Check out the latest media coverage of Duke electrical and computer engineering research and education.
Duke ECE in the News
HPC Wire |
CCC Releases Updated Report on Quantum Computing Progress
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) has released an updated report on quantum computing progress in the past five years, based on a workshop held in the spring 2023, led in part by Kenneth Brown
AP News |
Contrary to Politicians’ Claims, Offshore Wind Farms Don’t Kill Whales
Doug Nowacek is collecting data near offshore wind farms to monitor any possible impacts short of fatality for whales in the area
News & Observer |
NC Quantum Computing Bullish on a Coveted Breakthrough
ECE Professor Jungsang Kim is confident that quantum computers will reach "quantum superiority" over conventional computers within his lifetime
Forbes |
"30 Under 30" Consumer Technology
New ECE Professor Emily Wenger was selected for the 2024 Forbes 30 under 30 list for her work on Glaze, a tool designed to safeguard artists’ works from generative AI models.
Scientific American |
Biden’s Executive Order on AI Is a Good Start, Experts Say, but Not Enough
ECE/CS Professor Cynthia Rudin comments on President Biden's new AI Executive Order, calling it "really, really big"
Quanta Magazine |
The Quest to Quantify Quantumness
ECE Professor Crystal Noel adds her thoughts to the search for a number that can be assigned to an arrangement of qubits produced by some quantum calculation
Post and Courier |
Wind and Whales: Scientists Raise New Questions While GOP Claims Still Wrong, Cause Harm
ECE Professor Doug Nowacek adds his expertise to contextualize recent claims that large offshore wind projects are negatively impacting the local whale community.
STAT |
How Good Are AI Health Technologies? We Have No Idea
ECE/CS Professor Cynthia Rudin co-pens an article about how difficult it is to evaluate the abilities of AI in health care.
Forbes |
Duke University Team Develops App That Accurately Screens For Autism
ECE Professor Guillermo Sapiro and colleagues at the Duke Medical School have developed an AI-driven app that can accurately detect a range of behaviors associated with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Quanta |
Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition
Experiments by ECE Professor Crystal Noel and others in the quantum sciences have proven there's a balance between measuring quantum states (and destroying entanglement) and preserving entanglement information in a network of entangled objects, leading to a tipping point where one wins out over the other.