News & Announcements for 2004

• ECE Enters New Era, February 7, 2004
• Nanotubes - the New Shape of Electronics, February 7, 2004
• Solitary Cell Phone Users May Find That There Is Strength in Numbers, February 7, 2004
• Transmitting from Your Local Microdot, February 7, 2004
• One Step Beyond, Creating Virtual Computing Systems, February 7, 2004
• Unlocking the Power of the Brain, February 7, 2004
• Mind as a Model:Computational Neuroscience Meets Engineering at the CNEL, February 7, 2004
• In Step Toward Ultrasmall Radio, UF Team Demonstrates On-Chip Antenna, March 11, 2004
• Agilent Technologies to bring 2004 Roadshow to campus, April 13, 2004
• Robots Roll Over UF, WCJB TV 20, April 20, 2004
• Koolio, Beer Delivery Robot, featured on the MSNBC TV Show, "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", April 21, 2004
• External Advisory Board to meet on Friday, April 23, 2004.
• Koolio, Beer Delivery Robot, featured on TechTV, April 23, 2004
• Student Project May Help Soldiers in Iraq, Washington Times, April 29, 2004
• Dr. Deniz Erdogmus, ECE Alumnus May 2002, is chosen to receive IEEE Signal Processing Society 2003 Young Author Award, for his paper co-authored with his faculty advisor Dr. Jose Principe. The award will be presented at the ICASSP 2004 conference in Montreal, Canada, on May 4, 2004.
• Dr. O named UF Research Foundation Professor, May 6, 2004
• The $1 Dollar Radio, e4engineering, May 12, 2004
• Warning Shot, The Engineer, May 14, 2004
• Antenna Evolution On-the-Chip, Cheap, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, May 20, 2004
• Sticky sensor may keep troops out of harm's way, EETimes, May 24, 2004
• Linda Kahila, graduate advisor, retires as of May 31, 2004
• Chips Go Wireless, e4engineering, May 30, 2004
• Key to Lightning Deaths: Location, Location, Location, National Geographic News, June 23, 2004
• In Step Toward Ultrasmall Radio, University of Florida Demonstrates On-Chip Antenna, Solid State Technology, June 8, 2004
• Shooting Spies, ABC News, July 6, 2004
• Tiny Antennas, Design News, July 19, 2004
• Surviving the Strike, Fox 35 News, WOFL, and Fox 51 WOGX, July 26, 2004. Dr. Rakov interviewed by Glenn Richards
• Robots Show Off Their Wares at UF, Gainesville Sun, August 6, 2004
• Dr. O's Tiny Antennas were mentioned in the MIT Technology Review, September 1, 2004
• The Bolt Catchers, Nature, September 9, 2004
• Dr. O interviewed by Geoff Watts on BBC radio, October 14, 2004
• Dr. Alan George receives UF/OIT Exceptional Volunteer Award
• Dr. Jerry Fossum receives the prestigious Electron Devices Society J. J. Ebers Award for 2004. The award will be presented at the 2004 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco.
• Paper by doctoral student Steve Horowitz wins 2004 Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Technical Commitee Paper of the Year award
• Jason Jerauld awarded NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium Fellowship for 2004
• Dr. Nishida receives 2003-2004 College of Engineering Teacher of the Year Award
• Dr. O receives 2003-2004 UF Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award
• Winners of the 2004 Poster Contest announced