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July 24, 2006

Blanton Wins Prestigious Emerald Award for Outstanding Recruitment of Minorities

Carnegie Mellon University's Ronald D. (Shawn) Blanton has won a 2006 Emerald Award for outstanding leadership in recruiting and mentoring minorities for advanced degrees in science and technology. Blanton is a professor in electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI). He joins an elite group of past winners who have done everything from designing missile defense systems for the U.S. Navy to helping computerize the U.S. government.

ECE Alumnus Named IBM Fellow

ECE alumnus John Cohn (Ph.D. 1991) has been named an IBM Fellow, one of eight granted the company's highest technical honor this year. Cohn is a distinguished engineer and chief scientist of design automation in the IBM Systems and Technology Group in Burlington, Vermont. He was recognized as IBM's premier technical leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and also noted for his efforts in science, engineering, and math education outreach to schoolchildren.

July 11, 2006

Best Student Paper Awarded to ECE Graduate Student & Advisor

ECE graduate student Jung-Chun (Mike) Kao received a Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IWWAN) for "Eavesdropping Minimization via Transmission Power Control in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks," written with his advisor, Radu Marculescu, Associate Professor of ECE. The paper proposes to use transmission power control as an effective mechanism to minimize the eavesdropping risk in ad-hoc wireless networks. A seed grant provided by the Carnegie Mellon CyLab last year funded the research.

Rajkumar Delivers Keynote at Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems

Professor of ECE and CS Raj Rajkumar delivered a keynote talk, "Why Resource Reservation is the Right Paradigm for Embedded Real-Time Systems," at the Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), held in Dresden, Germany from July 5-7. The conference focuses on state-of-the-art research and development in real-time computing, including research on applications, infrastructure and hardware, software technologies, and system design and analysis.

July 10, 2006

Carnegie Mellon Researchers Present 8 Papers at IEEE PES General Meeting

Representatives from the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) co-authored eight papers for the IEEE Power Engineering Society (PES) General Meeting in Montreal, Canada last month. The authors include professors Marija Ilic and Ozan Tonguz and researchers and graduate students Ellery Blood, Seth Blumsack, Paul Hines, Jovan Ilic, Huaiwei Liao, Juhua Liu, Marija Prica, Anupam Thatte, Le Xie, and Yi Zhang. This year's meeting theme was "Innovation and Reinvestment in Power Infrastructure."