navigate back to the point where the signal was lost."
A Hiker's Best Friend: Shoes With Built-in Radar, 12.3.2010. "The technology works in conjunction with GPS, with the IMU tracking your movement after you lose a GPS signal - and ultimately providing you with location data relevant to your last known location via GPS."
If your GPS stops working, find your way with 'shoe radar'!, 12.2.2010. "'The radar is attached to a small navigation computer that tracks the distance between your heel and the ground. If that distance doesn't change within a given period of time, the navigation computer knows that your foot is stationary,' Stancil said."
Solution to blocked satellite signals: Shoe radar?, 12.2.2010. "'By resetting the velocity to zero during these pauses, or intervals, the accumulated error can be greatly reduced,' said Dan Stancil, professor and head of North Carolina State's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and co-author of a paper describing the research and published in IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques."
Radar Shoes Could Help Locate Users Where Satellite Signals Won't Go, 12.1.2010. "While GPS has undoubtedly changed the way we get around, it's still imperfect – anywhere the satellite signal can't reach might as well not be on the digital map because we can't locate ourselves there. But researchers at NC State and Carnegie Mellon Universities may just have a solution. All they need to do is put radar in your shoe."
Spintronic Memories to Revolutionize Data Storage, 11.1.2010. "Chips built out of spin transistors would be faster and more powerful than traditional ones and, farther down the road, may feature such new and remarkable properties as the ability to change their logic functions on the fly."
NCSU gets part of $4.3M to study acoustics, 9.24.2010. "Dr. Michael Steer, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NCSU, says one technology that could emerge from this research is a pocket-sized device that warns soldiers of nearby roadside bombs and suicide bombers."
ABB to build smart grid center at NCSU, 9.22.2010. "'This is a very important development,' said Dr. Alex Huang, Progress Energy distinguished professor of electrical engineering, FREEDM Systems Center, of the ABB announcement. 'This new initiative by ABB will further enhance our collaboration. We are excited that ABB has initiated this new Smart Grid Center of Excellence, and we look forward to collaborating with ABB right here in our own backyard."
Ideas get greased at NCSU's 'Garage', 9.11.2010. "'Everybody's got ideas,' said Miller. 'It seems creativity really happens when people with ideas get together ... and people from different disciplines get together."
NASA intern from Hendersonville takes honors, 9.6.2010. "Competing against 20 other teams, Courier's group won first place in the Team Excellence category for their project entitled 'Reconfigurable Computing Telepresence Robot."
Tiny radio antennas could replace building wiring, 8.18.2010. "This would work with anything you can create an electronic sensor for,' said Dan Stancil, co-author of the study in the September issue of Proceedings of the IEEE and professor and head of North Carolina State University's department of electrical and computer engineering."
Computer-driven cars may save lives, 7.12.2010. "Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a computer program that allows a car to drive without human control, opening the door to the development of new automobile safety features that could save lives"
How the electric car will save us, 7.7.2010. "Breakthroughs in battery and related technologies began about four years ago. They continue at a rapid clip, and nowhere faster than in a research center on N.C. State University's Centennial Campus, aptly named the FREEDM Systems Center"
Car that drives itself gets closer to reality, 4.23.2010. "The novelty is primarily in how we accumulate evidence. Our approach uses evidence from many locations to vote for where the lanes are and which direction they are facing.' It's a big step towards a more reliable and accurate vision-based driving system."
N.C. State prototype car steers itself, 4.14.2010. "Wesley Snyder, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, says the research could become the next generation of auto safety, with features that can allow vehicles to stay in their lanes, avoid traffic and gracefully react to emergency situations"
Self-Driving Cars Could See Like Humans, 4.7.2010. "To figure out how people reliably assemble all the visual information on a roadway - lane markings, traffic signs, other vehicles, obstacles, and so on - Snyder and his colleagues are testing a computer program that visually forms a "consensus" about street conditions"
Boffins create software that is 20 per cent faster, 4.6.2010. "The paper with the catch title 'MMT: Exploiting Fine-Grained Parallelism in Dynamic Memory Management,' was penned by North Carolina State University (NCSU) researchers Devesh Tiwari, Sanghoon Lee, James Tuck, and Yan Solihin"
Boosting software speed by up to 20 percent, 4.6.2010. "Researchers from North Carolina State University have come up with a way to break up programs into different threads, resulting in a 20 percent increase in run speed"
Hydraulics Could Enable Fullscreen Braille Display, 3.30.2010. "Researchers from North Carolina State University now say they have devised a display that would allow visually challenged users to read a full page at a time - and at a much lower cost than existing displays"
Professor's work rendered bombs inert, 3.12.2010. "This is a game-changer in modern warfare,' said Maj. Gen. Nick Justice, who came from Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland to give Steer a special civilian award - the U.S. Army Commander's Award for Public Service - at a ceremony Thursday on NCSU's Centennial Campus."
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First Neutrino Message Sent Through Rock; Could One Travel Back In Time?, 3.16.2012. "Researchers from the University of Rochester and North Carolina State University have for the first time sent a message using a beam of neutrinos — nearly massless particles that travel at almost the speed of light."
Braille comes unbound from the book: how technology can stop a literary crisis, 2.14.2012. "Apple is at the vanguard of a push behind technology that's helping old-fashioned Braille replace text-to-speech audio for the blind - and it couldn't have come at a more critical time."
Software programming research promises faster applications, 4.6.2010. "A new approach to memory management allows computer code to operate more efficiently on multicore processors and can reduce the overhead of security checks"
Braille Displays Promise to Deliver the Web to the Blind, 4.5.2010. "North Carolina State University researchers take the first steps toward making an affordable and more dynamic Braille display"
