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Top 12 Media Hits, 2003-04

  • “Casting the Wireless Sensor Net,” MIT Technology Review, featuring computer science professor Deborah Estrin and electrical engineering professors Bill Kaiser and Greg Pottie. (July 1, 2003)


  • “PopSci’s 2nd Annual Brilliant 10,” Popular Science Magazine, featuring computer science professor Deborah Estrin. (September 2003)


    • “[Estrin joins] a tiny cohort of the larger community of researchers doing the work that will reveal – and, by revealing, change – our world.”

  • Unsolved History, The Discovery Channel, featuring civil and environmental engineering professors Jonathan Stewart and John Wallace. (September 3, 2003)


  • Discovery, BBC News World Edition, featuring mechanical and aerospace engineering professor C.J. Kim. (October 8, 2003)


  • “Nanotechnology – Small Things for Big Changes,” Los Angeles Times, featuring electrical engineering professor Eli Yablonovitch. (November 23, 2003)


  • “Buried Measure,” San Diego Union Tribune, featuring computer science professor Deborah Estrin. (November 26, 2004)


    • “Embedded networks help make sense of nature, life and the world.”

  • “Talking to Bacteria,” Nature, featuring chemical engineering professor James Liao. (February 12, 2004)


    • “[This] achievement brings us one step closer to turning cells into tiny robots that we can control…”

  • “Sorting E-Mail Friends from Foes,” Nature, featuring electrical engineering professor Vwani Roychowdhury (February 16, 2004)


    • “A simple and easily implemented scheme for combating e-mail spam has been devised … [that] turns the spammers’ weapon on themselves.”

  • “‘Smart Dust’ is Way Cool,” U.S. News & World Report, featuring computer science professor Deborah Estrin. (February 16, 2004)


    • “Thanks to this new technology, many scientists are getting the chance to observe what was previously unobservable.”

  • Daily Planet, The Science Channel, featuring electrical engineering professor Bill Kaiser. (March 3, 2004)


  • “Big Idea in Mini-Robotics,” Los Angeles Times, featuring bioengineering professor Carlo Montemagno. (March 15, 2004)


    • “…a key stumbling block [to miniaturizing medical devices] is finding a way of shrinking the power source… The newly minted machines in Carlo Montemagno’s UCLA lab may overcome this formidable hurdle.”

  • Beyond Invention: Artificial Intelligence, The Discovery Channel, featuring computer science professor Petros Faloutsos. (April 8, 2004)
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