EECS News for 2009 |
Two Electrical Engineers Set Up a Global Charity Allan Evans (PhD, EE '10, exp) and Scott Wright (PhD, EE '09) co-founded the non-profit charity Globe Shares to facilitate global generosity. [Full Story] Students Present Final Projects and Compete for Prizes in EECS 413 Two teams, one of UG students and the other of graduate students, shared prizes in their major design experience course, thanks to the sponsorship of Texas Instruments. [Full Story] Computer Games Showcase Captivates Crowd CS Seniors in EECS 494 showed off their final projects to an enthusiastic crowd at the 2009 Computer Games Showcase. [Full Story] Lafortune and Mahlke: IEEE Computer - Eliminating Concurrency Bugs with Control Engineering (pdf)ATTN U-M and External UG Students: Summer UG Research Program Conduct important research with EECS faculty and graduate students during the summer of 2010, while receiving financial support. Deadline to apply is 1/29/10. [Full Story] Syed: MIT Technology Review - Tests May Reveal Hidden Predictors of Heart Disease [Full Story] Clay Scott Receives CAREER Award for Research in Signal Processing Clay Scott received an NSF CAREER award for his research project, "Guided Sensing," to develop new methods for guided sensing of information. [Full Story] Event Showcases Student-Designed Computer Games CS Seniors will show off their final projects at the 2009 Computer Games Showcase at CSE. Come to see and play the future of computer games! [Full Story] Soloway: District Administration - Mobile Devices in the Classroom [Full Story] Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble Completes Premier Concert The Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble, using iPhones as instruments and led by Asst. Prof. George Essl, has concluded its premier performance. [Full Story] Essl: Michigan Radio - The Sound of (iPhone) Music [Full Story] Essl: BBC - iPhone Orchestra Ready for Debut [Full Story] Essl: Detroit Free Press - U-M Students Merge Music with iPhone Technology [Full Story] Lynch and WIMS: Innovative structure sensors: in Construction Advisory Group [Full Story] Forrest: Dear of the Year: U-M's North Campus Research Complex: AnnArbor.com [Full Story] Lynch and WIMS: New monitoring systems should make smar bridges..., in Miller-McCune [Full Story] Grizzle: Ford, U-M work on accelerating hybrid development: Metromode [Full Story] Farnam Jahanian Named ACM Fellow Professor Farnam Jahanian has been named a 2009 ACM Fellow for his contributions to the dependability and security of networks and systems. [Full Story] U-M Computer Scientists Author Book on Quantum Circuit Simulation Quantum Circuit Simulation, a new book by Profs. Igor Markov and John Hayes, along with their former student Dr. George Viamontes, is now available. [Full Story] CSE Celebrates National Computer Science Education Week The United States Congress has named the week of December 7 as National Computer Science Education Week. Join CSE as we we applaud this resolution. [Full Story] Frontiers in Semiconductor Based Devices Symposium The former graduate students of Pallab Bhattacharya have organized a symposium in honor of his 60th Birthday. The symposium will be held December 7, 2009 in the Johnson Rooms of the Lurie Engineering Center. Freudenberg and Cook: Embedded Control Systems at U-M: MathWorksSenior Design Course, Embedded Control Systems, Goes International EECS 461, a course designed to bridge industrial and educational goals, as well as electrical engineering and computer engineering, is now being taught in Zurich. [Full Story] Best Paper Award in Automation Research Lindsay V. Allen, graduate student in electrical engineering:systems, received the Best Conference Paper Award at the 2009 IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering with co-authors Kiah Mok Goh from Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology and Prof. Dawn Tilbury for the paper, Closed Loop Determinism for Non-Deterministic Environments: Verification for IEC 61499 Logic Controllers. Grad Students Applicants Will Find Vibrant CSE Program at Michigan Graduate student candidates in computer science and engineering are encouraged to apply at Michigan, where our growing, cutting-edge program provides tremendous opportunity. [Full Story] Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble to Perform on December 9th Led by Asst. Prof. Georg Essl, this unique new and unique student ensemble will merge technology and creativity as they perform all new works on iPhone-based instruments of their own design. [Full Story] ECE Student Research on Display More than 90 posters were on display at the recent 2009 Graduate Symposium, showing a wide range of research. Awards were given for oral and poster presentations. [Full Story] Tal Carmon Receives Young Investigator Award for Research in Lasers and Optics Prof. Carmon received a prestigious AFOSR YIP award for his research project entitled, "Continuous On-Chip Extreme UV Emitter." [Full Story] Dick and Mao: Smartphone app article in Great Lakes IT Report [Full Story] Dick and Mao: Smartphone app article in PhysOrg [Full Story] Smartphone App Illuminates Power Consumption New application developed by Profs. Robert Dick, Morley Mao, and students Lide Zhang and Birjodh Tiwan will help software developers build more efficient products. [Full Story] Noble - IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing: Juggler: Virtual Networks for Fun and Profit [Full Story] CSE Grad Students Present at Honors Competition Four finalists gave presentations on their research at the 6th annual CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition on November 17. [Full Story] EECS Draws Crowd at Tech Day 2009 This year, hundreds of prospective students packed the EECS atrium during Tech Day to see displays by student organizations, project groups, and faculty. [Full Story] Students Develop Mobile Apps During 48-Hour Smartphonia Mania Eleven teams of student programmers worked for 48 hours to create and present a remarkable set of iPhone and Android applications at CSE. [Full Story] Student Programming Team Advances to ACM World Finals A team of three U-M students has advanced from regional competition and will compete in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals in Harbin, China. [Full Story] New $10M Department of Energy Center to Focus on Plasma ResearchA new center at the College of Engineering will enable fundamental research on low-temperature plasmas ionized gases with vast potential for practical technological advancements in fields such as energy, lighting, microelectronics and medicine. The Center for Predictive Control of Plasma Kinetics: Multi-phase and Bounded Systems is funded by a $10 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Energy. [Full Story] Ongoing off-campus network outageIn recent weeks, some users have been experiencing problems connecting to EECS machines from off-campus. We believe that this is being caused by a lack of reliable DNS resolution for EECS hosts within some ISP networks. We are aware of the issue and are working with Comcast and several other ISPs to resolve it as quickly as possible. LNF: World-class university facilities can spark creativity (Ann Arbor.com)WeiLu: Understanding Mechanical Properties Of Silicon Nanowires, Article Cited in RedOrbit [Full Story] Mark Kushner to head new $10M DoE Plasma Research Center Mark Kushner will head the new Dept. of Energy Center for Predictive Control of Plasma Kinetics: Multi-Phase and Bounded Systems. [Full Story] Duncan Steel will Advance Quantum Information Processes in New MURI The work of Duncan Steel, Robert J. Hiller Professor of Engineering, may lead to a reconfigurable quantum optical circuit to connect different quantum platforms. [Full Story] Radev - Computing Research News: Expanding the Pipeline... (pdf)CSE Researchers Win Best Paper Award at IEEE ICCD Ph.D. students Shantanu Gupta, Shuguang Feng, and Amin Ansari, along with Assoc. Prof. Scott Mahlke, have won the Best Paper Award at the 27th IEEE ICCD. [Full Story] U-M Team Qualifies to Compete in MAGIC 2010 Robot Challenge A team of over 20 students, led by Asst. Prof. Edwin Olson, has qualified to compete in the 2010 Worldwide Autonomous Ground-Robotic International Challenge. [Full Story] EECS Alumnus Returns to Ann Arbor to Run Mobile Software Company Greg Schwartz, Founder and CEO of Mobatech, has returned from New York City to Ann Arbor, with its U-M connections, to run Mobatech. [Full Story] Soloway - Concentrate: Here, There, Then Back AgainChen - IEEE Computer: The OS Faces a Brave New World (pdf) [Full Story] EECS Graduate Student Wins First Place in Tech Paper Competition Graduate student Hector Garcia won first place in the technical paper competition at this year's SHPE conference in Washington D.C. [Full Story] UM Solar Car Team Third In WorldGrizzle in Metromode: Ford, U-M work on accelerating hybrid development [Full Story] Noble, Flinn - Crains Detroit Business: U-M Students to Experiment with Future Ford Sync Applications [Full Story] CSE Students Help Ford Bring Cloud Computing to Cars CSE students, led by Profs. Brian Noble and Jason Flinn, are helping Ford to bring social networking and cloud computing to Ford vehicles. More info in this Wired story. [Full Story] Connect with EECS through Social Network Links The EECS website now includes links to our new YouTube channel, where you can see projects and presentations. We've also added links to our Facebook group and fan pages - Join us! CSE Hosts Site for ACM Regional Programming Contest CSE will host student programming teams from around the North Central region on October 31 as they compete in the first rounds of the annual ACM programming competition. [Full Story] 10/23-10/24 OutageAll of north campus was without power starting at about 8 PM on Friday 10/23 and power was not restored until late Saturday morning 10/24. DCO managed servers ran off battery power for several hours, but eventually went down when building power was not restored. Grizzle - Motor Trend: Ford Partners with U of Michigan for Development on Customizable Hybrid SettingsGrizzle - Reuters: Ford, U of M Explore New Ways To Speed Development of Future Hybrid VehiclesKushner and Steel Receive 2010 APS Prizes Prof. Mark Kushner and Prof. Duncan Steel have been selected to receive prestigious awards from the American Physical Society, the Will Allis Prize and the Frank Isakson Prize, respectively. Research Led by Prof. Grizzle Speeds Development of Future Hybrid Vehicles Prof. Jessy Grizzle is applying his expertise in control theory to hybrid electric vehicles in a partnership with Ford Motor Company, and finding ways to improve fuel economy while allowing for optimal driving experiences. [Press Release] [Full Story] David Chesney Addresses US Dept of Education as Panelist on New Education Plan Dr. David Chesney participated in a panel that provided input to the US Department of Education on October 21 regarding the creation of a new National Educational Technology Plan. [Full Story] CSE Researchers Present Findings from Internet Study CSE researchers, in conjunction with Arbor Networks and Merit Network, released findings at NANOG47 on the evolution of the Internet from the largest study of its kind. [Full Story] Yong Long Receives Best Poster Award for Work in Medical Imaging The interdisciplinary research describes a method to improve image quality while reducing patient X-ray dose in medical CT scans. [Full Story] Forrest: Big Energy Funding for Tiny Technology (Nanotechnology)Prof. Duncan Steel Awarded 2010 APS Frank Isakson Prize "For seminal contributions to nonlinear optical spectroscopy and coherent control of semiconductor heterostructures." [Full Story] Prof. Mark Kushner Awarded 2010 APS Will Allis Prize "For ground-breaking contributions to developing and applying hybrid plasma models that have advanced the fundamental understanding of the chemistry, surface kinetics, and energy transport in low temperature plasmas." [Full Story] Igor Markov to Receive IEEE CEDA Early Career Award Assoc. Prof. Igor Markov has been chosen to receive the Early Career Award from the Council on Electronic Design Automation for his work on physical design of ICs. [Full Story] Chesney - Michigan Engineer: Faculty, Teaching By Example [Full Story] Halderman - Slashdot: Making Data UnvanishHalderman - Freedom to Tinker: Breaking Vanish: A Story of Security Research... [Full Story] Oberheide - Slashdot: Dam Burst Tool Disables China's Green DamOberheide - ZDNet: Hacker Ships Tool to Circumvent China's Green DamProfs. Blaauw and Sylvester at Celebrate Innovation, October 13 They presented their very-low-power microprocessor, the size of about 8 grains of salt including the battery and four solar cells. The technology is spawning a new startup company. [Full Story] CSE Researchers Enlist Users for Worldwide 3G Network Study CSE Researchers led by Asst. Prof. Morley Mao are enlisting iPhone, Android, and Windows Mobile users to participate in a worldwide study of 3G wireless network performance. [Full Story] Joe Runs Across America for MS Joe Fairchild (BSE CE '06) is trying to raise $25K for multiple sclerosis, as he runs/walks across the country. Prof. David Wentzloff Awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award Prof. David Wentzloff received a Young Faculty Award for his project, "3D Wireless Interconnect for Crossbar Routing in Many-Core Processors," in the area of Micro/Nano-electronics. [Full Story] Ellersick Prize for Best Paper Awarded to Authors in Communications Prof. Wayne Stark, graduate student Cem Tekin, and former UG student Steven Hong will be presented with the Ellersick Prize at MILCOM09 in October. Soloway - Tech & Learning: Cell Phones Welcome HereJohn Holland, CS Pioneer, Recognized on 80th Birthday John Holland, one of the first in the world to receive a PhD in computer science and a founder of the U-M Center for the Study of Complex Systems, is turning 80. Please come celebrate! [Full Story] Prof. Mark Kushner Honored with Alumni Award Prof. Mark Kushner has been selected to receive the 2009 Alumni Achievement in Academia award from UCLA. Energy and Power: Engineering Sustainable Solutions From the Macro to the Micro Levels There is no shortage of energy being devoted to finding new and sustainable energy solutions. Even amidst the current economic challenges, the U.S. government is supporting these efforts with nearly a 50% increase in funding for energy-related research that includes energy efficiency and renewable energy, smart grid and efficient electrical transmission, green cars, and basic scientific research. [Full Story] Continuous Nanoimprinting for Displays and Solar Cells Prof. Guo's rolling nanoimprint lithography stamp could be used to print components for displays and solar cells. He is working with companies interested in the process.[ACS Nano Article] [Technology Review Article] Join EECS for Homecoming Michigan Engineering Homecoming Weekend is Sept 25-26. On the 25th, EECS will host three alumni lecturers, an alumni lunch, and other events. Be sure to join us! [Full Story] CSE Alumnus and Google Exec RJ Pittman to Speak at U-M North Campus CSE welcomes RJ Pittman, Director of Product Management at Google, as he visits the U-M to give a CSE Distinguished Lecture on innovation on September 17. [Full Story] Steel: Michigan scientists working on super-fast, secure computing [Full Story] Soloway - Concentrate: Ann Arbors Got Apps [Full Story] Soloway - Metromode: Got Apps? [Full Story] Forrest: On the Acquisition of 173 acre ex-Pfizer Research siteCSE Alumnus Usama Fayyad to Speak a Michigan CSE Alumnus and 2009 Alumni Merit Award Winner Usama Fayyad will visit Michigan as a special guest of the College of Engineering and give a lecture on Homecoming Weekend. [Full Story] Marissa Mayer of Google to Give Mellor Lecture at U-M North Campus CSE welcomes Marissa Mayer, VP of Search Products & User Experience at Google, as she visits the U-M to deliver the 2009 James R. Mellor Lecture on September 21. [Full Story] EECS Majors: you're in the right place for good jobs! CE, CS, and EE majors are in the top 6 for most lucrative college degrees, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers. [Full Story] Karem Sakallah and Colleagues Receive CAV 09 Award Prof. Karem Sakallah, his former graduate student, and their colleagues at Princeton have received the Computer Aided Verification Award for their series of fundamental contributions to development of modern SAT solvers. [Full Story] Sensing Sensors: NSF Funding News Ways to Monitor Infrastructure for Safety Prof. Mike Flynn is leading a team of investigators in new theory and techniques for processing information from wireless sensor networks, with the goal of ensuring the nation's infrastructure. [Full Story] Grbic: Winning Strategies: Advice from PECASE Winners [Full Story] EECS Researchers Receive Best Paper Award at ISLPED EECS Professors David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, along with two EECS graduate students and a team of researchers at IBM's T.J. Watson Reserch Center, have received the Best Paper Award at the ISLPED. [Full Story] EECS Researchers Awarded NSF Research Grant to Study Near-Threshold Computing EECS Professors David Blaauw, Trevor Mudge, and Dennis Sylvester have received an NSF research grant to study near-threshold computing, a potential solution to the "energy crisis" faced by the semiconductor industry. [Full Story] Jacob Oberlin's Electronics Savvy Helps Drive MRacing Team to a Strong Finish in Germany Read about Jacob Oberlin's role as electronics group leader on Michigan's MRacing Formula SAE team, which finished fifth, the best of any US team competing in FS Germany. [Full Story] David Blaauw - IEEE Spectrum: CPU, Heal ThyselfDragomir Radev Coaches US Computational Linguistics Team to Gold Assoc. Prof. Dragomir Radev recently led two US high school teams to several awards, including the team gold cup, in the 2009 Linguistics Olympiad in Wroclaw, Poland. [Full Story] Alex Halderman - PC World: Android Security Chief: Mobile-Phone Attacks ComingIan Hiskens: Part of U-M's $2.5M grant for education toward a greener auto industry [Full Story] Stephen Forrest: Dingell, Forrest promote engineering research [Full Story] EECS Students are Winners in DAC/ISSCC 2009 Student Design Contest A team of graduate students were winners in the operational category of the 2009 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest for their work on the ultra-low power processor called Phoenix. [Full Story] Computer Scientists Demonstrate Vulnerability in Electronic Voting Machine A team of researchers from three universities, including Asst. Prof. J. Alex Halderman at CSE, has demonstrated how criminals could hack and take control of an electronic voting machine. [Full Story] Students Working to Deliver Bus Location Info to Handheld Devices Three U-M students, two of them associated with EECS, have spent the summer developing software that will deliver real-time bus location and projected arrival time info to handheld devices. The prospect of real-world testing in Ann Arbor is not far down the road. [Full Story] Alex Halderman - Science Daily: Computer Scientists Take Over Electronic Voting Machine with New Programming Technique [Full Story] Alex Halderman - Slashdot: Voting Machine Attacks Proven To Be Practical [Full Story] Valeria Bertacco - IEEE Spectrum: Crowdsourcing the Complexities of Electronic Design Automation [Full Story] Valeria Bertacco - Slashdot: Making a Game of Hardware Design [Full Story] Valeria Bertacco - Science Daily: Game Utilizes Human Intuition to Help Computers Solve Complex Problems [Full Story] Valeria Bertacco - Boing Boing: Game Uses Fun as Incentive to Solve Hard Chip Design Prolems [Full Story] Research in Flow Cytometry Receives Award for Best Original Paper Prof. Al Hero and colleagues' new method for clinical flow cytometry, called FINE, employs manifold learning and information geometry. The article about the work was awarded for being the most original of the year. [Full Story] New Tool [Gadara] Could Eliminate Software Freezes Gadara helps avoid the software freezes that occur when applications running concurrently begin to compete for resources. Computer Magazine featured this work by Profs. Lafortune and Mahlke in their latest issue. Martha Pollack - The Chronicle: Top Computer Scientists Met to Discuss Dangers [Full Story] Martha Pollack - S. California Public Radio: AI Explosion: Could Robots Take Over? [Full Story] Martha Pollack - Fox News: Will Robots Soon Be Able to Wage War Against Humans? [Full Story] Elliot Soloway - USA Today: Cellphones teach phonics, animation and more...FunSAT Game Helps IC Designers Use Intuition to Optimize Chip Layout CSE Researchers have developed a game that combines work and play to help solve fundamental problems underlying microchip design. [Full Story] CSE Holds CS4HS Summer Workshop for High School Teachers CSE welcomes Michigan high school teachers to CS4HS, a workshop that explores the use of technology in learning and CS curricula. The workshop is Aug 26-27; some seats are still available. [Full Story] CSE Launches K-12 Outreach Website CSE has launched CS Connections, a website that highlights CSE's outreach activities for K-12 students and educators. [Full Story] Second Life Data Offers Insight into How Trends Spread Assistant Professor Lada Adamic has collected and analyzed data from the virtual world of Second Life to study how social influence plays a role in spreading trends. [Full Story] Student Company Develops iPhone App to Promote Good Deeds Mobil33t, a company formed by a team of three U-M students, has created DoGood, a popular iPhone App that leverages mobile networks and social media to encourage and promote altruism on an global scale. [Full Story] U-M Wins Trading Agent Competition; Introduces Ad Auction Game The U-M team led by Professor Michael Wellman has won the Supply Chain Management game at this year's Trading Agent Competition. TAC 2009 also featured a new Ad Auctions game, designed by Prof. Wellman and Ph.D. student Patrick Jordan. [Full Story] Grbic: News of White House Award in Ann Arbor News [Full Story] England: Scientists split on further moon missions [Full Story] 7/18-7/19 DowntimeA problem with the flow of city water to the north campus chiller plant caused a cooling failure in our CSE and EECS machine rooms and triggered the shutdown of many DCO managed servers on Saturday evening. Prof. Hiskens Receives Stim Money for Wind Energy Prof. Ian Hiskens will investigate how to increase the amount of wind power that can be carried on the grid system, allowing for greater utilization of wind generation. [Full Story] Hiskens: DOE Announces Nearly $14 Million to go to 28 New Wind Energy Projects [Full Story] Lada Adamic - US News: Second Life Data Offers Window into How Trends SpreadThe Bipedal Robot MABEL The bipedal robot MABEL is walking on flat land, and being prepared for running, and walking on uneven ground. New videos are available on YouTube. Grbic: PECASE Funds Photonics Work [Full Story] Elliot Soloway - Teacher Magazine: How About a Little Googling, Class? [Full Story] Elliot Soloway - Digital Directions: Making the Case for Mobile Computing [Full Story] Ali Nazari Receives Best Paper Award at ISIT 2009 Ali Nazari won a Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) for his work in multi-terminal communications systems. [Full Story] Gilchrist: Near-lightspeed nano spacecraft might be closeTony Grbic Awarded Presidential Early Career Award Prof. Tony Grbic was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers early in their careers [Full Story] Lasers can lengthen quantum bit memory by 1,000 times Through an unexpected discovery, Prof. Duncan Steel and collaborators on the research say their work proves that one of the major hurdles to quantum computers that was previously thought to be a show-stopper, isn't one. [Full Story] Tom Senior Receives the 2010 IEEE Electromagnetics Award Professor Emeritus Tom Senior has been awarded the 2010 IEEE Electromagnetics Award, "For significant contributions to the advancement of electromagnetic diffraction and scattering theories." [Full Story] Michael Thiel Earns First Place in SEMCAD X Student Research Award Michael Thiel earned first place in an international competition for his research of Human Backscattering in Buildings for Through-wall Radar Applications. [Full Story] EECS Picnic 2009The EECS Department held its annual picnic at Hudson Mills metropark. Department members and their families enjoyed food, camaraderie, and activities, including a baloon toss, a three-legged race, volleyball, and of course, the annual tugs of war between the labs! Click on the link for photos! [Full Story] Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers EECS undergraduate students Kevin Huang and Michael Shin (pictured) were members of the team to design this portable, palm-sized metal detector. The team earned first place in a competition sponsored by the Air Force. [Full Story] Monday Server Downtime - ResolvedA cooling failure in the EECS machine room has caused shutdowns of many DCO servers. An emergency maintenance request has been filed with plant operations to resolve this problem. Once cooling is restored, we will begin bringing machines back online ASAP. Recent Power OutagesRecently, there have been several short power outages that have affected buildings on north campus. Lynch and WIMS Colleagues: Smart Bridges Harness Technology to Stay SafeTom Wenisch - Great Lakes IT Report: Merit Member Conference Covers Cool Learning TechnologyAlex Halderman - PC Magazine: Chinas Filtering Software Contains Pirated Code [Full Story] Alex Halderman - New York Times: Experts Say Chinese Filter Would Make PCs Vulnerable [Full Story] Michael Benson Receives NASA Fellowship PhD student Michael Benson received a 3-year fellowship from the Earth System Science Fellowship Program to study the surface of the earth. [Full Story] John Holland - SIGEVOlution newsletter: An Interview with John H. Holland [Full Story] Alex Halderman - Wall Street Journal: Political Cues in China Web Filter [Full Story] U-M Solar Car Team Unveils Infinium Get ready to follow the solar electric car Infinium when it races in the World Solar Challenge in Australia this October! EECS alum Steven Hechtman (BSE EE '09), team project manager, spoke at the June 5 unveiling at the Henry Ford Museum. [Full Story] Michigan Dominates Student Paper Competition at APS/URSI 2009 Five student papers from Michigan were named among the 16 finalists in the 2009 International APS/URSI conference. Amit Patel earned the overall Best Paper award. [Full Story] CSE Researchers Discover Security Vulnerabilities in Government-Mandated Chinese CensorwareCSE researchers Scott Wolchok, Randy Yao, and Prof. Alex Halderman have released a report on security vulnerabilities caused by Green Dam, the censorware program that the Chinese government just ordered installed on all new PCs in China beginning July 1. [Full Story] Tom Wenisch - Processor: Optimizing the Sleep Cycle [Full Story] Matthew Fojtik Awarded Intel Foundation/SRCEA Fellowship Matt Fojtik (BSE, EE '08) was awarded a highly competitive Intel Foundation/SRCEA Fellowship for his work with Prof. Dennis Sylvester in ultra-low power integrated circuits. [Full Story] EECS Graduate Student Receives Rackham International Fellowship Andrea Pellegrini has been awarded a 2009 Rackham International Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding academic achievement and professional promise. [Full Story] New program in plasma science and engineering Prof. Mark Kushner, Director of the Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering, was instrumental in creating a program in Plasma Science and Engineering, one of only a few of its kind in the country. [Full Story] Alex Halderman - Yahoo! Games: Could Videogame Anti-Piracy Protection Invite Hackers into Your PC? [Full Story] Steve Forrest New Board Chair for Ann Arbor SPARK Stephen Forrest, U-M's VP for Research and Professor of EECS, is the new board chair for the region's economic development authority, SPARK. "He has been a driving force behind the university's recent efforts to strengthen ties with business and industry." [Full Story] Thomas Wenisch Receives NSF CAREER Award Asst. Professor Thomas Wenisch received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation for his proposal entitled, "Programming Models and Hardware Mechanisms for a Polymorphic Multicore Cache Architecture." [Full Story] David Chesney - Livingston Daily: Students Get Technology Preview [Full Story] Game Theory and AI Offer Better Bidding Strategies Professor Michael Wellman and doctoral student Julian Schvartzman have conducted research that yields better ways of determining best bidding strategies in dynamic auctions. [Full Story] UARTS 250 (Creative Process): One of the Universitys Most Intriguing Classes A new course is emphasizing the creative process found in Art, Architecture, Engineering and Music, all found on North Campus at the University of Michigan. Read Prof. Winful's tips for the creative engineer. [Full Story] Hiskens: First Plug-In EV Conference Coming to Detroit [Full Story] Three Staff Honored for their Excellent WorkKaren Liska (Human Resources Coord.), Barb Rice (Senior Research Admin.), and Dennis Schweiger (Facilities Supervisor for the LNF) were recently honored at public ceremonies for their excellent performance during their careers in EECS. CSE Security Researcher Petitions for DMCA Exemption to Study DRM Assistant Professor Alex Halderman is petitioning the U.S. Copyright Office to grant an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act so that he and others can study the potential security risks of DRM technologies. [Full Story] Google Founder and EECS Alumnus Larry Page Delivers Commencement Speech Larry Page received his undergraduate degree in computer engineering in 1995. Watch the video, view some photos and read the highlights of his speech. [Video] [Full Story] St. George's Day Feast Enjoyed by All At the annual EECS St. George's Day Feast, faculty served lunch to students, the Chairs slew a dragon, awards were presented, and a good time was had by all. [Full Story] EECS Department Recognizes Graduate Student Instructors On April 27, the EECS Department recognized top Graduate Student Instructors and Instructional Aides at an awards luncheon. [Full Story] Dennis Schweiger Receives College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award Dennis Schweiger, Facilities Supervisor for the LNF, has been selected to receive a College of Engineering Staff Excellence Award. He will be honored May 8 at a public ceremony in Chesebrough Auditorium at 3pm. [Full Story] Barb Rice Receives U-M Distinguished Research Administrator Award Barb Rice, Research Administrator for SSEL, WIMS, LNF, and NNIN has been selected to receive a 2009 Distinguished Research Administrator Award. She will be honored at a public ceremony May 7 in Michigan League's Vandenberg Room, 3:30-5pm. [Full Story] Karen Liska Receives CoE Judith A. Pitney Staff Service Career Award Karen Liska, EECS Human Resources Coordinator, has been selected to receive the CoE Judith A. Pitney Award. She will be honored at a public ceremony in Chesebrough Auditorium on Friday, May 8 at 3:00pm. [Full Story] Students Showcase Projects in Microprocessors and Music Tech and tunes mixed recently in Tishman hall as students demonstrated and interacted with projects from their Microprocessors and Music course. [Full Story] Lurie Nanofabrication Facility Receiving Awards and Recognition The LNF has been recognized for his design and structural achievements by the Construction Association of Michigan. The IC-inspired masonry reflects the work being done inside the facility. [Full Story] Elliot Soloway Joins Board of Directors for ISTE Prof. Elliot Soloway has been elected to the board of directors for the International Society for Technology in Education, which helps to advance the effective use of technology in PK-12 education. [Full Story] Luis Gomez Receives 2009 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to Investigate a New Treatment for Neurological Disorders Mr. Gomez is currently investigating a new technique that is receiving widespread attention across the medical field for treating depression, Alzheimer's, and other brain conditions. [Full Story] CITI Sponsored by Microsoft to Develop NFS Software Computer scientists at the Center for Information Technology Integration will develop software that enables Microsoft Windows to better interoperate with emerging Internet storage protocols. [Full Story] David Chesney in College Video on Social Change and Engineering Dr. David Chesney, Lecturer at CSE, appears in a video by the college on social change and engineering, which highlights how engineering students can use their skills to address societal challenges. [Full Story] Mark Brehob Elected as HKN Professor of the Year Mark Brehob was named Professor of the Year by HKN. He received the award on April 20, at the EECS St. George's Day feast. [Full Story] U-M CS Alumnus Describes Visual Effects Processes Used in Watchmen DJ DesJardin returned to CSE and described the creative and technical processes behind the visual effects in the recent Watchmen movie. [Full Story] Keep Your PC HealthyThe following is a list of free software and recommendations that DCO currently advises to keep Windows-based PCs clean and healthy: EECS Students Help the Deaf Feel the Music A group of five students, including electrical engineering student Rishi Daftuar, earned first place in the competition Feel the Music, which was dedicated to the deaf community. [Full Story] Elliot Soloway - Michigan Business Review: GoKnow software moves learning to cell phones [Full Story] ISPD Contest (Dongjin Lee; Igor Markov) covered in EE TimesScott Rudolph Awarded Prestigious IEEE MTT-S Graduate Fellowship Scott Rudolph, graduate student in electrical engineering, was selected to receive an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Graduate Fellowship Award to support his work in metamaterials with Prof. Tony Grbic. [Full Story] Jeannette Wing to Give Distinguished Lecture at U-M Jeannette Wing, President's Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon and Assistant Director for CISE at National Science Foundation, will give a distinguished lecture at CSE on Wednesday, April 15. [Full Story] U-M Shares 1st Place Prize at ISPD Graduate student Dongjin Lee and his advisor Prof. Igor Markov shared 1st prize in the 2009 Clock Network Synthesis Contest at this year's Int. Symposium on Physical Design. [Full Story] Bridging the gap between wireless sensor networks and the scientists who use them Prof. Robert Dick and graduate student Lan Bai are creating programming languages for wireless sensor networks that are easily used by scientists in various areas of specialty. [UM Press Release] CSE Grad Student John Oberheide in the News on Security Issues CSE grad student Jon Oberheide has been quoted in the news on security issues for mobile devices and on the recent Conficker virus. [Full Story] EECS Graduate Student Receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship Amir Hormati has been awarded a 2009 Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship in recognition of his outstanding research and academic achievement. [Full Story] 48-Hour Mobile App Blitz Completes with Six Successful Apps On March 27-29, 2009, CSE held a 48-hour mobile device programming blitz at the University of Michigan. Six creative apps were developed by student teams and demoed at the end of the event. [Full Story] Wei Lu's Memristor Chip in Next Big Future [Full Story] CSE and Apple Computer Sponsor 48-Hour Mobile Programming Blitz Why take an entire semester to build an app, when you can do it in 48 hours? Students at CSE will participate in the iPhone and mobile device programming blitz beginning this Friday, March 27 at 5:00 pm. [Full Story] Yahoo! Hack U 2009 Finishes at CSE On March 17-21 Yahoo! held its first Hack U at the University of Michigan. The week included lots of outreach from Yahoo and a programming contests for students. [Full Story] CSE Alumnus Kai-Hui Chang Receives Dissertation Award CSE alumnus Kai-hui Chang has been awarded the 2009 ACM SIGDA Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award in Electronic Design Automation. [Full Story] Sung Hyun Jo Receives 1st Place Raith Micrograph Award Sung Hyun Jo, graduate student in electrical engineering, took first place in the 2008 Raith Micrograph Award for his nanostructure, 1kb crosspoint RRAM (Resistive Random Access Memory). [Full Story] Prof. Lus memristor chip could lead to faster, cheaper computers Prof. Wei Lu is an ECE faculty member who created a computer component with the potential to transform the semiconductor industry, enabling smaller, faster, cheaper chips and computers. [Full Story] Alex Halderman, quoted in PC Wold: Cheap scanners can fingerprint paper [Full Story] Dr. Jacobs, co-founder of Qualcomm, talks about the future of cell phones [Full Story] Prof. H.V. Jagadish Elected to CRA Board of Directors Prof. H.V. Jagadish has been elected to a three-year term on the Computing Research Association Board of Directors. [Full Story] PowerNap and RAILS provide roadmap for reduced data center energy requirements A U-M team led by Asst. Prof. Thomas Wenisch has proposed a plan to reduce data center energy requirements by 75%, in part by creating "naps" for energy-hungry servers. U-M Press Release [Full Story] Elliot Soloway, quoted in The Dallas Morning News: Kellers Trinity Meadows students use cellphones as classroom computer [Full Story] Elliot Soloway, quoted in eSchool News: Conference explores benefits of mobile learning [Full Story] David Chesney, featured in ASEE Prism magazine and e-newsletter: Story TimeProfessor Farnam Jahanian Honored as 2009 Distinguished University Innovator Professor Farnam Jahanian was honored by the University on April 1st for his contributions to network security research and in demonstrating their transformational potential by commercializing them through Arbor Networks, Inc. U-M Research Announcement [Full Story] Sung-Hyun Jo Receives Silver Prize in SAMSUNG Human-Tech Thesis Prize Sung-Hyun Jo, graduate student in electrical engineering, received this prize for his thesis, "Programmable Switching in Two-Terminal Resistive Switches and Crossbar Memory Arrays." [Full Story] Carl Pfeiffer Receives 2009 IEEE MTTS Undergraduate/Pre-Graduate Scholarship Carl Pfeiffer, an undergraduate student of electrical engineering, is one of only seven recipients of this award, which is designed to encourage future leaders and key technical contributors. [Full Story] Yahoo! Hack University Week Comes to U-M March 17 - 21 Yahoo! will be at U-M to host Hack U, a great week of coding and fun for students. Join in the 24-hour hackfest to win prizes, and maybe even a trip to California to represent U-M at Yahoo's International University Hack Showdown this summer! [Full Story] Prof. Farnam Jahanian Receives Test Of Time Award Professor Farnam Jahanian, Chair of the CSE Division of EECS, has been recognized with the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award for his groundbreaking paper, co-authored with two former students, on Internet routing instability. [Full Story] Wei Lu: Nature Materials, March 2008, Crossbar memories [Full Story] Z. Morley Mao Awarded a Sloan Fellowship Asst. Professor Z. Morley Mao has been awarded a 2009 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, in recognition of distinguished performance and unique potential. [Full Story] 2009 EECS and CoE Faculty Awards EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards: Jason Flinn, Jay Guo, Sandeep Pradhan Prof. Forrest Offers Podcast about U-M Energy Research and Michigan[WIMS Center] Smart Roads. Smart Bridges. Smart Grids. 2/17/09 Wall Street JournalHERCULES Petawatt Laser - Video Interview with Dr. Yanovsky Watch Dr. Yanovsky in an interview appearing on Engineering TV: "Engineering TV visited The Center for Ultrafast Optical Science at the University of Michigan to take a closer look at HERCULES, a high-field petawatt class laser. The beam measures 20 billion trillion watts per square centimeter, contains 300 terawatts of power (300 times the capacity of the entire U.S. electricity grid), and is capable of producing this intense beam once every 10 seconds. Applications include optical communications at the terabit level, studies involving the behavior of electrons in quantum structures, and biomedical fields such as eye surgery , subcellular "nanomachining", and in vivo sensing (for example in vivo cytometry of circulating cancer cells). The National Science Foundation through the Physics Frontier Center FOCUS supports the development and construction of this laser. For more information, go to: Center for Ultrafast Optical Science. [Full Story] Michael Wellman, quoted in ComputerWorld: A.I. comes of ageAtul Prakash, quoted in MSN Money: How dangerous is online banking? [Full Story] Satinder Baveja, quoted in The Independent: Rise of the machines, end of the humans? [Full Story] Prof. Elliot Soloway Leads in Drive to use Smart Phones for Learning Professor Elliot Soloway is leading a movement in K-12 education to use smart phones and mobile technologies to enable interactive, engaging, and multidisciplinary learning. U-M Press Release [Full Story] Dragomir Radev Honored as ACM Distinguished Scientist Assoc. Professor Dragomir Radev has been elected a 2008 ACM Distinguished Scientist by the Association for Computing Machinery, in recognition of significant accomplishments with an impact on the field of computing. [Full Story] Prof. Hiskens named Vennema Professor Prof. Ian Hiskens will present the lecture, What's Smart about the "Smart Grid"? April 2, 2009 in a public ceremony to announce his being named the Vennema Professor of Engineering. [Full Story] Prof. Kushner Named George I. Haddad Professor Prof. Mark Kusher will present the lecture Low Temperature Plasmas: Fundamental Physics, Innovative Technologies, Future Societal Benefit April 9, 2009 in a public ceremony to announce his being named the George I. Haddad Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. [Full Story] Recent Phishing AttackWe have recently received reports of EECS users receiving fraudulent email notices. Because these messages referenced a link to our webmail server, we have gone ahead with an early switchover to the new server. Professor John Laird Named Cognitive Science Society Fellow Professor John Laird has been honored as a Cognitive Science Society Fellow in recognition of his sustained contributions to the field of Cognitive Science. [Full Story] Valeria Bertacco Receives Young Investigator Award Asst. Professor Valeria Bertacco received a Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in January 2009 for her proposal entitled, "Defending Against Hardware-Based Security Attacks." [Full Story] Undergraduate Students Medical Data Logger in a National Clinical Drug Trial Students participating in a summer project in the Student Projects Lab find their work being tested for possible adoption by ambulance personnel. [Full Story] Prof. H.V. Jagadish Awarded a Collegiate Professorship in Engineering Prof. H.V. Jagadish has been named the Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in recognition of his sustained excellence in research, teaching, and service within the College of Engineering. [Full Story] Mark Ackerman Recognized by HCI Community Assoc. Professor Mark Ackerman has been inducted into the CHI Academy by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. [Full Story] Students Score in Class Design Contest Sponsored by Analog Devices Students in EECS 413: Monolithic Amplifier Circuits, earned prize money for their projects designing better headphones and a low-power neural microsystem. [Full Story] Larry Page: Google co-founder to speak at U-M Commencement [Full Story] Flexible photodetectors for sharper photos Prof. Pallab Bhattacharya and recent alumnus Zhenqiang Ma (U. Wisconsin-Madison) have developed flexible light-sensitive material that could revolutionize photography and other imaging technologies. [Applied Physics Letters] [U-Wisc Press Release] Smart Bridges Under Development with New Grant Faculty from EECS are part of an interdisciplinary team developing a full range of interlocking technologies that together will sense and collect bridge status data and make it available to inspectors. U-M Press Release [Full Story] Elliot Soloway featured in Tech & Learning Magazine: The Future is in Your Hand [Full Story] Elliot Soloway & Cathleen Norris, BusinessWeek Viewpoint: Get Cell Phones into Schools [Full Story] Elliot Soloway & Cathleen Norris, District Admin: The Impending Mobile Mega-Disruption [Full Story] Elliot Soloway, quoted in EDTECH: Coming Up BigWei Lu talks about whats next after silicon In a New Scientist article about the new frontier in microelectronics, Prof. Lu describes the crossbar array technology, which he champions. This technology is modeled after nature's method of building structures from atoms, and can be used to build high performance memory and logic circuits even beyond transistor scaling. |