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A three-step plan for carbon neutrality at the University of California

Author: Jenny Seifert 

Universities across the United States have set ambitious goals to shrink their…

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Kaustav Banerjee yields a smaller, higher-performing alternative to the classic inductor

A basic building block of modern technology, inductors are everywhere: cellphones, laptops, radios, televisions, cars. And surprisingly…

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Chandra Krintz and Rich Wolski Help Ecologists with their Project: "Where's the Bear?"

Facing a daunting, digital pile millions of photographs high, how would you find the few images you need? Could you, even? It’s a…

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where's the bear?

Chandra Krintz and Rich Wolski Help Ecologists with their Project: "Where's the Bear?"

Facing a daunting, digital pile millions of photographs high, how would you find the few images you need? Could you, even? It’s a…

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Newsletter: January 2018

IEE has released it's quarterly newsletter featuring news and research from November 2017 through January 2018. View the full…

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Recent Advances in Quantum Dot Lasers for Silicon Photonics

Silicon photonics is revolutionizing optical technologies by enabling scalable manufacturing of densely integrated photonic systems on a…

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Molecular Spring-Loaded Coulombic Sensor Governs Smart Biophotonics

Squids and octopi exhibit a remarkable ability to adaptively change skin color for camouflage and communication. We recently discovered…

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UCSB RACELab wins best paper award at IEEE Cluster Conference

The RACELab in the Computer Science Department at UCSB directed by Professors…

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UCSB RACELab wins best paper award at IEEE Cluster Conference

The RACELab in the Computer Science Department at UCSB directed by Professors…

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Mark Rodwell Leads New Terahertz-Tange Communications Center

Imagine a roomful of 1,000 students all simultaneously experiencing an augmented reality lecture and demonstration. Or, how about riding…

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Shuji Nakamura reveals how LEDs are benefitting the developing world

Author: Shuji Nakamura
Date: January 23, 2018

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Unite To Light Sends 9,000 Solar Lights to Rohingya refugees Bangladesh

Most of them have come on foot. Trekking through hills and across rivers from their home country and into Bangladesh, some 600,000…

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Science Meets Hollywood in the Raw Science Film Festival

Interstellar travel, light-driven spacecraft, suspended animation. It sounds like the formula for countless science fiction stories, but…

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Thermoelectric power: New ways to Power Portable Electronics

Scientists at the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported significant advances in the…

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10/2017 newsletter

Newsletter: October 2017

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Estimating & Understanding Architectural Risk

While new technologies present tremendous promise for doing energy efficient computing, designing an efficient computer system in an era…

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