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In a previous newsletter I had announced the cash gift of $100,000 per year for five years from Motorola Foundation to support various ECE department initiatives. One of the initiatives is the Motorola Sponsored Undergraduate Research Program to encourage more of our undergraduates to pursue independent research through the C99 (399) course credit with various advisors.
A committee consisting of Prof. Choudhary, Prof. Katsaggelos and Prof. Banerjee received a large number of proposals for the research program and reviewed all of them. We are pleased to inform you that the following proposals have been selected for funding as Motorola Sponsored Undergraduate Research Projects for the 1999-2000 academic year.
On Friday, June 2, we will invite the students and their advisors to attend a half day poster session at Motorola to present the results of their research.
Congratulations are in order for the students and faculty on being selected. The committee looks forward to seeing the results of this research.
-Prith Banerjee
Chairman
Parallel and Distributed Computing Seminar
DATE: Tuesday January 25
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Scheduling Heuristics for Clustered Superscalar Processors
SPEAKER: Amirali Baniasadi, ECE Northwestern
VLSI Design & CAD Seminar
DATE: Thursday, January 27
TIME: 4:00-5:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324 (ECE Conference Room)
TITLE: FPGA Implementation and Analysis of an Iterative Image
Restoration Algorithm
SPEAKER: Seda Ogrenci, ECE graduate Student
There are no exams scheduled this week.
I regret to announce that Professor Nate Newman has decided to
leave our faculty, effective March 15, 2000. He has accepted a faculty
position as a Professor of Material Science at Arizona State
University. Please join me in wishing him the best of luck in his new
career. We will certainly miss him in the department.
-Prith Banerjee
DELTA
Delta.ece.nwu.edu will be upgraded to a Sun Ultra 10 with 440MHz UltraSPARC IIi processor and 256MB of memory within the next two weeks. At the same time, its operating system will be upgraded to Solaris 2.7. Delta is currently a SPARCstation 10 with 64MB of memory and is running SunOS 4.1.4. The upgrade will be a major improvement, so will be immediately noticeable.
SecureCRT REMINDER
I would like to remind the students and staff that we have previously purchased 500 licenses of SecureCRT, a Windows implementation of SSH, the Secure Shell protocol. SSH is basically an encrypting telnet. It can, therefore, be used instead of S/Key for secure logins. It is superior to S/Key in that one's entire session is encrypted, instead of just one's password. It is also much friendlier than S/Key. It looks no different from telnet. Please see http://www.ece.nwu.edu/CSEL/scrt.html to obtain SecureCRT.
X-WIN32
Last year, the department acquired 25 licenses for X-Win32, an X Windows server implementation for Windows machines. This software is very popular, so the licenses were exhausted very quickly. The University has now acquired an unlimited number of licenses for the next three years. Anyone who wishes to use this sofware should send email to xwin32@ece.nwu.edu and request a license key. The software itself can be downloaded from the vendor's web site: http://www.starnet.com/download/
Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager
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