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:
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- Learn more about the history of DSSC.
- Directions to the DSSC.
Laughlin Named Honorary AIME Member
ALCOA Professor of Materials Science and Engineering David Laughlin was recently selected as an honorary member of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) — one of the highest honors the institute can bestow on an individual. The award is limited to 0.1 percent of the society membership and recognizes outstanding service to the institute, or distinguished scientific or engineering achievement in the fields embracing the activities of AIME and its member societies. Specifically, AIME cited Laughlin for his outstanding service through its TMS Society in the field of publishing, as well as sustained excellence in teaching and research in the field of metallurgy and magnetic materials.
DSSC Helps Fuel Wang's Stanford Success
If you ask Shan Wang (E'93), serendipity played a big role in propelling the former DSSC grad student to a successful professorial career at Stanford University. To the outside observer, though, luck had little to do with it.
Wang earned his bachelor of science in physics from China's University of Science and Technology — where he originally fell in love with magnetism — and enrolled in Iowa State University's graduate program in physics through the China-U.S. Physics Examination and Application program. While working on his master's degree, he saw an article by Robert M. White in Physics Today, highlighting the growing excitement for magnetic recording. Not much later, he read an interview with Mark Kryder about the formation of the Magnetics Technology Center (now the Data Storage Systems Center).
Their common bond? Carnegie Mellon. Wang was immediately attracted.
West Coast Review a "Resounding Success"
More than 70 members of the data storage industry gathered at Carnegie Mellon's Silicon Valley campus in Moffett Field, Calif., last month for the Data Storage Systems Center's first-ever West Coast Review. While the center holds semiannual reviews at its Pittsburgh campus, the DSSC's directors took the show on the road to make the center's work more accessible to engineers and researchers within its sponsor companies who may not be able to attend reviews in Pittsburgh.
Events
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Spring Technical Review
March 28–29
For more information on DSSC events, contact Pat Grieco.
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