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Professor Dave Kaeli receives HSA Academic Center of Excellence Award and HSA Distinguished Professor Honor

Professor Dave Kaeli receives HSA Academic Center of Excellence award and HSA Distinguished Professor honor. This is attributed to recent work with AMD, Samsung and Qualcomm in the area of heterogeneous and GPU computing.

"The HSA Foundation is an open foundation with broad industry support for driving the next generation in compute and innovation.

Their aims are to: (from their website)

1. Establish an industry standardization body to bring about broad industry support for heterogeneous computing via the full value chain from silicon to IP to ISV.

2. Enable GPU computing as a first class co-processor to the CPU via architecture definition, expanding the parallel programming models via tools and libraries, and bring new innovation to OS runtimes.

3. Provide architectural support for special-purpose hardware accelerators (e.g. rasterizers, security processors, DSPs, etc.)

4. Bring to market strong development solutions to drive innovative, advanced content and applications.

5. Bring about key tools, SDKs, libraries, documentation, training, and support for HSA Computing.

6. Create programs to cultivate programming talent via HSA developer training and academic programs.

This is a very strong consortium that is driving the next generation in tablet, smartphone, and general purpose computing architecture. There are presently only 6 faculty in the world that have been afforded this designation."

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Assistant Professor Yun Raymond Fu receives a New Army Research Grant Award

Assistant Professor Yun Raymond Fu receives a new army research grant award. The award is in the amount of $50,000 from the Army Research Office to fund the proposal "Manifold Learning for 3D Shape Description and Classification".
 
ECE senior Fernando Quivira selected to receive the prestigious Hodgkinson Award

Congratulations to ECE senior Fernando Quivira who is selected to receive the prestigious Hodgkinson Award.

"The Harold D. Hodgkinson Award is a university-wide award and is one of the highest honors that a senior at Northeastern University can receive. The award is based primarily on distinguished scholastic achievement with due consideration of character, personality, qualities of leadership, cooperative work experience, and service in voluntary organizations and activities. Each college may nominate one student to be considered for the award."
 
Professors Carmine Vittoria & Vincent Harris were awarded a patent for creating an more efficient Antenna Module

Professors Carmine Vittoria & Vincent Harris were awarded a patent for creating an, “Antenna Module having Reduced Size, High Gain, and Increased Power Efficiency."

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Assistant Professor Yun Raymond Fu receives the 2012 IEEE Best Associate Editor Award

Assistant Professor Yun Raymond Fu receives the 2012 Best Associate Editor award of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT)."This award is given to editors whose tireless effort and professionalism have made a significant impact to the reputation of the TCSVT."
 
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