Core Research Areas

• Cheminformatics and Bioinformatics
• Computer Architecture
• Data Mining and
  Machine Learning
• Graphics and Visualization
• Intelligent Digital Storage
• Robotics and Computer Vision
• Signal Processing, Communications and Networking

Industry Partnerships

• Associates and Partners
• NSF Industry/University Co-op Research Centers

Education and Outreach

• Bioinformatics Summer Institute

DTC News

Team Minnesota awarded Gold Medal

Team Minnesota was awarded a Gold Medal at the 2009 International Genetically Engineered Machines competition (iGEM). 120 teams competed from around the world, constructing and testing synthetic biological systems. Living organisms that are engineered with these synthetic systems behave like engineering devices, such as logical gates, clocks, computers and toggle switches. More on Team Minnesota

DTC Faculty Andrew Odylzko

DTC faculty Andrew Odylzko is featured in a UMNews article. More on Andrew Odylzko

DTC Faculty Abhishek Chandra

DTC faculty Abhishek Chandra is quoted in Forbes.com article "It's Still Academic: For computer science departments, virtualization remains an interesting research problem." More on Abhishek Chandra

DTC Faculty Marc Riedel receives NSF CAREER Award

The Digital Technoloy Center is proud to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded DTC faculty member Marc Riedel the CAREER award in support of his project "Computing with Things Small, Wet, and Random — Design Automation for Digital Computation with Nanoscale Technologies and Biological Processes." More on Marc Riedel

Yiannis Kaznessis receives 2009 CAST Outstanding Young Researcher Award

Congratulations to DTC Faculty Member Yiannis Kaznessis on receiving the 2009 CAST Outstanding Young Researcher Award.

Professor Kaznessis was chosen by the Computing and System Technology (CAST) Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) as the 2009 Outstanding Young Researcher Award. More on Yiannis Kaznessis

DTC faculty Nikos Papanikolopoulos featured in StarTribune article

The June 2, 2009 StarTribune featured the Scout robots developed by Nikos Papanikolopoulos at the University of Minnesota. Papanikolopoulos began research to develop the scout robot in the late 90s with the backing of several government agency grants. More on StarTribune article

2009 Leonard G. Abraham Prize for best paper

Professor Nihar Jindal (electrical and computer engineering) and graduate student Niranjay Ravindran (electrical and computer engineering) were awarded the 2009 Leonard G. Abraham Prize for best paper for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. More on Leonard G. Abraham Prize

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