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-        <h2>Welcome</h2><img src="group_dresden_small.jpg" alt="Left Align" class="left" height="145" width="200" />
+        <h2>Welcome</h2><a href="photos/rtss_18.jpg"><img src="photos/rtss_18_cropped.jpg" alt="Real-time group members at RTSS 2018" class="left" height="145" /></a>
         <p>Hello and welcome to the homepage of the Real-Time Systems group at <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu">The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</a>. Here you can find information on our group, important dates, information about our current projects (including our <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/litmus-rt/">LITMUS<sup>RT</sup></a> system), and photos from conferences.</p>
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           <h2>News</h2>
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+            <p class="date">August 2020</p>
+            <h3>Best Paper</h3>
+            <p><a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/~shosborn/">Sims Hill Osborne</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/~shareef/">Shareef Ahmed</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/saujas-nandi/">Saujas Nandi</a>, and <a href="https://jamesanderson.web.unc.edu">James Anderson</a> won the best paper award at RTCSA for their paper <a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers/rtcsa20b.pdf"> &#8220;Exploiting Simultaneous Multithreading in Priority-Driven Hard Real-Time Systems.&#8221;</a></p>
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+            <p class ="date">July 2019</p>
+            <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
+            <p><a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/~yang/">Ming Yang</a> successfully defended his dissertation, <a href="https://cs.unc.edu/~anderson/diss/">&#8220;Sharing GPUs for Real-Time Autonomous-Driving Systems.&#8221;</a> Congratulations Ming!</p>
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+            <p class="date">November 2019</p>
+            <h3>Best Paper</h3>
+            <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~cghobbs">Clara Hobbs</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/~ztong/">Peter Tong</a>, and <a href="https://jamesanderson.web.unc.edu">James Anderson</a> won the best paper award at RTNS for their paper <a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers/rtns19a.pdf"> &#8220;Optimal Soft Real-Time Semi-Partitioned Scheduling MadeSimple (And Dynamic).&#8221;</a></p>
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+            <p class ="date">January 2019</p>
+            <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
+            <p><a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/~namhoonk/">Namhoon Kim</a> successfully defended his dissertation, <a href="https://cs.unc.edu/~anderson/diss/namhoondiss.pdf">&#8220;Combining Hardware Management with Mixed-Criticality Provisioning in Multicore Real-Time Systems.&#8221;</a> Congratulations Namhoon!</p>
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+            <p class="date">December 2018</p>
+            <h3>Technical Achievement and Leadership Award</h3>
+            <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a> was honored with the <a href="http://sites.ieee.org/tcrts/awards/achievement-and-leadership-awards/">Technical Achievement and Leadership Award</a> by the <a href="http://sites.ieee.org/tcrts/">IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems</a> during RTSS.</p>
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+            <p class="date">October 2018</p>
+            <h3>Best Paper</h3>
+            <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~namhoonk/">Namhoon Kim</a>, Stephen Tang, <a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/~otternes/">Nathan Otterness</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~smithfd/">Don Smith</a>, and <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~porter/">Don Porter</a>  won the best paper award at RTNS for their paper <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers/rtns18a.pdf"> &#8220;Supporting I/O and IPC via Fine-Grained OS Isolation for Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Tasks.&#8221;</a> </p>
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+            <p class="date">July 2018</p>
+            <h3>Best Paper</h3>
+            <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jarretc/">Catherine Nemitz</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~tamert/">Tanya Amert</a>, and <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a>  won the best paper award at ECRTS for their paper <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers/ecrts18b.pdf"> &#8220;Using Lock Servers to Scale Real-Time Locking Protocols: Chasing Ever-Increasing Core Counts.&#8221;</a> </p>
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+            <p class ="date">June 2018</p>
+            <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
+            <p><a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/~yangk/">Kecheng Yang</a> successfully defended his dissertation, <a href="https://cs.unc.edu/~anderson/diss/kechengdiss.pdf">&#8220;Real-Time Scheduling on Asymmetric Multiprocessor Platforms.&#8221;</a> Congratulations Kecheng!</p>
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             <p class="date">December 2017</p>
             <h3>Best Presentation</h3>
             <p><a href="http://cs.unc.edu/~tamert/">Tanya Amert</a> won the best presentation award at RTSS for presenting the paper <a href="https://cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers/rtss17c.pdf"> &#8220;GPU Scheduling on the NVIDIA TX2: Hidden Details Revealed.&#8221;</a> </p>
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-                        <p class ="date">August 2016</p>
-                        <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
+            <p class="date">October 2017</p>
+            <h3>Best Student Paper</h3>
+            <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jarretc/">Catherine Nemitz</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~tamert/">Tanya Amert</a>, and <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a>  won the best student paper award at RTNS for their paper <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers/rtns17b.pdf"> &#8220;Real-Time Multiprocessor Locks with Nesting: Optimizing the Common Case.&#8221;</a> </p>
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+            <p class ="date">August 2016</p>
+            <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~bcw/">Bryan Ward</a> successfully defended his dissertation, &#8220;Sharing Non-Processor Resources in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems.&#8221; Congratulations Bryan!</p>
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-                        <p class ="date">June 2016</p>
-                        <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
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+            <p class ="date">June 2016</p>
+            <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
             <p><a href="https://sites.google.com/mst.edu/guoz/home">Zhishan Guo</a> successfully defended his dissertation, &#8220;Real-Time Scheduling of Mixed-Critical Workloads Upon Platforms with Uncertainties.&#8221; Congratulations Zhishan!</p>
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             <p class="date">April 2016</p>
             <h3>Best Student Paper</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~namhoonk/">Namhoon Kim</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~bcw/">Bryan Ward</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~micaiah/">Micaiah Chisholm</a>, Cheng-Yang Fu, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a>, and <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~smithfd/">Don Smith</a> won a best student paper award at RTAS for their paper <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers/rtas16.pdf"> &#8220;Attacking the One-Out-Of-m Multicore Problem by Combining Hardware Management with Mixed-Criticality Provisioning.&#8221;</a> </p>
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             <p class="date">July 2015</p>
             <h3>Car Project on TV</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/projects/autovision.html">Our research project about future cars</a> was shown on TV. WNCN link: <a href="http://wncn.com/2015/07/08/unc-explores-future-of-transportation/">UNC explores future of transportation.</a>
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-                        <p class ="date">April 2015</p>
-                        <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
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+            <p class ="date">April 2015</p>
+            <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~bipasa/">Bipasa Chattopadhyay</a> successfully defended her dissertation, &#8220;Integrating Pragmatic Constraints and Behaviors Into Real-Time Scheduling Theory.&#8221; Congratulations Bipasa!</p>
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-                        <p class ="date">March 2015</p>
-                        <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
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+            <p class ="date">March 2015</p>
+            <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~gelliott">Glenn Elliott</a> successfully defended his dissertation, &#8220;Real-Time Scheduling of GPU’s with Applications in Advanced Automotive Systems, &#8221; and has accepted a job at Tesla Motors. Congratulations Glenn!</p>
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             <p class="date">January 2015</p>
             <h3>GPUSync</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~gelliott/main/Papers_%26_Projects/Entries/2013/9/23_GPUSync__A_Framework_for_Real-Time_GPU_Management.html">GPUSync: A Framework for Real-Time GPU Management</a> has been released. GPUSync extends the LITMUS<sup>RT</sup> Linux kernel patch to support a myriad of reconfigurable and adaptive multi-GPU scheduling algorithms.
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             <p class="date">January 2015</p>
             <h3>RTAS Program Chair</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a> serves as the Program Chair for <a href="http://2015.rtas.org/?page_id=41">the 21st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium</a>.
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             <p class="date">January 2015</p>
             <h3>TCRTS Vice Chair</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a> has been named <a href="http://tcrts.org/committees/">the Vice Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems</a>. Congratulations!
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             <p class="date">January 2015</p>
             <h3>Dagstuhl Seminar</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~baruah/">Sanjoy Baruah</a> is organizing the <a href="http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=15121">Dagstuhl Seminar on Mixed Criticality on Multicore/Manycore Platforms</a>.
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             <p class="date">January 2015</p>
             <h3>RTCSA 2015</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a> serves as the General Co-Chair for <a href="http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~rtcsa2015/">the 21st IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2015)</a>.
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-                        <p class="date">December 2014</p>
-                        <h3>Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award</h3>
-                        <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~baruah/">Sanjoy Baruah</a> received the 2014 IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award. Congratulations Sanjoy!</p>
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+            <p class="date">December 2014</p>
+            <h3>Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award</h3>
+            <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~baruah/">Sanjoy Baruah</a> received the 2014 IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award. Congratulations Sanjoy!</p>
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             <p class="date">October 2014</p>
             <h3>Best Presentation</h3>
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             <h3>Outstanding Paper</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~jerickso/">Jeremy Erickson</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~uma/">Umamaheswari Devi</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~bcasses/"> Ben Casses</a> won an outstanding paper award at RTCSA for their paper <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers/rtcsa14a.pdf"> &#8220;Optimal Semi-Partitioned Scheduling in Soft Real-Time Systems.&#8221;</a> </p>
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-                        <p class ="date">July 2014</p>
-                        <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
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+            <p class ="date">July 2014</p>
+            <h3>Dissertation Defense</h3>
             <p><a href="https://www.cs.unc.edu/~jerickso/">Jeremy Erickson</a> successfully defended his dissertation, &#8220;Managing Tardiness Bounds and Overload in Soft Real-Time Systems, &#8221; and has accepted a job at Google. Congratulations Jeremy!</p>
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             <p class="date">December 2013</p>
             <h3>ACM Fellow</h3>
-            <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a> has beed named <a href="http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2013/fellows-2013">an ACM Fellow</a>. Congratulations Jim!</p>
+            <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/">James Anderson</a> has been named <a href="http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/2013/fellows-2013">an ACM Fellow</a>. Congratulations Jim!</p>
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             <p class="date">July 2013</p>
             <h3>Outstanding Paper</h3>
             <p><a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~bcw/">Bryan Ward</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~hermanjl/">Jonathan Herman</a>, <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~cjk/">Chris Kenna</a>, and <a href="http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson">Jim Anderson</a> won an outstanding paper award at ECRTS for their paper <a href=http://www.cs.unc.edu/~anderson/papers/ecrts13b.pdf">&#8220;Making Shared Caches More Predictable on Multicore Platforms.&#8221;</a></p>