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November 6, 2007

Tartan Racing Wins $2M DARPA Urban Challenge

Tartan Racing's self-driving SUV, Boss, was the fastest of the competitors by 20 minutes, averaging about 14 miles per hour over approximately 55 miles. Boss made history by sharing the road with human drivers and other robots. Faculty, students, and alumni from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering were among the contributors to the 45-member Tartan Racing team. The longstanding Carnegie Mellon-GM Collaborative Research Lab (CM-GM CRL) brought hardware integration and system engineering skills to the group.

October 25, 2007

Singhee and Rutenbar Win DATE Best Paper Award

ECE Ph.D. student Amith Singhee and Rob Rutenbar, Professor of ECE and CS, are winners of the 2007 Best Paper Award at the Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) conference. Their paper, "Statistical Blockade: A Novel Method for Very Fast Monte Carlo Simulation of Rare Circuit Events and its Application," discusses how to dramatically accelerate the analysis of statistical reliability in very complex memory circuits.

Le Wins ICNP Best Paper Award

ECE graduate student Franck Le has won the Best Paper Award in the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), one of the premiere conferences on networking. The paper titled "Understanding Route Redistribution" is coauthored by G. Xie, Naval Postgraduate School and Hui Zhang, Professor of Computer Science and ECE, and Le's research advisor.

October 23, 2007

Kanade to Receive Okawa Prize for Contributions Impacting Fields of Information, Telecommunications

Takeo Kanade, U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and Professor of ECE, is the 2007 recipient of the Okawa Prize, which is sponsored by the Japan-based Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications.

The prize pays tribute to people who have made outstanding international contributions to research, technological development and business in the information and telecommunications fields.

October 11, 2007

Ailamaki Wins European Science Prize

Anastasia Ailamaki, Associate Professor of CS and ECE, is one of 20 scientists chosen for this year's highly selective European Young Investigator (EURYI) Awards. The EURYI program is designed to attract outstanding young scientists from around the world to create their own research teams at European research centers and includes five-year grants of 1 million to 1.25 million euros, comparable in monetary terms to the Nobel Prize. The recipients were honored at a special ceremony last month in Helsinki, Finland.