UH Researcher Building Next-Generation Internet
(October 15, 2007) Yuhua Chen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop technology leading to the next-generation internet infrastructure, making telemedicine and telesurgery possible in the future. Algorithms will be used to operate optical burst switching networks to deliver real-time video streams without pauses or jitters, possibly eliminating the optical-electrical-optical conversion technology that is currently used to transfer large amounts of information over the internet.

In Nanotech: It's Hip to be Square
(September 28, 2007) A new nano-fabrication technique has been created by a team of researchers out of the Center for Nanomagnetic Systems at the UH Cullen College of Engineering that enables the creation ofsquares and other features that hold promise for the future of computing. The team of electrical and computer engineering researchers, including Dmitri Litvinov, Paul Ruchhoeft and Stanko Brankovic, has developed a method of fabricating tightly packed nano-sized features with sharp corners, such as squares and honeycomb patterns, that could result in more more powerful and reliable computing devices for everything from music storage to computational research.

The Next Generation: Nanomagnets Could Replace Semiconductors
(August 29, 2007) Computer Engineering Professor Dmitri Litvinov has received a $360,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Grant Opportunities for Academic Liaison with Industry (GOALI) initiative to develop magnetic cellular networks in an effort to increase computing power—technology that rivals the semiconductor integrated circuits found in many of today's computer systems. Litvinov will be collaborating on the project with partners from the University of California-Riverside and Seagate Technology.

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