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Illinois receives $7.5 million to study human-machine interactions
August 24, 2010 - 3:48pm Megan Kelly, CSL All CSL, battlefield, Decision, human-machine interaction, Networks, Decision and ControlCSL Researcher Tamer Başar and his team of collaborators received a $7.5 million Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award to form a better understanding of how teams of humans and machines make decisions and develop more reliable and secure multi-layer networks where team interactions take place.
Sandvig blogs about network neutrality for NPR
August 24, 2010 - 3:31pm All CSL, Decision and ControlCSL researcher Christian Sandvig, associate professor of communications, talks Googizon and network neutrality on NPR's Future Tense blog: http://futuretense.publicradio.org/blog/index.php?id=981794782.
Facebook Is to Power Company as ...
July 26, 2010 - 4:14pm Joshua Brustein, New York Times All CSL, Decision and ControlCSL researcher Christian Sandvig talks to the New York Times about Facebook's status as a social utility.
In the News: Illinois adaptive flight-control technology
June 28, 2010 - 2:53pm All CSL, Decision and ControlNaira Hovakimyan's research is featured in the June 29 issue of Flight International, a UK-based aerospace publication. Hovakimyan, mechanical science and engineering, and her team have created innovative algorithms that give pilots an extra few seconds to recover an uncontrollable plane.
Media expert Christian Sandvig breaks down Facebook privacy controversy
June 1, 2010 - 1:53pm All CSL, Facebook, Privacy, social media, Decision and ControlCSL researcher Christian Sandvig talks about Facebook privacy settings and whether users have a right to expect privacy in a digital age in "A Minute With..." and on St. Louis-based radio station KMOX.
Metra leaves search engines at the station
April 29, 2010 - 7:49am Richard Wronski, Chicago Tribune All CSL, Decision and ControlUnlike many other major city transportation systems, Chicago's Metra doesn't provide wireless service for riders. CSL's Ramavarapu "RS" Sreenivas led an IDOT study that concluded that providing broadband Internet access on Metra and Amtrak could "have positive impacts on traffic congestion, traffic safety, the economy, and other aspects of the quality of life Illinoisans enjoy."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northnorthwest/ct-met-metra-wifi-201004...Merge.fm fuses music, fan experience in new web application
April 28, 2010 - 11:46am Megan Kelly, CSL All CSL, electrical and computer engineering, music, technology, web application, Decision and ControlAccording to Adam Steele, there are three things most important to musicians in a local band: getting their music heard, playing a good show, and writing a great song.
“In the bands I’ve belonged to in the past, the songwriting process was something the fans couldn’t experience with us, unlike the other two,” said Steele, a musician and University of Illinois graduate student in aerospace engineering. “None of our fans could experience the rush we had when writing material.”
NASA launches Hovakimyan's novel flight control system
April 15, 2010 - 2:55pm Megan Kelly, CSL All CSL, flight, L1 adaptive control, NASA, Decision and ControlMechanical Engineering Professor Naira Hovakimyan pioneered the first successful flight of an all-adaptive flight control system on NASA’s AirSTAR test vehicle on March 24 in Fort Pickett, Va. The AirSTAR is a twin-engine commercial jet dynamically-scaled to 5.5 percent of an actual aircraft.
http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?contentBlockId=fe23605f-e1f4-43c5-a1fb-04adbd...CSL welcomed visitors to Engineering Open House March 12-13
March 8, 2010 - 11:25am All CSL, engineering open house, Decision and ControlThe Coordinated Science Laboratory was proud to participate in the University of Illinois' Engineering Open House on March 12-13.
Noted tech journalist to help bridge gap between engineers, technology users
February 25, 2010 - 9:51am Kim Gudeman, CSL All CSL, engineering, journalist, Julian Dibbell, online community, technology, Decision and ControlWhen Julian Dibbell wrote the acclaimed 1993 article, “A Rape in Cyberspace,” a chasm already existed between those who built technology and those who used it. The story detailed a virtual rape in an online gaming community, LambdaMOO, which left the players seething and the community’s creators reeling and uncertain how to respond.
Illinois researchers play role in new $25 million science, technology center
February 24, 2010 - 2:39pm Megan Kelly, CSL All CSL, information theory, neuro-biological systems, NSF, wireless networks, Decision and Control, Illinois Center for Wireless SystemsThe National Science Foundation has awarded a group of nine universities, including Illinois, a $25 million, five-year “Science and Technology Centers” grant to develop novel inter-disciplinary approaches for science and technology advancement. CSL researchers Todd Coleman, P.R. Kumar and Olgica Milenkovic, all electrical and computer engineering faculty, will represent Illinois in this endeavor.
Deng wins best student paper at IEEE control conference
February 8, 2010 - 9:53am Megan Kelly, CSL All CSL, Decision and ControlKun 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.
Alum Horst develops novel robotic knee
November 11, 2009 - 1:28pm Megan Kelly, CSL All CSL, bionic knee, medical device, rehabilitation, robotic, Decision and ControlWhile 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 researchers win Best Student Paper for research advancing computer vision
October 9, 2009 - 2:25pm Megan Kelly, CSL 3D, adapative texture, All CSL, boundary encoding, Computer Vision, image segmentation, Decision and ControlECE 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 Kim Gudeman, CSL All CSL, Communications, infostructure, mp3, seminar series, technology, Decision and ControlImagine 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.
Student Robert Gregg earns ACC's Hugo Schuck Award for robotics work
April 24, 2009 - 11:07am Kim Gudeman, CSL All CSL, American Control Council, Hugo Schuck, Robert Gregg, Robotics, Decision and ControlCSL 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.
Facial recognition coming soon to a security camera near you
December 16, 2008 - 1:36pm Kim Gudeman, CSL All CSL, electrical and computer engineering, facial recognition, sparse representation, Decision and ControlBeware thieves and other ne'er-do-wells: Those sunglasses and other disguises may soon no longer protect your identity if CSL researcher Yi Ma and his group have anything to do with it.
Ma and his students have developed a facial-recognition algorithm that can identify an individual even if the image is corrupted or occluded. The algorithm works with 90 to 95 percent accuracy when the nose, eyes or mouth is obscured, either by disguise or a corrupted image.