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November 23, 2009

SensorFly Wins Best Demo at Sensys 09

Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley students Aveek Purohit, Zheng Sun, and Professor Pei Zhang were awarded the Best Demo prize at the 7th annual ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) in Berkeley, California. The Carnegie Mellon team demonstrated "SensorFly -- A Controlled-Mobile Aerial Sensor Network".

The SensorFly demo was chosen out of over 30 other select demos from universities across the globe. Votes came from the organizing committee and the overall conference attendees. The demonstration lasted two hours, as Zhang, Purohit and Sun presented to the capabilities of SensorFly.

Check out the full story and videos of SensorFly.

Gupta, Rowe and Rajkumar Win Best Paper at Sensys

Ph.D. students Vikram Gupta and Anthony Rowe, together with their advisor, ECE Professor Raj Rajkumar, have won the Best Paper Award at the ACM Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys) 2009 Conference earlier this month.

The paper, titled "Low-power clock synchronization using electromagnetic energy radiating from AC power lines," introduces an innovative low-power hardware module for achieving global clock synchronization across geographically distributed nodes. Such synchronization is useful in many decentralized systems including wireless sensor networks since it enables event ordering, coordinated actuation, energy-efficient communications, and coordinated duty-cycling.

November 9, 2009

Faculty, Students Have Two Papers in IEEE Micro Top Picks

Two ECE adjunct faculty members, current and former Ph.D. students and researchers, have two papers in the upcoming January/February issue of IEEE Micro Top Picks.

The papers, whose co-authors include adjunct ECE/CS faculty members Babak Falsafi and Anastasia Ailamaki, former Ph.D. student Tom Wenisch, and current Ph.D. student Michael Ferdman, represent some of the year's most significant research publications in computer architecture based on novelty and long term impact.

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November 5, 2009

Tudor Dumitras Wins Prestigious Vlissides Award

Graduate student Tudor Dumitras has won the prestigious John Vlissides Award at the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA).

This award is given to the doctoral student showing significant promise in applied software research and the most potential for having a significant impact on the practice of software development.

October 22, 2009

Negi Receives Government Stimulus Funds for Power Grid Research

ECE Professor Rohit Negi has received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop monitoring tools for predicting non-robust behavior, such as annoying rolling blackouts, so endemic to the nation's fragile power grid.

The award was funded by the Obama administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The economic stimulus bill passed in February 2009 allocated $11 billion to upgrade the nation's outdated power infrastructure.

Negi will lead a team of university electricity and computing experts to analyze the robustness of cyber-physical systems, such as electric, water, sewer and gas networks. (Read more...)