The Peter Brojde Center for Innovative Engineering and Computer Science

 

 

Perhaps the most exciting technological trend we are witnessing today is the “merger” taking place between the physical world and the Cyberspace. This trend is leading towards a new post desk-top computing paradigm often termed “Ubiquitous Computing”. Ubiquitous computing involves information processing that is thoroughly integrated into everyday objects and activities, and usually invisible, unnoticed, and indiscernible to the general user. Ubiquitous computing is becoming a defining factor not only in the information and communication technologies, but in practically every field of human enterprise including medicine, industry, transportation, energy, environment, military, even art and entertainment.

Realizing the vision of ubiquitous computing requires elevating physics, engineering and the information sciences to a new level of synergism. The Brojde Center for Innovating  Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University is a leading participant in this mission due to the exceptional relationship it fosters between computer science and applied physics. A major goal of the Center is to scout for technological needs before they become pervasive, and pursue the scientific and engineering principles that can be the basis for their implementation. As such, the Center fosters collaborative, interdisciplinary research and education in science and engineering that addresses the future needs of society. It exposes the research community of the Hebrew University, faculty and graduate students alike, to research development that are at the very fledgling phase, but has the potential to become the chassis for mainstream technologies, and  it promotes the exploration of these developments further, by fostering internal collaboration among the researchers at the Hebrew University, and external collaboration with researchers from other universities and from high-tech industries, both in Israel and abroad.