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April 14, 2008

Parikh and Chen Win Best Paper Award at Computer Vision Conference

ECE graduate student Devi Parikh and Professor Tsuhan Chen won a Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Beyond Patches Workshop. The paper titled "Unsupervised Learning of Hierarchical Semantics of Objects (hSOs)" proposes an algorithm to determine higher-level semantic relationships among objects in a scene such as an office, which is represented via a hierarchical structure.

March 21, 2008

ECE Team Takes Third Place in IC Design Challenge Phase One

ECE graduate students Abhishek Jajoo, John Reinke and Leon Wang have been awarded the 3rd prize in the Phase 1 of the 2007-2008 SRC/SIA IC Design Challenge. Their contest entry integrates their Ph.D. research in RF MEMS devices and circuits into an implementable design for "A Tunable Multiband RF MEMS Transceiver Front-End."

January 22, 2008

Singhee and Rutenbar Win 2008 VLSI Best Paper Award

ECE Ph.D. student Amith Singhee and Rob A. Rutenbar, Professor of ECE and CS, and their colleagues Benton H. Calhoun and Jiajing Wang of the University of Virginia, are winners of the 2008 Best Student Paper Award at the 21st International Conference on VLSI Design.

January 7, 2008

Carnegie Mellon's Boss in the Spotlight on National TV

Luckily for Carnegie Mellon's Tartan Racing Team, "What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas" is just a slogan, not reality. The team's robotic sport utility vehicle — Boss — is there for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, and it seems like the whole world knows. Boss was featured in segments on the NBC "Today Show," CBS' "Early Show," and the CBS Evening News. In addition, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times both covered Boss.

December 19, 2007

ECE Students Display Final Projects

Several ECE students completed final course projects, displaying skills in everything from using micrometer technology in Analysis and Design of Digital Circuits, to designing large digital systems for Advanced Digital Design Project, to examining thermal and power management in chip-multiprocessors in Advanced Computer Architecture. In this photo, ECE students Vijay Pothi Govindaraj (left) and Abitha Panneerselvam present their research to Associate Professor of ECE Diana Marculescu. View project photos.