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January 25, 2011

Moura To Receive SPS Technical Achievement Award

University Professor of ECE José M. F. Moura has earned the 2010 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Technical Achievement Award. According to the SPS, the annual award "honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the society, as demonstrated by publications, patents or recognized impact on the field." Moura is being recognized for his fundamental contributions to statistical signal processing. He will receive the award, which consists of a cash prize, plaque and certificate, at the 2011 International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing this coming May in Prague. (Read more.)

Mutlu Paper Published as CACM Research Highlight

ECE Assistant Professor Onur Mutlu's paper, "Phase Change Memory Architecture and the Quest for Scalability," was published as a selected Research Highlight in the July 2010 issue of Communications of the ACM (CACM) magazine. The paper proposes architectural enhancements to enable phase change memory — an emerging non-volatile memory technology — to replace dynamic random access memory (DRAM) as the primary physical memory in computer systems. Mutlu and his colleagues hope phase change memory will create a more technology-scalable, cost-efficient and energy-efficient memory system than can be obtained with DRAM. To this end, the paper proposes microarchitectural techniques to mitigate latency, energy and endurance shortcomings of phase change memory vis-à-vis DRAM. (Read more.)

January 6, 2011

Al-Ajmi Wins Hubert Humphrey Fellowship

Khaled Al-Ajmi, who received his master's degree in ECE at Carnegie Mellon in 2001, has earned a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship for 2010-2011. A part of the Fulbright exchange activity, the Humphrey Fellowship Program provides 10 months of non-degree academic study and related experiences in the United States for seasoned professionals from designated countries around the world. Fellows are selected based on their potential for leadership and commitment to public service in either the public or private sector. (Read more.)

December 17, 2010

Zhu Earns IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award

ABB Professor of Engineering and current DSSC Director Jimmy Zhu has received the IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award "for contributions to magnetic storage devices through magnetic modeling." The award, which consists of a diploma with citation and cash prize, honors one of the society's members each year for his or her lifetime professional achievement. It is the society's highest award. "I am truly honored to receive this award from the IEEE Magnetic Society, especially considering the list of people who have received this award in the past," Zhu said. (Read more.)

December 3, 2010

Franchetti, Voronenko Part of Winning HPC Challenge Team

Assistant Research Professor Franz Franchetti and Ph.D. alumnus Yevgen Voronenko were part of a team that recently took top honors in the HPC Challenge Awards Competition. The goal of the competition, which culminates in an awards ceremony at the yearly Supercomputing Conference, is to focus the high performance computing (HPC) community's attention on developing a broad set of HPC hardware and software capabilities necessary to productively use HPC systems. The HPC Challenge is a novel set of benchmarks to assess performance and productivity of HPC systems and high productivity languages. (Read more.)