Author: Derek Smith
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Four emerging leaders at Michigan Engineering recognized by White House
The honorees’ work advances materials for clean energy and load-bearing applications, graph theory, and healthier cultures in engineering education.
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Boosting AI model size and training speed with lightwave-connected chips
AI growth is capped by data transfer rates between computing chips, but transferring data with light could remove the ceiling.
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New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals
Cutting acid and base treatments from conventional desalination plants could save billions of dollars globally, making seawater a more affordable option for drinking water.
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$5M to improve testing, durability, and noise levels of wave energy devices and offshore wind
The research could make offshore renewable energy more reliable and a better neighbor to marine life, also enabling laboratory testing of larger prototypes.
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Beaver Island residents sign up for U-M wave energy panel
Each member will provide essential input for U-M engineers to design a wave energy prototype that best suits the island’s needs.
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Battery-like computer memory keeps working above 1000°F
The material transports oxygen ions rather than electrons, creating heat-resistant voltages for both digital memory and in-memory computing.
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A new look at Voyager 2 data explains one of Uranus’s long-standing mysteries
The spacecraft saw Uranus’s magnetic field at a weird time, so our picture of the planet and its moons actually represents an edge case rather than the norm.
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Up to 30% of the power used to train AI is wasted. Here’s how to fix it.
Smarter use of processor speeds saves energy without compromising training speed and performance.
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Precision health and advanced communications: €9M ($10M) for bio-inspired nanoparticles on demand
Advanced microscopy techniques and AI models will help design complex nanoparticles for specific biological targets with less trial and error.
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Accounting for bias in medical data helps prevent AI from amplifying racial disparity
Some sick Black patients are likely labeled as “healthy” in AI datasets due to inequitable medical testing.
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Could one of Jupiter’s moons support alien life? U-M scientists are on the case
U-M researchers helped find the first evidence for an ocean on the icy moon Europa. Now, with NASA’s return mission, they aim to learn if it’s habitable.
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Real-time descriptions of surroundings for people who are blind
The quick and clear mental image of the real world helps people who are blind or have low vision focus on other tasks, or just enjoy the things around them.