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Data Storage Systems Center

 

About the DSSC

The Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) at Carnegie Mellon University is an interdisciplinary research and educational organization whose mission is to advance information storage technologies. Faculty and students from a wide range of disciplines at Carnegie Mellon are developing the fundamental understanding of the science and advanced engineering methods required for future generations of information storage systems.

The DSSC is a collaborative effort between several Carnegie Mellon departments:

Chemical Engineering
Department of Chemistry
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Department of Physics

DSSC Spring Review Draws Over 100 Participants

DSSC Spring Review session

Carnegie Mellon's Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) hosted their spring technical review last week. The agenda featured sessions in hard disk drive mechanics, novel material development, controls and tribology, materials, nanofabrication and devices, and signal processing and circuits. In addition, the DSSC held a special session as part of this Review that explored opportunities in solid state disk and alternative data storage technologies.

Kryder Awarded Singapore's Public Service Medal

Mark Kryder

University Professor Mark Kryder has received a Public Service Medal from the President of Singapore for helping them to establish the Data Storage Institute (DSI). Kryder is the founding director of the Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC) at Carnegie Mellon and retired CTO and VP of Research at Seagate. He has worked with the Singaporean government since 1991 in helping to establish the DSI and has taught multiple short courses there. He has been on the Scientific Advisory Board of the DSI since its inception and currently serves as Chairman.

IDEMA Symposium Features Two DSSC Professors

Dr. Mark Kryder

Professors Mark Kryder and Jimmy Zhu of DSSC, gave the opening and closing talks, respectively, at the recent IDEMA (Industrial Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association) Symposium "Beyond 1 Tbits/in2".

DSSC Joint Project Toast of IEEE Journal

The December 2007 issue of IEEE Transaction on Magnetics features, on the front cover, the results of a joint research project among the Data Storage Systems Center at Carnegie Mellon University, Samsung Information Systems of America (SISA), and Fuji-Electric.

Events

For more information on DSSC events, contact Pat Grieco.

Affiliates

Fujitsu
Headway Technologies
Imation
MagIC Technologies
SAE International
Samsung
Seagate
Showa Denko
STMicroelectronics
Sun Microsystems
TDK
Western Digital Hard Drives
Williams Advanced Materials


Data Storage Systems Center / Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 / Phone: 412-268-6600 / Fax: 412-268-3497