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August 28, 2008

Carnegie Mellon's Greg Ganger Earns HP Innovation Research Award

Carnegie Mellon University's Greg Ganger was one of 33 recipients worldwide to receive a 2008 HP Innovation Research Award, which is designed to encourage open collaboration with HP labs resulting in mutually beneficial, high-impact research.

Ganger, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Parallel Data Lab at Carnegie Mellon, will collaborate with HP Labs on a research initiative focused on data storage infrastructure issues. Ganger, author of the winning proposal, titled "Toward Scalable Self-Storage," will lead the collaboration.

Vehicular Networks Research on the MOVE

For the third year in a row, ECE Professor Ozan Tonguz will combine forces with General Motors researchers to host a workshop focusing on the development of inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle mobile mesh and ad hoc networks which are some of the most challenging and critical issues facing the Intelligent Transportation Systems industry.

The 2008 MOVE Workshop (MObile Networking for Vehicular Environments) was held in April in Tuscon, AZ as part of INFOCOM 2008, Conference on Computer Communications sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. The 2009 workshop will be part of INFOCOM 2009 in Rio de Janeiro, April 19-25.

The workshop this year was co-chaired by Tonguz, Dr. Varsha Sadekar and Dr. Cem Saraydar, both of General Motors, U.S. The organizing committee was made up of participants from other universities as well as GM, India. GM will continue to play a vital role in the 2009 workshop.

July 18, 2008

Computer Generation of Commercial Libraries Becomes a Reality

Intel has announced that the new version of its high performance library IPP, used by thousands of companies world-wide, will feature a new domain for functions generated by Spiral, a tool developed in ECE under the lead of Professors Markus Püschel and José Moura. Spiral can replace the human programmer in the very difficult task of writing highest performance code for important numerical functions and often achieves even better performance than human programmers. The technology underlying Spiral's success was developed by ECE Research Scientist Franz Franchetti and Püschel's recent Ph.D. graduate Yevgen Voronenko.

Schlesinger Elected Secretary-Treasurer of Department Head Association

ECE Department Head Ed Schlesinger has been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA). Schlesinger will serve a one-year term beginning July 1, after which he will be appointed for one-year terms as Vice President and then President of the association.

Carnegie Mellon Launches New Research Center to Grow Mobile Device Technologies and Services

Wireless mobile devices are ubiquitous in today's society. Revenues from businesses that support these technologies are huge and the future is limitless.

The Mobility Research Center, co-directed by Professor Priya Narasimhan, will develop underlying technologies that will ensure the privacy, security and reliability of sensitive and valuable information. The center involves students and faculty from both Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley campuses.