ECE Research Professor Asim Smailagic leads a team to develop SenSay, a context-aware mobile phone that fields calls based on your schedule and surroundings.

Internet security expert Bill Cheswick’s talk kicks off the Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, a CyLab conference with 100 computer security and human and computer interaction researchers.

Carnegie Mellon researchers Gary Fedder, David Lambeth, Richard McCullough, and Lee Weiss are developing microelectromechanical sensors that will alert rescue workers to replace their gas mask filters.

Metin Sitti, an assistant professor in the NanoRobotics Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon, is quoted on understanding locomotion in snake robots.

The doubling of processor speed every 18 months is a snail's pace compared with rising hard-disk capacity, and Mark Kryder plans to squeeze in even more bits. Kryder, a university professor in ECE and the chief technical officer at Seagate, co-founded the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) at Carnegie Mellon.

Hamerschlag Hall’s new green roof may improve insulation and reduce storm water runoff, urban heat trapping, and water pollution, writes Carnegie Mellon’s Green Practices Committee in their newsletter.

Carnegie Mellon faculty presented two of the six invited talks during emerging technologies day at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). Tamal Mukherjee spoke on biofluidic microchips, while Seth Goldstein discussed nanocomputing.

Asim Smailagic, a research professor of ECE and ICES, discusses wearable technology developed on campus, including the eWatch, the Language Translator, and goggle-like headsets, which can display complex information.

"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.

"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.

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.

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.