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Aug 24, 2012

A small-​​scale solution with a large-​​scale impact

Microchips are per­va­sive in today’s high-​​tech society, playing inte­gral roles in the inner work­ings of your cell phone to your Keurig coffee machine. A pro­cessing tech­nology called CMOS, or com­ple­men­tary metal–oxide–semiconductor, made […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 23, 2012

Separating the Good & Bad

ECE & CCS Associate Professor Engin Kirda has developed a new software tool called PubCrawl to detect and contain malicious web crawlers without effecting normal browsing capacities. Source: News @ […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 23, 2012

A new kind of pub crawl

Web­sites like Face­book, LinkedIn and other social-​​media net­works con­tain mas­sive amounts of valu­able public infor­ma­tion. Auto­mated web tools called web crawlers sift through these sites, pulling out infor­ma­tion on mil­lions […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 20, 2012

Strumming on the nano-​​banjo

When you pluck a banjo string, you trigger a vibra­tion that res­onates at a fre­quency unique to the geom­etry and mate­rial of the string. We can dis­tin­guish that fre­quency as […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Aug 13, 2012

Summer in the engineering lab

More than 20 under­grad­uate stu­dents from eight col­leges and uni­ver­si­ties throughout the country pre­sented a host of inno­v­a­tive research projects on Thursday after­noon at North­eastern University. The projects, ranging from […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 31, 2012

Creating Underwater Networks

ECE professor Milica Stojanovic has been awarded an $120K NSF grant to develop a mobile underwater communications network for use in areas like  environmental monitoring, security, and aquaculture.  Milica Stojanovic […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering

Jul 03, 2012

Leeser Awarded $500K NSF Grant

ECE Professor Miriam Leeser was awarded a $500K NSF to Ensure Reliability and Portability of Scientific Software for Heterogeneous Architectures. Miriam Leeser joined the faculty at Northeastern University in January […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Jun 22, 2012

Chipping away at cancer

In the last two decades, the number of deaths from col­orectal cancer has steadily declined, according to the Amer­ican Cancer Society. While some of the decrease can be attrib­uted to […]

Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering