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Two EECS alumni, Robert Wood, Ph.D. ’05 and Andrew Ng, Ph.D. ‘03 were named two of the 2008 Top 100 Young Innovators (under the age of 35) by MIT’s Technology Review. Robert Wood, now an assistant professor of engineering and applied sciences at Harvard, developed a revolutionary fabrication technique that allows engineers to make a range of very tiny parts for any kind of robot. Andrew Ng, an assistant professor of computer science at Stanford, founded the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot (STAIR) project that can deduce how to pick up an object it's never seen before.
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September 3
Dawn Song and Michael Gastpar have won the Okawa Foundation Research Grant for 2008. The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications was established in 1986, and every year awards this research grant to a select few for their accomplishments and promise in this area. This prestigious award comes with a $10,000 research gift.
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August 14
Ali Javey was featured in a Berkeley Lab News article titled "A First in Integrated Nanowire Sensor Circuitry". Prof. Javey, head of the research team from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab have created the world's first all-integrated sensor circuit based on nanowire arrays, combining light sensors and electronics made of different crystalline materials. Their method can be used to reproduce numerous such devices with high uniformity.
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August 6
EECS student Lauren Jones was on the NBC Today Show as a member of the "Nerd Girls" which was founded by Dr. Karen Panetta, a professor of engineering at Tufts University. The "Nerd Girls" seek to shatter stereotypes and attract girls to technology careers. Lauren is completing her master's degree at the Berkeley Wireless Research Center.
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July 29
Susan Graham is one of three winners of the Harvard Medal, given each year for outstanding service to that university. Prof. Graham was awarded the medal for her contributions as "Past President of the Overseers and elected director of the Harvard Alumni Association, pioneering professor of computer science at Berkeley, providing wise leadership and counsel on alumni affairs, on the growing role of engineering and technology, on the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and on the governance of the University."
July 22
The 2008 SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize has been awarded to Alexandre d'Aspremont, Laurent El Ghaoui, Michael Jordan, and Gert Lanckriet for their paper titled, "A Direct Formulation for Sparse PCA Using Semidefinite Programming." This paper was awarded because "The authors very nicely connect several ideas at the forefront of applied optimization, including semi-definite relaxation, robust optimization, and compressed sensing." The SIAM Activity Group on Optimization Prize is awarded once every three years to the author(s) of the most outstanding paper on a topic in optimization over the preceding four-year period.
July 21
Maneesh Agrawala has been selected to receive the 2008 SIGGRAPH Significant New Researcher Award in recognition of his outstanding early contributions of novel visualization techniques and user interaction models across a range of problem domains. SIGGRAPH also produces a video describing the winner's work, which we will be shown after the conference.
July 17
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