Google privacy engineer Jeremy Gillula, PhD (BS ’06) on how protecting personal data became a priority—and what will shape the future of digital freedom
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Donald Furst
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The Sustainable City
The United Nations predicts that 70% of the world’s population will live in urban centers in the next 30 years. The city of the future will need to function differently than it does today, and the change over the next three decades will be rapid.
First On-chip Nanoscale Optical Quantum Memory Developed
For the first time, an international team led by engineers at Caltech has developed a computer chip with nanoscale optical quantum memory. Quantum memory stores information in a similar fashion to the way traditional computer memory does, but on individual quantum...
Caltech Alumnus Tapped for Infiniti Engineering Academy
Caltech Celebrates 30 Years of its Computation and Neural Systems Option
It began small, with a single class. For the 1981-82 school year, three giants on Caltech's faculty—Richard Feynman, Carver Mead (BS '56, MS '57, PhD '60), and John Hopfield—joined up to co-teach a yearlong course called "The Physics of Computation." The course was...
New App Replaces Ultrasound with Smartphone Camera to Measure Heart Health
Want to know how healthy your heart is? Now there's an app for that. In a proof-of-concept clinical trial, engineers at Caltech, Huntington Medical Research Institute, and USC have demonstrated that the camera on your smartphone can noninvasively provide detailed...
Eric Schultz
PhD ’00
Pioneer of “Directed Evolution” Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
Frances Arnold, the Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, is being honored with the Society of Women Engineers' 2017 Achievement Award. The society's highest award, the Achievement Award is given out every year...
Training a Machine to Watch Soccer
Identifying dynamic player roles proves critical for understanding coordinated team behavior Though soccer players have assigned roles, it is routine for players to swap positions throughout the course of a game, or even during a single play. Players and fans...
Prospective Applicants Explore Opportunities for Women at Caltech
Robert E. Scheid
PhD ’82