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Janos Sztipanovits, director of Vanderbilt University’s Institute for Software Integrated Systems. Americans are well accustomed to the sight of Fitbit-adorned wrists, their wearers marching in place so that their smartphones can reward them with a celebratory message about hitting a step goal. That’s the Internet… Read More

  Undergraduates and Jianing Liu (CE’16) and Ashley Peck (ME'17) are helping design the robot kits. A visit by Adventure Science Center campers helped them see how young students would interact with the kits. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Pietro Valdastri’s STORM lab is a cacophony of whirring motors… Read More

Recent headlines trumpeted the end of Moore’s Law, a 50-year-old prediction that transistors per square inch on integrated circuits would double every two years into the foreseeable future. And yes, that pattern of exponentially growing computer power has lagged a bit – noticeably, with Intel’s six-month delay last year in releasing… Read More

Karl Zelik (Vanderbilt University) In his effort to develop better prosthetic limbs, Karl Zelik had to start with deciphering more clearly how muscles function in walking. His path not only led to a better way of quantifying human locomotion, but also to the discovery that muscles around… Read More

T-HUB, designed by engineers at Vanderbilt's Institute for Software Integrated Systems, is designed to attract and retain bus riders by taking out the guesswork. Nashville’s mass transit leaders are banking on a Vanderbilt University-produced app to get people out of their cars and onto city buses. It… Read More

Recent Vanderbilt computer science Ph.D. Sayan Sen cracked a decades-old coding problem. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) A newly minted Vanderbilt University computer science Ph.D. combined characteristics of ant colonies and superheated metals to break a decades-old coding problem. Sayan Sen’s results have potential applications in a field that… Read More

Jamey Young, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Vanderbilt University. Some people may be overweight their whole lives and never suffer from nonalcoholic fatty liver disease’s most deadly effects – diabetes, cirrhosis, liver cancer and organ failure. Jamey Young, assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular… Read More

From left, Professor Douglas Schmidt, Jeffrey Selingo, Roberta R. Schmidt and retired Navy Capt. Raymond P. Schmidt. (Photo courtesy Douglas Schmidt) Blockbuster had Netflix. Borders had Amazon. Tower Records had iTunes. And so traditional higher education is going to face innovators that challenge it to adapt… Read More

Ira August "Gus" Hunt III (Photo courtesy of VentureBeat) A Vanderbilt engineering graduate who retired from the CIA discussed recently what wearable technology can do — including hand valuable information about users to hackers. A clip of Ira “Gus” Hunt appeared in a Fox… Read More

A fall semester E-Day, which included this Rubik's Cube station, provided a small preview of the spring semester E-Week. (Heidi Hall/Vanderbilt University) Engineering students at Vanderbilt University are showcasing their ingenuity through a series of fun and challenging competitions and events during Vanderbilt Engineers Week, going on… Read More