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CSL professor, team win best innovative paper award

2007 DoCoMo USA Labs Innovative Paper Awards, November 2007
Dr. Thomas Huang of CSL and two students teamed on a winning paper at the 2007 DoCoMo USA Labs Innovative Paper Awards. The team’s research unveiled a framework that enhances machine learning and pattern recognition.
Next Generation Air Transportation

WCIA Television interview, Fall 2007
CSL Resident Professor Natasha Neogi, also of AE, talks with WCIA about the next generation air transportation system. Researchers are equipping model planes with new and improved sensors so pilots can make more decisions independently of traditional air control.
From Information Piracy to Digital Fingerprints

Center for Information Forensics Does Digital Detective Work, September 2007
The new Center for Information Forensics is taking aim at digital pirates and computer saboteurs. Researchers are using advanced data analysis methods to look for anomalous activities and patterns, discover untrustworthy nodes in networks, and detect tampering with computer hardware.
CSL Professor Tamer Basar Named Swanlund Chair

"Four Named to Swanlund Chairs, University's Premier Endowed Recognition", September 2007
Professor Tamer Basar of ECE and CSL is one of four professors recently named as a Swanlund Chair, the highest endowed title at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Chancellor Richard Herman congratulated the four professors on their outstanding contributions to the university.
Remote Reality

Letting the Viewers Control 3D Television, August 2007
3D television is just around the corner. But Minh Do and Doug Jones are already taking 3D TV to the next level. By combining images and sounds from multiple cameras and microphones, their “remote reality” system will make it possible for the viewer to control the 3D viewing experience.
Wild Kingdom

Tracking Ocelots, Monkeys, and More in Panama, April 2007
CSL and ECE professor George Swenson serves as a consultant for the largest animal radio-tracking system in the world on an island in Panama. A network of six antennas keeps track of dozens of animals simultaneously and broadcasts data to the Internet so researchers can follow them 24/7.
A Grand Challenge

CSL Plays Key Role in Major Effort on Ad Hoc Networks, January 2007
Five CSL professors are integral members of a multi-institution research team that is tackling some of the most important issues facing mobile ad hoc networks. These wireless networks can be deployed quickly and with no infrastructure by the military and first responders, such as firefighters.
The New Wave: Introducing Deming Chen

Clearing Roadblocks on the Semiconductor Superhighway, December 2006
The International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors predicts spectacular feats of scaling -- with over 17 billion transistors integrated on a single microchip by 2020. Deming Chen is grappling with the looming design complexities and technical problems that arise at such small dimensions.
Can We Trust Robots?

CAESAR Explores Human-Robot Interactions, November 2006
Robots and other machines are being entrusted with an increasing number of critical jobs, including surgical procedures. That is why the new Center for Autonomous Engineering Systems and Robotics (CAESAR) is tackling the vital issue of how humans and robots interact. Among the projects are multi-robot coordination and two-legged robots.
Researchers trying to make control systems more reliable, autonomous

News-Gazette, October 29, 2006
The new Center for Autonomous Engineering Systems and Robotics, CAESAR for short, is expected to encourage research across several fields, to address the challenges in autonomous systems' reliability in performing critical and plans to expand our notion of what autonomous systems, robots among them, are capable of doing.
Forecasting Communication and Navigation Outages

CSL Researcher Probes Plasma Instabilities in the Ionosphere, October 2006
When radio signals were being lost during the Gulf War of 1991, the culprit may have been the Earth’s ionosphere, not Iraqi soldiers. Jonathan Makela, a CSL professor, is a key researcher in forecasting these communication and navigation outages caused by plasma instabilities in the ionosphere.
Problem-Solving Reaches a New Level

Wah Takes Home Multiple Prizes for Breakthrough Technology, August 2006
Benjamin Wah has won the W. Wallace McDowell Award for his work on solving nonlinear constraint optimization problems. His system has made it possible to solve problems with as many as 200,000 variables and 200,000 constraints -- significantly higher than current solvers can handle. The system has earned two top honors for Wah, as well as a second-straight victory in an international competition.
A Larger Scale of Trust: Meet the New ILLIAC

University of Illinois’ Trusted ILLIAC Will Transform Large-Scale Computing, May 2006
The name ILLIAC means big thinking. Trusted ILLIAC is a new 500-processor programmable hardware/software cluster from the Information Trust institute (ITI) which promises to make large-scale computing truly trustworthy, while still delivering high performance. Chancellor Richard Herman was on hand to launch the new ILLIAC in Chicago on May 10th, 2006.
Move Over, Tom Cruise

Huang Sets Eyes on Computers That See, Hear, Talk, March 2006
The name ILLIAC means big thinking. Trusted ILLIAC is a new 500-processor programmable hardware/software cluster from the Information Trust institute (ITI) which promises to make large-scale computing truly trustworthy, while still delivering high performance.
Paying the Price

Expect High Prices with Decentralized Energy, Says CSL Researcher, January 2006
California’s soaring energy prices and rolling blackouts captured national headlines several years back. Now, CSL researcher Sean Meyn and economist In-Koo Cho have shown that high peak prices and high price volatility can be expected with a decentralized energy system.
In the Game

New Molecule Could Help Solve Microchip Puzzle, December 2005
John Abelson and a U of I chemistry professor have developed a metallic ceramic material that could help solve the puzzle of how to create the intricate wiring that connects transistors in our constantly shrinking microchips.
Worm Attacks

Project MOSES Helps Prepare for Worm Attacks, November 2005
David Nicol leads Project MOSES, which simulates the spread of worms -- programs that can wreak havoc across networks. CSL researchers can simulate the rate at which worms spread by using models similar to those that track infectious diseases.
Compassionate Capitalism

Murthy Traces the Source of India's Software Boom, October 2005
The Indian software industry has been growing by the impressive figure of 32 percent annually. N.R. Narayana Murthy, one of the leading businessmen in the world and a proponent of what some call “compassionate capitalism”, traces the origins of this software boom. Murthy was recently on campus for the Arnold O. Beckman Lecture, co-sponsored by CSL.
Murthy Comes to Campus

Global Leader to Shed Light on India’s Rise in IT, September 2005
N.R. Narayana Murthy, named by Time magazine in 2004 as one of the top 10 most influential leaders shaping technology, spoke on campus September 14, 2005. He talked about India’s incredible rise in the IT world.
Body scans: More Speed, Less Radiation

New Algorithms Speed Image Reconstruction, May 2005
CT scanning, the system widely used for full-body scans at hospitals, will get a big boost in both accuracy and speed, thanks to algorithms developed by CSL researchers. Their new mathematical methods could even reduce radiation exposure for patients.
Robots Invade U of I Campus

CSL Researchers Also Control and Coordinate Robots in New Mexico, March 2005
Mark Spong and Oscar Martinez-Palafox are doing groundbreaking work on ways to control and coordinate multiple robots long distance using the internet. U of I students have even developed robots that ride Segways.
Can PALs Prevent Nuclear War?

Nuclear Weapons, Permissive Action Links, and the History of Public Key Cryptography, February 2005
What would happen if a rogue commander decided to fire a nuclear bomb and trigger World War III? Steven M. Bellovin, a computer science professor at Columbia University, explores the system designed to prevent such a nightmare.
Did NSA Invent Public Key Cryptography?

Nuclear Weapons, Permissive Action Links, and the History of Public Key Cryptography, February 2005
In 1997, the British revealed that they had discovered public key cryptography well before the Stanford team of Hellman, Merkle, and Diffie. But did the National Security Agency come up with public key cryptography even sooner? Steven M. Bellovin, a computer science professor at Columbia University, does a little detective work.
From Crisis to Innovation

Semiconductor Industry Grapples With Power Crisis, December 2004
As the dimensions of integrated circuits shrink, the challenge is to cut power without losing speed, said Chenming Hu, an international leader in microelectronics technology, during a visit to CSL. “It’s a critical time in history, but we always respond to a crisis,” he said.

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