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Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi Receives 2015 SIGPLAN Most Influential PLDI Paper Award

Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi has been named the 2015 recipient of the Most Influential Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) Paper Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN).


Senior Design Winners Announced at Graduate Reception

The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering (Texas ECE) announced the winners of the Spring 2015 Senior Design program while celebrating graduates at the 2015 Graduate Reception on Monday, May 11, 2015 in the Texas Union Ballroom.


Yao-Feng Chang and Prof. Jack Lee Receive ISNE Best Student Paper Award

Texas ECE graduate student Yao-Feng Chang and Prof. Jack Lee have received the 2015 Best Student Paper Award from the IEEE International Symposium on Next-Generation Electronics (ISNE) Conference.


The Death of 5G?

Prof. Jeff Andrews of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin wrote a piece for the IEEE Communications Society on whether or not densification will be the death of 5G.


New Centimeter-Accurate GPS System Could Transform Virtual Reality and Mobile Devices

Prof. Robert Heath is collaborating with Prof. Todd Humphreys and graduate students on the development of a centimeter-accurate GPS-based positioning system that could revolutionize geolocation on virtual reality headsets, cellphones and other technologies, making global positioning and orientation far more precise than what is currently available on a mobile device.


Texas ECE Seniors Show Off Their Projects at Senior Design Open House

The University of Texas at Austin's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Cockrell School of Engineering (Texas ECE) hosted the Spring 2015 Senior Design Open House on Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Texas ECE undergraduate seniors presented demonstrations of their projects spanning two semesters of work.


Graduate Student Austin Harris Receives Best Paper Award at ASPLOS 2015

Texas ECE graduate student Austin Harris has received the best paper award at the prestigious International Conference on Architectural support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, ASPLOS 2015 . 


ECE and WNCG Alumni and Faculty Win First-of-its-Kind IEEE CommSoc Award

Texas ECE and Wireless Networking and Communications Group (WNCG) alumni, Prof. Harpreet S. Dhillon and Dr. Radha Krishna Ganti, along with Profs. Jeffrey Andrews and François Baccelli, recently received the 2015 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award. They received the award for their paper entitled “Modeling and Analysis of K-Tier Downlink Heterogeneous Cellular Networks.”


Prof. Andrea Alù Wins $1 Million National Science Foundation Waterman Award

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Andrea Alù, an associate professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, the prestigious 2015 Waterman Award, which comes with $1 million of research funding. Alù is the first recipient from a Texas university.


Hot Chips: Managing Moore’s Law

This month marks the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, an observation that every couple of years, computer chip manufacturers manage to squeeze twice as many transistors onto a computer chip. Moore’s Law embodies the exponential increase in raw computing power that unleashed a blizzard of tech innovations.