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After a very busy Winter quarter, I am sure all of us are looking forward to the Spring Break. Things are going to be fairly quiet in the department next week. I want to wish everyone a great Spring Break and a wonderful Spring quarter starting March 27.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Monday, March 20, 2000
TIME: 11:00-12:30
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Fairness and Congestion Control in Multirate Multicast Networks"
SPEAKER: Saswati Sarkar, University of Maryland
Continuing Education Seminar
Sponsored by the Master of Information Technology and Master
of Engineering Management Programs
DATE: Friday, March 24, 2000
TIME: 8:30 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.
ROOM: Tech L361
TITLE: "Security Issues in Information Technology"
DEADLINE FOR RESERVATION: March 21
MORE DETAILS: http://www.ece.nwu.edu/newsweek/securitysem.html
Monday, March 20: M.S. Final Examination
Venkatesh Karnam
"Option C"
Committee Members: L. Henschen (chairman), S. Hauck, and P. Banerjee
Wednesday, March 22: Ph.D. Oral Qualifying Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room MLSB 2058
Hooman Mohseni
"Type-II Superlattices for Infrared Detectors"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), C. Kannewurf, J. Diaz,
and A. Taflove
Friday, March 24: Ph.D. Final Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room MLSB 2058
Jaejin Lee
"Exploration of Bi and Tl Containing III-V Materials for Uncooled
Long-Wavelength Infrared Photodetector Applications"
Committee Members: M. Razeghi (chairperson), V. Dravid J. Diaz,
and A. Taflove
Prof. Mike Honig traveled to Princeton, NJ, March 12-18, to visit AT&T Research and present a talk entitled, "Reduced-Rank Interference Suppression." He also attended a Conference on Information Sciences and Systems and a Symposium on Interference rejection and Signal Separation.
SUN PROMOS
Sun has expanded its line of promotional items and extended the sale through June 30th. Still available are: $1300 for an entry-level Ultra 5 with 128MB of memory, 8.4GB disk, 17" monitor; $3000 for an Ultra 10 with 440MHz processor, 128MB of memory, 9GB disk, 19" monitor; $18,000 for an Ultra 80 with dual 450MHz UltraSPARC II processors, 1GB of memory, 18.2GB UltraSCSI disk.
Newly available are discounts on workgroup servers, memory, disk arrays, and workgroup + Sun Ray 1 bundles. Please contact root for any questions regarding the promotions.
-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .