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Surveillance
Surveillance today employs many sophisticated sensors and other devices to safeguard the public and the military.
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Ronald S. Indeck
DAS Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering
Indeck earned his doctorate from the University of Minnesota. His research involves magnetic and optical components and systems, especially in the areas of information technology and security. He is working with extremely high density magnetic recording systems, fast searching of massive databases, ...
Expertise: object verification, public surveillance, magnetic information storage systems, magnetism
Media assistance: (314) 935-5272 / tony_fitzpatrick@wustl.edu
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Neil M. Richards
Associate Professor of Law
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Richards is available to comment on issues related to the Supreme Court, the First Ammendment, privacy law, and Constitutional law. A former law clerk for Chief Justice of the United States William H. Rehnquist, Richards' research focuses on present-day and historical questions of free speech and privacy ...
Expertise: Constitutional law, First Amendment, Supreme Court and the Constitution, privacy law, press and the Constitution
Direct contact: (314) 935-4794
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nmrichards@wulaw.wustl.edu
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First test
Study: Wireless sensors limit earthquake damage
April 16,
2007 --
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| Shirley Dyke (left) and Pengcheng Wang adjust wireless sensors onto a model laboratory building in Dyke's laboratory. |
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An earthquake engineer at Washington University in St. Louis has successfully performed the first test of wireless sensors in the simulated structural control of a model laboratory building. Shirley J. Dyke, Ph.D., the Edward C. Dicke Professor of Civil Engineering and director of the Washington University Structural Control and Earthquake Engineering Laboratory, combined the wireless sensors with special controls called magnetorheological dampers to limit damage from a simulated earthquake load. More...
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Cloning agents
Software agents now in touch via network sensors
Nov. 9,
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| Aristo, the Washington University robot, uses sensor networks to avoid simulated "fire" - red cups - while navigating near "safe" areas,which are blue cups. |
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Agent 007 is a mighty versatile fellow, but he would have to take backseat to agents being trained at Washington University in St. Louis. Computer scientist engineers here are using wireless sensor networks that employ software agents that so far have been able to navigate a robot safely through a simulated fire and spot a simulated fire by seeking out heat. Once the agent locates the fire, it clones itself - try that, James Bond -- creating a ring of software around the fire. A "fireman" can then communicate with this multifaceted agent through a personal digital assistant (PDA) and learn where the fire is and how intense it is. Should the fire expand, the agents clone again and maintain the ring - an entirely different "ring of fire." More...
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New generation of hybrid filter
Device traps, UV zaps pathogens
June 8,
2005 -- A team of engineers from Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Colorado at Boulder has removed bioaerosols - airborne biological particulate matter -- from the air of a hospital therapy pool using a new generation of hybrid filters. The bioaerosols identified in the unnamed Midwestern hospital pool had sickened nine lifeguards who had become ill with hypersensitivity pneumonitis, a lung condition that mimics pneumonia symptoms. This forced the pool to shut down. It is now reopened.
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Analysis: Debate Unlikely to Change Race
Associated Press
and 66 others
Feb. 27,
2008 -- WUSTL's Wayne Fields comments on final pitches by Democratic presidential candidates as they head into the last weeks of primary elections.
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Drug Informant Fights Deportation
NPR Day to Day
Feb. 8,
2008 -- A Nigerian immigrant here facing deportation says he's going to be tortured and killed if he is, in fact, sent back home. Frank Enwonwu was caught smuggling heroin 22 years ago. Since then he's lived the dangerous life of an informant for federal drug authorities.
He claims part of the deal was a promise to allow him to stay in the U.S. and escape revenge from the Nigerian drug dealers. Professor Stephen Legomsky, an immigration law expert at Washington University in St. Louis, comments.
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Charges filed in HP spying scandal
NPR Marketplace
Oct. 5,
2006 -- California's attorney general today filed criminal charges against former Hewlett-Packard chairwoman Patricia Dunn and four others involved in the corporate spying scandal.
WUSTL law professor Samuel Buell comments on the case.
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U.S. to Deploy Proven Technology on Borders
NPR - Morning Edition
Sept. 22,
2006 -- The Department of Homeland Security today awards a multi-billion dollar contract to beef up border security. The anticipated winner is Boeing. Despite the aerospace giant's background, Boeing's border security plan is less high tech than you might expect.
WUSTL computer science professor Robert Pless comments on surveillance technology. He is assistant director of WUSTL's Center for Security Technologies.
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Bush has hits, misses in annual speech
CBS News online
and 32 others
Jan. 27,
2006 -- WUSTL presidential rhetoric specialist Wayne Fields comments on President Bush's annual State of the Union address and looks back on his previous speeches.
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