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 Jehoshua "Shuki" Bruck, Caltech's Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering, has won the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. Caltech's most prestigious teaching honor, the prize was established in 1993 "to honor annually a professor who demonstrates, in the broadest sense, unusual ability, creativity, and innovation in undergraduate and graduate classroom or laboratory teaching." A member of the Caltech faculty since 1994, Bruck was the founding director of Information Science and Technology (IST) at Caltech. His research combines work on the design of distributed information systems and the theoretical study of biological circuits and systems. Kudos!
Carver Mead, Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus, and Caltech alumnus Gordon Moore, are among the fifteen 2009 inductees into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame. Mead helped to develop the standards and tools that permitted tens of  thousands of transistors to be packaged on a single silicon chip, what is known as very large-scale integration (VLSI). Gordon Moore credits Mead with coining the term "Moore’s Law" to describe the notion that the number of transistors that can be packaged on an integrated circuit will double every two years, and Mead performed the physics calculations to prove it. As a cofounder of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, Moore set the pace and standards for Silicon Valley’s chip manufacturing methods. His work established the model of the computer industry researcher-entrepreneur and help make Intel a world-leading chip maker.
 Robert McEliece, Allen E. Puckett Professor and Professor of Electrical Engineering, has won the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for exceptional contributions to the advancement of communications sciences and engineering. In particular, McEleiece is being recognized for fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of error-correcting codes and to the design of deep space telecommunication systems.
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IST Lunch Bunch
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are welcome to attend these introductory research talks
given by IST students and faculty.
Lunch Bunches will resume in the Fall.
12:00 - 1:00 pm
74 Jorgensen
 Researchers in IST's Center for the Physics of Information have developed an exciting new tool for exploring quantum effects in ordinary matter. The scientists used microfabrication techniques to create a very tiny nanoelectromechanical system (NEMS) resonator, closely coupled with a single-Cooper-pair box, or superconducting "qubit" (a qubit is the basic unit of quantum information). The NEMS resonator can be used to probe the energy quantization of the qubit, while the qubit itself could be used to observe the discrete energy levels of the vibrating resonator predicted by quantum mechanics. The work is described in "Nanomechanical measurements of a superconducting qubit," Nature, June 18, 2009. Read more...
 Scholarships Available for ABI's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2009! "Creating Technology for Social Good" Conference
Tucson, Arizona
September 30–October 3, 2009
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