Maryland Professor Creates Desktop Supercomputer
A prototype of what may be the next generation of personal computers has been developed by researchers in the University of Maryland’s A. James Clark School of Engineering. Capable of computing speeds 100 times faster than current desktops, the technology is based on parallel processing on a single chip.
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MIT’s Amy Smith on appropriate engineering, Recorded February 2006 in Monterey, California. Food, water, medicine — in the developing world, these basic needs can be impossible to meet. Amy Smith and her students design smart, low cost tools to improve the life of the poorest in our world.
I remember traveling with my father as [...]

Vertical farming in the big Apple
scientists at Columbia University are proposing an alternative. Their vision of the future is one in which the skyline of New York and other cities include a new kind of [skyscraper]: the “vertical farm”. The idea is simple enough. Imagine a 30-storey building with glass walls, topped off with [...]

Engineers are responsible for solving a variety of increasingly-complex problems, but oftentimes nature has already figured out the best solutions. For example, velcro was invented in 1941 after a Swiss engineer looked under a microscope to see how the seeds of a burdock plant stuck to his socks. Before this time, there was no good [...]

Originally posted to the ASEE internal Information Technology blog by Sean Stickle:
As discussed at lunch, I have long believed the Polycom Power-over-Ethernet cable to be a fiction: at best, a misunderstanding on the part of the sales agent; at worst, a ploy to make extra money off customer ignorance. So I decided to take apart [...]