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January 14, 2011

Tonguz Delivers Keynote at IEEE 2010 VNC

ECE Professor Ozan Tonguz delivered the keynote address at the IEEE 2010 Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC), held Dec. 13–15 in Jersey City, NJ. The conference emphasized the research challenges of vehicular ad hoc networks at all layers of the protocol stack, and attracted nearly 100 researchers from academia and companies like Toyota, Honda, BMW, Audi, Intel, Nokia Siemens Networks, and Denso. Tonguz's talk, "Emerging and Future Applications of Vehicular Networks: A Vision," elaborated on the importance of vehicular networks to sustainable energy (via electric cars), a greener environment, reduced carbon footprint and smart grid. He also discussed the burgeoning role of vehicular ad hoc networks as an important enabler. (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.)

Faculty Members Deliver Invited Talks at APMRC, APDSC

The DSSC is making great strides in developing the data recording technology of tomorrow — and colleagues across the globe have taken notice. This semester alone, faculty members delivered invited and keynote talks about HAMR and actuator technology at the 2010 Asia-Pacific Magnetic Recording Conference (APMRC) and the 2010 Asia-Pacific Data Storage Conference (APDSC). (Read more.)

November 29, 2010

Ganger, Schlesinger Named IEEE Fellows

ECE Professor Greg Ganger and Department Head Ed Schlesinger have been named IEEE fellows, a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. Ganger, the Stephen J. Jatras Professor of ECE and computer science and director of the university's Parallel Data Lab, was honored "for contributions to metadata integrity in file systems." David Edward Schramm Professor of Engineering Ed Schlesinger was cited by IEEE for "contributions to electro-optic devices and heat-assisted magnetic recording." (Read more.)

November 22, 2010

NEDO, Hitachi Co-Develop MAMR Technology for HDDs

The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) and Hitachi Ltd., in cooperation with Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (HitachiGST) have announced that they have jointly developed basic technologies for microwave magnetic recording, a technology originally proposed by Professor Jimmy Zhu from the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) at Carnegie Mellon. The technology has been suggested as a potential candidate for succeeding conventional perpendicular recording technology to continue the storage capacity increase that has occurred in past decades. (Read more.)