Professor Luca Carloni has been awarded a five-year National Science Foundation (NSF) – Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to develop a new communication-based design methodology for distributed embedded systems.
Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, a pioneer researcher on network security, will be presented with the 2007 National Computer Systems Security Award by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Security Agency (NSA) in a ceremony during the 22nd Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) in Miami Beach, Fla., on Dec. 11-15, 2006.
Prof. Luca Carloni (CS) and Prof. Kenneth Shepard (EE) have been awarded a three-year NSF grant to study the design of low-power scalable communication networks for multi-core systems-on-chip.
Professor Kenneth Ross has been awarded an NSF grant to study the design of database systems software on modern multicore and multithreaded processors.
Regina Barzilay (PhD’02), now an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, won one of five Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowships.
Members of the department’s computer graphics group were extremely succesful in the upcoming SIGGRAPH 2006 conference, having 10 papers accepted, the most from any single institution in the last five years.