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October 2, 2007

Pileggi Wins Industrial Impact Award from GSRC

Larry Pileggi, Tanoto Professor of ECE, received the 2007 Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award, which acknowledges work from the DARPA/MARCO Gigascale Systems Research Center (GSRC). This inaugural award is in recognition of research that is "at least five years old and has had significant industrial impact." Other Carnegie Mellon affiliated faculty and students who received this award with Pileggi were Herman Schmit, Veerbhan Kheterpal, Aneesh Koorapaty, and Kim Yaw Tong.

October 1, 2007

Blanton and Koopman Named Senior Members of ACM

ECE faculty members Shawn Blanton (left) and Philip Koopman (right) were named Senior Members of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). They are two of only 57 recipients worldwide to achieve this status in 2007; Carnegie Mellon is the only university to have two faculty elevated to Senior Members. According to the ACM website, "the Senior Member grade recognizes those ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience and five years of continuous professional membership who have demonstrated performance that sets them apart from their peers."

September 10, 2007

Wojciech Maly Wins Aristotle Award for Outstanding Teaching

Carnegie Mellon University's Wojciech Maly will receive the prestigious Aristotle Award for innovative teaching from the Semiconductor Research Corporation at the 2007 TechCon conference, Sept. 11 in Austin, Texas. Maly, the U.A. and Helen Whitaker Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), is being recognized for outstanding research and for his work with students whose accomplishments are a testament to his teaching abilities.

September 4, 2007

Clarke Receives Top Citations on Microsoft Libra

Edmund Clarke, FORE Systems Professor of CS and Professor of ECE, received the most citations for software engineering and programming languages authors according to Microsoft Libra, a new ranking service. Clarke also ranked tenth in the computer science overall category; his research interests are hardware and software verification, automatic theorem proving, and symbolic computation. Libra Academic Search is a free computer science bibliography search engine.

August 27, 2007

ECE Spirit Award Announced

ECE students Jonathan Lee and Jesse Vizcaino are the first recipients of the ECE Spirit Award, presented to a graduating senior and/or Integrated Master's/Bachelor's student, in recognition of their exceptional community building efforts in the ECE Department. The ECE Spirit Award reflects a history of outstanding volunteer service and leadership in ECE student organizations.