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October 22, 2009

Zhu's MAMR Technology: Dark Horse in the Race for More Storage?

Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu, ABB Professor of ECE and director of the Data Storage Systems Center, is developing a technology seen as a dark horse in the race toward tomorrow's ultra-dense hard disk drives, according to an October 19 article in EE Times. Zhu is developing a prototype of his microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technique he believes will pack three terabits of data in a square inch of a spinning disk.

The technique represents a third option in an ongoing debate over the next big shift in hard disk technology expected to emerge in the next year or two. (Read more...)

October 16, 2009

Perrig Receives Prestigious Award For Cybersecurity Research From Information Security Magazine

Adrian Perrig, professor of ECE, EPP and CS, and technical director of Carnegie Mellon Cylab, has been awarded a Security 7 Award from Information Security magazine for innovative cybersecurity research in academia.

Perrig is recognized in the magazine's October issue. This is the fifth year of the awards program, which drew more than 150 nominations throughout North America. Read more...

ECE Team Captures the Flag in International Competition

A team of students from CMU won the 8th Annual HUST Creative and Fun Capture the Flag competition earlier this month. Sponsored by the University Security Team at Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea, the competition lasted 48 hours with over 150 teams from around the world competing.

Advised by ECE assistant professor David Brumley, participating members of the CMU team which was formed this semester were: Brian Pak (Undergrad, CS), Sang Kil Cha (MS, ECE), Jiyong Jang (PhD, ECE), Andrew Wesie (Undergrad, CS), Jong Hyup Lee (Postdoc, CyLab), Ed Shwartz (PhD, ECE). Read more...

October 8, 2009

McFarlin Wins Second Best Paper Award

ECE graduate student Daniel McFarlin, won the Best Paper award at the 2009 conference on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) together with his co-authors, ECE professors Franz Franchetti and Markus Püschel. The award last year also went to the Spiral group, the first time at HPEC that the award is won two years in a row by the same research group.

McFarlin's paper is in the context of the Spiral project and shows the computer generation of efficient C code for Intel's upcoming Larrabee processor.

September 22, 2009

iPhone App Developed by ECE Alums Takes Off

Snapture, a new iPhone app that went on sale September 21 at Apple's AppStore, is designed to change the way people take pictures on their iPhone -- and it was developed by three recent ECE graduates.

Snapture Labs, founded by ECE alums (L to R) Bowei Gai, Samir Shah and Ajay Panagariya, and Occipital, a TechStars-funded startup that develops state-of-the-art computer vision in mobile applications, brought the technology to market after a nearly two-year effort.

Within the first 48 hours, according to the team, they made it as high as number 16 in sales. The Apple store has a total of about 85,000 apps. The app made news on Wired's website today.