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This is the first newsletter of the Winter Quarter. I want to welcome everyone back to school after the winter holidays. We are all busy with the beginning of classes despite the extreme cold weather.
I wish to remind students of some class schedule changes for the Winter quarter. These were emailed to all students during December. We regret any inconvenience these last minute changes may have caused our students. We had to make some adjustments due to low enrollment in some classes during the advance enrollment period in November. The latest class schedule is posted on our departmental Web site.
I am pleased to inform you that the 1997-98 Annual Report has been printed. You may stop by the department office to get a copy of the printed report. My sincere thanks to Allen Taflove, Director of Publicity, for putting this document together by the end of December 1998 and to all the faculty for providing us all the information on time. The report has been mailed to more than 200 key faculty members in the top 25 electrical and computer engineering departments in the country, and also to the top 30 ECE companies. This report should greatly enhance the stature of our department externally.
The Annual Report is now online on our departmental web site, http://www.ece.nwu.edu. Our web page now has a new entry called REPORTS. Please click on that to see our 1997-98 Annual Report and our departmental Research Bulletin.
Have a wonderful Winter Quarter.
I wish everyone a very Happy New Year.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
VLSI CAD/ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Thursday, Jan 7
TIME: 4-5PM
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Sabre : A system level tool for cost minimization
SPEAKER: Ankur Srivastava, ECE graduate student (Advisor: Prof. Hauck)
There are no exams scheduled this week.
Professors Hauck, Banerjee, and Sarrafzadeh received a continuation grant for $672,197 from DARPA on the CHIMAERA project for the period Jan. 1, to Dec. 31, 1999.
Professor Abraham Haddad traveled to Tampa, Florida, December 14-18 to attend the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and meetings of the Transactions Editorial Board, the AACC Board of Directors, and related ACC meetings.
Professor Jorge Nocedal traveled to Mexico City, Dec 16-26, to continue research collaboration with J.L. Morales, ITAM.
High tech start-up Nanovation Technologies, Inc. announced on Dec. 17, 1998, that it has officially commenced the development and testing of a fully integrated optical circuit that is up to 1,000 times smaller than today's electron-based semi-conductor chips and has the potential to boost both the speed and information capacity of today's existing chip technology by a factor of 100 to 1,000. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Nanovation Technologies, Inc. is working toward the commercialization of patented photonic technology developed initially at Cornell University and later refined at Northwestern University by Dr. Seng-Tiong Ho, an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and his research team.
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .