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Tag: Gu-Yeon Wei
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Nation & World
14 projects confronting climate change win Salata Institute grants
Plant-based buildings, greener AI, and a national agroforest are just a few of the solutions researchers are teaming up to explore.
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Nation & World
Smaller, faster, greener
Examining the environmental impact of computation and the future of green computing.
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Nation & World
A power boost for mobile technologies
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences doctoral student Simon Chaput developed the crucial low-power electronics needed for haptic technology, known for its high energy demands.
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Nation & World
Ahead of the learning curve
From the $40 million Hauser gift to support teaching and learning initiatives to the recent announcement of the global online platform edX, Harvard tackled the future of higher education head-on in 2011-12. As the University’s 375th anniversary draws to a close, the Gazette asked some prescient professors: “What’s the one big idea that will transform…
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Designing in the human context
For a week in January, 40 students from a variety of backgrounds — comparative literature to computer science — engaged in a “design thinking” workshop led by IDEO, an internationally renowned design consulting firm. Throughout, the human element was key — How do people actually use a product? — as was a certain amount of…
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Nation & World
Chips, efficient and fast
Professor Gu-Yeon Wei explores energy-efficient computing devices that are fast but draw minimal power.
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Nation & World
Matching supply, demand
Harvard graduate student Wonyoung Kim has developed and demonstrated a new device with the potential to reduce the power usage of modern processing chips.
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Nation & World
Research team at Harvard to develop small-scale mobile robotic devices
A multidisciplinary team of computer scientists, engineers, and biologists at Harvard received a $10 million National Science Foundation (NSF) Expeditions in Computing grant to fund the development of small-scale mobile robotic…