Feeling the Pressure
By Jeffrey Chun-Hui Lin, Yu Zhao, Po-Jui Chen, Mark Humayun, and Yu-Chong Tai
Since Watson and Crick’s discovery of the structure of DNA, the pace of scientific discovery in life sciences has grown exponentially. This is partly due to the amazing development of technologies, especially in the areas of data acquisition and data analysis.
The advent of microarray technologies, nanotechnology and DNA sequencing techniques have generated massive amounts of data, which would have taken lifetimes to be processed without the power of computers. It has been said that life sciences will be the most computer-intensive scientific field of the 21st century.
The challenges to analyze such data may be recent in the field of life sciences, but tools and solutions already existed in the fields of engineering, mathematics, statistics and computer science. Presented here is a small subset of examples that show how several engineering fields can come together to bring solutions for life sciences’ challenges.
By Jeffrey Chun-Hui Lin, Yu Zhao, Po-Jui Chen, Mark Humayun, and Yu-Chong Tai
National Academy of Sciences plays host to celebrated innovators and experts who will address grand challenges in engineering and life sciences.
The Tentative Program for the
By Robert Harle and Andy Hopper
By Brian Dipert and Amit Shoham
By Yong-Lae Park, Member, IEEE, Bor-Rong Chen, Member, IEEE, and Robert J. Wood, Member, IEEE
We are pleased to recognize the election in 2012 of a number of members of the Life Sciences Initiative leadership team as Fellows of The International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering (IAMBE). Congratulations to Bin He, Jose Principe, and Nitish Thakor! Also, congratulations to …
By Michael A. Goodrich, Mark Colton, Bonnie Brinton, Martin Fujiki, J. Alan Atherton, and Lee Robinson, Brigham Young University, Daniel Ricks, US Air Force Flight Test Center, Margaret Hansen Maxfield, Intermountain Health Care, Aersta Acerson, Alpine School District
Proceedings of the IEEE is celebrating its centennial year of publication during 2012. Many exciting features and events are being planned to mark this wonderful occasion! A Centennial Special Issue was published in May 2012, in honor of the founding and election of officers of …