DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of Oct 12 - 16, 1998

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

We had an excellent response in the ECE Web page design competition. I want to thank each one of the entry submitters for taking time from their busy schedules to create their designs.

We have received the following six entries.

  1. Hooman Mohseni (mohseni@delta.ece.nwu.edu)
    URL: http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~mohseni/ECE/Home.htm
  2. Candice M. McGrew (c-mcgrew2@nwu.edu)
    URL: http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~cmm256
  3. Cuong Pham (c-pham@nwu.edu) and David Zaretsky (dcz@nwu.edu)
    URL: http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~pham/ece/
  4. Max Raginski (afiend@ece.nwu.edu)
    URL: http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~afiend/ece/
  5. Matthew W. Soule (m-soule@nwu.edu)
    URL: http://pubweb.nwu.edu/~mws715/ece/
  6. Christopher Kelly (ckelly@ece.nwu.edu)
    URL: http://www.ece.nwu.edu/~ckelly/website
The following judges will make a decision on the winning web page design: Prith Banerjee, Allen Taflove, Prem Kumar, Jill Lavelle, and Jamie Cooley

The judges will meet on Tuesday Oct. 13, and announce their decision by Wednesday, Oct. 14. The new web page will be in effect by Monday, Oct. 19. You CAN send your comments by email to the judges directly to influence their votes.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

DATE: Monday Oct. 12
TIME: 4-5PM
TITLE: Workload Characterization and Task Scheduling for Tape-Resident Data
SPEAKER: Sachin More, ECE graduate student (Advisor: Prof. Choudhary)

DATE: Wed. Oct. 14
TIME: 4-5PM
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Reconfigurable DAP Design
SPEAKER: Shunliang Wang, ECE graduate student (Advisor: Prof Sarrafzadeh)

EXAMINATIONS

There are no exams scheduled this week.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

Prof. A. K. Katsaggelos was the Technical Program Chair of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Oct. 4-7, Westin Hotel, Chicago, IL. This is the premier conference in Image Processing, supported by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. There were 6 short courses offered, 4 plenary talks given, and 660 papers presented, in oral and poster sessions. The conference proceedings consist of 3 volumes totaling over 3,000 pages. The conference drew 880 attendees. Prof. Katsaggelos had 6 papers presented in the conference. He also received the IEEE Fellow certificate at the conference banquet at the Museum of Science and Industry.

OTHER NEWS

MIT Lincoln Labs will be on campus for recruiting on Nov 3, 1998. An Informational session is scheduled for 5pm in Rm. #2C of Norris Center. You can also stop by the Career Services Office located on campus or contact: hackett@ll.mit.edu [Tel: 781-981-7056] for more information. (This announcement will be repeated in the next newsletter).

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