Deng wins best student paper at IEEE control conference
February 8, 2010 - 9:53am - By: Megan Kelly, CSLKun Deng, Mechanical Engineering graduate student, received the Best Student Paper Award at the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Shanghai, China in December.
Veeravalli named an IEEE distinguished lecturer
February 3, 2010 - 10:13am - By: Susan Kantor, ECEECE Professor Venugopal Varadachari Veeravalli has been selected as a 2010 Distinguished Lecturer from the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
In the News: Wen-mei Hwu's new parallel programming textbook
February 2, 2010 - 1:33pmCSL faculty member Wen-mei Hwu's new book on parallel programming has attracted media attention from around the world. Here are a few of the related stories and reviews.
Leburton named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
February 1, 2010 - 11:23am - By: Charlie Johnson, ECE IllinoisECE Professor Jean-Pierre Leburton, the Gregory E. Stillman Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was selected to serve as an IEEE Nanotechnology Council Distinguished Lecturer through the end of 2011.
Idea pays off for UI, prof with deal with Samsung
February 1, 2010 - 10:54am - By: Don Dodson, News-GazetteThe University of Illinois announced Tuesday that Samsung Electronics has been licensed to use the patented technology that can extend the life – or improve the performance – of silicon chips. The technology was developed by CSL faculty Joseph Lyding.
Illinois professor co-authors groundbreaking, hands-on approach for teaching programming of massively parallel processors
January 28, 2010 - 2:07pm - By: Laurie TalkingtonUniversity of Illinois professor Wen-mei Hwu has co-authored an important new textbook that breaks down the complexities of parallel programming and the GPU architecture to enable programmers to address the critical challenges of massive parallelism.
ADSC names Heng as new deputy director
January 20, 2010 - 9:12am - By: Kim Gudeman, CSLJeremy Heng has been named the Deputy Director of the University of Illinois’ Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore.
Three CSL researchers are named IEEE Fellows
January 13, 2010 - 9:37am - By: Megan Kelly, CSLCSL researchers Jennifer Bernhard, Andrew Singer and Nitin Vaidya were named Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellows for the class of 2010.
CSL researchers receive $1.5 million DoD grant to study opportunistic sensing
December 7, 2009 - 4:21pm - By: Megan Kelly, CSLThe Army Research Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Defense has allotted CSL researchers Thomas Huang, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson and Tamer Basar $1,446,800 spread over five years to study opportunistic sensing.
Supervised study sessions lead to improved grades
December 1, 2009 - 11:08am - By: Charlie Johnson, ECE IllinoisThe transistor. PLATO. The LED. No matter what pops to mind first, Engineering at Illinois has a long tradition of groundbreaking scientific research and development. But Michael Loui, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, along with then undergraduate students Brett Robbins and Erik Johnson and current undergraduate Niranjan Venkatesan, made a discovery sure to amaze the academic community: Studying helps students improve their grades.

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