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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.

Carnegie Mellon to showcase new security research at Taiwanese Innovation Technology Symposium

"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

"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

That human touch: Technology becomes wearable

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.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – November 27, 2005

Design tools eye nanoscale realm

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.

EE Times – November 14, 2005

Living Roof Blooms on Hamerschlag Hall

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 Green Practices – September 1, 2005

Kryder's Law

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.

Scientific American – July 28, 2005

Snakey Bot Navigates Land, Water

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

Discovery Channel News – July 27, 2005

Researchers work to safeguard rescuers

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.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review – July 6, 2005

Cybersecurity experts to gather at Carnegie Mellon

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.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – July 6, 2005

Imagination on the Move

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.

Campus Technology Magazine – July 1, 2005

Seagate research spurs high-tech storage