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Added 11/18/2009 — 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

Added 11/12/2009 — DTC faculty Andrew Odylzko is featured in UMNews artcile. More on Andrew Odylzko

Added 11/5/2009 — DTC faculty Abhishek Chandra is quoted in Forbes.com article More on Abhishek Chandra

Added 9/25/2009 — DTC faculty member Marc Riedel receives NSF CAREER Award. Congratulations to Marc Riedel for receiving this award. More on Marc Riedel

Added 7/14/2009 — The Rochester Minnesota Youth Computer Training Program came and participated in lab tours and demonstrations at the DTC this spring. The event was a great way to engage high school students about technology degrees and careers, but also an opportunity for faculty, students and staff to show off some the innovative research being done at the DTC. More on Rochester Minnesota Youth

Added 6/26/2009 — 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. More on Yiannis Kaznessis

Added 6/8/2009 — DTC faculty Nikos Papanikolopoulos featured in StarTribune article about Scout Robots. 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

Added 6/8/2009 — 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

Added 6/8/2009 — Tian He (CS and DTC) and Mohamed F. Mokbel (CS and DTC), in collaboration with Chi-Yin Chow, received the best paper award at the 10th International Conference on Mobile Data Management. More on best paper award

Added 6/8/2009 — Internet to die by 2010: DTC faculty and University of Minnesota mathematics professor and DTC faculty member Andrew Odlyzko, an expert on analyzing historical trends in networking, believes that global Internet traffic is and will remain manageable with modest capacity updates despite predictions that increased Internet traffic, particularly from video applications, will fatally clog the system. May 1: Times of India; May 7: Infotech India; May 9: Economic Times

Added 4/19/2009 — DTC Associate Director for Research and Computer Science and Engineering Associate Professor Stergios Roumeliotis was presented with the Guillermo E. Borja Award at the IT precommencement reception on May 8, 2009. Roumeliotis was selected by the IT Promotion and Tenure Advisory Committee from among the candidates for tenure and promotion over a two year period. More on Stergios Roumeliotis

Added 4/28/2009 — Professor Nihar Jindal (ECE/DTC) and graduate student Niranjay Ravindram have received the 2009 best paper award for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. More on best paper award

Added 4/15/2009 — Associate Professor Stergios Roumeliotis from the department of Computer Science and Engineering has been named the Associate Director for Research at the Digital Technology Center (DTC). Stergios has been a DTC faculty member since 2002 and has actively participated in DTC research and outreach programs. More on Stergios Roumeliotis

Added 4/8/2009 — DTC faculty member Mohamed Mokbel has received an unrestricted research grant of $20,000 from Microsoft Research. More on Mohamed Mokbel

Added 4/8/2009 — EURASIP Best Paper Award for 2004–07: A paper, co-authored by DTC Director Georgios Giannakis, was part of Paul Anghel's MSc Thesis results. Paul went on to complete his PhD under Mos Kaveh. The second co-author is Dr. Zhengdao Wang, now an associate professor at Iowa State University.

Georgios B. Giannakis, Paul A. Anghel, and Zhengdao Wang, "CDMA: Unification and Linear Equalization," Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Volume 2005. Pages 743–756.

Added 3/6/2009 — 2002 ADC Fellow Shengli Zhou (EE, Ph.D. '02) was honored at the White House in December as a recipient of the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. More on Shengli Zhou

Added 2/20/2009 — The Digital Technology Center is proud to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Assistant Professor Tian He the CAREER Award. More on Tian He

Added 2/5/2009 — The National Science Foundation recently awarded CEMS faculty member Yiannis Kaznessis the NSF CAREER Award, one of its most prestigious awards for new faculty members. More on Yiannis Kaznessis

Added 1/23/2009 — Silver to Golden Gophers! The first University of Minnesota team to ever participate in the International Genetically Engineered Machines competition (iGEM) was awarded a silver medal in 2008. More on iGEM team

Added 12/04/2008 — DTC faculty member Stergios Roumeliotis has been selected to receive a PECASE award. This is a highly selective honor bestowed upon young faculty in science and engineering. NSF selects only about 20 candidates nationwide each year in the entire field of science and engineering, and there are only about 30 or so NSF PECASE awardees in computer science and engineering since the program started in 1996. More on Stergios Roumeliotis

Added 11/18/2008 — DTC faculty member Jaijeet Roychowdhury was recently elected Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Board of Directors. More on Jaijeet Roychowdhury

Added 11/11/2008 — DTC faculty member Mohamed F. Mokbel receives to NSF awards. More on Mokbel NSF awards

Added 11/11/2008 — DTC faculty members Tian He and Mohamed F. Mokbel received Best Paper Award at The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2008) for "On Accurate and Efficient Statistical Counting in Sensor-Based Surveillance Systems." More on best paper award

Added 11/4/2008 — DTC hosts Technology Day Camp, August 18–22, 2008. The Technology Day Camp is a week-long day camp put on by the Center for Distributed Robotics at the University of Minnesota for local middle-school students to explore the wonders of technology, robotics, and college in general. More information on Technology Day Camp

Added 10/21/2008 — DISC Newsletter, Spring/Fall 2008 is now available.
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Added 9/30/08 — DTC Faculty member Guillermo Sapiro featured in IT news item "Advanced imaging techniques provide new clues to HIV infection"

Added 5/25/08 — Georgios Giannakis, a professor in the University of Minnesota's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been appointed as the new director of the University's Digital Technology Center (DTC). More on Georgios Giannakis

Added 5/25/08 — Andrew Odlyzko's Farewell Reception, Tuesday, June 17, 4:00–6:00 p.m., 401 Walter Library

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/.