News Stories
In the News: Wen-mei Hwu's new parallel programming textbook
02/01/2010 - 18:00 CSL 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.
Idea pays off for UI, prof with deal with Samsung
01/31/2010 - 18:00 The 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.
Leburton named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
01/31/2010 - 18:00 ECE 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.
Illinois professor co-authors groundbreaking, hands-on approach for teaching programming of massively parallel processors
01/27/2010 - 18:00 University 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.
Veeravalli selected as IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer
01/14/2010 - 18:00 ECE Professor Venugopal Varadachari Veeravalli has been selected as a 2010 Distinguished Lecturer from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. Veeravalli, who was nominated for the honor, will serve from January 1, 2010, until December 31, 2011.
Three CSL researchers are named IEEE Fellows
01/12/2010 - 18:00 CSL 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
12/06/2009 - 18:00 The 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
11/30/2009 - 18:00 The 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.
Kumar works to improve computing reliability
11/24/2009 - 18:00 As transistors decrease in size, their reliability also decreases. That decrease may lead to computing applications running incorrectly. While it may be possible to guarantee correct execution at the expense of area, power, or performance, the cost will become prohibitive for future processors. ECE Assistant Professor Rakesh Kumar is working to solve the problem of computing in the face of errors that future transistors may produce.
CSL's Andy Schuh discusses new collaborative CUDA platform
11/18/2009 - 18:00 From SC09, Andy Schuh discusses gpucumpting.net, a new collaborative website, on YouTube.
New GPU Computing Collaboration Network for Scientists, Researchers, and Developers Launches at SC09
11/18/2009 - 18:00 The Coordinated Science Laboratory, home of the first CUDA Center of Excellence, today announced the launch of a new network of research communities designed to foster collaboration among scientists, researchers, and developers utilizing GPU computing.
Illinois researchers successful in measuring the “seeds” of crystallization
11/17/2009 - 18:00 A novel microscopy technique—fluctuation transmission electron microscopy—allowed researchers at Illinois to detect subcritical nuclei in a glassy material, the first such measurements of the earliest stages of crystallization.
Alum Horst develops novel robotic knee
11/10/2009 - 18:00 While Robert Horst was in high school, he suffered a knee injury that required three surgeries to fix. He endured a long healing process, and the primitive rehabilitation technology used frustrated him. So he decided to do something about it.
Illinois, A*STAR names Winslett new Director of Advanced Digital Sciences Center
11/09/2009 - 18:00 The University of Illinois has named Marianne Winslett as Director of the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC) in Singapore. ADSC, operated by the University of Illinois and funded by the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research (A*STAR), is focused on breakthrough innovations that will make human-machine interactions as seamless and trustworthy as our interactions with each other.
CSL researcher Todd Coleman joins prestigious ISAT study
11/08/2009 - 18:00 The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has invited CSL researcher Professor Todd Coleman to join its Information Science and Technology (ISAT) study group for a three year term beginning this fall. The group carries about 30 people and only invites the brightest new scientists and engineers to be members.
CSL researchers win SASP’09 best paper award for work on translating CUDA for FPGAs
10/19/2009 - 19:00 CSL researchers Deming Chen and Wen-mei Hwu have received the best paper award at IEEE’s Symposium on Application Specific Processors 2009. The research focuses on applying the CUDA programming language to field-programming gate arrays (FPGAs), opening up a new research area where compiler and synthesis techniques intersect.
Illinois researcher uses modeling to target cancer
10/18/2009 - 19:00 CSL researcher Olgica Milenkovic believes a cure for cancer could be a reality, thanks to cross-disciplinary research she is conducting with Illinois colleagues in microbiology and pathobiology.
Illinois undergrad helps break ground on innovative neuroengineering research
10/12/2009 - 19:00 Martin McCormick once thought mind reading was a talent reserved for superheroes in the comics. But he’s not so sure anymore.
InfoStructure seminar series to challenge intersections between technology and society
10/08/2009 - 19:00 Imagine the success of the iPhone without millions of busy people who demand information on the run. Or consider the viability of MySpace without the legion of teens, like, dying to be connected to their social network with one click.