http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/05/savvides-talks-facial-recognition-software-on-cnn.html Marios Savvides, director of the CyLab Biometrics Center and associate research professor of electrical and computer engineering, was recently interviewed on CNN about why facial recognition technology failed to identify the suspects of the Boston marathon bombing. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/04/moura-named-philip-and-marsha-dowd-professor-of-engineering.html José Moura, University Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Engineering. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/04/fallin-earns-qualcomm-fellowship-honorable-mention.html Fourth-year Ph.D. student Chris Fallin has earned an Honorable Mention in the 2013 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Award competition. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/04/sinopoli-plays-role-in-bringing-new-technology-to-market.html ECE Associate Professor Bruno Sinopoli has joined forces with Seco USA Inc. and AidiLab to promote UDOO — a tiny, single-board computer that integrates two processors and bridges the gap between Arduino microcontrollers and the Raspberry Pi single-board computer. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/04/welcome-back-alumni.html The Electrical and Computer Engineering Department welcomes alumni back to campus during Spring Carnival 2013! http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/04/researchers-win-ieee-donald-o.-pederson-best-paper-award.html A team of Carnegie Mellon ECE researchers and their collaborators have won the IEEE Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award for their paper, "Virtual Probe: A Statistical Framework for Low-Cost Silicon Characterization of Nanoscale Integrated Circuits." http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/04/diana-marculescu-named-elate-fellow.html ECE Professor Diana Marculescu has been named a 2013-2014 fellow in ELATE at Drexel, a national leadership development program designed to advance senior women faculty in academic engineering, computer science and related fields into effective institutional leadership roles within their schools and universities. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/03/beckler-wins-grad-student-service-award.html ECE Ph.D. student Matthew Beckler has been selected to receive the 2013 Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Student Service Award. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/03/celebrating-silicon-valley.html ECE graduate students and faculty from Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley recently enjoyed dinner and conversation in the Monterey Bay Aquarium Open Sea Gallery. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/03/ecers-take-an-island-cruise-on-the-ss-ece.html ECE graduate students, faculty and staff enjoyed an island-themed winter gala at the Omni William Penn in Downtown Pittsburgh last month. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/03/ece-launches-technology-enhanced-hybrid-masters-program.html Technology has enabled a revolution in education, and Carnegie Mellon ECE is responding to that revolution by introducing its new Technology-Enhanced Hybrid Program. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/03/brumley-earns-sloan-research-fellowship.html David Brumley, the Gerard G. Elia Career Development Professor of ECE, is one of four Carnegie Mellon professors selected to receive the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for showing great potential to advance knowledge in his field. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/03/ece-faculty-earn-scott-institute-seed-grants.html Six ECE professors have received seed grants from Carnegie Mellon's new Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation to promote the development of new research and educational activities related to energy across the university. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/03/bain-discusses-data-backup-on-kdka-tv.html ECE Professor and Associate DSSC Director James Bain has two important messages for the modern computer user: back up your data and plan to move it from time to time if you want it 40 years from now. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/02/franchetti-receives-funding-to-develop-safer-software-technologies-.html Associate Research Professor Franz Franchetti has received a 4.5-year, $6 million grant from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop software for protecting unmanned ground vehicles and high-end cars from cyber attacks. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/02/pdl-receives-intel-funding-for-cloud-computing-research.html THe Parallel Data Lab has received $487,500 for cloud computing research from Intel, the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductor products. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/02/ece-faculty-earn-cit-honors.html Three ECE faculty members have received 2012 College of Engineering's Faculty Awards. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/02/moura-elected-to-national-academy-of-engineering.html University Professor José M.F. Moura has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional honors an engineer can achieve. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/02/chinese-academy-of-sciences-honors-clarke-.html The Chinese Academy of Sciences has named Edmund M. Clarke, the FORE Systems University Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, an Einstein Professor for 2013. As part of the professorship, Clarke will visit the Suzhou Institute for Advanced Study of the University of Science and Technology of China later this year. He subsequently will host a Chinese scholar for several months at Carnegie Mellon. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2013/01/mutlu-appointed-dr.-william-d.-and-nancy-w.-strecker-early-career-professor.html Onur Mutlu has been appointed the Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Early Career Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.