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August 3, 2009

ECE Alum Peter Levin Appointed Veteran Affairs CTO

ECE Alumnus Peter L. Levin (Ph.D. 1988) has been appointed by President Barack Obama as chief technology officer for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.

Levin will be the first chief technology officer in the office of the secretary and senior advisor to VA Secretary Eric Shineski.

Levin has been charged with identifying medical, web-based and advanced software technologies for the VA, and that will support the 7,000 person Office of Information and Technology led by Assistant Secretary and Chief Information Officer Roger Baker, with whom he'll work closely.

Read the full story on the Carnegie Mellon news site.

July 31, 2009

Goel and Negi Receive Best Paper Award

Alumnus Satashu Goel and ECE Professor Rohit Negi received a best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2009 held in Dresden, Germany in June. Their paper, titled "Analysis of Delay Statistics for the Queued-Code," presented both a theoretical analysis and a practical implementation of the novel queued-code which combines ideas from queuing theory and communication theory into a cross-layer framework.

The paper showed that the queued-code can yield superior quality of service for delay sensitive applications, compared to the traditional approaches.

July 29, 2009

ECE Grad Student is Official Blogger at 2009 DAC

ECE graduate student Siddarth Garg is the official blogger for the 46th annual Design Automation Conference being held July 26-31 in San Francisco.

The blog is announced in DACzine, the official on-line daily news report on the conference. DAC is recognized as the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. A diverse worldwide community representing more than 1,500 organizations attends each year. With close to 60 technical sessions and a variety of keynotes and other talks, the blog helps keep attendees on track for making sure they don't miss "What's Hot at DAC Today."

Siddarth, whose thesis advisor is Diana Marculescu, brings his own perspective as a senior graduate student to the blog as well. Check out what he has to say today.

July 22, 2009

ECE Alum Faces Reality in "The Colony"

ECE alumnus and IBM Fellow John Cohn (E'91) is among the cast of characters in the new Discovery Channel reality show The Colony which premiered Tuesday, July 21. The show is about volunteers from all walks of life who participate in a controlled experiment to see what it would take to survive and rebuild in the wake of a global catastrophe.

Cohn was in Los Angeles with the cast of the show for the premiere. "We just came back from watching the premiere of The Colony...and I loved it. I wasn't sure I would!" said Cohn in his blog post last night. Cohn's shower in the rain during the first episode might just have been the highlight of the show.

Read about Cohn and his educational outreach efforts to kids on the university's website.

February 11, 2009

Alumnus John Cohn Delivers Plenary Talk at ISSCC

To an audience of 2600 engineers, ECE alumnus John Cohn (Ph.D. 1991) once again emphasized the importance of reaching out to kids and getting them excited about science and technology in his invited plenary talk at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) on February 9.