Can a machine read my mind?
For decades science fiction has been imagining the incredible ways that machines might interact directly with our minds, from enabling telepathic communication to controlling robotic suits, solely using the power of thought. Getting computers to interface directly with the human brain has proven extremely challenging, but rapidly advancing computer technology is changing the landscape. CrowdScience […]
Teaching the Brain to See Again
What if you could flip a switch and restore vision to a blind person? It sounds near-miraculous. And, yet, since the 1970s scientists have been trying to do just that. If they succeed, it won’t be a miracle. It will be a triumph of neuroscience and technology. William Dobelle created the first “bionic eye” technology […]
The Economist on Neurotechnologies
Brain-computer interfaces sound like the stuff of science fiction. Andrew Palmer sorts the reality from the hype IN THE gleaming facilities of the Wyss Centre for Bio and Neuroengineering in Geneva, a lab technician takes a well plate out of an incubator. Each well contains a tiny piece of brain tissue derived from human stem […]
DARPA Is Spending $65 Million to Meld Mind and Machine
The U.S. defense agency that specializes in “out-there” science and technology endeavors is on a quest to bridge the gap between brain and computer. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) recently awarded $65 million to six different teams that will begin developing neural implants that convert neural activity into 1s and 0s of digital […]
2012
- (11/2012) Ferric Semiconductor in the news
- (7/2012) Congratulations for Mike Lekas for being a 2012 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship winner.
- (3/2012) Jacob Rosenstein’s Nature Methods paper on high-speed nanopore-CMOS bioelectronic interfaces gets press attention: EurekAlert, Bio-Medicine, Physorg.com, IEEE Spectrum, Nature Methods News & Views, GenomeWeb
- (3/2012) Columbia University and SRC Breathe New Life into Scalability by Integrating Voltage Regulators Directly onto ICs
- (2/2012) EE Times talks about Noah Sturcken’s paper at ISSCC 2012.
2010
- (1/2010) Professor Shepard has been awarded $2.8 million from the DOE to develop energy-efficient computer chips. Read more at Columbia School of Engineering, EE Times, Columbia Research News
2009
- (5/2009) Matt Johnston explains on-chip mass sensors to Forbes.com in a short segment highlighting breakout technologies. See video
- (5/2009) Professor Shepard is quoted in Discover Magazine, June 2009 issue.
2008
- (12/2008) Inanc Meric presented his paper “RF performance of top-gated, zero-bandgap graphene field-effect transistors” in the 2008 International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco.
- (11/2008) Congratulations to Inanc Meric, whose paper “Current saturation in zero-bandgap, top-gated graphene field-effect transistors” has just appeared in Nature Nanotechnology.
- (10/2008) Columbia will receive $4 million to develop and evaluate graphene for use in field-effect transistors (FETs). Prof. Shepard is the PI on the grant.” details
- (7/2008) Columbia has been award a new $3M IGERT training grant by the National Science Foundation, “Optical Techniques for Actuation, Sensing, and Imaging of Biological Systems.” Prof. Shepard is the PI on the grant and will be directing the IGERT program.
- (6/2008) Prof. Shepard is named a finalist in the 2008 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists given by the New York Academy of Sciences. details
2007
- (11/2007) Prof. Ken Shepard has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE.
- (10/2007) Congratulations to Leina Lei for having her paper accepted to the 2008 International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
- (6/2007) Congratulations to Zheng Xu, Peter Levine, and David Huang for having four papers accepted to the 2007 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference.
- (4/2007) Congratulations to David Schwartz for having his paper accepted to VLSI Symposium 2007
2006
- (8/2006) Congratulations to Yee Li (Ph. D., 2005, now at Intel) for winning the ISLPED Low Power Design Contest for his Ph. D. work on low-power DSPs.
- (6/2006) Congratulations to Steven Chan (Ph. D., 2005, now at IBM Watson) for winning IBM’s 2005 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award for his January, 2005 paper “Uniform-phase, uniform-amplitude resonant-load global clock distributions”, published in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
- (3/2006) Prof. Ken Shepard has been recognized as a 2005 Distinguished Professor by the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR).
2005
- (1/2005) EE Times article on our ISSCC 2005 paper on resonant clocking
- (1/2005) Resonant clock work featured on IBM Research’s home page
- (9/2005) EE Times article discussing our contributions to Cadence’s Assura RCX-PL product
2003
- (12/2003) R&D Magazine article in the December, 2003 issue discussing our active CMOS biochip research
- (12/2003) R&D Magazine article in the December, 2003 issue discussing our on-chip sampling oscilloscope designs (see inset)
1999
- (1/1999) Electronics Times article on CadMOS Design Technology. CadMOS, co-founded by Prof. Shepard, was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2001.
