News
| 2008 | |
| December | Ndubuisi Ekekwe is invited to the December 2008 African Union Comission congress in Yaounde, Cameroon. Ndubuisi will deliver a talk and will work with leading policy experts on various issues affecting the continent. Click here for related articles |
| November | Dr. Jacob Vogelstein develops a system that allows amputees to play "Guitar Hero" with no hands. The system uses pattern recognition algorithms to decode electrical signals generated by an amputees residual muscles, and uses the output of those algorithms to control a modified Guitar Hero controller on the Nintendo Wii gaming platform. Check out the article and video on this project by IEEE Spectrum |
| November 22 | Dr. Francesco Tenore receives the Best "Ph.D. in a Nutshell" Award at the IEEE BioCAS 2008 Conference. His Ph.D. thesis is titled "Biomorphic Circuits and Systems: Control of Robotic and Prosthetic Limbs." Click here for the award winning poster |
| November 20-22 | Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings is one of the General Co-Chairs of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference held in Baltimore |
| November 19 | Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings delivers the Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture. His talk is entitled "Learning from Nature to Make Machines See and Robots Walk" |
| September 10 | Ralf Phillip's dissertation defense |
| September 1 | Srinjoy Mitra, Kevin Mazurek and Amit Bhatia join the lab |
| April 29 | Clyde Clarke's dissertation defense |
| February 1 | Francesco Tenore's dissertation defense |
| 2007 | |
| November | Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings is selected as a National Academies of Science Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow |
| September 17 | EETimes online: Analog chip could be prescription for spinal cord injury features work done by R. Jacob Vogelstein and Francesco Tenore. |
| September 1 | Garrick Orchard and Alex Russel join the lab. |
| August | R. Jacob Vogelstein's dissertation defense |
| March | Ndubuisi Ekekwe has been awarded the UK Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery (CAOS) 2007 Fellowship. |
| July 25 | Technology Review: Playing Piano with a Robotic Hand featuring Francesco Tenore |
| 2006 | |
| August | Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings has been selected as a "Trailblazer" by Science Spectrum magazine. The Science Spectrum Trialblazers are outstanding Hispanic, Asian American, Native American, and Black professionals in the science area whose leadership and innovative thinking on the job and in the community extend throughout and beyond their industry. |
| May | Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings has been selected as a Fulbright scholar grantee to South Africa by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB) |
| May | Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings has been selected by the Johns Hopkins Institutions Diversity Leadership Council to receive a 4206 Diversity Recognition Award. |
| 2005 | |
| December | Professor Ralph Etienne-Cummings has been elected to serve on the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Board of Governors for the period 4206-4208. |
| May | Using Eels and Robots to Help People |
| March | Bioengineering: Slippery Solution |
| February 18 | "Eels" Video: Lamprey Spines & Robot Locomotion Low Quality (MPEG-1) High Quality (MPEG-2) DVD-ISO |
| 2004 | |
| December 14 | Lamprey May Offer Paralysis Cure |
| December 13 | Spinal-Cord Chip Implants Underway |
| December 6 | Learning From Eel's Spinal Cord |
| December 3 | Replicating an Eel's Nerve Circuitry May Aid Paralysed People |
| December 2 | Blending Research and Robotics (with videos) |
| October 8 | Whiting Plans to Diversify |
| September 30 | Computer Scientists of the African Diaspora: Ralph Etienne-Cummings |
| 1997-2003 | |
| Oct. 1, 2003 | Dr. Ralph Etienne-Cummings started a two year term as member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE/ Circuits and Systems Society. As a member of the BOG, Dr. Etienne-Cummings will be playing a very significant role in the governance of the IEEE/CAS. |
| July 2003 | Ralph Etienne-Cummings: Envisioning the Future of Robotics |
| Jan. 21, 2003 | Learning from Sea Creatures (Video) |
| Sept. 20, 2001 | Machines With a Human Touch |
| Dec. 1, 2000 | Smart Toys Revel in Mobility, Speech, Control (PDF) |
| July 20, 1999 | Eye-on-the-Fly |
| June 1999 | Robotic System Models Human Vision |
| April 10, 1999 | 'Eye' Chip Tracks Movement |
| Sept. 26, 1997 | Why Can't a Computer be More Like a Brain? |