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J. Robert Beyster, a namesake of the Bob and Betty Beyster Building and funder of Michigan Engineering’s largest fellowship program, has died. He was 90 years old.

Protean Code is an enabling technology for dynamically recompiling native applications and rebalancing the use of Warehouse Scale Computers resources as demands dictate.

Students, faculty, and staff can attend the event at the Michigan Theater on January 8.

This showcase is one of the most popular to occur each year.

EECS 183 has been reinvented as a course with a major team project. It’s a big class, and there are lots of projects.

The Victors team consists of three students: CS student Zhou Sun and CSE graduate students Chun Wu and Yujie An.

Mahlke’s research has been focused on the design of customized multicore processors, accelerators, and systems consisting of both that are higher performance, lower power, and more reliable.

Bertacco’s research is focused on creating novel solutions to enable the sustainable development of silicon systems, by making them more powerful, more reliable and significantly cheaper to design and manufacture.

The event was designed to give middle school girls a glimpse of what the world of engineering, including computer science, is all about.

The attendees were able to learn from hands-on activities, guest speakers, panel discussions, and projects

A project is underway which will offer a free, automated, and easy process for converting webservers from HTTP to HTTPS that is implemented with a single command.

Prof. Mihalcea’s research interests are in computational linguistics, with a focus on lexical semantics, graph-based algorithms for natural language processing, and multilingual natural language processing.

The research team performed a comprehensive, measurement-based analysis of the impact of the recent Heartbleed vulnerability.

She computationally measures, represents, and analyzes human behavior data to illuminate fundamental human behavior and emotion perception, and develop natural human-machine interfaces.

SkySpecs is currently in the process of launching their first product, the Guardian, which will help prevent collisions.

The paper focuses on computational methods to analyze single cell data in order to obtain a better understanding of how cells process signals.

Plaza’s paper provides key insights into neuronal computations.

Hayes was recognized “for his pioneering contributions to logic design, fault tolerant computing, and testing.”

The book introduces and evaluates algorithms used during physical design to produce a geometric chip layout from an abstract circuit design, and presents the essential and fundamental algorithms used within each physical design stage.

He was recognized as an “outstanding educator and researcher whose work has advanced the field of low-power computer architecture and its interaction with technology.”

His research focus is on addressing concurrency issues in mobile and cloud systems, which increasingly rely upon event-driven programming and customized processor accelerators.

The goal of the research is to revolutionize how Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is managed to provide a transformative means of extracting utility-scale energy from waste.

The startup helps college students find suitable places to live, while also helping landlords manage their properties.

Alaghi’s current research and dissertation focuses on stochastic computing (SC), which is an unconventional technique that processes data in the form of bit-streams that denote probabilities.

Bertacco’s research is in the area of computer design, with emphasis on reliability, design correctness, and hardware-security assurance.

High school girls are invited to learn more about computer science!

Deng’s research in computer vision focuses on image and video understanding through big visual data, human computation, and large-scale machine learning.

Mars’ current research interests include cross-layer systems in software and hardware, datacenter and warehouse-scale computer architecture, and hardware/software co-design.

The paper presents a new visual localization algorithm that allows an autonomous car to precisely know where it is at with sub-lane precision.

Dutta designs hardware and software for smart dust and larger sensors that don’t need batteries because they can harvest energy from the world around them.

A weakness believed to exist in Android, Windows and iOS operating systems could be used to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users, research at the University of Michigan has shown.

The 12th International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) was held in Beijing, China from July 21 through 25th, 2014.

Congratulations to Profs Bertacco, Flinn, Narayanasamy, Olson, Rais-Zadeh, and Zhong.

Three hundred and eighty alumni and children stretched across North Campus, dabbling in drones and bones, rockets and radioactives.

The paper addresses how to manage multiple sources so that the user can maximize the information gained from each acoustic source.

All of the research being presented focuses on getting the absolute best performance from the tiniest circuits, sensors, and electronic devices.

Michigan is one of seven universities IBM is partnering with to give students access to the technology.

The Graduate Student Instructor and Instructional Aide Awards Ceremony was a night to celebrate and thank the University’s wonderful student educators.

Conway will be named a fellow at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

The Convention offers leadership development, internship opportunities, networking activities, and professional workshops.

Called {Girls Code}, the workshop taught the girls the basics of Arduino—open-source electronics prototyping platform.

G.R.E.A.T. Day is designed to open up young girls’ minds to the possibility of engineering as a career path.

Congratulations to these phenomenal students!

These students received the award for their creativity as an instructor, their thorough understanding of the content, and for their dedication to student success.

The funds from State Farm will be used to renovate the Student Projects Lab and to increase its capacity to serve students.

These faculty are recognized for their unique contributions during the past year.