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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.

August 19, 2009

Bay Area Alumni Gathering A Success

Over 270 ECE and SCS alumni from all eras gathered in the San Francisco Bay area for the annual summer picnic on July 25. Held at Sam's Chowder House in Half Moon Bay, the event also was attended by several faculty from the Silicon Valley campus.

Susan Farrington, ECE's Director of Alumni and Relations, and SCS Director of Alumni Relations Tina Carr hosted the gathering. Check out the photo galleries for both the Bay Area and the Boston gathering held this July and read Susan's report on the West Coast event.

Keeping an 'i' on the 'Burgh

So we all know that government often lags behind in its use of technology. But thanks to Professors Priya Narasimhan and Rajeev Gandhi, Pittsburgh has become the first city in the U.S. to have it's own iPhone app. And it's FREE, compliments of the same folks who bring you YinzCam- team members Justin Beaver, Jeremy Kanter, Dan Burrows and Karl Fu helped to develop and release the new iBurgh app.

See a car-eating pothole? Clogged storm drain? iBurgh lets users communicate directly with the city's non-emergency complaint system to report the problem. Just take a photo and the location is geotagged and sent directly to the city's server.