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 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 00:31:51 EST 60 http://www.ece.cmu.edu/images/news/ece-rss.png http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/ A paper published by two former ECE Ph.D. students Sooksan Panichpapiboon and Nawaporn Wisitpongphan, Dr. Gianluigi Ferrari, and ECE Professor Ozan Tonguz is one of the top 100 papers accessed in the IEEE Xplore in the month of June 2008. The paper titled "Route Reservation in Ad Hoc Wireless networks" was published in the January 2007 issue of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/11/paper_among_top/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:33:00 EST ECE/EPP Professor Marija Ilic has received an honorary academic chair from TU Delft University in The Netherlands for her efforts in modernizing the world's electricity infrastructures. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/11/ilic_receives_honorary/ Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:27:00 EST "Flexible Hardware Acceleration for Instruction-Grain Program Monitoring" a flagship paper from CALCM and collaborators at Intel Research Pittsburgh was presented at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) in Beijing in June, and will appear in IEEE Micro's special issue, "Micro's Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences." http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/11/calcm_intel_pittsburgh/ Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:13:00 EST Over a hundred student members of Eta Kappa Nu from 28 universities across the U.S. are expected to attend the 2008 leadership conference on the Carnegie Mellon campus November 7-9. Hosted by our own Sigma Chapter of the ECE student honor society, the conference theme is In Pursuit of Excellence: Achieving Results through Leadership and Innovation. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/11/eces_eta_kappa/ Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:44:00 EST Professor or EPP and ECE Jon Peha has been named chief technologist for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), where he will apply his extensive telecommunications expertise to a variety of issues. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/11/peha_appointed_chief/ Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:57:00 EDT Alumni, colleagues, sponsors and friends gathered last month to celebrate CSSI-25, a quarter century of innovation and education by the Center for Silicon System Implementation - and its partnership with the Semiconductor Research Corporation. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/10/cssi_celebrates_25/ Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:13:00 EDT A Carnegie Mellon-General Motors paper by ECE Professor Ozan Tonguz and his Ph.D. student Hsin-Mu (Michael) Tsai published in the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine in December 2007 has made the Top 10 Articles list in the magazine's most accessed documents for the month of April 2008. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/10/tonguz_paper_ranked/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:25:00 EDT During a recent campus visit by several of their technical executives, ABB signed a research agreement with Carnegie Mellon ECE/EPP Professor Marija Ilic to support its efforts in modern energy systems. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/10/ece_and_abb/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:51:00 EDT ECE/EPP Professor Marija Ilic gave two invited talks on a recent trip to Switzerland. The first, presented at the International Conference on Smart Energy Strategies 2008, was entitled "Sensor-Based Modeling and Control of Future Energy Systems." Her second talk was given at ETH in Zurich, and was entitled "New Systems Control Problem Formulations for the Changing Electric Energy Industry." http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/10/ilic_gives_invited/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:43:00 EDT ECE graduate student Rohit Patnaik and his research advisor, Professor Dave Casasent, have won the 2008 Best Student Paper Award at the Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) Conference, part of SPIE Defense and Security Symposium that was held in Orlando last March. The paper is titled "Clutter performance and confuser rejection on infrared data using distortion-invariant filters for ATR." http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/10/patnaik_casasent_win/ Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:22:00 EDT 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. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/10/paper_among_top/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:05:00 EDT 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. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/10/spiral_among_nsf/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:52:00 EDT 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. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/10/ece_launches_new/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:37:00 EDT 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. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/10/wu_marculescu_win/ Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:16:00 EDT 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. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/10/ece_and_ini/ Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:23:00 EDT Announcements of events, scholarships, and more from Susan Farrington. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/09/student_announcements_september/ Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:58:00 EDT ECE Professor Larry Pileggi has been awarded the prestigious Aristotle Award for 2008 from the Semiconductor Research Corporation. This annual award was established in 1995 to recognize faculty who have had a deep commitment to the educational experience over a long period of time. Pileggi is being recognized for his innovative teaching abilities as evidenced by the outstanding research accomplishments of his students. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/09/larry_pileggi_wins/ Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:24:00 EDT Carnegie Mellon University's Greg Ganger was one of 33 recipients worldwide to receive a 2008 HP Innovation Research Award, which is designed to encourage open collaboration with HP labs resulting in mutually beneficial, high-impact research. Ganger, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Parallel Data Lab at Carnegie Mellon, will collaborate with HP Labs on a research initiative focused on data storage infrastructure issues. Ganger, author of the winning proposal, titled "Toward Scalable Self-Storage," will lead the collaboration. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/08/carnegie_mellons_greg/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:05:00 EDT For the third year in a row, ECE Professor Ozan Tonguz will combine forces with General Motors researchers to host a workshop focusing on the development of inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle mobile mesh and ad hoc networks which are some of the most challenging and critical issues facing the Intelligent Transportation Systems industry. The 2008 MOVE Workshop (MObile Networking for Vehicular Environments) was held in April in Tuscon, AZ as part of INFOCOM 2008, Conference on Computer Communications sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. The 2009 workshop will be part of INFOCOM 2009 in Rio de Janeiro, April 19-25. The workshop this year was co-chaired by Tonguz, Dr. Varsha Sadekar and Dr. Cem Saraydar, both of General Motors, U.S. The organizing committee was made up of participants from other universities as well as GM, India. GM will continue to play a vital role in the 2009 workshop. http://www.ece.cmu.edu/news/story/2008/08/vehicular_networks_research/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:04:00 EDT 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 Püschel 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 Research Scientist Franz Franchetti and Püschel'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