Giving Smart Vehicles Their Sense of Direction

Giving Smart Vehicles Their Sense of Direction

Engineering professor develops algorithms for simultaneous localization and mapping Scientists around the world are racing to develop self-driving vehicles, but a few essential components have yet to be perfected. One is localization — the vehicle’s ability to...
Help At Your Fingertips

Help At Your Fingertips

New app designed for opioid users, loved ones, providers A new smartphone app puts a network of information and support about opioid and other substance use disorders into the hands of users, their loved ones and health care providers. The app, Help Near and Now (or...
Advancing Women in the Professoriate

Advancing Women in the Professoriate

ADVANCE Institute offers grants to empower female faculty Kathy McCoy was reluctant to step outside her comfort zone as professor of computer and information sciences, a position she had held for 15 years at the University of Delaware. She didn’t necessarily see...
Highly Cited Researchers

Highly Cited Researchers

Cathy Wu, Craig Brown and Anderson Janotti make list of top influencers Engineers at the University of Delaware do research that garners attention from scientists and engineers around the world, and three faculty members in the College of Engineering were recently...
New Data Science Institute-Director

New Data Science Institute-Director

Bioinformatics pioneer Cathy Wu to lead University-wide endeavor The University of Delaware is establishing a new institute to accelerate research in data science, and a pioneer in the interdisciplinary field, tapped from UD’s faculty ranks, will lead it. Cathy Wu,...
Apps for High-Powered Computing

Apps for High-Powered Computing

UD computer scientists team with Oak Ridge National Lab to program apps for next-generation supercomputer Like a modern-day version of the 20th-century space race, companies and governments worldwide are scurrying to build an what’s called an exascale computer, which...