For 60 years computers have become smaller, faster and cheaper. But engineers are approaching the limits of how small they can make silicon transistors and how quickly they can push electricity through devices to create digital ones and zeros. That limitation is why Stanford electrical engineering Professor Jelena Vuckovic is looking to quantum computing, which…
Stanford Team Brings Quantum Computing Closer To Reality With New Materials
For 60 years computers have become smaller, faster and cheaper. But engineers are approaching the limits of how small they can make silicon transistors and how quickly they can push electricity through devices to create digital ones and zeros. That limitation is why Stanford electrical engineering Professor Jelena Vuckovic is looking to quantum computing, which…
Stanford Team Makes Biotechnology Interactive with Games and Remote-Control Labs
In the 1950s computers were giant machines that filled buildings and served a variety of arcane functions. Today they fit into our pockets or backpacks, and help us work, communicate and play. “Biotechnology today it is very similar to where computing technology used to be,” said Ingmar Riedel-Kruse, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Stanford.…
Stanford Combines Logic and Memory to Build a ‘High-Rise’ Chip
For decades, the mantra of electronics has been smaller, faster, cheaper. Today, Stanford engineers add a fourth word – taller. At a conference in San Francisco, a Stanford team will reveal how to build high-rise chips that could leapfrog the performance of the single-story logic and memory chips on today’s circuit cards. Those circuit cards…
Phone Record Surveillance Yields Vast Amounts of Information
Two computer science graduate students have found that the NSA’s mass collection of phone records can yield much more information about people’s private lives than the U.S. government claims. The National Security Agency’s mass surveillance of telephone metadata could yield detailed information about the private lives of individuals far beyond what the federal government claims,…