Check out the latest media coverage of Duke electrical and computer engineering research and education.
Duke ECE in the News
Lifewire |
Why Buying the New Fairphone 5 Could Help Save the Planet
Featuring ECE Professor Aaron Franklin's research into printing fully recyclable electronics.
Interesting Engineering |
Quantum Simulator Helps to Unlock a Major Science Mystery
A new study from the laboratory of ECE/Physics/Chemistry Professor Ken Brown exemplifies how the strides made in quantum computing are now being harnessed to unlock the secrets of fundamental science.
CNBC |
Amazon Will Soon Let You Pay for Groceries With Your Palm at Any Whole Foods—but Tech Experts Urge Caution
ECE/CS Professor Cynthia Rudin warns against using technology that stores your bioinformation such as a handprint or voice recognition because, "Those data sets can be used to control us anywhere in the world, including arresting us, or preventing us from entering stores that don’t want customers in our salary bracket, or who have political views that disagree with the owners of the venues.”
The Church News |
BYU Education Week: Can ChatGPT Teach a Sunday School Lesson?
ECE Professor Aaron Franklin traveled to BYU to teach about ChatGPT and how it might affect religious studies.
New Scientist |
Driverless Cars Could Get AI-Powered Heat Vision for Nighttime Driving
ECE Professor Miroslav Pajic says that an AI-trained heat-assisted detection and ranging (HADAR) system is a potentially promising new capability to complement the existing cameras and sensors on self-driving cars.
The New York Times |
How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools?
ECE/CS Professor Cynthia Rudin comments on the escalating arms race between AI image-generation technology and discriminators built to detect AI-generated images.
The News and Observer |
Duke Smart Toilet Flushes Away Poop but Leaves Valuable Health Information Behind
ECE Associate Research Professor Sonia Grego describes the work of Duke University’s Smart Toilet Lab, one of the few academic teams in the country researching smart toilet technologies.
CNBC |
We Need to Regulate Biometric Technologies, Professor Says
ECE/CS Professor Cynthia Rudin says it’s not just artificial intelligence text generation that could lead to “massive privacy violations,” but also biometric technologies like facial recognition.
Physics World |
New Type of Quasiparticle Emerges to Tame Quantum Computing Errors
ECE/Physics Professor Chris Monroe says a new result about quantum simulations is a pretty interesting confluence of science and sociology.
Nature |
Quantum Computers: What Are They Good For?
ECE Professor Jungsang Kim explains how his group is partnering with Hyundai to use quantum computers to make machine learning algorithms that recognize road signs much more efficient.