A Search Engine with Ears Imagine a music search engine that asks you to type in words like "acoustic guitars" or "electronica with female vocals" and then returns songs that fit. Professor Gert Lanckriet is leading a project to build just such a "Google for music," and he`s building it on algorithms based on audio signal processing and statistical modeling. The automated song labeler, dubbed a "computer audition system," is capable of annotating an unlimited number of ongs with words that describe how the songs actually sound. A search for "blues songs with tambourines" will return famous and obscure songs alike. Of course, the songs have to be annotated before they can be ndexed by the search engine. To help get lesser-known music into the system, the team is setting up a Web site where bands can upload their own songs for annotation. Graduate students have also developed a eries of Web-based video games that lead players to label songs with words, and publicized the games on Facebook. Says Lanckriet, who received funding from the von Liebig Center to take his search engine closer to commercialization: "While the games are crucial for our research and our search engine, they are also a lot of fun and socially intense." |
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Message from the Chair
Welcome to the website of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UCSD. When you browse around, you will see the up-to-date courses covering the entire spectrum of the electrical and computer engineering discipline, you'll get information about our faculty, who are leaders in their cutting-edge research programs, and you'll see undergraduate and graduate students about working on groundbreaking projects.
ECE is at a significant crossroads - the technology to create and manipulate information is at the center of the modern world, and it impacts modern telecommunications and computer industries, as well the basic sciences and biology. The research challenges in our discipline emerge at the nano-scale of device physics, from the convergence of electronics and biology, from the emerging challenges of alternative energy sources, and from the linking of the virtual and physical worlds. We invite you to join us in this exciting adventure into the future of global high technology.
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February 5, 2010 | | 01:00pm - 02:00pm | Prof. Andrea Armani |
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February 12, 2010 | | 03:00pm - 04:00pm | Kei May Lau |
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February 19, 2010 | | 11:00am - 12:00pm | Michael Marcus |
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March 2, 2010 | | 01:00pm - 02:00pm | Lan Wei |
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March 12, 2010 | | 01:00pm - 02:00pm | Professor James Leger |
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ECE Alumni News Spring 09
 Professor Jie Xiang has received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The CAREER Program is NSF’s most prestigious award in support of the early career-development activities of junior faculty. Professor Xiang’s research program aims to be transformative in terms of extending traditional electronic circuits and models into utilizing the mechanical degree of freedom in conjunction with novel nanoelectronics components in order to achieve high speed computation as well as low standby power as building blocks for future information technology. The 5-year, $400,000 award will also allow him to integrate cutting edge nanotechnology research with a series of educational and outreach activities to engage the interest of the broader community. |
 Prof. Gabriel Rebeiz is the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Educator Award of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S). This award is given to a distinguished educator in the field of microwave engineering and science who exemplifies the special human qualities of the late Fred J. Rosenbaum who considered teaching a high calling and demonstrated his dedication to the MTT-S through tireless service. Prof. Rebeiz has been cited for his "Outstanding Achievements as an Educator, Mentor And Role Model of Microwave Engineers and Engineering Students". The award will be conferred at the annual Society Awards Banquet to be held during the International Microwave Symposium the week of May 23 to 28, 2010 in Anaheim, California. |
 Prof. Andrew Viterbi has been named by the IEEE Board of Directors as the recipient of the 2010 IEEE Medal of Honor. The Medal honors Prof. Viterbi`s seminal contributions to communications technology and theory. |
The UCSD Student Branch of the IEEE is one of the Runner Ups in the International Student Branch Web Site Contest for 2008-2009. The contest was sponsored by the IEEE Student Activities Committee
(SAC). Over 120 Student Branches participated in their regional contests, from which the IEEE judges chose the top web site designs worldwide. The web site designs are for and by IEEE Student members.
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 Dr. Dharmendra S. Modha, a PhD alumni of the ECE Department, now at IBM Research, has received the ACM Gordon Bell Prize. This prize has been awarded since 1987 to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing. It is now administered by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), with financial support for the stipend provided by Gordon Bell, a pioneer in high-performance and parallel computing. The prize was awarded at the Supercomputing 2009 conference. |
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