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Share Charles Sidney Burrus — “Sid” to almost everyone — whose boyhood fascination with electricity set him on a path to become a pioneer in digital signal processing during a long and influential career at Rice University, died April 3. Burrus ’57, the Maxfield and Oshman Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and former dean of engineering, was 86 years old. “Rice engineering has lost one of the great ones,” said Bart Sinclair ’73 ’74 ’79, who retired in 2019 as senior associate dean of engineering after 50 years at Rice. Among the many honors he amassed during 56 years on Rice’s faculty, Burrus won the annual George R. Brown Teaching Award six times. “Sidney was not just a popular lecturer,” Sinclair said. “He was a demanding one.”
Dholakia says the current interest in NFTs is likely part of a short term bubble. "So at the moment, if you think of this as a game of musical chairs, we are in the middle of the game and everyone is kind of doing really well. So the game will continue on until someone is left out at the end," he says. He says the long term value of the technology is questionable. "It's really hard to say anything conclusive about this technology at this moment in time." He notes that there are other issues around this technology that need to be resolved.
Rice Researchers Develop a Real-Time Sensor System to Detect Airborne COVID-19 Virus azosensors.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from azosensors.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
E-Mail HOUSTON - (Feb. 22, 2021) - Researchers at Rice University have received funding for up to $1 million to develop a real-time sensor system able to detect minute amounts of the airborne virus that causes COVID-19 infection. The researchers at Rice's Brown School of Engineering and Wiess School of Natural Sciences -- chemical and biomolecular engineer Rafael Verduzco, civil and environmental engineer Pedro Alvarez and structural virologist Yizhi Jane Tao -- will team with William Lawrence, a microbiologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston to develop a thin film electronic device that senses as few as eight SARS-CoV-2 viruses in 10 minutes of sampling air flowing at 8 liters per minute.
American, JetBlue start jointly selling tickets under new partnership American and JetBlue launched a partnership to better compete in the Northeast that allows them to sell tickets on each other's flights Biden to pledge billions in aid toward global Covid vaccination efforts The Covid pandemic "is not going to end unless we end it globally," a Biden official said, adding that vaccinating Americans remains the "highest priority." Via SchiffGold.com, The bond market is getting clobbered. Long-term interest rates are rising and that is putting significant pressure on gold. Peter Schiff talked about rising rates and the gold market in a recent podcast. He said the rise in long-term yields is a function of inflation and people seem to forget that inflation is good for gold.
Houston Food Bank will remain in 'disaster mode' for days FacebookTwitterEmail 1of17 Parkdoll Jackson Burks, gets a hug from Jerry Garcia, Harris County Constable Precinct 2, who was delivering meals from the Houston Food Bank at the Big Bass Resort, in Houston, Thursday, February 18, 2021. The Big Bass Resort, which is home to mostly seniors was out of power for three days after a winter storm left people without power and water along with freezing temperatures. She was cooking her meals with sterno cans on top of a tin roasting pan and delivering the meals with a lantern in the darkened hallways.Karen Warren / Staff photographerShow MoreShow Less
The winter storm is here, and some Houstonians are feeling the effects of our days-long Arctic blast more than others. With rolling power outages, hazardous roadways and more winter-centric concerns that are pretty foreign to most residents of the Bayou City, here's what you need to know now: Updated 11:32 a.m. February 19 Water pressure is coming back up in Houston. Today, the city is averaging 32â34 psi, although there are still some pockets that still have about 20 psi.  âWe are making steady, sustainable progress,â but itâs going to take time to get out and stay out of the boil-water notice, said Public Works Director Carol Haddock. She reminded people to boil water for at least two minutes. Itâs expected that the notice will remain until Monday. Haddock asked for patience, but if you still have low water pressure at the end of day today, call Public Works.
Here are the warming centers and shelters now open in the Houston area lmtonline.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from lmtonline.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mayor Turner, Harris Co. Judge Lina Hidalgo sign Disaster Declaration ahead of winter storm HARRIS COUNTY - Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner signed a Disaster Declaration for an unprecedented winter storm hitting the Houston-area Sunday night. Governor Greg Abbott also announced that the White House has issued a Federal Emergency Declaration for Texas in response to the severe winter weather throughout the state. Abbott submitted a request for this declaration on Saturday to assist the State in response efforts related to the storm. The signing of the declaration will "give our emergency officials the flexibility to utilize every available resource to respond to this historic weather," Hidalgo tweeted.