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Auslander wins 2003 Eckman Award

David M. Auslander, professor of mechanical engineering and associate dean for research and student affairs, has received the 2003 Eckman Award from the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society last spring.

The award was established in 1963 to recognize outstanding contributions to education and training in the science, engineering, and technology of instrumentation.

Auslander was cited for his pioneering contributions to the development of innovative educational methods and materials for design, implementation of computer-based control and instrumentation systems, and for disseminating that education and methodology worldwide.

Bajcsy and Patterson appointed to President's Information Technology Committee

Ruzena Bajcsy and David Patterson were appointed in May to two-year terms on President Bush’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) to advise the president on how to maintain U.S. preeminence in advanced information technologies such as high-performance computing, large-scale networking, and high-assurance software and systems design.

Ruzena Bajcsy BART NAGEL PHOTO

Bajcsy, EECS professor and director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), is an expert in robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine perception. Patterson, holder of the Pardee Chair of Computer Science, is an innovator in computer architecture and has designed several widely used architectural systems. PITAC was mandated by an act of Congress and appointees were first named under the Clinton administration in 1997. Its members include leading information technology experts from academia and industry. Previous PITAC recommendations have led to increased federal investment in long-term information technology research, such as the National Science Foundation Information Technology Research (ITR) program.

Kahan elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

William Kahan, professor of mathematics and EECS, was elected to fellowship in the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May.

An expert on floating-point computations, Kahan’s teaching and research interests include algorithms, mathematical analysis, computational theory, computer arithmetic, software diagnosis, error analysis, financial computations, matrix computations, and trajectory computations.

Dean Newton awarded honorary doctorate

Dean A. Richard Newton, professor of EECS and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, was recently awarded a Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa, from the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he earned his B.E. and M.EngSci degrees in 1973 and 1975, respectively.

Among his recent accomplishments, Newton was founding director of the MARCO/DARPA Gigascale Silicon Research Center, a major public-private partnership with the U.S. government and the semiconductor industry, and helped found the CITRIS Institute.

Since 1979 he has been actively involved as a researcher and instructor in the areas of design technology, electronic system architecture, and integrated circuit design.

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