September 23, 2004
ECE Professor T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger, the director of Carnegie Mellon's Data Storage Systems Center, delivered a keynote address at the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Integrated Nanosystems: Design, Synthesis & Applications conference in Pasadena, CA this fall. His speech was on "Nanotechnology and Information Storage."
Other ECE affiliated faculty presenting at the event include Mehdi Asheghi, who organized a session on nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) and information storage; Metin Sitti; and James Bain and Jimmy (Jian-Gang) Zhu with their graduate student Li Zhang.
The conference featured advances in devices and systems, nanoscale phenomena, and nanomanufacturing, and included a nanotechnology showcase.
The Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) is an interdisciplinary research and educational organization within Carnegie Mellon whose mission is to advance information storage technologies.

Ed Schlesinger, Professor of ECE; Director, Data Storage Systems Center, presented a conference keynote on nanotechnology.