ECE News http://www.ece.ucsd.edu/showNewsRSS.php ECE News en-us ECE News 2008-05-09T15:46:21+01:00 ECE Help ECE News Space Is the Current Frontier for First Recipient of Ericsson Endowed Chair in Wireless Access Networks http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=734 San Diego, CA, May 06, 2008 -- Bhaskar Rao is a space explorer, though he is no astronaut. The electrical engineer from UC San Diego`s Jacobs School of Engineering explores the "space frontier" that has opened up with the emergence of MIMO (multiple input multiple output) technologies for wireless communications. In MIMO systems, both transmitters and receivers contain multiple antennae, which means that space - and not just time - is in play when it comes to signal processing strategies for increasing data rates, reliability, users served, and other parameters in wireless communications networks. http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=734 UCSD - places 4th in IEEEXtreme Programming Competition http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/students/scholarshipsawardscontests/xtreme2008results.html Congratulations to UCSD IEEE Student Branch, which came in 4th (out of 130 teams from 31 countries) in the second annual IEEExtreme Programming Competition! http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/students/scholarshipsawardscontests/xtreme2008results.html Creating Faster Integrated Circuits by Slowing Light http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=732 As the pace of photonic device development quickens, researchers at UC San Diego have shown that actually slowing light can accelerate future development in this promising field http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=732 Rene L. Cruz and Bhaskar D. Rao have been selected winners of the 2008 Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award http://www.ece.ucsd.edu/news Bongyong Song, Rene L. Cruz and Bhaskar D. Rao have been selected winners of the 2008 Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award in the Field of Communications Systems for their paper: "Network Duality for Multiuser MIMO Beamforming Networks and Applications," IEEE Transactions on Communications, March 2007. http://www.ece.ucsd.edu/news Lanckriet has been awarded the Optimization Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics http://www.ece.ucsd.edu/news Professor Gert Lanckriet has been awarded the Optimization Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). The award recognizes his paper "A Direct Formulation for Sparse PCA Using Semidefinite Programming" in collaboration with Profs. El Ghaoui and Jordan at Berkeley, and d`Aspremont at Princeton. SIAM is a society that ensures the strongest interactions between mathematics and other scientific communities. http://www.ece.ucsd.edu/news