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9/11/07 — DTC researchers launch public Web site for monitoring trends in Internet traffic. More on DTC researchs launch public Web site

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.

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.

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

6/7/07 — Associate Professor Jaijeet Roychowdhury's paper wins award. More on Jaijeet Roychowdhury

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

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

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

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).

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

1/12/07 — CSE’s William Schuler awarded a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship. More on William Schuler

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

12/07/06 — Assistant Professor Tian He, Computer Science and Engineering and DTC, has won two best paper awards. More on Tian He

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

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

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

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

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

9/18/06 — Reception honors William Rohde of Unisys. More on Rohde reception

7/17/06 — Object-based Storage Software Prototype released to industrial partners. More on object-based storage sortware prototype

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

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

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

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

3/27/06 — DTC Bulletin – Spring 2006 (pdf 946 KB)

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

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....

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

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

10/18/05 — Professor Paul Woodward, LCSE and Astronomy, spoke at the October 2005 UNITE conference in Minneapolis more

10/6/2005 — Professor Ahmed Tewfik has been elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing Society more

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

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

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

4/15/2005 — 2004 DTC Annual Report, here (PDF 3.23 MB)

4/7/2005 — New DISC Director of Business Development joins DISC on April 11 more

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

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

3/8/2005 — Over 4,400 people attend demonstrations of Honda’s ASIMO Humanoid Robot and University of Minnesota Robotics. more

3/4/2005 — Fall 2004 Affiliates Members Update here

3/4/2005 — Professor Yongdae Kim (CSE and DTC) as been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award more

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

2/21/2005 — Professor Alexander Grosberg (physics) was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) more

1/25/2005 — Professor Tom Luo received best paper award from IEEE Signal Processing Society more

1/24/2005 — NSF grant awarded for collaborative project: Simulating the Visual Appearance and Physical Application of Automotive Surface Finishes more

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

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

8/4/2004 — The Digital Design Consortium will host an open house on August 26, 2004 more

7/26/2004 — DTC Bulletin – Summer 2004 (pdf 823 KB)

7/15/2004 — DTC plans Oct. 1 open house more

7/15/2004 — Students arrive for Second Bioinformatics Summer Institute more

7/15/2004 — Industry representatives welcome at Aug. 26 DDC event more

7/15/2004 — Security issues explored at WEIS conference more

7/15/2004 — DISC welcomes new members more

7/15/2004 — Intelligent Storage Consortium Workshop attracts researchers more

7/15/2004 — DTC announces new faculty member more

7/15/2004 — Congratulations to new McKnight Professors more

7/15/2004 — ADC fellowships support students more

5/18/2004 — Initiatives in Digital Technology: Funded Proposals more

10/30/2003 — DTC Graphics and Visualization faculty to host IEEE Visualization 2005 conference more

Added 10/30/2003 — DTC Graphics and Visualization faculty to host IEEE Visualization 2005 conference more

11/3/2004 — The Science and Technology Innovators seminar from November 2, 2004 was available for on-demand viewing through November 16, 2004.

2/5/2004 — IBM donates 20 InteliStations to Digital Technology Center

1/22/2004 — Remote seminar: "What is a supercomputer?"

Fall 2003 — DTC Bulletin – Fall 2003

10/21/2003 — Distributed Robotics Group featured by NSF

10/7/2003 — Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee meeting

9/2/2003 — DTC affiliated projects receive NSF ITR funding

8/21/2003 — Bioinformatics Summer Institute farewell reception photos

8/12/2003 — New way to walk Northrop Mall

8/3/2003 — OIT/DTC Usability Lab was featured on TPT 17's August 3 Tech Talk

7/17/2003 — Piet de Groen, M.D., Mayo Clinic, "Physician Information Environment of Tomorrow."

6/16/2003 — Bioinformatics Summer Institute — Introduction and Reception

5/21/2003 — Intelligent Storage Workshop

5/7/2003 — Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, Computer Science and Engineering, "Specification and Construction of Secure Distributed Collaboration Systems."

5/6/2003 — Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, "Grid Computing and the Open Grid Services Architecture."

5/2/2003 — Industrial Affiliates Open House

Spring 2003 — DTC Bulletin – Spring 2003

2003 — Unisys Corporation donation