CSL Current News
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.
Kumar works to improve computing reliability
November 25, 2009 - 8:35am - By: Susan Kantor, ECEAs 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.
New GPU Computing Collaboration Network for Scientists, Researchers, and Developers Launches at SC09
November 19, 2009 - 2:21pm - By: Laurie Talkington and Andrew Schuh, CSLThe 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.
CSL's Andy Schuh discusses new collaborative CUDA platform
November 19, 2009 - 12:30pmFrom SC09, Andy Schuh discusses gpucumpting.net, a new collaborative website, on YouTube.
Illinois researchers successful in measuring the “seeds” of crystallization
November 18, 2009 - 2:07pm - By: Rick Kubetz, COE, and Dr. Bong-Sub Lee, MatSEA 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
November 11, 2009 - 1:28pm - By: Megan Kelly, CSLWhile 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
November 10, 2009 - 8:14am - By: Kim Gudeman, CSLThe 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
November 9, 2009 - 1:53pm - By: Megan Kelly, CSLThe 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
October 20, 2009 - 9:47am - By: Kim Gudeman, CSLCSL 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
October 19, 2009 - 4:21pm - By: Megan Kelly, CSLCSL 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.
The researchers are working to genetically modify poxviruses and inject them into tumors. Their objective is to program the viruses to invade and eradicate cancer cells.
Illinois undergrad helps break ground on innovative neuroengineering research
October 13, 2009 - 10:52am - By: Megan Kelly, CSLMartin McCormick once thought mind reading was a talent reserved for superheroes in the comics. But he’s not so sure anymore.
Illinois researchers win Best Student Paper for research advancing computer vision
October 9, 2009 - 2:25pm - By: Megan Kelly, CSLECE professor Yi Ma, graduate students Shankar Rao and Hossein Mobahi, and 2006 Ph.D. ECE alumnus Allen Yang won the 2009 Best Student Paper Award (Sang Uk Lee Award) at the Asian Conference on Computer Vision.
InfoStructure seminar series to challenge intersections between technology and society
October 9, 2009 - 9:02am - By: Kim Gudeman, CSLImagine 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.
Neither would exist without the other. But too often, information technology is discussed as though it were independent of society, a chasm that graduate students at the University of Illinois are hoping to bridge through a new educational initiative.
Bursting the Bubble: Researchers study ionospheric plasma bubbles that interfere with communications systems
September 24, 2009 - 8:00am - By: Kim Gudeman, Coordinated Science LaboratoryHigh up in the ionosphere, plasma bubbles invisible to the naked eye wreak havoc on communication and navigation systems back on Earth.
Instabilities in the bubbles often cause over-the-horizon radars to either lose signals or to register readings from different regions than where they should be looking. GPS receivers can fail as these structures pass overhead.
In Memory: CSL loses former researcher Dick Brown, a pioneer in digital computing
September 1, 2009 - 8:00am - By: Susan Kantor, ECEFormer CSL researcher Richard M. Brown died Saturday, August 22, at the Meadowbrook Health Center in Urbana. He was 85.
Dennison is promoted to CSL Associate Director
August 26, 2009 - 8:00am - By: Kim Gudeman, Coordinated Science LaboratoryElizabeth G. Dennison has been promoted to Associate Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory.
Breaking the 1000-core barrier: New parallel architecture provides foundation for breakthroughs in imaging, more
August 24, 2009 - 8:00am - By: Kim Gudeman, Coordinated Science LaboratoryThe Rigel Architecture will enable faster, more powerful processing of video, images, speech, graphical data, and physical simulation.
Super-resolution techniques are bringing Hollywood to your house: WICD interview
August 10, 2009 - 8:00am - By: Matt Brickman, WICDTechnology once exclusive to forensic experts is hitting the shelves. And it could help sharpen up your home movies.
Researchers developing next-generation energy models with eye toward smart grid
August 7, 2009 - 8:00am - By: Kim Gudeman, Coordinated Science LaboratoryIllinois researchers are tackling complex questions regarding energy markets. Ultimately, the work will contribute toward the development of the smart grid.
Engineering on the Brain: Illinois receives $3 million to train students in neuroengineering
August 6, 2009 - 8:00am - By: Kim Gudeman, Coordinated Science LaboratoryThe National Science Foundation has awarded Illinois an IGERT grant to study neuroengineering, an emerging field that falls outside the boundaries of traditional disciplines like neuroscience and engineering.
Three CSL researchers win HP Labs Innovation Research Awards
June 16, 2009 - 8:00am - By: Kim Gudeman and Jenny ApplequistThree researchers in the Coordinated Science Laboratory are among an elite group of 59 professors to receive a 2009 HP Labs Innovation Research Award. The program creates opportunities for colleges, universities and research institutes to conduct breakthrough collaborative research with HP.
The professors – Narendra Ahuja, Thomas Huang and William H. Sanders – were selected from a pool of 300 applicants from more than 140 universities around the world.
Headed to Harvard: Christian Sandvig earns Berkman Faculty Fellowship
May 1, 2009 - 12:41pm - By: By: Kim Gudeman, Coordinated Science LaboratoryCommunications expert Christian Sandvig will soon be joining the likes of Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow – as a fellow of Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society.
Sandvig has received a 2009-2010 Berkman Faculty Fellowship and will spend his sabbatical studying “Fundamental Problems of Internet Infrastructure.” He also will be a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management.
Student Robert Gregg earns ACC's Hugo Schuck Award for robotics work
April 24, 2009 - 11:07am - By: Kim Gudeman, CSLCSL researcher Robert Gregg has been awarded the American Control Council’s 2009 Hugo Schuck Award for his work on control methods for dynamic walking robots. Gregg won the best student paper for the same research at last year’s ACC.
His paper, “Reduction-based Control with Application to Three-Dimensional Bipedal Walking Robots," unveils a new way of controlling robots to mimic human walking. The paper was co-authored by ECE Professor Mark W. Spong.
Innovative circuits architecture earns CSL researchers DAC/ISSCC award
April 13, 2009 - 3:00pm - By: Kim GudemanCSL researcher Yun Chiu and his student Wenbo Liu have received the 46th DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest award for their work on a time-interleaved architecture for data-conversion circuits.
The new technique will lead to more energy efficient and faster digital video signal processing systems, such as Blu Ray recorders.
"We want to minimize power consumption as much as possible to preserve the battery life of such systems," said Liu, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.