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Information theory began as a bridge from mathematics to electrical engineering and from there to computing.


Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.


I am a native of Taiwan, and I earned my bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University. I received my master's and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.


We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.


We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.


We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.


In 1978, I entered Tohoku University, into the Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Technology.


When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.


These were big ones. Those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those countries.


We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second and even a third electron, can be detached.


Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.


Desktop computers - boxes inside boxes - began appearing in those cubicles in the mid-eighties, electrical cords curling on the floor like so many ropes.


We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.


Iron which is brought near a spiral of copper wire, traversed by an electrical current, becomes magnetic, and then attracts other pieces of iron, or a suitably placed steel magnet.


On Mir, the lights kept going out because it had developed so many electrical problems.


I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.


I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.


The fuel cell is just a fundamentally inferior way of delivering electrical energy to an electric motor than batteries.


I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.


Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain.