The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.

The turkey contest is organized by HKN before Thanksgiving break, where students choose among three professors to wear the costume. The other professors this year were Dave Meyer and Ilya Pollak. A total of $125.50 was raised and donated to the Lafayette Urban Ministry (LUM).

His paper is titled "OpenMPC: Extended OpenMP Programming and Tuning for GPUs". He is supervised by Professor Rudolf Eigenmann.

The award honors an individual in recognition of outstanding achievement in scientific research and demonstrated ability to communicate the significance of this work to scientists in other disciplines.

The award was given for his paper "An Integrated Image-Based Food Database System with Application in Dietary Assessment". He is supervised by Professor Ed Delp.

Professor Yung-Hsiang Lu and two other Purdue professors will join seven other universities in the Yahoo! M45 Cloud Computing Initiative. The program allows academic researchers to study cloud computing.

The article on cloud computing for mobile users ranked first among articles downloaded from IEEE Computer Society's "Computer" Journal on IEEE Xplore for the month of August.

The advanced member grade level of Distinguished Member was initiated to recognize ACM Professional Members who have achieved a significant accomplishment in, or made a significant impact on, the computing field.

Purdue Libraries has presented the first Leadership in Open Access Award to ECE for its support and exercise of the principles of open access.

Tanzima won the award based on her poster "Harnessing Multiple Cores for Efficient Checkpointing in Grid Systems." She is supervised by Professors Saurabh Bagchi and Rudi Eigenmann.