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October 3, 2008

Paper Among Top 100 Cited by IEEE Xplore

A paper published by ECE research professor Markus Püschel and ECE professor José Moura is one of the Top 100 papers accessed in IEEE Xplore during the month of August. The paper, titled "Algebraic Signal Processing Theory: Foundation and 1-D Time," was published in the August 2008 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing.

Spiral Among NSF "Discoveries" Featured Projects

The National Science Foundation has highlighted the Spiral Project on the "Discoveries" section of its website. Only a few NSF funded projects are chosen from across all disciplines to be featured in Discoveries.

Spiral, a tool developed in ECE under the lead of Professors Markus Püschel and José Moura, 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.

ECE Launches New Ph.D. Program in Mobility

To study the business, organization and technical issues related to managing systems found in cell phones, in-vehicle and hand-held travel guidance systems and other network enabled devices, and building infrastructures, Carnegie Mellon CyLab launched the Mobility Research Center (MRC) this past summer in conjunction with Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley.

Wu, Marculescu Win Best Paper Award at Computer Design Conference

ECE graduate student Kai-Chiang (Alex) Wu and his Ph.D. advisor, associate professor Diana Marculescu, have won a Best Paper Award in the EDA category at the 2008 IEEE Conference on Computer Design. The paper, titled "Power-Aware Soft Error Hardening via Selective Voltage Scaling," will be presented at the conference, which will be held October 12-15 in California.

October 2, 2008

ECE and INI Tech Talk and Information Session

Join Dr. Martin L. Griss (Associate Dean for Research, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley; Co-Director, The Mobility Research Center) in a discussion on mobility research and the new bi-coastal INI M.S. and ECE Ph.D. programs.