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Imaging device fits in the palm of a hand
Ultrasound imaging now possible with a smartphone
April 20,
2009 --
Computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing the minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact, mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits in the palm of a hand. William D. Richard, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science and engineering, and David Zar, research associate in computer science and engineering, have made commercial USB ultrasound probes compatible with Microsoft Windows mobile-based smartphones, thanks to a $100,000 grant Microsoft awarded the two in 2008.
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Brauers' generosity to support engineering for years to come
Oct. 20,
2008 -- Chancellor Mark S. Wrighton announced that WUSTL has received a major commitment from Stephen and Camilla Brauer to help implement the long-range, strategic plan of its School of Engineering & Applied Science.
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Saving lives
Today's military using more robots
Aug. 4,
2008 --
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| WUSTL computer scientists who work on robots say the machines still need the human touch. |
War casualties are typically kept behind tightly closed doors, but one company keeps the mangled pieces of its first casualty on display. This is no ordinary soldier, though — it is Packbot from iRobot Corporation. Robots in the military are no longer the stuff of science fiction, and WUSTL's Doug Few and Bill Smart are on the cutting edge of this new wave of technology. Few and Smart report that the military goal is to have approximately 30% of the Army comprised of robotic forces by approximately 2020.
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Of time and the River City
National sundial group tours St. Louis area's sundials
Aug. 4,
2008 --
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| David Kilper/WUSTL Photo |
| A group of about 45 sundial enthusiasts will tour 15 St. Louis area sundials. |
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While we are bombarded daily with gloomy stories about Earth going to a hot place in a handbasket, a group of roughly 45 enthusiasts from around the country are meeting in St. Louis, August 7-10, to celebrate the beauty of the Earth moving around the sun.
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Shake it up
For nonlinear systems, chaos leads to order
April 3,
2006 -- "Da police are not here to create disorder; dere here to preserve disorder." — Richard J. Daley, Chicago mayor, explaining to the media the role of the police during the riotous 1968 Democratic National Convention.
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| The order team. |
Police keep order. That's why, for example, they issue tickets for "disturbing the peace." Thus the only logical conclusion to Mayor Daley's famous quote above — other than dismissing it as the result of a tangled tongue — is sometimes disorder spawns order. Sounds impossible, right? Wrong. According to a computational study conducted by a group of physicists at Washington University in St. Louis, one may create order by introducing disorder. More...
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Bandit, space repairman
Tiny satellite can dock with mothership
Nov. 11,
2004 --
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| David Kilper / WUSTL Photo |
Failure at a university is a word with bad connotations, unless you are involved in building experimental satellites that the U.S. Air Force and NASA find interesting. An aerospace engineer at Washington University in St. Louis who works with students building experimental spacecraft says student-built spacecraft, which he calls "university-class," have a strong advantage over aerospace industry-built spacecraft: the freedom to fail.
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Reading electronic 'fingerprints'
Washington University technology earns its stripes
Nov. 11,
2004 --
Washington University in St. Louis has licensed a system developed by Washington University engineers that is meant to detect counterfeit credit cards by reading a unique magnetic "fingerprint" on the stripes of credit cards and other objects that carry magnetic information. The system -- called Magneprint -- was invented by Ronald Indeck, Ph.D., Das Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering at Washington University.
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