Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science

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Stretching the Imagination

Yale engineers have developed a material and fabrication process that can rapidly make electronic circuits devices stretchier, more durable, and closer to being ready for mass manufacturing.

Faculty Spotlight

Joan Feigenbaum

Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science and Economics

Joan Feigenbaum's research interests include Internet algorithms, computational complexity, security and privacy, and digital copyright. She has a long-standing interest in fundamental problems in complexity theory and cryptology, and she is co-inventor of the security-research area of "trust management." She has also worked on algorithms for massive data sets, particularly in network operations and business-to-consumer e-commerce.

News

A Simpler, but Dexterous Robot Hand

Humans use all surfaces of the hand for contact-rich manipulation. Robot hands, in contrast, typically use only the fingertips, which can limit dexterity. In a new study from the lab of Aaron...