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November 26, 2007

eWatch Will Measure Exposure to Daily Life Stressors

Daniel Siewiorek, Buhl University Professor of ECE and CS, Director of the HCII, and Asim Smailagic, Research Professor of ECE and ICES, are co-investigators in a new study that has received a $426,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In a team lead by Pitt Psychology Professor Thomas Kamarck, they will use the eWatch they developed to measure psychosocial stress exposure during the course of daily life.

November 8, 2007

Analyzing Internet Black Markets

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon are working to understand and potentially thwart the growth of Internet black markets — where attackers use well-developed business practices to hawk viruses, stolen data and attack services. Adrian Perrig, an associate professor of ECE and EPP, and Jason Franklin, a Ph.D. student in CS — working in conjunction with Vern Paxson of the International Computer Science Institute and Stefan Savage of the University of California, San Diego — have designed new computer tools for this effort.

November 6, 2007

Tartan Racing Wins $2M DARPA Urban Challenge

Tartan Racing's self-driving SUV, Boss, was the fastest of the competitors by 20 minutes, averaging about 14 miles per hour over approximately 55 miles. Boss made history by sharing the road with human drivers and other robots. Faculty, students, and alumni from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering were among the contributors to the 45-member Tartan Racing team. The longstanding Carnegie Mellon-GM Collaborative Research Lab (CM-GM CRL) brought hardware integration and system engineering skills to the group.

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.

Modeling Success in 3-D

Not many students outside of drama may learn how to "strike a pose," but ECE students Gary Garvin, Garrett Jenkinson (center), and Steven Nielsen (left) learned how to do just that—in 3-D. They completed an assignment they titled "Strike a Pose: The 3-D Modeler" for ECE Professor David Casasent's (right) Digital Communications and Signal Processing Systems Design course and won the David Tuma Undergraduate Laboratory Award for the most outstanding student project.