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September 12, 2007

DSSC Hosts MORIS Workshop

Carnegie Mellon's Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) will host the 11th MagnetoOptic Recording International Symposium (MORIS) September 24-26. The conference focuses on heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and all topics related to thermo-magnetics and magneto-optics. ECE Department Head T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger (pictured) is chair of the workshop, with Professor James Bain, Associate Director of the DSSC, as the steering committee chair and ABB Professor Jimmy Zhu, DSSC Director, as a program co-chair.

September 11, 2007

Khosla Appointed to Treasury Commission

Carnegie Mellon University's Pradeep Khosla has been appointed by State Treasurer Robin L. Wiessmann to e-Treasury Pennsylvania, an advisory commission designed to help the Pennsylvania Treasury Department improve its financial asset and productivity management duties. Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering and Phillip and Marsha Dowd Professor of ECE and Robotics, is one of the nation's leading experts in information technology and cybersecurity issues and practices.

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 13, 2007

John Cohn: ECE Alumnus, IBM Fellow & Role Model

He's captured headlines in USA Today and EETimes, taking his "Jolts and Volts" science and technology demonstrations to hundreds of schools around the nation, Walt Disney World, and the New York Hall of Science. He's been called "IBM's own Einstein" and for 15 years has enjoyed playing a mad scientist during his show, making engineering fun for nearly 30,000 kids.