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  • Robot Thomas Jefferson Welcomes Prospective Students at Engineering Open House

    Jefferson was a man of ideas. So it was only a matter of time before someone had the idea of turning him into a robot, and only fitting that it would happen at UVA.

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  • Should Natural Language Processing Researchers Worry About ChatGPT?

    UVA computer science’s Yangfeng Ji tells IEEE Spectrum it’s going to be OK.

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  • UVA Engineering Professor Elected AIMBE Fellow

    Jeffrey Saucerman has joined the top 2% of medical and biological engineering professionals.

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  • William T. Scherer Appointed Chair of UVA’s Department of Systems and Information Engineering

    Scherer is a triple ’Hoo who innovated methods for modeling, designing and controlling large-scale engineered systems.

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  • Building Chemical Engineering’s Bridge to Bio Helps Earn George Prpich the Robert A. Moore Jr. Award

    Award honors a faculty member whose teaching or research represents the interest of industry and best prepares students for industrial careers.

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  • In Memoriam: Renowned Worldwide, William Wulf’s Love for Computers and Teaching Grounded Him at UVA

    Among many accomplishments, Wulf was known as the inventor of BLISS, Bill’s Language for Implementing System Software.

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  • A Cognitive Assistant on Your Doctor’s Smartwatch?

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  • UVA CS Chair Sandhya Dwarkadas Elected to Computing Research Association Board

    Now a director-elect, Sandhya Dwarkadas previously represented the Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research on the Computing Research Association board.

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  • From Recycling Plastic to Building Construction Competitions, UVA Engineers Earn Jefferson Trust Grants to Enrich the UVA Experience

    Three projects -- Printers 4 Kids, Virginia Baja Racing and the first UVA Construction Engineering and Management Competition – received Jefferson Trust funding in the 2022-2023 cycle.

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  • UVA Professor Nikolaos Sidiropoulos Receives Lifetime Achievement Award in Electrical Engineering

    Sidiropoulos was named the 2022 winner of the Claude Shannon-Harry Nyquist Technical Achievement Award by the IEEE Signal Processing Society for his foundational work advancing the wireless communicat

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  • Sebastian Elbaum Named a Fellow by Association for Computing Machinery

    The Association of Computing Machinery Fellows program recognizes the top 1% of the association’s members.

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  • NYT: They Were Told Their Building Was Earthquake Safe. It Collapsed Anyway.

    Some structures promoted as being built to modern seismic codes did not withstand the quake in Turkey. Associate professor of civil engineering, Osman E. Ozbulut, weighs in.

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