June 28, 2017
The Turing Award 50th Anniversary celebration was held at the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco on June 23-24, 2017. CS Professors Stuart Russell and Michael Jordan participated on a panel discussion about advances in deep neural networks, Prof. Umesh Vazirani moderated a panel on quantum computing. Prof. Emeritus and…
June 28, 2017
A paper co-authored by Prof. Sanjit A. Seshia and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Alexandre Donze, along with researchers from Toyota, has been selected for the 2017 IEEE Transactions on CAD Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award. This award recognizes the best paper published in the Transactions on Computer-Aided…
June 27, 2017
EE graduate student Vasuki Narasimha Swamy (adviser: Anant Sahai) and CS graduate student César Torres (adviser: Eric Paulos) have won inaugural Microsoft Research Dissertation Grants. These grants offer financial support to selected doctoral students from groups that are under-represented in the field of computing. Of the 200 applicants,…
June 27, 2017
Alumnus Edgar Solomonik (CS Ph.D. ’14, adviser: James Demmel) has won the Alston S. Householder Prize XX (2017) for the best dissertation in numerical linear algebra. The Householder prize, which is presented once every three years at a Symposium held in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and…
June 27, 2017
EECS alumna Dawn Tilbury (M.S.’92, Ph.D.’94) will lead investments in fundamental engineering research and education as the newly appointed head of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG). ENG supports engineering research and education critical to the nation’s future and fosters innovations that benefit society. It provides about…
June 26, 2017
Alumnus Anantha Chandrakasan (B.S. ’89/M.S. ’90/Ph.D. ’94), the Vannevar Bush Professor and head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at the Massachusetts Institute of Techhnology (MIT), has been named dean of MIT’s School of Engineering. Anantha joined the MIT faculty in 1994 and has produced a…
June 22, 2017
Ana Arias has been selected for the 2017 Research and Development Award from the Flexible and Printed Electronics Conference, organized by FlexTech, a consortium that supports the development of flexible electronics. The FLEXIs recognizes outstanding work and achievements of organizations and individuals active in flexible hybrid electronics (FHE). The…
June 20, 2017
Alistair Sinclair has been awarded the 2017 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Distinguished Service Award. This award is presented on the basis of value and degree of services to the computing community including activities on behalf of the ACM, other computer organizations, and/or other entities. Prof. Sinclair is…
June 19, 2017
Jose Carmena is mentioned in IEEE’s publication The Institute in an article titled “Timeline: The Evolution of Assistive Technologies” (see timeline at the bottom of the article, year 2017). In celebration of The Institute’s 40th anniversary this article highlights topics and technologies over the past four decades that…
June 12, 2017
EECS alumni Aaron Wagner has been selected as the winner of the 2017 James L. Massey Research and Teaching award for young scholars of the IEEE Information Theory Society. This award recognizes outstanding achievement in research and teaching by Society members under 40 years of age in the Information…