CSL Current News

Aerospace engineering graduate student Takashi Tanaka has won the 2011 Best Student Paper Award from the recent Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced the first AMD Fusion Center of Innovation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to focus on the innovative developer environment and software performance advancements enabled by heterogeneous computing. The center will fund, mentor and promote new commercial enterprises emerging from the vast intellectual property and research expertise in the University of Illinois community.

From taking soil moisture measurements around the country to using sensing for surveillance, many modern technologies rely on networked systems.

But too often, these systems are not as efficient or reliable as they could be. That is largely because networked systems are informationally decentralized, comprise many nodes carrying disparate information and are subject to constraints on energy, data storage and computational capabilities. 

The National Research Foundation of Korea recently awarded Daniel Liberzon, a researcher at the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and Hyungbo Shim from Seoul National University a three-year, approximately $300,000 grant to research and develop robust nonlinear observers.

Shim is the principal investigator and Liberzon is the co-PI of the project, titled, “A New Approach to Design of Nonlinear Observers Robust to Measurement Disturbances, with Applications to Quantized Feedback Control.”

From easily accessible design programs to online blogs, college professors are changing the way they teach their classes to adapt to social media trends. The College Teaching Effectiveness Network, or CTEN, held a workshop Monday for graduate students and faculty looking to incorporate more online tools into the classroom setting.

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology a four-year, $700,000 research grant to address the impact of a modernized, reliable smart grid on energy price volatility and energy markets.

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the UI has finalized a contract with Cray Inc. to provide the supercomputer for the National Science Foundation’s Blue Waters project. Cray replaces IBM, which terminated its contract in August because, IBM said, the technology required more financial and technical support than originally anticipated.

CSL graduate student Eric Rozier and CSL Director William Sanders won the Best Paper Award at the 30th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, which took place Oct. 5-7 in Madrid.

CSL researcher Christian Sandvig talks with John Moe of NPR Marketplace about how new FCC rules to shift funding toward building broadband infrastructure in rural communities could help promote economic growth.

University of Illinois graduate Gabriela Jacques da Silva won two prestigious awards this past summer for papers she wrote on computer dependability and event-based systems.

In June, da Silva won the William C. Carter Award at the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, or DSN conference, which was held in Hong Kong. Then in July she won the Best Paper Award at the ACM International Conference on Distributed Event-Based Systems, or DEBS conference, which was held in New York.

CSL researcher Christian Sandvig, an Illinois associate professor of communication, talks with NPR Marketplace about how using white space between broadcast channels could be used for a stronger Internet access pipeline.

ECE Associate Professor Jonathan J. Makela is the 2011 recipient of the IEEE Education Society’s Mac Van Valkenburg Award. The award goes to teachers within their first 10 years following the receipt of their PhD who have “made outstanding contributions to teaching unusually early in their professional careers,” according to the IEEE website.