Future of Engineering

Bruno Michel has experienced climate change firsthand. As a mountaineer who treks up snow-capped peaks in the Swiss Alps on skis covered with goat skins, he has watched the famed Aletsch Glacier shrink year after year. That's a prime motivator for his work as a researcher at IBM's (IBM) Zurich Lab.

Michel, who has a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Zurich, uses biological principles to deal with the problem of heat in computing. He is designing devices that cool chips using liquid delivered through capillary-like circulation systems—much as the human vascular system cools our bodies.

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Labels: Computer-Science, Energy-Environment-Engineering