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Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his team have created three related projects that begin to define the new field of interactive biotechnology.

Apr 21, 2015

Stanford team makes biotechnology interactive with games and remote-control labs

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Professor David Miller says one fiber could theoretically transport perhaps as many as 100 different light beams, each carrying its own data stream. | Photo: Rod Searcey

Mar 27, 2015

Stanford engineers working to pack more laser beams, and data, into fiber optic strands

Computation & Data, Materials

Assistant Professor Michael Bernstein and graduate student Niloufar Salehi have created an online forum structure to overcome barriers to group action. | Photo: Rod Searcey

Mar 23, 2015

Stanford engineers collaborate on research to help online groups organize themselves

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Stanford researchers discovered that by conducting automated analyses of what students do from moment to moment as they learn to write computer programs, they could predict the students’ final grad

Mar 11, 2015

Stanford study shows success of different learning styles in computer science class

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Testers work with iBraillers in a training session at the Employers Federation of Ceylon in Sri Lanka. | Photo: Sohan Dharmaraja

Feb 10, 2015

Stanford engineer produces free Braille-writer app

Computation & Data, Health

Assistant Professor K.C. Huang led a team of Stanford bioengineers who showed that bigger bacterial cells have an advantage over smaller ones and that experimental microbes can grow as fast as normal

Dec 17, 2014

Stanford bioengineers discover knob to dial up fitter cells

Computation & Data, Materials

This illustration represents the four-layer prototype high-rise chip built by Stanford engineers. The bottom and top layers are logic transistors. Sandwiched between them are two layers of memory. Th

Dec 15, 2014

Stanford team combines logic, memory to build a “high-rise” chip

Computation & Data, Materials

The super-compact “Swiss cheese” structures route light beams to different outputs based not on their color but on their mode. | Photo: Vuckovic Lab

Dec 2, 2014

Stanford engineers take big step toward using light instead of wires inside computers

Computation & Data, Materials

Stanford Professor Fei-Fei Li, director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab, leads work on a computer vision system. | Photo by Kathleen Hinkel

Nov 18, 2014

Stanford team creates computer vision algorithm that can describe photos

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

Stanford computer science graduate student Spence Green is first author on two studies about blending human and machine intelligence for language translations. | Illustration: Stuart Miles/Shuttersto

Oct 28, 2014

Stanford system combines software with human intelligence to improve translation

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Sep 9, 2014

Stanford engineer aims to connect the world with ant-size radios

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

Aug 25, 2014

Stanford team looks to take crowdsourcing to a new level

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Jul 1, 2014

Stanford engineers envision an electronic switch just three atoms thick

Computation & Data

Professor Jure Leskovec says online courses shouldn't be judged simply by whether students complete the work. | Photo: Andraž Kavčič

Jun 17, 2014

Handing out gold stars can boost participation in online courses

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Kwabena Boahen, associate professor of bioengineering at Stanford, explains the design choices that enable his Neurocore chips to mimic brain functions in an energy-efficient way that could make them

Apr 24, 2014

Stanford scientists create circuit board modeled on the human brain

Computation & Data

Apr 7, 2014

Stanford engineers design video game controller that senses when players get bored

Computation & Data

Researchers can use the speed and pattern of photo sharing events to predict, eight times out of 10, when a photo will 'go viral'. |Tom Abate

Apr 3, 2014

Computer scientists learn to predict which photos will go viral on Facebook

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

Stanford engineers have developed an improved process for making flexible circuits that use carbon nanotube transistors, a development that paves the way for a new generation of bendable electronic d

Mar 18, 2014

Stanford engineers make flexible carbon nanotube circuits more reliable and efficient

Computation & Data, Materials

Stanford doctoral student Christina Delimitrou and Professor Christos Kozyrakis borrowed an idea from Netflix to improve data center efficiency. | Norbert von der Groeben

Feb 28, 2014

Stanford engineers create a software tool to reduce the cost of cloud computing

Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

Linda He Yi, a doctoral student in Professor H.-S. Philip Wong's lab, oversaw the process of fabricating this RRAM prototype. | Wong Lab

Dec 9, 2013

Stanford engineers make first working prototype for memory chip ideal for mobile devices

Computation & Data

Stanford Associate Professor Wei Ci and doctoral researcher Yoonjin Won

Dec 2, 2013

Stanford engineers show how to optimize carbon nanotube arrays for hot spots

Computation & Data, Health

Stanford aeronautics graduate student Ved Chirayath photographs coral reefs using a 360-degree camera. | Dan Griffin

Oct 16, 2013

Drones open way to new world of coral research

Computation & Data, Environment

Ph.D. candidates Edgar Peralta, right, and Ken Soong, left, analyze data from the desktop accelerator chip at SLAC. Peralta and Soong are first and second authors, respectively, of the Nature repor

Oct 4, 2013

Stanford Engineers participate in ‘accelerator on a chip’ project

Computation & Data

Oct 1, 2013

Stanford algorithm analyzes sentence sentiment, advances machine learning

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data