http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/ This is an RSS feed of news stories from the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. en-us Copyright 2009, ECE Sun, 08 Nov 2009 08:07:04 EST 60 http://www.ece.cmu.edu/images/news/ece-rss.png http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/ Graduate student Tudor Dumitras has won the prestigious John Vlissides Award at the 2009 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA). This award is given to the doctoral student showing significant promise in applied software research and the most potential for having a significant impact on the practice of software development. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/11/tudor_dumitras_wins/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:01:00 EST ECE Professor Rohit Negi has received a three-year, $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop monitoring tools for predicting non-robust behavior, such as annoying rolling blackouts, so endemic to the nation's fragile power grid. The award was funded by the Obama administration's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The economic stimulus bill passed in February 2009 allocated $11 billion to upgrade the nation's outdated power infrastructure. Negi will lead a team of university electricity and computing experts to analyze the robustness of cyber-physical systems, such as electric, water, sewer and gas networks. (Read more...) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/10/negi_receives_government/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:04:00 EDT Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu, ABB Professor of ECE and director of the Data Storage Systems Center, is developing a technology seen as a dark horse in the race toward tomorrow's ultra-dense hard disk drives, according to an October 19 article in EE Times. Zhu is developing a prototype of his microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technique he believes will pack three terabits of data in a square inch of a spinning disk. The technique represents a third option in an ongoing debate over the next big shift in hard disk technology expected to emerge in the next year or two. (Read more...) http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/10/zhus_mamr_technology/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:21:00 EDT Adrian Perrig, professor of ECE, EPP and CS, and technical director of Carnegie Mellon Cylab, has been awarded a Security 7 Award from Information Security magazine for innovative cybersecurity research in academia. Perrig is recognized in the magazine's October issue. This is the fifth year of the awards program, which drew more than 150 nominations throughout North America. Read more... http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/10/perrig_receives_prestigious/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:39:00 EDT A team of students from CMU won the 8th Annual HUST Creative and Fun Capture the Flag competition earlier this month. Sponsored by the University Security Team at Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea, the competition lasted 48 hours with over 150 teams from around the world competing. Advised by ECE assistant professor David Brumley, participating members of the CMU team which was formed this semester were: Brian Pak (Undergrad, CS), Sang Kil Cha (MS, ECE), Jiyong Jang (PhD, ECE), Andrew Wesie (Undergrad, CS), Jong Hyup Lee (Postdoc, CyLab), Ed Shwartz (PhD, ECE). Read more... http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/10/ece_team_captures/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:06:00 EDT ECE graduate student Daniel McFarlin, won the Best Paper award at the 2009 conference on High Performance Embedded Computing (HPEC) together with his co-authors, ECE professors Franz Franchetti and Markus Püschel. The award last year also went to the Spiral group, the first time at HPEC that the award is won two years in a row by the same research group. McFarlin's paper is in the context of the Spiral project and shows the computer generation of efficient C code for Intel's upcoming Larrabee processor. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/10/mcfarlin_wins_second/ Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:27:00 EDT Snapture, a new iPhone app that went on sale September 21 at Apple's AppStore, is designed to change the way people take pictures on their iPhone -- and it was developed by three recent ECE graduates. Snapture Labs, founded by ECE alums (L to R) Bowei Gai, Samir Shah and Ajay Panagariya, and Occipital, a TechStars-funded startup that develops state-of-the-art computer vision in mobile applications, brought the technology to market after a nearly two-year effort. Within the first 48 hours, according to the team, they made it as high as number 16 in sales. The Apple store has a total of about 85,000 apps. The app made news on Wired's website today. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/09/iphone_app_developed/ Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:21:00 EDT M. Granger Morgan, Engineering and Public Policy Department Head and Professor of ECE, was selected to receive the 2009 Outstanding Educator Award by the Society for Risk Analysis. The award will be presented during the SRA Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland in December 2009. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/09/morgan_to_receive/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:51:00 EDT A paper co-authored by professor of biomedical engineering and ECE Jelena Kovacevic, P. Vandewalle, and M. Vetterli was one of the top 100 most downloaded on IEEE Xplore in the six month period from November 2008 to April 2009, even though it as published at the end of the cycle. The paper, titled "What, why and how of reproducible research in signal processing," was published in the May 2009 issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/09/kovacevic_paper_among/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:32:00 EDT ECE alumnus Yevgen Voronenko (Ph.D. 2008) has been selected as a Kauffman Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Fellow. Voronenko is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Spiral Group. Voronenko's research contributions include the complete automation of the development of performance libraries for certain critical signal processing functions in the context of Spiral. He won a best dissertation award for this work last year. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/09/alumnus_voronenko_wins/ Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:47:00 EDT Randal E. Bryant, University Professor and dean of School of Computer Science and Professor of ECE will receive this year's Phil Kaufman Award from the Electronic Design Automation Consortium and the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA) for his impact on theory and practice on Electronic Design Automation (EDA). The award recognizes Bryant's seminal technological breakthroughs in the area of formal verification --- the use of mathematical techniques to prove that a hardware or software design functions as intended. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/09/dean_randal_e/ Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:34:00 EDT Pradeep K. Khosla received a lifetime achievement award August 31 from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at the 2009 Engineering Technical Conference in San Diego. Khosla, dean of Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering, founding director of Carnegie Mellon CyLab, and Dowd University Professor of ECE is being recognized for his significant impact on the use of computers in engineering practice and education from the Computer and Information in Engineering Division of ASME. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/08/pradeep_k_khosla/ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:09:00 EDT Jelena Kovacevic, professor of Biomedical Engineering & ECE and director of the Center for Bioimage Informatics, is in Novi Sad, Serbia this week to deliver a plenary talk at the 14th General Meeting of European Woman in Mathematics. Her talk is titled "Problems in Biological Imaging: Opportunities for Mathematical Signal Processing. Earlier this summer, Kovacevic delivered a plenary talk at the "20 Years of Wavlets" Conference at DePaul University in Chicago titled "Wavelets in the Real World." http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/08/kovacevic_delivers_two/ Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:45:00 EDT Over 270 ECE and SCS alumni from all eras gathered in the San Francisco Bay area for the annual summer picnic on July 25. Held at Sam's Chowder House in Half Moon Bay, the event also was attended by several faculty from the Silicon Valley campus. Susan Farrington, ECE's Director of Alumni and Relations, and SCS Director of Alumni Relations Tina Carr hosted the gathering. Check out the photo galleries for both the Bay Area and the Boston gathering held this July and read Susan's report on the West Coast event. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/08/bay_area_alumni/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:43:00 EDT So we all know that government often lags behind in its use of technology. But thanks to Professors Priya Narasimhan and Rajeev Gandhi, Pittsburgh has become the first city in the U.S. to have it's own iPhone app. And it's FREE, compliments of the same folks who bring you YinzCam- team members Justin Beaver, Jeremy Kanter, Dan Burrows and Karl Fu helped to develop and release the new iBurgh app. See a car-eating pothole? Clogged storm drain? iBurgh lets users communicate directly with the city's non-emergency complaint system to report the problem. Just take a photo and the location is geotagged and sent directly to the city's server. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/08/keeping_an_i/ Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:50:00 EDT ECE graduate student Nicholas O'Donoughue's research on improving natural gas pipeline safety has won him his second Best Student Paper Award this year, this one at the 157th Acoustical Society of America meeting in May. The paper, coauthored with his advisor Jose´ Moura and several other CMU researchers, is titled "Single-Antenna Time Reversal of Guided Waves in Pipes." O'Donoughue's research was recently featured on CMU's homepage. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/08/odonoughue_wins_best/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:54:00 EDT Assistant Research Professor Franz Franchetti, Ph.D. students Frédéric de Mesmay and Daniel McFarlin, and Professor Markus Püschel won a best paper award at the Conference on Domain Specific Languages, July 2009, in Oxford, UK. The paper, titled "Operator Language: A Program Generation Framework for Fast Kernels," describes a formal framework to extend the program generation system SPIRAL beyond its traditional domain of linear transforms. SPIRAL has been developed at ECE over the last decade and is able to replace the human programmer in the development of performance library software. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/08/ece_group_wins/ Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:11:00 EDT Assistant Research Professor Marios Savvides' iris recognition research was recently featured in a July 28 article in Scientific American. The government plans on having the biometric security systems that can identify individuals based on the unique patterns in their irises in the hands of the military and law enforcement by 2012. And across the pond, the research was featured on The Gadget Show, the popular British television series that focuses on the world of technology. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/08/keeping_an_eye/ Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:50:00 EDT ECE Professor Markus Püschel gave the opening plenary talk at the 2009 International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation (ISSAC) on July 29 in Seoul, Korea. The talk is titled "Automatic Synthesis of High Performance Mathematical Programs." Sponsored by ACM, ISSAC is the primary conference on all aspects of symbolic computation. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/08/pschel_gives_plenary/ Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:07:00 EDT ECE Alumnus Peter L. Levin (Ph.D. 1988) has been appointed by President Barack Obama as chief technology officer for the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Levin will be the first chief technology officer in the office of the secretary and senior advisor to VA Secretary Eric Shineski. Levin has been charged with identifying medical, web-based and advanced software technologies for the VA, and that will support the 7,000 person Office of Information and Technology led by Assistant Secretary and Chief Information Officer Roger Baker, with whom he'll work closely. Read the full story on the Carnegie Mellon news site. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2009/08/ece_alum_peter/ Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:12:00 EDT