Upcoming seminars and
symposia
Added 3/12/08
— DTC professor Maria Gini was selected as the Ada Comstock
Distinguished Women Scholar Lecturer for spring 2008.
More on Professor
Maria Gini
Added 1/07/08
— Chenjie Gu and Associate Professor Jaijeet Roychowdhury
will receive the best paper award at the 13th Asia South Pacific Design
Automation Conference which will be held January 21–24, 2008 in
Seoul, Korea. The title of the paper is "An Efficient, Fully Nonlinear,
Variability-Aware non-Monte-Carlo Yield Estimation Procedure with
Applications to SRAM cells and Ring Oscillators."
Additional information about the Roychowdhury group is available at
http://umn.edu/~jr/.
More information about the conference is available at
http://www.aspdac.com/aspdac2008/.
Added 9/11/07
— DTC researchers launch public Web site for monitoring
trends in Internet traffic. More on DTC researchs
launch public Web site
Added 8/22/07
— Assistant Professor Yiannis Kaznessis (chemical engineering
and materials science) was awarded an NSF CAREER Award for his research
on the "Mathematics for Biological Engineering" that provides
insight into the dynamic behavior of biological systems.
Added 8/22/07
— Assistant professor Antonia Zhai and professor Zhi-Li Zhang
(computer science and engineering) have received the 2007 IBM Faculty Award.
The award is a competitive worldwide program that seeks to build
collaborations between researchers at top universities and those in
IBM development, research, and service groups.
Added 8/15/07
— DTC hosts Kids Tech Camp, Aug. 13–17. The third annual
University of Minnesota CSE Technology Day Camp is now underway. The camp is
a five-day, on-campus program running Aug. 13–17, 2007, aimed at
exposing children from underprivileged backgrounds to a collegiate
atmosphere and getting them interested in science and technology.
More on Kids Tech
Camp
Added 6/7/07
— Associate Professor Jaijeet Roychowdhury's paper wins
award. More on
Jaijeet Roychowdhury
Added 5/4/07
— Data Mining Reception Highlights U of M Cutting-Edge Data
Mining Projects: Over 200 researchers and members of industry from around
North America attended the University of Minnesota Digital Technology
Center's Data Mining Consortium's April 27 poster session and reception
that was held in Minneapolis in conjunction with the SIAM 2007 Data Mining
Conference. More on the
Data Mining Reception
Added 3/22/07
— Famed chimpanzee researcher Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, founder
of the Jane Goodall Institute and a UN Messenger of Peace, visited the
University of Minnesota campus March 20 to hear about the interdisciplinary
work of University ecologists and computer scientists on chimpanzee data
through the Jane Goodall Institutes Center for Primate Studies (JGI-CPS).
More on Jane
Goodall
Added 3/9/07
— MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (3/7/2007) CSE Professor Nikolaos
Papanikolopoulos has been named one of the 2007 Distinguished McKnight
University Professorship award recipients for his work in, “Robotics
and Vision-Based Algorithms — Breaking New Frontiers.” He is
one of six 2007 award winners to be honored by this designation and the
second CSE recipient. Read more on Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos
Added 3/8/07
— Professor Andrew Odlyzko, director of the Digital
Technology Center at the University of Minnesota, refutes the theory
that the “fiber glut” of the late 1990s and early 2000s
will be exhausted by video, prompting a spike in the price of retail
and wholesale bandwith. Feb. 16: Computer World;
Feb. 25: The Buffalo News (New York).
Added 3/8/07
— The National Science Foundation recently awarded several
Digital Technology Center faculty members with prestigious Faculty Early
Career Development Awards. More on faculty awards
Added 1/12/07
— CSE’s William Schuler awarded a McKnight Land-Grant
Professorship. More on William Schuler
Added 1/11/07
— Professor Nihar Jindal, Electrical and Computer Engineering
and DTC, has been awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship for
2007–2009. More
on Nihar Jindal
Added 12/07/06
— Assistant Professor Tian He, Computer Science and
Engineering and DTC, has won two best paper awards.
More on Tian He
Added 11/27/06
— ADC Professor Tom Luo, Electrical and Computer
Engineering and the DTC, has been awarded the distinction of IEEE
fellow, effective January 1, 2007. IEEE honored Luo with the title of
fellow for his contributions to modern optimization and its
applications in signal processing and digital communications.
More on Tom Luo
Added 11/20/06
— Professor Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, Computer Science and
Engineering and DTC, has been awarded the distinction of IEEE fellow,
effective January 1, 2007. IEEE honored Papanikolopoulos with the title
of fellow for his contributions to robotics and the creation of the
Scout robot. He is the sixth CSE faculty member to receive this honor.
More on Papanikolopoulos
Added 10/24/06
— Professor Georgios Giannakis has been selected to serve
as an IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer for the term 2007 January 1 through
2008 December 31. More on Professor Giannakis
Added 10/16/06
— The National Institutes of Health and the National
Science Foundation will renew funding for the University of Minnesota
Bioinformatics Summer Institute. More on funding for Bioinformatics Summer
Institute
Added 9/29/06
— DISC receives NSF award. The DTC Intelligent Storage
Consortium (DISC) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a three
year, $600K grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to study
critical issues in High Performance Computing and Data Security.
More on NSF award
Added 9/18/06
— Reception honors William Rohde of Unisys.
More on Rohde
reception
Added 7/17/06
— Object-based Storage Software Prototype released to
industrial partners. More on object-based storage sortware prototype
Added 6/12/06
— The 3-D scanning project of downtown Minneapolis
was featured on WWCO television. More on WWCO report on 3-D scanning project
Added 5/26/06
— On May 11, Ted Johnson and his colleagues W. Robert
(“Bob”) King and Peter Mullen visited the Digital Technology
Center’s Digital Design Consortium for an update on the DDC’s
research activities. More on Ted Johnson visit
Added 5/26/06
— Dr. Cory Devor, DTC Intelligent Storage Consortium (DISC)
Director of Business Development, was quoted in the May 24 St, Paul
Pioneer Press regarding Imation’s release of a compact drive.
More on Pioneer
Press article
Added 3/24/06
— The U held an open house March 23 at the Digital
Technology Center on the Twin Cities campus to tackle the problem of
how scientists, businesses, governments, and other entities can
"mine" mountains of data for nuggets of usable information.
More on Data
Mining Open House
Added 3/27/06
—
DTC Bulletin – Spring 2006 (pdf 946 KB)
added 3/3/06
— The journal article “An Efficient Linear-Scaling
Ewald Method
for Long-Range Electrostatic Interactions in Combined QM/MM
Calculation” by DTC researchers K. Nam, Jialia Gao, and Darrin York,
was the most accessed article on Journal of
Chemical Theory and
Computation (JCTC) in 2005. More on journal article
added 1/30/06
— “Pattern recognition techniques for automatic
detection of suspicious-looking anomalies in mammograms” coauthored by
Professor David Yuen, Geology and Supercomputing Institute, is ranked
number three among the “Top Twenty-Five Hottest Articles on Science
Digest.” This paper was funded through the DTC’s 2004–05
Digital Technology Initiative (DTI) program. Read more here:
Professor David
Yuen, Top Twenty-Five Hottest Articles....
added 1/04/06
— Professor Yongdae Kim and Professor Stergios
Roumeliotis, both of CSE and the DTC, have been named 2006–08 McKnight
Land-Grant Professors. Read more here, Professors Kim and Roumeliotis named McKnight Land-Grant
Professors
added 11/09/05
— Professor Andrew Odlyzko, director of the Digital Technology
Center and assistant vice president for research, is scheduled to be a
guest on Minnesota Public Radio’s Midmorning — read more here,
Prof. Odlyzko on
Minnesota Public Radio
added 10/18/05
— Professor Paul Woodward, LCSE and Astronomy, spoke at the
October 2005 UNITE conference in Minneapolis
more
added 10/6/2005
— Professor Ahmed Tewfik has been elected to the Board of
Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
more
added 8/25/2005
— Professor Nihar Jindahl (ECE and DTC) and his coauthors
received the IEEE Joint Information Theory/Communications Society Best
Paper Award for 2005 more
added 5/20/2005
— ADC Professor Georgios Giannakis receives Technical
Achievement Award for 2005 from The European Association for Signal,
Speech and Image Processing (EURASIP) more
added 5/4/2005
— ADC Graduate Fellow awarded University of Minnesota
Graduate School’s Best Dissertation Award in the Physical Sciences and
Engineering in 2005 more
added 4/15/2005
— 2004 DTC Annual Report, here (PDF 3.23 MB)
added 4/7/2005
— New DISC Director of Business Development joins DISC on April
11 more
Added 3/17/2005
— THE U’S NEW CONSORTIUM FOR
BIOINFORMATICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY will be funded in part
with $5 million received by the State of Minnesota from settlement of a
class-action lawsuit against Microsoft Corp. The consortium comprises nine
UMTC colleges and UMD and will be headquartered in the Digital Technology
Center.
more
Added 3/11/2005
— DTI Forum, held on February 28, highlighted the eleven
projects that were funded through the Digital Technology Center’s
Digital Technology Initiative program in 2004–05.
more
Added 3/8/2005
— Over 4,400 people attend demonstrations of Honda’s
ASIMO Humanoid Robot and University of Minnesota Robotics.
more
Added 3/4/2005
— Fall 2004 Affiliates Members Update
here
Added 3/4/2005
— Professor Yongdae Kim (CSE and DTC) as been awarded a
National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award more
Added 2/21/2005
— The Digital Technology Center (DTC) and the University are
two reasons why Minneapolis ranks as America’s top tech city,
according to a just-published article in Popular Science
more
Added 2/21/2005
— Professor Alexander Grosberg (physics) was named a Fellow
of the American Physical Society (APS) more
Added 1/25/2005
— Professor Tom Luo received best paper award from IEEE Signal
Processing Society more
Added 1/24/2005
— NSF grant awarded for collaborative project: Simulating the
Visual Appearance and Physical Application of Automotive Surface Finishes
more
Added 1/18/2005
— Professor Jaijeet Roychowdhury and his graduate students
Xioalue Lai and Yayun Wan received the Best Paper Award of the 2005 Asian
South Pacific Design Automation Conference. more
Added 10/29/2004
— UMN Receives Transit Surveillance Contract, Automated Human
Activity Montitoring for DHS more
DTC Special Event —
Industrial Affiliates Openhouse,
October 1, 2004 there is no cost to attend, but please pre-register if
you plan on attending
Added 8/4/2004 —
The Digital Design Consortium will host an open house on August 26,
2004 more
Added 7/26/2004
—
DTC Bulletin – Summer 2004 (pdf 823 KB)
Added 7/15/2004
— DTC plans Oct. 1 open house
more
Added 7/15/2004 — Students arrive for Second Bioinformatics
Summer Institute more
Added 7/15/2004 —
Industry representatives welcome at Aug. 26 DDC event more
Added 7/15/2004 —
Security issues explored at WEIS conference more
Added 7/15/2004 —
DISC welcomes new members more
Added 7/15/2004 —
Intelligent Storage Consortium Workshop attracts researchers more
Added 7/15/2004 —
DTC announces new faculty member more
Added 7/15/2004 —
Congratulations to new McKnight Professors more
Added 7/15/2004 —
ADC fellowships support students more
Added 5/18/2004 —
Initiatives in Digital Technology: Funded Proposals more
Added 10/30/2003 — DTC Graphics and Visualization faculty to host IEEE Visualization 2005
conference more
