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11/17/2009 - Pierre-Yves Delaunay wins second place in The 2009 Engineering Student of the Year competition. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 14, 2009 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced the winners of the company-sponsored 2009 Engineering Student of the Year Award, presented by aerospace publication Flight International. This year's competition had two first-place winners: Can Bayram of Northwestern University and Michael Grant of Georgia Institute of Technology. The awards ceremony was held in Dubai on the eve of the international Dubai Airshow. The news release is available here: www.boeing.mediaroom.com/ .

11/16/2009 - Can Bayram wins 2009 Boeing Engineering Student of the Year Award. Can Bayram, a PhD candidate under the supervision of Professor Manijeh Razeghi, Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of Center for Quantum Devices, has recently been selected by The Boeing Company as the 2009 Engineering Student of the Year due to his impact, and potential for impact, of his work on current and future aeronautical and space technology.

11/3/2009 - McCormick CS Student Joins Anita Borg Institute Board of Trustees. Eugenia Gabrielova is a senior who has worked on Distributed Systems research in the Aqualab at Northwestern. “It’s a great honor to be one of the first students to join the ABI Board of Trustees,” said Ms. Gabrielova. “The Anita Borg Institute offers programs that have a positive impact on students future careers. Attending the Grace Hopper Celebration this year provided me with a combination of networking, career guidance and exposure to new technologies that I cannot find anyplace else.” Ms. Gabrielova, another student, Shanna-Shaye Forbes from UC Berkeley, and Mark Bregman, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Symantec join the current Board of Trustees made up of senior executives from leading technology companies and academics who are focused on the recruitment, retention and advancement of technical women.

10/19/2009 - The New York Times - The Robots Are Coming! Oh. They're Here.. ...some kids at the Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern University are suggesting that an average game day story can be bolted together without human intervention.

10/7/2009 - The New York Times - Prizes Aside, the P-NP Puzzler Has Consequences. By John Markoff. The September cover article in the Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery touched off a distinct buzz last month when more than 10 times the usual number of readers downloaded the article in the first two days it went online. The author of the article, Lance Fortnow, a computer scientist at Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering, initially told [Moshe Y. Vardi, the editor in chief of the journal] that the article would be a short one. ”Still open,” he writes, was in first reaction to writing about the state of the work on solving the problem. Link to the article in nytimes.com.

10/2/2009 - Daily Northwestern -- iLab to bring virtual labs to high schools. A group of researchers at Northwestern are set on giving high school science a modern makeover: they're moving the science lab online. The project, called iLab Network, is using the Internet to give high school students remote access to the science labs of universities around the world, all with just a few clicks of a button. Kemi Jona, principal investigator for the iLab project, said he hoped the project would remove the economic barriers that high schools face in teaching science. Jona is an associate professor and the director of NU's Office of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education Partnerships.

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Activities & Accolades

Razeghi's CQD group publishes recent research. Recent research from the Center for Quantum Devices team have been published and are available on the CQD website, reports Director Manijeh Razeghi.

Chen invited to participate in Cyber Security Panel. Prof. Yan Chen was invited to speak in the Cyber Security Panel at the Transportation Center Advisory Board Committee meeting on November 5.

Chen hosts ACM CCS conference this month.. Prof. Yan Chen hosted the 16th ACM Computer and Communication Security (CCS) conference in Chicago. It has attracted a record number of 520 registrations, and become the largest academic security conference.

Choffnes invited to give a talk in Seminar Series on Fusion and Inference. David Choffnes gave an invited talk "Using the Crowd to Monitor the Cloud" at the MITACS Seminar Series on Fusion and Inference at McGill University.

Katsaggelos lead guest editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia special issue. Aggelos Katsaggelos was the lead guest editor of a special issue in the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, entitled "Quality-Driven Cross-Layer Design for Multimedia Communications", Oct. 2009.

Katsaggelos is plenary speaker at NEM in France. Aggelos Katsaggelos gave a plenary talk at the Networked and Electronic Media (NEM) Summit, entitled "Multimedia Content Delivery" in St Malo, France, on Sept. 30, 2009.

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