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April 1, 2007

DSSC Spring Review Hosts Over 100 Attendees

Carnegie Mellon's Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) hosted their spring technical review March 27-28. The agenda featured sessions in materials and devices, nanofabrication, metrology and instrumentation, modeling and simulation, mechanics and tribology, and signal processing and controls, with 29 oral talks and 32 poster presentations. Over 100 participants attended, approximately half of whom were industrial affiliates.

March 21, 2007

PDL Researchers Awarded Best Paper at SIGMETRICS 2007

The program chairs of SIGMETRICS 2007, which will be held this June in San Diego, CA, announced that the Best Paper Award will be given to a team of researchers from the Parallel Data Lab (PDL) for their work, "Modeling the Relative Fitness of Storage." The authors are ECE graduate students Michael Mesnier and Raja Sambasivan, Computer Science (CS) graduate student Matthew Wachs, CS postdoctoral research fellow Alice Zheng, and their faculty advisor, Greg Ganger, Professor of ECE and CS, and PDL director.

March 20, 2007

Carnegie Mellon Researchers to Collaborate With National Biometric Security Project

Carnegie Mellon University and the National Biometric Security Project (NBSP) have announced a memorandum of agreement to collaborate on developing advanced biometric technologies like the use of fingerprints, iris recognition and hand geometry to help deter terrorist and criminal activity. Marios Savvides, an ECE research scientist (pictured on left with student Yung-hui Li), directs the BIOmetrics SECurity Research, Engineering and Training (BIOSECRET) Lab at Carnegie Mellon.

March 12, 2007

Conference Focuses on Ensuring Reliable Energy Delivery for Next Three Decades

In the face of unprecedented growth in energy demand and the resulting strain on the electricity system, the upcoming Carnegie Mellon Conference on the Electricity Industry will bring together academic and industry experts to address concerns over the capacity of America's aging power grid. The focus of this year's forum, planned March 13-14, is ensuring the nation has the physical and human resources needed for the next 30 years.

January 23, 2007

IBM Executive Offers Business Insight to ECE Women

Cathy Lasser, Vice President of Industry Solutions and Emerging Business, IBM Research, visited campus to speak to women ECE students, faculty, and staff at the Women in ECE (WinECE) Spring Welcome Dinner. During her talk, "Innovation that Matters: Creating a Culture of Collaborative Innovation," Cathy discussed new opportunities for business and social innovation. In addition, she shared her experiences balancing work and personal life as an executive business woman with a technical background.