Category: Research

Annual TxACE Symposium is on October 16, 2017

Davidson Auditorium, The University of Texas at Dallas

 

As electronics continue to bridge the gap between the analog real world and digital information infrastructure, the entire $350 billion per year integrated circuits industry is evolving into an analog-digital mixed signal industry. This one-day symposium will examine trends, emerging opportunities and key challenges in analog integrated circuits and systems, as well as related technologies.

The list of speakers will include:
Hans Stork — Senior Vice President and CTO of ON Semiconductor
Alessandro Piovaccari — Senior Vice President of Engineering and CTO, Silicon Labs
Brian La Cour — Director, Center for Quantum Research, ARL, UT Austin
Mike Flynn — Professor, U Michigan, Leader of Fund. Analog Thrust, TxACE
Yiorgos Makris — Professor, UT Dallas
Fredrick A. Jenet — Associate Professor of Physics, UT Rio Grande Valley
Adrian Tang — Strategic Researcher, UCLA and NASA JPL

The symposium will feature presentations by leading analog researchers, a lunch program, and poster and demonstration sessions featuring TxACE research.

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Samsung Demos a Tablet Controlled by Your Brain

An easy-to-use EEG cap could expand the number of ways to interact with your mobile devices.

One day, we may be able to check e-mail or call a friend without ever touching a screen or even speaking to a disembodied helper. Samsung is researching how to bring mind control to its mobile devices with the hope of developing ways for people with mobility impairments to connect to the world. The ultimate goal of the project, say researchers in the company’s Emerging Technology Lab, is to broaden the ways in which all people can interact with devices.

In collaboration with Roozbeh Jafari, an assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Texas, Dallas, Samsung researchers are testing how people can use their thoughts to launch an application, select a contact, select a song from a playlist, or power up or down a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1. While Samsung has no immediate plans to offer a brain-controlled phone, the early-stage research, which involves a cap studded with EEG-monitoring electrodes, shows how a brain-computer interface could help people with mobility issues complete tasks that would otherwise be impossible. […]

Read the full article at MIT Technology Review.