Zafar Rafii awarded CogSci Fellowship for interdisciplinary music project
Thursday, 03 May 2012 08:12
 Zafar Rafii, PhD candidate in Graphics & Interactive Media Division of EECS, has been awarded the Cognitive Science Graduate Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research Projects for his project "Music understanding based on repetition." The proposal will bring together Prof. Bryan Pardo from EECS and Prof. Ric Ashley from the School of Music, with the purpose of determining whether "it is possible to use repetition, not only for musical background extraction, but more generally for music understanding - defined here as the recognition of pattern and struacture in musical information - and even more generally for audio understanding."
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EE Alum is New Chair of School of ECE at Georgia Tech
Wednesday, 02 May 2012 13:12
 BSEE '85 alumnus of Northwestern University, Dr. Steven McLaughlin, has been appointed as the new Steve W. Chaddick School Chair in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, at the Georgia Institute of Technology, effective Sept. 1.
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Tim Rambo to receive NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship
Tuesday, 01 May 2012 12:23
 Timothy Rambo, a third year graduate student in Prem Kumar's lab, has been selected to receive a NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship for the next academic year for his proposal entitled “Implementing a Near-Optimal Optical Receiver for Inter-Planetary Communication.”
The Fellowship will provide 100% support for his graduate studies as well as a stipend and twelve weeks of on-site experience at a NASA facility every year Tim is on the fellowship. Per NASA guidelines, NSTRF awards are made initially for one year and may be renewed for up to three additional years, contingent upon satisfactory progress and the availability of funds.
CS major Prem Seetharaman's hand clap research is iPhone app
Monday, 30 April 2012 08:50
 Prem Seetharaman, computer science major, presented his paper, "The Hand Clap as an Impulse Source for Measuring Room Acoustics" at the 132nd Convention of the Acoustic Engineering Society in Budapest, Hungary. The work evaluates the use of hand claps to characterize the impulse response ("the sound") and other aspects of a room.
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Chen Chairs Security and Privacy Track at WWW Conference in Lyon
Thursday, 26 April 2012 15:33
 Yan Chen serves as the Chair for the "Security, Privacy, Trust, and Abuse" Track in the 21st World Wide Web (WWW) conference, held in Lyon France on 16-20th April, 2012.
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Undergrads Chan and Singh Place at Spring Hackathon
Tuesday, 24 April 2012 07:50
 NU Computer science majors Jonathan Chan and Gursimran Singh won 2nd place in hack@uchicago's Spring Hackathon at the University of Chicago over the weekend of April 21-22. Their product, Sounding Board, is a crowd-driven music player - a clever mashup of several popular services such as Twitter and Rdio.
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Communications of the ACM publishes new CUCIS research
Monday, 23 April 2012 08:40
 The CUCIS group under EECS professor Alok Choudhary reports the publication of their article " Social media evolution of the Egyptian revolution" in the May 2012 edition of Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) .
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NU to host MIOMD-XI on infrared optoelectronics in September
Monday, 16 April 2012 15:36
 MIOMD-XI Conference Chair Manijeh Razeghi reports that the 11th international conference on Infrared Optoelectronics: Materials and Devices will be held at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois from September 4th through 8th, 2012.
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EECS Majors Broh-Kahn, Jennes, and Solomon awarded 2012 Summer UG Research Grants
Thursday, 12 April 2012 11:17
 The Office of the Provost and the Undergraduate Research Grants Committee announce that three EECS majors have been awarded Summer Undergraduate Research Grants for their independent projects this summer. Please join us in congratulating Kevin Broh-Kahn, Alexander Jennes, and Bradley Solomon!
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Nano Letters publishes new BISOL research
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:47
 The BISOL group under EECS professor Hooman Mohseni reports the publication of their article "Integrated All-Optical Infrared Switchable Plasmonic Quantum Cascade Laser" in the April 3 edition of prestigious journal Nano Letters. The article is about an all-optical switch which uses a novel optical antenna design that allows us to switch a quantum cascade laser with a telecommunications wavelength switch beam. The switching energy is 8.4 pJ which is similar to other all-optical switches.
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Nima Haghpanah wins Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Award
Tuesday, 10 April 2012 08:50
 Nima Haghpanah is among a handful of exceptional PhD students selected to receive the prestigious Yahoo! 2012 Key Scientific Challenges Program award. The program was created to recognize outstanding graduate student researchers who have the greatest potential to make significant contributions and become thought leaders in their research fields. Yahoo reports receiving an overwhelming number of outstanding applications from universities around the globe and the competition was fierce.
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Hardavellas on energy-efficient computing at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Thursday, 05 April 2012 14:39
 Nikos Hardavellas was invited to the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center to talk on energy-efficient computing. The talk discussed the energy wall of modern computing and the advent of dark silicon.
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Razeghi to give Keynote at SPIE
Thursday, 05 April 2012 13:17
 SPIE Professional Magazine's April 2012 issue notes the upcoming keynote presentation of SPIE Fellow Manijeh Razeghi, a leading scientist in the field of semiconductor science and technology.
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SDAV was formally announced March 29th as part of the Obama Administration's "Big Data Research and Development Initiative"
Wednesday, 04 April 2012 10:02
Dr. Alok Choudhary is PI in the DOE SDAV initiative.Related Links:
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NJP honors Kumar, Altepeter and Hall article among Highlights of 2011
Wednesday, 04 April 2012 00:00
 An article by Matthew A. Hall, Joseph B. Altepeter and Prem Kumar was selected by New Journal of Physics editors for inclusion in their exclusive "highlights of 2011" collection. The article, "All-optical switching of photonic entanglement" was published last yar in NJP and can be read here: iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/13/10/105004.
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Choudhary quoted in ASCR Discovery Article
Friday, 30 March 2012 09:58
 Dr. Alok Choudhary is quoted in the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Discovery Article, "HPC must ramp up efficiency to deal with extreme-data flood".Link to Article
Trajcevski presents a tutorial at the 15th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) in Berlin
Thursday, 29 March 2012 11:28
 Goce Trajcevski and Dimitris Gunopuolos (National University of Athens) presented a 3-hour tutorial entitled "Similarity in (Spatial, Temporal and) Spatio-Temporal Databases".
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Grayson awarded Humboldt Alumni Award 2012
 Matthew Grayson was recently awarded the Humboldt Alumni Award 2012 for Innovative Networking Initiatives. This award is funded by the German government and given to three Humboldt Alumni around the world each year to contribute to sustainable academic research and cultural relations between Germany and the US, and to strengthen the regional alumni network of German / US researchers.
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Pardo and Swing Hakim live on WBEZ March 21
Wednesday, 21 March 2012 07:57
 Bryan Pardo plays with Swing Hakim, a group that mixes traditional Middle Eastern music with American Swing. Swing Hakim will perform and be interviewed live on the radio program Eight Forty-Eight on Wednesday, March 21, from 9 - 10 am Central Time on WBEZ (91.5 on your FM dial in Chicago).
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In virtual world, phone game controls you!
 Discovery.com | Tech News Analysis by Jesse Emspak Mon Mar 19, 2012 01:53 PM ET
John Rula, a graduate student in engineering at northwestern University, and Fabián Bustamante, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, came up with a way to get people to go places they might ordinarily not go. The concept is called "crowd soft control," and combines incentives with mobile applications to nudge people in a certain direction.
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Jordan Cotler among top ten Intel winners
Monday, 19 March 2012 15:08
 Jordan Cotler of Northbrook, Ill. received a $20,000 award for inventing acryptography protocol that permits the detection of eavesdroppers. A high school student at Glenbrook North High School, Jordan has been involved in research at the Center for Photonic Communication and Computing (CPCC) since 2010, working in the Quantum Communications Laboratory of Prem Kumar.
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Fortnow quoted in NYT review of new Traveling Salesman Problem book
Monday, 19 March 2012 10:21
 Lance Fortnow is quoted in a NYT book review of William J. Cook's "In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation. Read excerpts of the review below, or read it online at this link.
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Google invites Hardavellas to speak on energy-efficient computing
Monday, 19 March 2012 08:45
Nikos Hardavellas gave an invited talk at Google on energy-efficient computing. The talk covered his recent research on elastic fidelity (trading-off computational accuracy for lower energy consumption), specialized computing on dark silicon, elastic caches that adapt to the executing workload's characteristics to minimize data transfers, and nanophotonic interconnects to push back the power wall in modern chips. Nikos is the June and Donald Brewer Assistant Professor in EECS, and the Director of the Parallel Architecture Group at Northwestern (PARAG@N) Northwestern University. Read his full bio at http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~hardav/
Hardavellas invited to take part in DARPA PERFECT meeting
Monday, 19 March 2012 08:42
Nikos Hardavellas was invited to the DARPA Power Efficiency Revolution For Embedded Computing Technologies (PERFECT) meeting in Arlington, VA. The PERFECT program seeks revolutionary approaches to improve power efficiency for embedded computer systems, providing more computing power per watt.
Bustamante Visiting Professor in Argentina
Thursday, 15 March 2012 08:47
 Fabián E. Bustamante has been invited as Visiting Professor by the Computer Science Department at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina. He will lecture on seminal and ongoing research in networked systems as part of a four-week seminar on Large-Scale Distributed Systems. Learn more about the seminar: www.dc.uba.ar/aca/profvisit/.
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Choudhary invited by The White House to Big Data event
Wednesday, 14 March 2012 07:57
 Alok Choudhary will attend an event addressing the challenges and opportunities relating to "big data" later this month. The event is hosted by the AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Fortnow elected to CRA Board of Directors
Monday, 12 March 2012 15:30
 Lance Fortnow is one of five elected by CRA members to its Board of Directors. They will begin three-year terms on July 1, 2012.
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Kumar organizing quantum communication conference
Monday, 05 March 2012 12:04
 Prem Kumar is serving as ex officio member of the Organizing Committee for QCMC 2012, the 11th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, to be held in Vienna, Austria in July/August. Registration information is found at www.qcmc2012.org. The deadline for abstracts is March 31, 2012.
Ismail gave Distinguished Lectures in Canada
Monday, 05 March 2012 10:55
 Yehea Ismail gave IEEE distinguished lectures at Montreal jointly for Concordia University, Ecole Polytechnique, and McGill University, at Ottawa jointly for Carlton University and Ottawa University, and at Waterloo University.
New Technology Uses Social Media to Write Articles
Wednesday, 29 February 2012 16:39
 Kris Hammond Chicago Tonight: Science and Technology
February 29, 2012 News stories written from Tweets? We look at new technology that uses social media to write articles on Chicago Tonight at 7:00 pm.
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CQD student Edward Kwei-wei Huang wins at SPIE
Wednesday, 29 February 2012 10:44
 Edward Kwei-wei Huang, PhD candidate in the Center for Quantum Devices under Prof. Manijeh Razeghi, wins Best Student Paper Award for his outstanding paper entitled "World's first demonstration of type-II superlattice dual band 640x512 LWIR focal plane array."
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Adam Kalinich, Intel finalist, is featured in Chicago Tribune article
Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:01
 Glen Ellyn math whiz eager to share fascination with numbersFebruary 28,2012 GLEN ELLYN, Ill. (AP) — When you ask Adam Kalinich what about math he finds most riveting, he takes a long pause, then launches into an intense explanation about how math is much more than numbers — it's about ideas.
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CQD reports fully realized FPA within lab
Thursday, 23 February 2012 15:04
 The Center for Quantum Devices reports that new research results from this group have been published in OSA Optics Letters, which are available on the CQD website. The paper is entitled "AlxGa1−xN–based deep-ultraviolet 320 × 256 focal plane array." Link
Fortnow quoted in New Scientist Web article on P versus NP and John Nash
Wednesday, 22 February 2012 10:02
 Nash's beautiful mind pre-empted million-dollar puzzle21 February 2012 by Jacob Aron
John Nash's mind is even more exquisite than we thought. The Nobel laureate, famous for both his work in game theory and his schizophrenia – as portrayed in the book and film A Beautiful Mind – had ideas about cryptography and complexity decades before their time.
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Nicole Immorlica awarded Sloan Research Fellowship
Wednesday, 15 February 2012 08:00
 Nicole Immorlica, assistant professor in EECS, is among the 126 outstanding U.S. and Canadian researchers who are recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships for 2012, announced today by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Memik participates in NSF WETI
Monday, 13 February 2012 13:13
 Gokhan Memik participated in the NSF Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Interconnects (WETI), February 2-3.
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Memik is Distinguished Speaker at the University of Pennsylvania
Monday, 13 February 2012 12:34
Gokhan Memik gave a Distinguished Lecture Seminar at the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania on February 7th.
A special class of semiconductor material inspires Razeghi's latest paper
Monday, 13 February 2012 10:21
 Manijeh Razeghi is the author of "Superlattice sees colder objects in two colors and high resolution," published in SPIE Newsroom last week (February 10th, 2012).
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"Crowd Soft Control: Moving Beyond the Opportunistic" is the latest published Aqualab paper
Tuesday, 07 February 2012 14:50
 John P. Rula and Fabián E. Bustamante are co-authors of this paper that will be presented at HotMobile 2012 this month.
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Fortnow part of Texas A&M's Distinguished Lecturer Series
Monday, 06 February 2012 09:49
"Bounding Rationality by Computational Complexity" is the title of Lance Fortnow's lecture to be presented on February 15th as part of the Computer Science and Engineering Distinguished Lecturer Series at Texas A&M Engineering. Read the Abstract
Crossing Disciplines to Squeeze Out Space on the Wireless Spectrum
Wednesday, 01 February 2012 13:31
 McCormick News Article - January 20, 2012 [ link] EECS Professors Randy Berry and Michael Honig, along with Rakesh Vohra, John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, make up the team that has developed models that they hope will help influence spectrum policy. Read the full story.
Intel Science Talent Search 2012 Finalists include two EECS mentorees, Adam Kalinich and Jordan Cotler
Wednesday, 01 February 2012 00:00
 McCormick News Article | January 30 [ link] The Intel Science Talent Search (Intel STS), the nation’s most prestigious pre-college science competition, has named 40 finalists from across the country to compete for awards from the Intel Foundation. Both finalists from the state of Illinois have affiliations with Northwestern University.
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ScienceNews.org reports on Jack Tumblin's computational photography research
Tuesday, 24 January 2012 00:00
 "The Digital Camera Revolution" Instead of imitating film counterparts, new technologies work with light in creative ways
“The possibilities are not readily apparent at first,” write MIT’s Ramesh Raskar and Jack Tumblin of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill., in a comprehensive textbook on computational photography set to be published this year.
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Aydin's nanostructures research among top discoveries in 2011
Monday, 23 January 2012 00:00
 Koray Aydin's research on broadband absorbers could open new ways to design solar cells with artificially engineered nanostructures yielding broadband, polarization-independent and angle-insensitive control over the sun light.
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Computer Journalism Start-Up Makes Wired UK’s ‘25 Big Ideas’ for 2012
Tuesday, 10 January 2012 08:00
Narrative Science, a company started by two McCormick professors that uses a computer program to generate news stories, has been included on a list of “25 big ideas for 2012” by Wired UK.
"An own goal by Liverpool goalie José Reina in the 90th minute allowed Arsenal to escape with a 1-1 tie on Sunday at Anfield,” begins the article in the science and technology magazine.
“Above is a typical sports story,” it continues. “Except it's not -- a machine wrote it.”
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Quantum cascade laser research
Wednesday, 04 January 2012 16:14
New Quantum cascade laser (QCL) research by the team in the Center for Quantum Devices is recently published as "High power, continuous wave, quantum cascade ring laser", an article in Applied Physics Letters.
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Ismail is CASS Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE
Tuesday, 03 January 2012 15:16
 Yehea Ismail has been selected as a distinguished lecturer for IEEE for the next two years representing the Circuits and Systems Society. Visit the website for the Society: http://ieee-cas.org/Save
CQD's compact terahertz device could improve security screening
Wednesday, 21 December 2011 07:56
 Ashley N. Paddock, ashley.paddock@photonics.com
EVANSTON, Ill. — Using two mid-infrared laser beams, researchers have finally generated single-chip terahertz radiation at room temperature. The technology could speed up and improve arange of processes, including high-sensitivity biological and chemical analysis, astronomical study, security screening, border protection and agricultural inspection.
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Razeghi in Paris to speak at TRT
Monday, 19 December 2011 12:57
Manijeh Razeghi will give an invited talk, “Overview of Activity at the Center for Quantum Devices (CQD) especially Toward Realizing High Power Semiconductor Terahertz Laser Source at Room Temperature for Sensing and Telecommunication,“ at Thales Research and Technology (TRT), in Paris, France on December 20, 2011.
Aqualab's TrailBlaze Wins in Apps 4 Metro Chicago Grand Challenge
Monday, 19 December 2011 10:51
 The new appTrailBlaze Chicago, designed by former NU undergraduates John Rula and Ted Stein, and junior undergraduate John Hudson won 2nd Place in the Apps 4 Metro Chicago Illinois Grand Challange. TrailBlaze Chicago records and anonymously reports your bicycle tracks, allowing you to vote for new paths simply by carrying your phone while you bike. The students worked with AquaLab's director, Fabián Bustamante, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science while creating the app.
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