DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of May 24 - 28, 1999

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DESIGN COMPETITION

MAY 22, 1999 -- 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. -- Garrett Lawn

For eight consecutive years, Northwestern undergraduates have designed and constructed autonomous robot gladiators. Once a year in May these robots gather on a competition course designed by the Design Competition Executive Board in a feat of speed, strategy, and innovation. This year's competition promises to be the largest and one of the most exciting events held annually here at McCormick. The Executive Board is very excited about DC '99 and extends this invitation to you in the hopes that you will join us for a day of excitement. Come as you are -- everything will be provided -- free food, good music and most importantly, the creative, imaginative agents that have been designed and built by talented students. For more up-to-date information, please consult the website at www.tech.nwu.edu/dc. Hope to see you there!

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Monday, May 24
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: "Part-Mating Strategies using a Generic Assembly and Disassembly Workcell Model"
SPEAKER: Swee Mok, Northwestern University

OPTIMIZATION & DISTRIBUTED ENVIRONMENTS SEMINAR
DATE: Wednesday, May 26
TIME: 10:30-11:30 a.m.
PLACE: M228 (IEMS conference room)
TITLE: "Optimization Applied to Weather Forecasting"
SPEAKER: Richard Waltz, ECE department, NU.

VLSI CAD/ADAPTIVE COMPUTING SEMINAR
DATE: Wednesday, May 26
TIME: 4-5 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: An Introduction to the SimpleScalar Simulator
SPEAKER: Alex Ye, ECE graduate student (Advisor: Prof. Banerjee)

SPECIAL SEMINAR
DATE: Friday, May 28
TIME: 1:30-2:30 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: "Excellence in Teaching -- My Approach"
SPEAKER: Alan Sahakian and Scott Hauck, ECE department, NU

EXAMINATIONS

There are no exams scheduled this week.

TRAVEL

Prof. Michael Honig is traveling to Aptos, CA, May 23-27, to attend a Communication Theory Workshop.

Prof. Prem Kumar is traveling to Naples, Italy, May 22-28, to attend the 6th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations, present an invited paper entitled, "Quantum optics with short pulses: some recent experimental and theoretical developments," and to participate in the meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the conference.

OTHER NEWS

Congratulations are in order to my student Paul Voss who has been awarded a NASA Fellowship (3 years with yearly renewal) through the Graduate Student Research Program (High Detection Efficiency Photon Counters at 1064nm and Their Use in a Novel Quantum Imaging Scheme).

-Prem Kumar

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