Prof. Jason Cong is the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Circuits and System (CAS) Society Technical Achievement Award. This award honors the individual whose exceptional technical contributions to a field within the scope of the CAS Society have been consistently evident over a period of years. The citation of the award for Prof. Cong reads…
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Customized Computing for Health Care
The computers in your doctor’s office these days might not be all that different from the one your child uses to play his video games: general purpose computers designed for a wide variety of applications. This is all well and good, unless your doctor needs to analyze your blood flow in a hurry. Researchers at…
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Expeditions in Computing Continue to Break New Ground
A robotic bee, part of the Harvard RoboBees Project, one of three new Expeditions in Computing. Credit and Larger Version October 6, 2009 Energy-efficient computers optimally designed for custom applications. New tools to make air travel safer and healthcare interventions more effective. Robotic ‘bees’ that lend a helping hand in search and rescue operations. Directorate…
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NSF awards UCLA $10 million to create customized computing technology
The UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has been awarded a $10 million grant by the National Science Foundation’s Expeditions in Computing program to develop high-performance, energy efficient, customizable computing that could revolutionize the way computers are used in health care and other important applications. In particular, UCLA Engineering researchers will demonstrate…
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