Category: Data & Computing
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Six ECE faculty will help shape the future of semiconductors as part of the JUMP 2.0 program
Elaheh Ahmadi, David Blaauw, Michael Flynn, Hun-Seok Kim, Hessam Mahdavifar, and Zhengya Zhang bring their expertise and creativity to this nationwide undertaking in the area of semiconductors and information & communication technologies.
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Open-source hardware: a growing movement to democratize IC design
Dr. Mehdi Saligane, a leader in the open-source chip design community, was among the first researchers to fabricate a successful chip as part of Google’s multi-project wafer program.
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Duraisamy to lead Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering
“I am looking forward to working with the incredible talent we have at U-M to expand the frontiers of computational science, and in more firmly establishing the role of computing in solving the grand challenge problems facing humanity.”
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Seeing electron movement at fastest speed ever could help unlock next-level quantum computing
New technique could enable processing speeds a million to a billion times faster than today’s computers and spur progress in many-body physics.
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Visualizing nanoscale structures in real time
Open-source software enables researchers to see materials in 3D while they’re still on the electron microscope.
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Open source platform enables research on privacy-preserving machine learning
Virtual assortment of user devices provides a realistic training environment for distributed machine learning, protects privacy by learning where data lives.
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Machine learning begins to understand the human gut
The new computer model accurately predicts the behavior of millions of microbial communities from hundreds of experiments, an advance toward precision medicine.
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Emulating impossible “unipolar” laser pulses paves the way for processing quantum information
Quantum materials emit light as though it were only a positive pulse, rather than a positive-negative oscillation.
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Immune to hacks: Inoculating deep neural networks to thwart attacks
The adaptive immune system serves as a template for defending neural nets from confusion-sowing attacks.
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Open-source patient model tops industry standard
Tested without needing hospitals to share data, the method for developing the model could speed further improvements in medical prediction tools.
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Calculating the best shapes for things to come
A new algorithm efficiently determines optimal shapes for structures.
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Quantum tech: Semiconductor “flipped” to insulator above room temp
Discovery could pave the way to high speed, low-energy quantum computing.