Computer Engineering News (9 articles)

Study Participants Used System to Operate Powered Wheelchair and ComputerAtlanta (July 6, 2009) —An assistive technology that enables individuals to maneuver a powered wheelchair or control a mouse cursor using simple tongue movements can be operated by individuals with high-level spinal...

Published on 6 July 2009, 15:16

Categories: Computer Engineering Quadriplegics Spinal cord injuries Tetraplegia Tongue Drive System

AUSTIN, Texas — The creation of large-area graphene using copper may enable the manufacture of new graphene-based devices that meet the scaling requirements of the semiconductor industry, leading to faster computers and electronics, according to a team of scientists and engineers at The...

Published on 7 May 2009, 13:34

Categories: Electronic Devices Graphene Semiconductors Computer Engineering

CINCINNATI—The need for improved monitoring of neurotrauma patients has resulted in the development of a prototype of a novel, multitasking “lab on a tube” at the University of Cincinnati (UC).UC engineers, working to fill a need expressed by physicians at the Neurotrauma Center...

Published on 4 May 2009, 13:41

Categories: 'Lab on a Tube' Computer Engineering Devices Monitoring devices Sensors

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- When a jet is flying faster than the speed of sound, one small mistake can tear it apart.And when the jet is so experimental that it must fly unmanned, only a computer control system can pilot it.X-43A Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle -- Artist Concept in Flight. Credit: NASA...

Published on 29 April 2009, 12:06

Categories: Aircraft Scramjets Computer Engineering Aerospace engineering Technology

A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at UC Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, fully reprogrammable and highly configurable, so it can be widely adapted to a number of...

Published on 22 April 2009, 04:08

Categories: 167-processor AsAP Chips Computer Engineering Energy

Imaging device fits in the palm of a hand. David Kilper/WUSTL Photo William D. Richard (left) takes an ultrasound probe of colleague David Zar's carotid artery with a low-power imaging device he designed....

Published on 21 April 2009, 12:29

Categories: Computer Engineering Medical imaging device Smartphone

BLACKSBURG, Va., February 17, 2009 -- Virginia Tech's Center for Power Electronics Systems (CPES) has developed an intellectual property (IP) process that is almost as fast as industry's and may be adaptable for other university research groups, according to CPES Director and University...

Published on 17 February 2009, 07:25

Categories: Computer Engineering Intellectual Property IP IP process Technology

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Six University of Michigan engineering students have invented an electronic data logger kit that makes it easier for medical researchers to conduct clinical drug trials in ambulances.The kit can record voices, display when its medication contents are expired, and register...

Published on 4 February 2009, 11:56

Categories: Computer Engineering Electronic data logger kit Technology

MANHATTAN -- Information that could help scientists and public health officials mitigate the spread of human and animal diseases may be as close as the nearest Internet connection.However, making sense of all of the information available is no easy task for human beings. That's why Kansas...

Published on 13 January 2009, 09:48

Categories: Computer Engineering Technology Diseases