External press
ECE's faculty, staff, and students are newsmakers with a wide range of expertise from applied physics to electrical engineering and computing systems. Our work is featured in newspapers, television, journals, magazines, and online.
- FutureCar: The Brain
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Raj Rajkumar will be interviewed on the Discovery Channel's FutureCar episode, "The Brain," about the powerful computer that will be the brain of tomorrow's automobile. Showtimes are Feb. 28 at 8 p.m., Mar. 1 at 12 a.m. and 7 p.m., and Mar. 3 at 6 p.m. Rajkumar, Professor of ECE and CS, co-directs the GM Collaborative Research Lab and directs the Real-Time and Multimedia Systems Lab.
Discovery Channel News – February 14, 2007
- Statistical timing pioneer moves to transistors
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Extreme DA Corp., a company based on research by former ECE postdoc Mustafa Celik and his faculty advisor, Larry Pileggi, has acquired Xigmix Inc., which was co-founded by ECE Systems Scientist Xin Li and Pileggi. Extreme DA specializes in statistical timing analysis for ICs, and adds Xigmix's transistor-level statistical characterization and optimization to their toolset.
EE Times – January 31, 2007
- Startup weaves 'fabric' for IC design
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Two companies spun-off from ECE research, Fabbrix Inc. and PDF Solutions Inc., are collaborating on a project to refine circuit technology, aiming to substantially exceed silicon performance at 65 nanometers and below. Fabbrix was founded by Larry Pillegi, Tanoto Professor of ECE; Director, CSSI. Andrzej Strojwas, Keithley Professor of ECE, co-founded PDF Solutions.
EE Times – December 11, 2006
- Podcast on New MISC IC Center with ECE Department Head
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ECE Department Head T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger speaks about Carnegie Mellon's new Center for Memory Intensive Self-Configuring Integrated Circuits (MISC IC), explaining the technology that will power a new class of intelligent, self-repairing nanoscale chips. He also reviews his research on optical devices.
Science and Society – November 3, 2006
- CMU researchers get $4M for next-generation chips
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Carnegie Mellon's new Center for Memory Intensive Self-Configuring Integrated Circuits (MISC IC) is announced in this article. Funded by a six-year, $4.2 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), researchers will create the next generation of chips that can reconfigure themselves for new functionality.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – October 21, 2006
- Electronic Garments Sense Emotion
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Associate ECE Professor Diana Marculescu comments on the technology used in new electronic textiles that have lights to reflect our mood. The concept may one day help the elderly in assisted living situations, by monitoring their physiology.
Discovery Channel News – October 12, 2006
- Dotting the eyes on terror
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ECE Professor Vijayakumar Bhagavatula spent a week in Australia collaborating with researchers at RMIT University. "Carnegie Mellon is ranked number one in the world for information technology," Jiankun Hu, a senior lecturer at RMIT, said in their online news. "And Professor Kumar is the guru of biometrics."
RMIT University News – October 2, 2006
- High-speed speech calls for hardware
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Jatras Professor of ECE Rob Rutenbar is working to develop a computer chip that can understand and process speech faster than in real-time, much improving upon today's software speech-recognition technology. His research has applications for improving national security, cell phones, DVDs, and other media.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – September 20, 2006
- System allows blind to 'see' to shop
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ECE faculty member Priya Narasimhan's Trinetra project helps the visually impaired to "read" project labels and may let them track a bus' arrival. She formed her research team with Carnegie Mellon graduate students Patrick Lanigan, Aaron Paulos, and Andrew Williams, as well as systems administrator Dan Rossi, mentor and blind user of Trinetra.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – August 1, 2006
- Correlation pattern recognition for biometrics
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ECE faculty members Vijayakumar Bhagavatula and Marios Savvides summarize their research on correlation pattern recognition for biometrics in this article. Savvides, a session chair at the last SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, also considers the challenges of their work in a video interview (Windows Media | QuickTime).
SPIE Newsroom--Optics & Photonics Technical and Industry News – June 28, 2006
- Wizard of Watts
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"James D. Meindl caught the low-power semiconductor wave when it was barely a ripple and brought generations of graduate students along for an exciting ride," reads the introduction to the cover story of this month's IEEE Spectrum. Meindl earned his B.S. ('55), M.S. ('56), and Ph.D. ('58) degrees in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon.
IEEE Spectrum – June 1, 2006
- Students tackle health of world's poor with technology
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ECE students Mark Pimentel, Gradon Kam, and Edna Lau's health care software project was featured on the front page of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Health section. The team placed in the final round of Microsoft's Imagine Cup competition in Seattle and also won the David Tuma Laboratory Project Award at the ECE Diploma Ceremony.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – May 10, 2006
- Wi-Fi users piggyback on free signals
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ECE Department Head Ed Schlesinger is interviewed about the wireless piggybacking phenomena, where users pick up signals from someone else's computer router.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – March 14, 2006
- Akustica has an ear for success
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Akustica Inc., a company co-founded by ECE faculty member Kaigham (Ken) Gabriel, is introducing the first single-chip microphone for notebook computers, cell phones, and headsets. Akustica's products utilize microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology.
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – February 28, 2006
- Airport security becomes high-tech
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Carnegie Mellon CyLab researchers Vijayakumar Bhagavatula and Marios Savvides are featured in an article discussing the new Registered Traveler program, which will allow frequent fliers to move through security quickly with cards that store their biometric information, such as fingerprints or iris scans.
Beaver County Times – February 21, 2006
- Crafting a Smarter, Gentler Cell Phone
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In a Morning Edition broadcast about making cell phones more polite, ECE faculty member Daniel Siewiorek describes eWatch, a context aware sensing and notification platform developed in the Rapid Prototyping of Computer Systems course he co-taught with colleague Asim Smailagic two years ago.
National Public Radio – February 13, 2006
- Mesh networking to fill in wireless gaps
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Raj Rajkumar offers insight on the future of wireless mesh networking technology; access points already cover large municipal locations and may also enable vehicles to talk to each other. Rajkumar, Professor of ECE and CS, co-directs the GM Collaborative Research Lab and directs the Real-Time and Multimedia Systems Laboratory.
PhysOrg.com (United Press International) – December 15, 2005
- Design Automation Conference Announces Executive Committee
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Diana Marculescu, Associate Professor of ECE, will be a member of the executive committee of the Design Automation Conference (DAC), representing the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA). She is the chair of ACM/SIGDA.
Yahoo! Finance – December 13, 2005
- Carnegie Mellon to showcase new security research at Taiwanese Innovation Technology Symposium
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"The new research we plan to show at the upcoming symposium is designed to contribute significantly to technology developments in both Asia and the United States," said ECE Professor Tsuhan Chen, who co-directs the Industrial Technology Research Institute Lab on campus along with Shiaw-Shian Yu in Taiwan.
Government Technology – December 6, 2005
- Bits&Bytes: America need not cede engineering leadership, panel says
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"We need to train engineers...who will be managing, creating and deploying innovation," said Pradeep Khosla, dean of the College of Engineering. Khosla addressed the Engineering Society of Western Pennsylvania during a panel discussion on American competitiveness.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – December 3, 2005
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