Achievements

•    WINLAB featured in two new articles

  Two new articles about WINLAB appear in the February 4th issue of Network World magazine. The first article "A Wireless Network Think Tank - With Toys"  details WINLAB's efforts to solve some of the toughest problems facing large-scale wireless networks.   The article appears on the cover page of this month's issue with a picture of  Ivan Seskar, Associate WINLAB Director and the ORBIT Project Director.
  
  The second article "Wireless Whiz Weighs in on Pervasive Computing, Muni Wi-Fi and 802.11n"   is an interview with Professor Raychaudhuri, the Director of WINLAB.   In this article Dr. Raychaudhuri discusses where wireless technology is heading.
  
  

• Rutgers Wireless Networking Laboratory (WINLAB) Awarded the Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation

  A research team at the Rutgers University Wireless Information Laboratory (WINLAB) received the fourth annual Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation on Thursday January 10, 2008.   The award recognizes Rutgers for establishing a unique facility for testing new mobile computing and communications technologies.   The facility, known as the ORBIT Open Access Radio Grid Testbed, features a 400-node programmable radio transceiver emulation laboratory and an outdoor field trial system of short- and long-range radios on the university's New Brunswick Campus.
  
  Accepting the award for the Rutgers team is Ivan Seskar, an associate director at WINLAB and project engineer for ORBIT, leading its design and ongoing operations.  Dipankar Raychaudhuri, director of WINLAB, is a principal investigator of the NSF ORBIT Project. Other ORBIT team members recognized by the Schwarzkopf Prize are WINLAB associate directors Wade Trappe and Roy Yates and WINLAB faculty members Larry Greenstein, Marco Gruteser, Max Ott, Sanjay Paul and Yangyong Zhang.
  
  "ORBIT represents an important contribution to the nation's R&D infrastructure," said Professor Dipankar Raychaudhuri, WINLAB Director and principal investigator of the NSF ORBIT project.  "WINLAB's unique wireless technology development and technology transfer capabilities that made a complex project like ORBIT possible were orignally nurtured by Schwarzkopf's NSF I/UCRC program."
  
  ORBIT also has been useful in applied industrial projects aimed at improving 802.11 wireless local-area networks, video distribution systems and tactical ad-hoc networks. Several of WINLAB's sponsor companies, including  Thomson,  Toyota ITC and  InterDigital are using the ORBIT test facility to design future video systems, vehicular applications and security solutions.
  
  ORBIT was featured in MIT Technology Review's annual issue on "10 emerging technologies ... most likely to alter industries, fields of research and even the way we live"  in 2006.  ORBIT was also featured in Signal Magazine, a leading publication in the defense industry.
  
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  Congratulations to the faculty, staff and students working at WINLAB for winning the Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation !

• Dr. Michael Bushnell named IEEE Fellow.    The IEEE Board of Directors has named  Professor Bushnell  an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to testing methods for digital and mixed-signal VLSI circuits. The rank of Fellow is the IEEE's highest rank, bestowed on senior members who have contributed "to the advancement of engineering, science and technology".
  
  This award is a wonderful accomplishment and a great honor. Congratulations to Professor Bushnell  for this prestigious achievement.

• Rutgers University, WINLAB and the ORBIT Indoor Radio Grid are again in the news. The July 2007 issue of Signal (a major Department of Defense related publication) has a feature article "No Node Left Behind" by Rita Boland.  Read the full text of the article here. Picture of ORBIT Testbed published in the article.
  
  The article primarily details OrderOne Network's efforts and descibes how OrderOne Networks has evaluated the performance of it's ad hoc routing protocol on the ORBIT Testbed. This evaluation is part of an ongoing relationship with Army CERDEC/CECOM and reflects the usefulness of the ORBIT Testbed beyond just student/faculty research.
  
  
  
• Dr. Peter Meer together with Oncel Tuzel (Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science) and Dr. Fatih Porikli (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, MA.), was awarded the best paper prize runner-up, for "Human Detection via Classification on Riemannian Manifolds", at the prestigious annual conference on 2007 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. The conference took place in Minneapolis, MN between June 19 to June 21.
  
  Dr. Meer was awarded the best paper prize twice before, once in 1999 with Dr. Bogdan Matei (Rutgers Ph.D. 2001), and in 2000 with Dr. Dorin Comaniciu (Rutgers Ph.D. 2000) and Dr. Visvanathan Ramesh (Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ).
  
  
  
• Dr. Greg Burdea, a world leader in computer-based virtual reality techniques in rehabilitation therapies, is featured in an Edmonton Journal story entitled " Healing power of video games"   (The Edmonton Journal May 12, 2007).   The Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital in Edmonton Canada is using Dr. Burdea's research with Wii technology to rehabilitate patients with brain-related injuries and improve patients lives.
  
  View the online video of Dr. Burdea's interview broadcast nationally on Canadian news  (Canadian Broadcast Corporation May 12, 2007).   Dr. Burdea explains that in five years every hospital and rehab clinic will have embraced the gaming technology for their patients.
  
  Dr. Burdea is director of the Virtual Reality Laboratory / Human- Machine Interface Laboratory located in the CAIP Center on Rutgers University's Busch Campus in Piscataway, NJ.
  
  
  
• Cristina Comaniciu   (Rutgers Ph.D. 2001)   has won the prestigious 2007 IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications. Cristina and co-author Vincent Poor won the award for their paper "On the capacity of mobile ad-hoc networks with delay constraints"   IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, no. 8, pp. 2061-2071, August 2006. The award will be presented at the IEEE ICC 2007 in Glasgow, Scotland during the Awards Ceremony on Monday June 25th.
  
  Cristina Comaniciu received her Ph.D. from Rutgers in December 2001. From 1998 to 2001 she was with Rutgers Wireless Information Network (Winlab) working on integrated access control and detection algorithms for multimedia CDMA systems. At Winlab she worked under the guidance of Professor Narayan Mandayam.