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06-05-16

A recent New York Times article featured Caltech alumnus, Gordon Moore (PhD ’54), and the research of Professor Axel Scherer on ultrasmall vacuum tube as a candidate to replace the transistor. [Read the article]

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06-03-16

Graduate student Xiaoqi Ren, advised by Professor Adam Wierman, has won a Resnick Institute Research Fellowship. At Caltech, her research focuses on optimization of today's large scale data centers, including scheduling, energy usage and sustainability, and market design. A major focus of her work is developing algorithms and markets to encourage participation of data centers in demand response programs, allowing large scale data centers to serve as virtual energy storage for the grid.

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05-31-16

Computing and Mathematical Sciences student Nand Kishore, mentored by Professor Adam Wierman, is a recipient of the 2016 Henry Ford II Scholar Award. He is passionate about using machine learning to help solve some of the most complex problems in the world. The Henry Ford II Scholar Award is funded under an endowment provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund. The award is made annually to engineering students with the best academic record at the end of the third year of undergraduate study.

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05-31-16

Computing and Mathematical Sciences student Kushal Agarwal, mentored by Professor Mathieu Desbrun, is a recipient of the 2016 Henry Ford II Scholar Award. In addition to his class work, Kushal enjoys working on software, computer vision, and controls for the Caltech Robotics Team. The Henry Ford II Scholar Award is funded under an endowment provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund. The award is made annually to engineering students with the best academic record at the end of the third year of undergraduate study.

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05-20-16

Fernando Brandão, Bren Professor of Theoretical Physics, studies how quantum computers may someday revolutionize computing and change the world's cryptographic systems. [Caltech interview]

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05-20-16

Paul Rothemund, Research Professor of Bioengineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, and Computation and Neural Systems, explains how his group and groups around the world are using DNA origami in applications ranging from potential cancer treatments to devices for computing. [Caltech interview]

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05-06-16

Omer Tamuz, a newly arrived assistant professor of economics and mathematics, studies how people make decisions based on what they know and what they don't know, and how they exchange this information with one another. We sat down with him to talk about mathematical models of behavior, and life as a new member of the Caltech faculty. [Caltech story]

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04-24-16

Charging electric vehicles (EVs) can require a substantial amount of electricity (most EVs charge at 7 kilowatts, the equivalent of simultaneously running 70 desktop computers). Steven Low, Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, has developed Caltech's adaptive charging network, which uses a smart algorithm to coordinate the charging schedule with the Institute's existing electrical infrastructure. This program helps minimize energy usage and about 30 percent of the electricity at each charging station is from carbon-free renewable sources. [Caltech story]

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03-28-16

Two distinguished leaders in the computing industry—Michelle "Mich" Mathews-Spradlin, and Sabeer Bhatia (BS '91, EE)—have been elected to the Caltech Board of Trustees.  Mich Mathews-Spradlin is an angel investor, primarily in the technology sector. She previously served as a top executive at Microsoft Corp., beginning her career in 1989 as a United Kingdom–based consultant and then joining the company in the United States in 1993.  Sabeer Bhatia, a pioneer of web-based email, is cofounder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Sabse Technologies Inc., a mobile-telecommunications company. He was the cofounder of Hotmail Corporation, guiding that company's rise from a 1996 start-up into one of the world's largest email providers. Microsoft acquired Hotmail in 1998, eventually turning it into Microsoft Outlook. [Caltech story]

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03-25-16

Oscar P. Bruno, Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, has been chosen as a 2016 class of National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellow. The program awards grants to outstanding scientists and engineers at U.S. universities to conduct long-term, unclassified, basic research of strategic importance to the Defense Department. Professor Bruno will conduct research in the area of Applied Math/Electromagnetism. [U.S. Department of Defense Press Release]

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