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In this newsletter, I would like to mention some efforts on behalf of our ECE department to acquire some equipment from Hewlett Packard. Prof. Alan Sahakian, Director of Instructional Labs, along with Dr. Mort Rahimi and Gary Greenburg from Academic Technologies, has put together a proposal to Hewlett-Packard to acquire 8 sets of HP VEE based lab equipment consisting of digital oscilloscopes, waveform generators, power supplies, etc. for the undergraduate circuits labs in the renovated ECE labs. The proposal has been integrated with a request for an HP workstation server and 15 Windows NT workstations to upgrade the McCormick UNIX Workstation Labs. It should be noted that HP had donated about 80 Windows-based PCs two years ago to support the Engineering First program. This will show Hewlett Packard Corporation's continuing support of the labs that follow the Engineering First program. Our sponsor from HP is Tom Anderson, a member of our ECE Advisory Board. If we are successful, we will plan to showcase this new equipment in the planned ECE Open House on Friday May 21, 1999.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SEMINAR
TITLE: Prediction and Scheduling for Shared Clusters of Workstations
DATE: Tuesday, Feb. 2
TIME/PLACE: 4-5PM, L324 (Tech)
SPEAKER: Prof. Jennifer Schopf,
Computer Science Department
Thursday, February 4: M.S. Final Examination - 3:30 p.m.
Room MLSB 4051
Jia-Jiun Wu
"LP-MOCVD Growth and Characterization of III-Nitrides"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairman), C. Kannewurf, N. Newman,
A. Sahakian
Prof. Seng-Tiong Ho traveled to Washington, D.C., Jan. 25-27 to present a technical talk at a DARPA Meeting on RF Photonics.
Prof. Aggelos Katsaggelos traveled to San Jose, CA, on Jan. 27 to participate in the SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference.
Prof. Katsaggelos is visiting the EE Dept. at Stanford University, Feb. 1-2, to give an invited talk entitled "Restoration and Compression of Images."
Prof. Prem Kumar is traveling to Albuquerque, NM, Feb. 5-8, to attend a workshop on "Fundamental Issues in Image Formation, Detection, and Processing," at the University of New Mexico, and present the paper "Spatially broadband parametric amplification: quantum-noise correlations and noiseless amplification of images."
Prof. Peter Scheuermann will be visiting with Hewlett Packard Research Labs in Palo Alto on Feb. 5, to discuss joint research and give a colloquium on "Issues in Data Mining for Web documents."
Prof. Valerie Taylor traveled to San Jose and San Diego, CA, Jan. 24-29, to attend a SPEC Workshop and present a paper entitled, "Performance Coupling: Case Studies for Measuring the Interactions of Kernels in Applications."
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