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November 9, 2009

Faculty, Students Have Two Papers in IEEE Micro Top Picks

Two ECE adjunct faculty members, current and former Ph.D. students and researchers, have two papers in the upcoming January/February issue of IEEE Micro Top Picks.

The papers, whose co-authors include adjunct ECE/CS faculty members Babak Falsafi and Anastasia Ailamaki, former Ph.D. student Tom Wenisch, and current Ph.D. student Michael Ferdman, represent some of the year's most significant research publications in computer architecture based on novelty and long term impact.

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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.

September 9, 2009

Alumnus Voronenko wins Kauffman Entrepreneur Fellowship

ECE alumnus Yevgen Voronenko (Ph.D. 2008) has been selected as a Kauffman Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Fellow. Voronenko is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Spiral Group.

Voronenko's research contributions include the complete automation of the development of performance libraries for certain critical signal processing functions in the context of Spiral. He won a best dissertation award for this work last year.

Dean Randal E. Bryant Receives Kaufman Award For Seminal Work on Electronic Design Automation

Randal E. Bryant, University Professor and dean of School of Computer Science and Professor of ECE will receive this year's Phil Kaufman Award from the Electronic Design Automation Consortium and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) for his impact on theory and practice on Electronic Design Automation (EDA).

The award recognizes Bryant's seminal technological breakthroughs in the area of formal verification --- the use of mathematical techniques to prove that a hardware or software design functions as intended.

August 31, 2009

Pradeep K. Khosla To Receive Lifetime Achievement Award From Engineering Society

Pradeep K. Khosla received a lifetime achievement award August 31 from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at the 2009 Engineering Technical Conference in San Diego.

Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering, founding director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab, and Dowd University Professor of ECE is being recognized for his significant impact on the use of computers in engineering practice and education from the Computer and Information in Engineering Division of ASME.