Engineering Research Center for the Carnegie Mellon Data Storage Systems Center

该奖项在卡耐基-梅隆大学（CMU）建立了一个数据存储系统工程研究中心，由Mark Kryder教授担任主任。拟议的ERC的长期目标是通过建立一个长期的研究和教育计划，在磁学、非磁光学和相关技术，如信号处理和编码方面，加快数据存储设备密度和性能的进展速度。目标是将存储密度提高几个数量级，超过今天的系统。ERC将取代现有的工业资助的磁性技术中心（MTC），并将扩大其范围，包括从系统角度进行长期研究。研究目标集中在磁性和磁光介质的进展；电感头、磁阻头和光学头；媒体头接口可靠性；定位器及伺服控制系统；信号处理与编码；以及录音系统的建模。磁盘驱动器技术的极端复杂性和跨学科性质需要一个很好的集成方法来研究。CMU的工作人员是一群备受尊敬的研究人员，在拟议的研究领域的各个领域都有创新、高质量的杰出研究记录。这种将各个研究领域的优势结合起来，以强大的系统为重点，是CMU中心所独有的。该教育计划将使CMU数据存储研究专业的研究生人数增加一倍，并将为相当数量的本科生创造参与研究的机会。所有这些学生都将有机会接触到工业问题和观点。研究生和本科课程将通过新的和升级的课程来改进。一项针对中学教师的暑期学院的提议将使这些教师接触到工程的兴奋，并鼓励他们帮助吸引高度；Y合格的学生进入工程领域。

This award establishes an Engineering Research Center for Data Storage Systems, at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU), with Professor Mark Kryder as Director. The long term goal of the proposed ERC is to accelerate the rate of progress in data storage device density and performance by establishing a long- term research and education program with thrusts in magnetics, nmagneto-optics, and allied technologies such as signal processing and coding, with a target of increasing storage density by several orders of magnitude beyond today's systems. The ERC will supersede the existing industry-funded Magnetics Technology Center (MTC) and will expand its scope to include longer-term research with a systems perspective. The research objectives focus on advances in magnetic and magneto-optic media; inductive, magneto-resistive, and optical heads; media-head interface reliability; positioners and servo control systems; signal processing and coding; and modeling of the recording system. The extreme complexity and cross-disciplinary nature of disk-drive technology requires a well-integrated approach to the research. The staff at CMU is a highly respected group of researchers with an outstanding record for innovative, high quality research, across the spectrum of proposed research areas. This combination of strengths in individual research areas integrated by a strong systems focus is unique to the CMU Center. The proposed education program will double the number of graduate students specializing in data storage research at CMU and will create opportunities for a considerable number of undergraduates to participate in the research as well. All these students will receive a valuable exposure to industrial problems and perspectives. Graduate and undergraduate curricula will be improved via new and upgraded courses. A proposed summer institute for secondary school teachers will expose these teachers to the excitement of engineering and encourage them to help attract highly;y qualified students into engineering.