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I would like to welcome everyone back from their Thanksgiving holiday. This is the last week of classes for the Fall quarter and I am sure all the students are preparing for final exams next week.
In this issue, I want to apprise everyone of the progress made in the newly established Motorola Center for Telecommunications Research in our department (Director, Prof. Aggelos Katsaggelos. For more details, send him email). The Center was officially started on Aug. 3, 1998, with funding of $600,000 per year. At that time, about $400,000 was allocated to fund five research projects. We had a review of these five projects at Motorola Corporate Research Labs in Schaumburg last Wednesday, Nov. 25. All the projects received high ratings from the Steering Committee Members at Motorola. The faculty members from the ECE department have submitted 13 more research proposals for the remaining funds of $200,000 per year. Decisions on these proposals will be made around the last week of December. Each of the Motorola funded projects involves one or more ECE faculty members, some graduate and undergraduate students, and one or more engineers from Motorola, so that the technical results of the research become relevant to Motorola in the future. Students supported in this research will be solicited to spend their summer internships at Motorola. This will give students an excellent opportunity to work on research topics that are relevant to industry.
We hope to have more industry supported research in the future in this department. And we want all the students in our department to be part of this exciting team.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SEMINAR
TITLE: Achieving Application Performance On Distributed Resources
DATE: Tuesday Dec. 1
TIME/PLACE: 11AM-12PM, A230 (Note room change)
SPEAKER: Prof. Francine Berman, University of California, San Diego
VLSI CAD/ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SEMINAR
TITLE: A Compiler For Chimaera Architecture
DATE: Wed. Dec. 2
TIME: 4-5PM
PLACE: L324
SPEAKER: Alex Zhi Ye, ECE graduate student (Advisor: Prof. Banerjee)
Tuesday, December 1: M.S. Final Examination - Option C
Jeng-Luen Tsai
Committee Members: P. Kumar (chairman), A. Taflove, and M. Plonus
Professor Carl Kannewurf is traveling to Boston, MA, Nov. 28 - Dec 2, to attend the Materials Research Society Fall Meeting and present a paper.
Professor Prem Kumar will be traveling to New Delhi, India, Dec. 6 - Jan. 3. He will present an invited paper and teach a short course at Photonics-98, International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi.
Professor Nate Newman is traveling to Boston, MA, for the Fall meeting of the Material Research Society, Nov. 30 - Dec. 3, and will be presenting the paper, "Plasma enhanced MBE synthesis of III-N semiconductors," in the symposium: Film growth and processing using hyperthermal beams.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .