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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.

August 19, 2009

Bay Area Alumni Gathering A Success

Over 270 ECE and SCS alumni from all eras gathered in the San Francisco Bay area for the annual summer picnic on July 25. Held at Sam's Chowder House in Half Moon Bay, the event also was attended by several faculty from the Silicon Valley campus.

Susan Farrington, ECE's Director of Alumni and Relations, and SCS Director of Alumni Relations Tina Carr hosted the gathering. Check out the photo galleries for both the Bay Area and the Boston gathering held this July and read Susan's report on the West Coast event.

July 22, 2009

ECE Alum Faces Reality in "The Colony"

ECE alumnus and IBM Fellow John Cohn (E'91) is among the cast of characters in the new Discovery Channel reality show The Colony which premiered Tuesday, July 21. The show is about volunteers from all walks of life who participate in a controlled experiment to see what it would take to survive and rebuild in the wake of a global catastrophe.

Cohn was in Los Angeles with the cast of the show for the premiere. "We just came back from watching the premiere of The Colony...and I loved it. I wasn't sure I would!" said Cohn in his blog post last night. Cohn's shower in the rain during the first episode might just have been the highlight of the show.

Read about Cohn and his educational outreach efforts to kids on the university's website.

July 10, 2009

Bogdan Receives Rocca Foundation Fellowship

ECE Graduate student Paul Bogdan has received a 2009 fellowship from the Roberto Rocca Foundation.

Bogdan, whose research advisor is Radu Marculescu, focuses on designing future multiprocessor systems-on-chip at nanoscale using pioneering quantum and statistical physics approaches.

May 19, 2009

Stancil Co-authors New Book

ECE Professor Daniel Stancil and ECE alumnus Anil Prabhakar are the authors of a new book published last month by Springer. Spin Waves, Theory and Applications covers topics foundational to understanding spin waves such as the physics of magnetism and electromagnetic waves in anisotropic media, as well as both classical and quantum mechanical treatments of spin wave excitations.