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Bio William H. Sanders is the Dr. William D. and Nancy W. Strecker Dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and a professor of electrical and computer engineering. He is a leader in engineering research and academia, a well-respected collaborator in higher education who builds strategic public-private partnerships. Sanders previously served as the Herman M. Dieckamp Endowed Chair in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the interim direct...

Discussant: Mary Gray, Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research Yeshimabeit Milner is the Founder & Executive Director of Data for Black Lives. She has worked since she was 17 behind the scenes as a movement builder, technologist and data scientist on a number of campaigns. She started Data for Black Lives because for too long she straddled the worlds of data and organizing and was determined to break down the silos to harness the power of data to make change in the lives of Black peop...

The Computer History Museum of Mountain View, California, Feb. 17 announced that Raj Reddy, the Moza Bint Nasser University professor of computer science and robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, is among its 2021 Fellow Award honorees.  CHMs Fellow Awards recognize extraordinary individuals for a lifetime of achievement in computing and technology, according to a university news release. "Being selected to be a Fellow of the Computer History Museum seems like you have become a...

 E-Mail CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - Sebastian Elbaum, Anita Jones Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia School of Engineering, has been named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow in recognition of his contributions of testing techniques for evolving systems. The institutes board of directors annually awards the designation to those who have contributed to the advancement or application of engineering, bringing significant value to society. Fellow is the ...

2/23/2021 Allie Arp, CSL Last spring, several CSL students’ research was selected to be the focus of a reproducibility competition at SC20, the flagship supercomputing conference in November. The continuation of that research resulted in the students, sponsored by the IBM-Illinois Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C 3SR), winning two additional awards at that same conference, for their research that will be used by governmental agencies for years to come. In addition to the A...

Experts from across government, the private sector and security research community will vote on the most pressing issues in the field.

College of Engineering at VCU set to offer new Ph.D. program in computer science Published Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021, 10:54 am Join AFPs 100,000+ followers on Facebook Purchase a subscription to AFP | Subscribe to AFP podcasts on iTunes News, press releases, letters to the editor: augustafreepress2@gmail.com Front Page » Local/State » Local2 » College of Engineering at VCU set to offer new Ph.D. program in computer science The College of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University will of...

Experts Discuss Challenges of Voting in An Electronic Age Online voting. Biometrics. Post-election audits. Today, election administrators have many new options to improve the democratic process. But the system is complicated, and security concerns hover over everything. Shutterstock The use of technology such as online voting and biometrics during an election can streamline and improve the voting process. However, it can also present problems such as raised election security conce...

ACM SIGGRAPH Announces Leadership for 50th Annual Conference, 2021 Dates News provided by Share this article Share this article CHICAGO, Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- ACM SIGGRAPH has selected Erik Brunvand, of the University of Utah, as chair of its 50th annual SIGGRAPH conference. Brunvand is a professor in the University of Utahs School of Computing, where he has been on faculty since 1990. Photo of Erik Brunvand by Dina Douglass © 2019 ACM SIGGRAPH ACM SIGGRAPH selects the University of U...

2 months ago The annual event for electronic design and systems professionals will move to end of the year to ensure face-to-face interactions SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#58DAC–The premier event devoted to the design and automation of electronic chips to systems, has rescheduled its legendary global gatherings for the first time in more than 50 years. In anticipation of the easing of travel and state and local restrictions on large public gatherings, the...