Spotlight
ECEs Buma wins NSF Career Award
Li receives NSF Career Award
Sylvain Cloutier Wins DARPA Young Faculty Award
Xiang-Gen Xia Named Charles Black Evans Professor
Biometric Fingerprint Lab Access in ECE
VHESC Project Steps to Phase 2
Professor Zide receives DARPA funding to study new nanocomposites for power generation
ECE leads Industrial Assessment Center at UD
ECE engages in Supercomputer Research with CAPSL
UD researchers put 'spin' in silicon, advance new age of electronics
Second IGERT Solar Hydrogen Conference is a SUCCESS!
NSF grant brings teachers to engineering labs at UD
Professor David Mills elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
The University of Delaware, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
November 2007
The TIME Magazine article includes: “It's touchy-feely"
"Apple didn't invent the touchscreen. Apple didn't even reinvent it (Apple probably acquired its much hyped multitouch technology when it snapped up a company called Fingerworks in 2005). But Apple knew what to do with it. Apple's engineers used the touchscreen to innovate past the graphical user interface (which Apple helped pioneer with the Macintosh in the 1980s) to create a whole new kind of interface, a tactile one that gives users the illusion of actually physically manipulating data with their hands—flipping through album covers, clicking links, stretching and shrinking photographs with their fingers. This is, as engineers say, nontrivial. It's part of a new way of relating to computers. Look at the success of the Nintendo Wii. Look at Microsoft's new Surface Computing division. Look at how Apple has propagated its touchscreen interface to the iPod line with the iPod Touch. Can it be long before we get an iMac Touch? A TouchBook? Touching is the new seeing.”
