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Professor Alan Bovik delivered one of four keynotes at the 11th IEEE Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. Boviks discussion related to how the human visual system and brain perceive 3D images (such as those viewed at the theatre, on 3D televisions, and on 3D wireless video devices). It focused on models of the natural statistics of the 3D worldwhich are remarkably regularand how this regularity can be used as powerful statistical priors to evaluate and improve the quality of 3D images.

Three recent research papers from professor Andrea Alu's group were selected as Editors Suggestion on Physical Review Letters. The editors of Physical Review Letters each week make a small number of Suggestions for readers to examine particular Letters, highlighting their importance and impact on current research.

Professor Brian Evans gave a keynote talk at the International Conference on Communications and Information Technology on June 20, 2013, in Beirut, Lebanon, titled 'Smart Grid Communications.' Smart Grid systems intelligently monitor and control energy flows in order to improve efficiency and reliability of power delivery. Applying customer usage data transmitted once or even several times per minute, a local utility could adjust power generation and energy distribution accordingly. Smart meter communication over power lines is attractive because it uses existing infrastructure.

Professor Lili Qiu was recently elected to SIGMOBILEs Executive Committee as Vice Chair. According to the website, the Association for Computing Machinerys SIGMOBILE is the primary international organization dedicated to addressing the latest developments in the area of mobility of systems, users, data, and computing. Qiu was previously elected as Treasurer for the 2009-2013 period. Her new position lasts until 2015. Both positions are selected by SIGMOBILE members. Dr.

On April 5, 2013, WNCG alumnus Dr. David Love was promoted to full Professor at Purdue University. Love was Robert Heaths first Ph.D. graduate, and his dissertation is titled Feedback Methods for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Wireless Systems.Love started at Purdue in 2004 after graduating from The University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on various aspects of Wireless Communications, including MIMO. In addition to his research leadership, he has been recognized as an exemplary teacher at Purdue, where heteaches communications and signal processing.

Multiple-input multiple-output communication, also known as MIMO, is exploding againthis time in the number of antennas. Massive MIMO brings hundreds of antennas at the basestation serving tens of uses a la multiuser MIMO. Coordinated MIMO coordinates dozens of antennas at different base stations toreduce the effects of interference. Millimeter wave (mmWave) MIMO uses large arrays at base station and user equipment to serve multiple users withnarrow beams and lots of spectrum.

Todd Humphreys forecasts the near-future of geolocation when millimeter-accurate GPS "dots" will enable you to find pin-point locations, index-search your physical possessions ... or to track people without their knowledge. And the response to the sinister side of this technology may have unintended consequences of its own. (Filmed at TEDxAustin.)

WNCG student Ardavan Pedram, co-advised by WNCG professor Andreas Gerstlauer and Prof. Robert van de Geijn in Computer Science, has received the Best Poster Award at the Ph.D. Forum of the 27th IEEE International Parallel Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). IPDPS is the flagship conference of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) and among the premier venues for parallel, distributed and cloud computing. It was held May 20-24, 2013 in Boston. Ardavan's poster and Ph.D.

A new paper by Prof. Alex Dimakis and others is currently featured on Facebook Publications, which collects scientific papers written by Facebook employees and researchers. The paper on XORing Elephants: Novel Erasure Codes for Big Data developed a new coding scheme for Facebook storage servers. The paper was co-written by Maheshwaran Sathiamoorthy, Megasthenis Asteris, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, Ramkumar Vadali, Scott Chen and Dhruba Borthakur.

The National Science Foundation awarded WNCG Professors Sujay Sanghavi and Constantine Caramanis, along with a colleague at UC Berkeley, a $1.1 million grant to advance the frontiers of large-scale machine learning in the era of big and noisy data. The proposed research focuses on the development of both fundamental new theory and algorithms for data that lives in very high-dimensional spaces; the dimensionality renders basic statistical tricks ineffective.