Cornell Asian Alumni Association honors Engineering alumnus
At the 2008 Pan Asian Lunar New Year banquet in NYC in February the Cornell Asian Alumni Association honored Dr Marcus C. Loo '77 EE, MD '81. Dr. Loo is a trustee, noted Weil Medical College physician and CAAA co-founder.
Cornell Alumni Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to "engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature," and to the "pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education."
-Howard J. Bruschi ’62, M.Eng. ‘64, executive consultant, Westinghouse Electric Co., Pittsburgh. For leadership in the design, development, and licensing of the passively safe Westinghouse reactors, the AP600 and AP1000.
-Cynthia Dwork, M.Sc. ’81, Ph.D. ‘83, senior researcher, Microsoft Research, Mountain View, Calif. For fundamental contributions to distributed algorithms and the security of cryptosystems.
-Barbara J. Grosz ‘69, interim dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. For pioneering research in natural language communication between humans and computers and its application to human-computer interaction.
-Jon M. Kleinberg ’93, professor of computer science, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. For contributions to the understanding of the structure and behavior of the World Wide Web and other complex networks.
-James A. Miller, M.Eng. ’69, Ph.D. ‘74, distinguished member of the technical staff, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, Calif. For research on the theory and modeling of combustion chemistry that has led to universally applied codes for combustion modeling.
