DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of November 20 - 24, 2000

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

Please see the item below on how the donated Microsoft software will be distributed in the coming weeks.

Next week is a short week. I want to take this opportunity to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the break.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Seminar
DATE: Monday, November 20, 2000
TIME: Coffee - 3:45 p.m., Seminar - 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech Room L324
TITLE: Fault Tolerant Authentication in Mobile Computing
SPEAKER: BHARAT BHARGAVA, Professor of Computer Science, Purdue University

EXAMINATIONS

Monday, November 20, 2000: M.S. Final Examination - 4:00 p.m.
Room G247
John R. Ireland
"Transport Measurements of the Half-Heusler Alloy Yni_i-xCu_xSb
Committee Members: C. Kannewurf (chairman), A. Sahakian, and T. Marks

Monday, November 20, 2000: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 11:00 a.m.
Room L324
Charles Schwartz
"On the Control of Switched Systems, with Application to the Bunch-Train Impedance Interaction"
Committee Members: A. Haddad (chairman), R. Freeman, A. Katsaggelos, and C. Lee

Tuesday, November 21, 2000: Ph.D. Final Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Seoijin Park
"Development of InGaAsP/InP/Single-Mode Lasers using Microring Resonators for Photonic Integrated Circuits"
Committee Members: S.-T. Ho (chairman), M. Plonus, P. Kumar, and A. Sahakian

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

Valerie Taylor was elected to be a member of the SC Steering Committee at the November SC Super Computing Conference.

TRAVEL

Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Paris, France and Namur Belgium, Nov. 17-26, and is giving two lectures: an invited lecture entitled "Interior Methods" at INRIA, Paris, and a lecture entitled "Very Large Optimization Problems" at the University Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur, Belgium.

Professor Manijeh Razeghi gave an Invited Talk, "Al(x)Ga(1-x)N for Solar Blind UV Detectors," at the International Specialist Meeting on Bulk Nitride Growth and Related Techniques, Parana, Brazil, November 12-16, 2000, organized by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).

CSRL NEWS

TIM JOHNSON MOVES ON

Tim Johnson, ECE's ace computing support staff member, has taken a support position with promotion elsewhere within the University. His last day with the department will be Wednesday the 22nd, just before the Thanksgiving holiday. We wish Tim the best in his new job.

Tim is the department's PC support person, so we will be without PC support until we can hire someone to replace him. In the meantime, the department is working on hiring a contractor to help with the installation of the Microsoft-donated PCs.

MS SOFTWARE ARRIVES

We have finally received the last component of the software Microsoft donated to the department. To review, we have available a copy of each of the following pieces of software for each student--graduate and undergraduate--in the department: Windows 2000 Pro, Visio 2000 Technical, Project 2000, Office 2000 Pro, and Visual Studio 6 Pro (with free upgrade to version 7 when it's released).

The software will be distributed Monday through Friday, two hours each day, for three weeks (beginning November 20th) at 10-11am and 2-3pm, in room L440. It will be distributed only at these times and only from this room. Please bring your ID or we cannot serve you. The software consists of 5 shrink-wrapped boxes whose aggregate weight and dimensions are about 7 pounds, measuring 8"W, 10"H, 11.5"D.

PHASER 360 QUEUE NAME CHANGE

The printer queue formerly named "phaser360" has been renamed. It is now "tek_slides". Another Tektronix Phaser 360 printer has been added and is named "tek_paper". Their names describe the type of media on which they print. These queues are for the 4th floor faculty, their students, and certain special cases.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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