Engineering Research Center for the Carnegie Mellon Data Storage Systems Center

该奖项在卡内基梅隆大学(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。拟议中的ERC的长期目标是通过建立一个长期研究和教育计划，推动磁学、磁光以及信号处理和编码等相关技术，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将取代现有的由行业资助的磁学技术中心(MTC)，并将扩大其范围，以包括从系统角度进行的较长期研究。研究目标集中在以下方面的进展：磁性和磁光介质；感应、磁阻和光学磁头；介质-磁头接口可靠性；定位器和伺服控制系统；信号处理和编码；以及记录系统的建模。磁盘驱动器技术的极端复杂性和跨学科性质需要一种良好整合的研究方法。CMU的工作人员是一群备受尊敬的研究人员，他们在创新、高质量的研究方面有着出色的记录，涵盖了拟议的研究领域。这种由强大的系统重点整合的单个研究领域的优势组合是CMU中心独一无二的。拟议的教育计划将使CMU专门从事数据存储研究的研究生人数翻一番，并将为相当数量的本科生创造参与研究的机会。所有这些学生都将获得宝贵的接触工业问题和观点的机会。研究生和本科生课程将通过新的和升级的课程得到改进。拟议中的中学教师暑期学院将使这些教师接触到工程学的兴奋，并鼓励他们帮助吸引高素质的学生进入工程学。

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.