Coskun Named Circuit Cellar’s First Female Columnist
Assistant Professor Ayse Coskun (ECE) was named the first female columnist for Circuit Cellar. The monthly magazine that publishes articles pertaining to embedded systems and programming initially reached out to Coskun for a Q&A session in its July 2012 issue. Pleased with the in-depth knowledge of the NSF CAREER Award winner, the editors contacted her again last spring […]
Dances with Robots
Teaching automatons to figure out what needs to be done As dancers, this couple is no Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The leader’s moves are clunky, his partner’s so tentative that she’s constantly behind a beat. But be kind: they’re beginners at salsa, and they’re bedeviled by something Fred and Ginger never faced. They’re robots. Watch […]
Nazer Wins IEEE Joint Paper Award
When it comes to wireless communications, the school of thought is that interference between users is an obstacle to avoid. That is to say, when multiple users transmit on the same frequency band, nearby receivers only see the superposition of their signals, which makes it hard to discern the individual packets of data. Work by […]
Opening Movements: Your next security ID may be a defining gesture
To the casual passerby, Janusz Konrad seems a bit fanatical about tai chi: standing in his office, waving one arm to and fro, then spreading both arms and bringing them together. Duck inside, however, and you’ll notice he’s not stretching for his health; he’s stretching for a camera, and images on a computer monitor are […]
Nazer Receives NSF CAREER Award
Bobak Nazer (ECE, SE) has received the National Science Foundation’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award in recognition of their outstanding research and teaching capabilities Nazer plans to use his CAREER award to explore a novel approach to wireless communication that could lead to substantially higher data rates. The conventional wisdom is that interference […]
Meeting Tomorrow’s Sustainability Demands Today
When it comes to high-powered computers, increased energy consumption and lack of reliability continue to be problems researchers are trying to overcome. Unfortunately, some of the best current methods for achieving these goals have their flaws. One example is seen in server consolidation, during which resources are shared across multiple applications and virtual CPUs. Without […]
No Longer Lost in Translation
Just two years ago, American Ryan Rogowski found himself living and working in China building mobile games. He had never spoken Chinese before and learning the language proved to be quite difficult. If only a tool existed that allowed you to look up characters on a phone simply by pointing your camera at the text, […]
CISE Affiliate Coskun Wins NSF Career Awards
CISE Faculty Affiliate Professor Ayse Coskun (ECE) was recoginzed with an NSF CAREER Award for high-impact research that effectively combines research and educational objectives. T Coskun will use her CAREER award to address rising performance and power demands on computer hardware. The need is critical as today’s inefficient technology imposes steep operational and cooling costs […]
Christos Cassandras Receives OTD Ignition Award for Smart Parking
The Office of Technology Development’s Ignition Award is designed to help new technologies bridge the (funding?) gap between discovery-oriented research and subsequent development. By providing funding that helps these fledgling technologies reach specific goals or milestones (to show proof of applicability), the Ignition Award helps further them on the path toward commercialization. Each year, applicants […]
ENG Researchers Partner with MIT Lincoln Laboratory on Advanced Imaging
Surveillance video from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) generates a tremendous amount of data, making it difficult for ground controllers to identify and track suspicious activities in short order. But advanced techniques that Professor Venkatesh Saligrama (ECE, SE), in collaboration with a researcher at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, is developing to analyze airborne video imagery could enable […]