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I would like to inform everyone of our teaching plans for next year. During the past month, the various curriculum committees have carefully developed a schedule of courses for our undergraduate and graduate students in the department for 1999-2000. The schedule of courses for Fall 1999, Winter 2000, and Spring 2000 are all available on the ECE Web site. Students should look at the online version to plan their courses for next year.
Next year we are planning some changes in the EE and CE undergraduate curriculum. Hence, we are offering pilot versions of some courses during the 1999-2000 academic year. There is a detailed note explaining these changes and courses on the Web site. Please look at it. We hope that these courses will meet our goal of developing an exciting undergraduate curriculum.
Also, we are offering several C97 and E10 special topics and seminar courses next year for graduate students. We intend for these courses to satisfy our goal of developing an exciting graduate curriculum.
Each of the above-mentioned pilot courses and special topics courses will be converted into regular ECE courses later this year.
I should warn students that because we are limited in our staffing abilities, we will not be able to offer certain courses multiple times per year as we have done in the past. Example courses from next year that will only be offered once a year include ECE C03, C06, C08, C53, C60, and C81; this is due to low enrollment in the off-quarter offerings. Often times we had to cancel courses at the last minute after the quarter had started due to low enrollent. Such last-minute changes create even more difficult problems for course planning for students.
As an aside, we have offered other courses an increasing number of times (for example, ECE B30 increased from 2 to 3 offerings, and ECE C61 increased from 1 to 2 offerings) when we have seen an increase in enrollment.
We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience caused. We are putting the entire next year's schedule (1999-2000) on the Web at this early stage so that all students may prepare for these course offering changes in consultation with their advisors starting this Spring quarter 1999.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Tuesday, Feb. 23
TIME: 4-5 pm
PLACE: L324
TITLE: TBA
SPEAKER: Jonathan Geisler, ECE Graduate Student (Advisor: V. Taylor)
DATA AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING SEMINAR
DATE: Wednesday, Feb 24
TIME: 4-5pm
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: Resolving Subtle Semantic Heterogeneity using Interactive
Mediation
SPEAKER: Chris Fernandes, ECE Graduate Student (Advisor: L. Henschen)
VLSI CAD/ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Thursday, Feb 25
TIME: 4-5PM
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Design and Implementation of C+MPI Libraries for DSP Processors on
the MATCH Testbed
SPEAKER: Anshuman Nayak, ECE graduate student (Advisor: Prof. Banerjee)
Monday, February 22: M.S. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Gregory Agami
"The Impact of Superior RF Filtering on Competitor-Induced
Interference"
Committee Members: C. Lee (chairman), M. Honig, and S. Jordan
Wednesday, February 24: Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room L324
Sachin S. More
"High Performance I/O for Parallel Object-Relational Databases"
Committee Members: A. Choudhary (chairman), P. Banerjee, L. Henschen,
and V. Taylor
Thursday, February 25: M.S. Final Examination - 9:00 a.m
Room L324
Jonathan Geisler
"Performance Coupling: A Methodology for Analyzing Application
Performance Using Kernel Performance"
Committee Members: V. Taylor (chairman), P. Banerjee, J. Nocedal,
I. Foster
Prof. Valerie Taylor has received a subcontract from the PACI program with NCSA to work with the Enabling Technologies for Distributed Systems Team. She will focus on analyzing the performance of an adaptive application and investigate dynamic mesh partitioning methods for distributed systems. The total grant amount is $50,000.00 for FY99.
Prof. Scott Hauck is traveling to Monterey, CA, Feb. 21-23, to attend the ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA'99) and give a paper entitled, "FPGAs in the Era of System-on-a-Chip."
Prof. Scott Jordan is traveling to Washington, D.C., Feb. 20-25, to participate in an NSF Networking Principal Investigators' Workshop.
Prof. Prem Kumar is traveling to San Diego and San Francisco, Feb. 20-27, to attend the 1999 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and give a seminar at the Gintzon Laboratory at Stanford University.
Prof. Valerie Taylor is traveling to Baltimore, MD, Feb. 21-23, to attend the Third Petaflop Workshop and present a paper entitled, "The HPAM Point Design: Identifying the Critical Research Issues for Petaflop Machines."
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .