CMU's reCAPTCHA whiz among those receiving Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
President Obama Monday recognized 96 researchers with Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, an honor that has been bestowed since 1996 in an effort by U.S. government to encourage more people to pursue careers in science and technology.
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“Discoveries in science and technology not only strengthen our economy, they inspire us as a people.” President Obama said in a statement. “The impressive accomplishments of today’s awardees so early in their careers promise even greater advances in the years ahead.”
Among those funding the awards or employing the recipients are the National Science Foundation, Department of Defense and Department of Energy.
Included among the 96 is Michael Freedman, an assistnat professor at Princeton University who heads up the school’s S* Network Systems group and Luis von Ahn, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University perhaps best known for his work on reCAPTCHA, a technique for using the familiar CAPTCHA website security technology to not only safeguard web transactions but to simulaneously digitize books by having users type in words. Earlier this year von Ahn received the Association for Computing Machery’s Grace Murray Hopper Award, which recognizes outstanding work by young computer professionals.
Bob Brown tracks network research in his Alpha Doggs blog and Facebook page, as well on Twitter and Google +.
