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November 29, 2010

Ganger, Schlesinger Named IEEE Fellows

ECE Professor Greg Ganger and Department Head Ed Schlesinger have been named IEEE fellows, a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. Ganger, the Stephen J. Jatras Professor of ECE and computer science and director of the university's Parallel Data Lab, was honored "for contributions to metadata integrity in file systems." David Edward Schramm Professor of Engineering Ed Schlesinger was cited by IEEE for "contributions to electro-optic devices and heat-assisted magnetic recording." (Read more.)

November 18, 2010

Alumna Wins TechCrunch Hackathon

ECE alumna J'aime Ohm (E'10) relived her college days this fall when she pulled an all-nighter to defeat 450 competitors in September's TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in San Francisco. The hack marathon took place in conjunction with TechCrunch's web innovation conference, and fellow alum Frank Denbow (CS'08) told Ohm she could get free admission to the event if she participated. She took a shot and it paid off in a big way — not only did she take first place, but her creation has also morphed into WiseDame, an iPhone app that can alert loved ones of your whereabouts when you can't. Read all about Ohm's experience and what she's doing with WiseDame at www.cmu.edu/homepage/health/2010/fall/wisedame.shtml.

November 11, 2010

Plaid Parliament of Pwning Takes Capture the Flag Trifecta

Online capture the flag (CTF) competitions may not be a sport in the traditional sense, but they're just as competitive, just as arduous. The computer security war game requires each team or individual in the competition to find a key source of information by solving a host of challenging problems, with each competition lasting as long as 48 hours. And Carnegie Mellon's Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP) team, lead by Assistant Professor of ECE and Computer Science David Brumley, has pulled off a huge feat this semester, winning not just one or two of these grueling competitions, but three — and all since September. (Read more.)

November 5, 2010

Brigham's Paper Earns Best Innovative Topic Award

ECE Ph.D. student Kathy Brigham and her adviser, ECE Professor Vijayakumar Bhagavatula, earned the Best Innovative Topic Paper Award at the IEEE Fourth International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS) 2010 for their paper, "Subject Identification From Electroencephalogram (EEG) Signals During Imagined Speech." Held in Arlington, Va., earlier this fall, the conference is the premier research meeting focused on biometrics. (Read more.)

October 13, 2010

Brumley Earns DARPA Grant

Assistant Professor of ECE and Computer Science David Brumley has earned a four-year, $1.1 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) grant as part of the agency's Cyber-Genome project.

"The amount of malware — malicious software like viruses, bots and worms — is exploding," Brumley said. "Our research will develop new approaches for triaging the huge volume of malware to determine the most serious threats." (Read more.)