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 2008, ECE Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:35:18 EDT 60 http://www.ece.cmu.edu/images/news/ece-rss.png http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/ Intel has announced that the new version of its high performance library IPP, used by thousands of companies world-wide, will feature a new domain for functions generated by Spiral, a tool developed in ECE under the lead of Professors Markus Püeschel and José Moura. Spiral can replace the human programmer in the very difficult task of writing highest performance code for important numerical functions and often achieves even better performance than human programmers. The technology underlying Spiral's success was developed by ECE System Scientist Franz Franchetti and Püeschel's recent Ph.D. graduate Yevgen Voronenko. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/07/computer_generation_of/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:53:00 EDT ECE Department Head Ed Schlesinger has been elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department Heads Association (ECEDHA). Schlesinger will serve a one-year term beginning July 1, after which he will be appointed for one-year terms as Vice President and then President of the association. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/07/schlesinger_elected_secretarytreasurer/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:43:00 EDT Wireless mobile devices are ubiquitous in today's society. Revenues from businesses that support these technologies are huge and the future is limitless. The Mobility Research Center, co-directed by Professor Priya Narasimhan, will develop underlying technologies that will ensure the privacy, security and reliability of sensitive and valuable information. The center involves students and faculty from both Carnegie Mellon's Pittsburgh and Silicon Valley campuses. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/07/carnegie_mellon_launches/ Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:33:00 EDT ECE Professor Raj Rajkumar believes that autonomous vehicles will change the face of transportation. And he predicts that this technology will be ready for production in 10 years and available in showrooms a couple years after that. As co-director of the new GM-Carnegie Mellon Autonomous Driving Collaborative Research Lab he's going to work to make that happen. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/06/rajkumar_to_codirect/ Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:25:00 EDT ECE alumnus John Cohn gave the keynote talk at the 2008 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS '08) held May 18-21 in Seattle, Washington. His keynote, "Kids these days -- How we can inspire the next generation of Engineers and Scientists" highlighted his passionate efforts over the past 15 years to make engineering fun for nearly 50,000 kids. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/06/ece_alumnus_gives/ Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:26:00 EDT If you're a Pens fan up in the nosebleed seats at the Mellon Arena, the answer is probably no. But all that may change if the Pens like Professor Priya Narasimhan's idea enough to incorporate it into the new arena. You can learn all about Narasimhan, ECE student Michael Chuang and "Yinz Cam" on KDKA-TVs website and the Pittsburgh Business Times. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/06/hey_can_yinz/ Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:07:00 EDT ECE faculty Rob A. Rutenbar and Daniel P. Sieworek, along with former ECE faculty member John P. Shen, were featured speakers at the UM CSE@50 Symposium, which celebrated the 50 year anniversary of the founding of the University of Michigan Computer Science department. All three are alumni of the University of Michigan. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/05/ece_faculty_speak/ Fri, 23 May 2008 09:43:00 EDT ECE Professor Marija Ilic recently gave two invited talks on the West Coast at the California Institute of Technology and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Titled "The Key Role of Network Systems Engineering in Reaching the Energy and Environment Dream," Professor Ilic's talks concerned the challenge of transforming today's passive electric power grids into active enablers of efficient and reliable utilization of emerging energy resources. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/05/ilic_speaks_on/ Tue, 20 May 2008 11:37:00 EDT Four ECE students have invented a sensor-equipped glove that can translate gestures into spoken words on a cell phone. Called HandTalk, the project was developed this spring as part of the Embedded Systems Design capstone course taught by Professor Priya Narasimhan. ECE seniors Bhargav Bhat, Jorge Meza and Hemant Sikaria, and an ECE graduate student, Wesley Jin, ran with the idea, resulting in a practical research prototype. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/05/turning_gestures_into/ Tue, 13 May 2008 17:17:00 EDT The FCRP Center for Circuit & System Solutions (C2S2), headed by ECE Professor Rob Rutenbar, held its 2008 annual review April 17-18 in Pittsburgh. The review drew over 130 attendees from across U.S. universities, industrial and government sponsors. C2S2 is a consortium of 19 U.S. schools, 50 faculty and roughly 100 students, sponsored by the U.S. semiconductor industry and Department of Defense (DOD). Carnegie Mellon is the lead university for the C2S2 center. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/04/c2s2_circuits_center/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:46:00 EDT ECE graduate student Basil AsSadhan was selected as a King Abdullah Scholar with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. An award ceremony was held on April 5th in Washington, DC to award AsSadhan and 16 other PhD students in the U.S. and Europe. AsSadhan is an advisee of ECE Professor José Moura. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/04/assadhan_selected_as/ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 11:58:00 EDT ECE alumnus Ram K. Krishnamurthy (Ph.D. 1998) has recently been promoted to Senior Principal Research Engineer at Intel Corporation's Corporate Technology Group in Hillsboro, OR. As a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon, Krishnamurthy was advised by Professor Rick Carley. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/04/ece_alumnus_promoted/ Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:16:00 EDT ECE graduate student Andrew Gallagher and Professor Tsuhan Chen won a Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM). The paper, titled "Using Group Prior to Identify People in Consumer Images" describes a method for recognizing people in consumer images using more than just facial appearance. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/04/gallagher_and_chen/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:20:00 EDT ECE graduate student Devi Parikh and Professor Tsuhan Chen won a Best Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Beyond Patches Workshop. The paper titled "Unsupervised Learning of Hierarchical Semantics of Objects (hSOs)" proposes an algorithm to determine higher-level semantic relationships among objects in a scene such as an office, which is represented via a hierarchical structure. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/04/parikh_and_chen/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:11:00 EDT Richard Stern, Professor of ECE, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering, was elected a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) "for contributions to binaural hearing and speech recognition." The premiere international scientific society in acoustics, the ASA was founded in 1929 by members of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York. In its first year, it garnered 450 members. Approximately 7000 members strong today, the ASA is one of the three societies comprising the American Institute of Physics. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/03/stern_named_fellow/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:47:00 EDT ECE graduate students Abhishek Jajoo, John Reinke and Leon Wang have been awarded the 3rd prize in the Phase 1 of the 2007-2008 SRC/SIA IC Design Challenge. Their contest entry integrates their Ph.D. research in RF MEMS devices and circuits into an implementable design for "A Tunable Multiband RF MEMS Transceiver Front-End." http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/03/ece_team_takes/ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:52:00 EDT Takeo Kanade, U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of Computer Science and Robotics and Professor of ECE, is the 2008 recipient of the Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science from the historic Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. He is being honored for his "visionary leadership and scientific accomplishments in the design of perceptual robotic algorithms and systems that function in the physical world." http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/03/kanade_to_receive/ Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:15:00 EDT Alex Hills, Distinguished Service Professor of ECE and EPP, has been elected Engineer of the Year by the Alaska Engineering Societies. Nominated by the Alaska Section of the IEEE for the annual award, Hills was recognized "for outstanding professional leadership, technical excellence, and dedicated community service." The honor was based upon his work in developing Wi-Fi technology and in developing the telecommunications network in rural and remote parts of Alaska. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/03/hills_elected_alaska/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:17:00 EST Dr. Franz Franchetti, ECE Systems Scientist, is one of five recipients of the City of Wiener Neustadt's 2007 Culture Prize, given this year in the area of science. The winners were officially announced on February 21, 2008. Dr. Franchetti will receive his prize from the Mayor of Wiener Neustadt in April. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/03/franchetti_awarded_2007/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 12:09:00 EST Computer Science Professor Edmund M. Clarke and two computer scientists from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Grenoble in France, are winners of the 2007 A.M. Turing Award in recognition of their pioneering work on an automated method for finding design errors in computer hardware and software. Clarke has a courtesy appointment in ECE and advises ECE graduate students. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/02/clarke_wins_computings/ Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:36:00 EST