DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of February 21 - 25, 2000

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I am pleased to inform you that we have finally published our ECE Annual Research Report for the 1998-99 academic year. The report lists research activities in the department. Some of the highlights of the report include:

  1. Total funding level of $9.4 million (increased from $8.6 million during 1997-98)

  2. Total research publications: 3 books, 10 book chapters, 160 journals papers, 140 conference papers (increased from 3 books, 14 book chapters, 100 journal papers and 136 conference papers during 1997-98)

  3. Graduated 16 Ph.D. and 29 M.S. students
The report was distributed to all ECE faculty members and graduate students last week. We have also mailed the report with a cover letter to more than 300 top researchers in various universities, research labs, and companies across the country. In addition, we distributed the report to all McCormick School faculty members and the University Administration. Next week we will put the entire report on the ECE Web page.

We weren't able to mail the report to undergraduate students. I encourage all undergraduates in the department to pick up a copy of the research report from the ECE office (L356) so that it can assist them better in identifying professors with whom they can do research.

I wish to congratulate all the faculty and students in our department for their excellent contributions in research during 1998-99. I wish to thank Prof. Peter Scheuermann, Director of Publicity, for putting the report together under tight deadlines, Kathie Cerveny, Jill Lavelle and Prof. Allen Taflove for helping Peter with various editing tasks, and Deneen Marie Bryce for doing all the massive mailings so efficiently last week to more than 500 people. This publicity should definitely help us with our departmental rankings next year.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Monday, February 21
TIME: 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Power and Delay Trade-Offs in Wireless Networks
SPEAKER: Randall A. Berry, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT

Parallel and Distributed Computing Seminar
DATE: Tuesday, February 22
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: An Overview of Power Reduction Techniques for Modern Processors
SPEAKER: Anshuman Nayak, ECE graduate student

Photonics Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, February 23
TIME: 10:00 - 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Optically Controlled Spin Dynamics: From Nanolithography to the Quantum Internet
SPEAKER: Dr. Selim M. Shahriar, Research Laboratory for Electronics, MIT

VLSI Design & CAD Seminar
Date: Thursday, February 24
Time: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Place: L324 (ECE Conference Room)
Title: Automatic Generation of FPGA Routing Architectures from High-Level Descriptions.
Speaker: Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, ECE graduate Student

EXAMINATIONS

Tuesday, February 22: Ph.D. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room MLSB 2058
Patrick Kung
"III-Nitride Semiconductor Films and Device Structures Grown By Low Pressure MOCVD"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), C. Jelen, J. Diaz, and A. Sahakian

Thursday, February 24: Ph.D. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Jay Feng
"Fractional Fractal Model for Image Processing"
Committee Members: L. Henschen (chairperson), A. Katsaggelos, T. Pappas, and P. Banerjee

TRAVEL

Professor Prem Kumar traveled to Berkeley, CA, February 11-13, to attend a DARPA sponsored workshop.

CSRL NEWS

HIGH-QUALITY PAPER

The Computing Facilities Staff office has acquired, with the benefit of economies of scale, high-quality paper for the Wilkinson lab printer. We solicit you, our constituency, to give us your comments on this change. We also ask that you continue to use good judgment when choosing the quantity and type of files to print so that we may continue to obtain such good paper in the future, and that printing remain free of charge to students. Based on our current printing trends, we have enough of this high-quality paper to last us at least a year.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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