Engineering professor helped develop technology for games
By Greg Kline
Sunday January 6, 2008
Darrell Hoemann
University of Illinois electrical and computer engineering Professor Sanjay Patel, helped develop a computer chip and software that generate realistic physics simulations, technology being used in new releases of computer games.
University of Illinois Professor Sanjay Patel's research focus is the future of computer chips, as chip components like transistors continue to get smaller and more numerous and chip architecture is forced to change accordingly.
So when Patel, a UI electrical and computer engineering professor, got a good business-world opportunity to step out of the halls of academia and work on the cutting edge of chip design, he naturally took it.
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