DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of February 19 - 23, 2001

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

During the past week, the teaching schedule for the ECE department for the 2001-2002 year was approved by the McCormick School. The proposed schedule for Fall 2001, Winter 2002, and Spring 2002 appears on our department web page under "Courses." Students are requested to check that out while they advance register for the Spring 2001 courses in order to plan ahead.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Tuesday, February 20, 2001
TIME: 11:00 - 12:30
PLACE: Technological Institute - Room L324
TITLE: Heterogeneous, Hierarchical Distributed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors
SPEAKER: Renato Jansen Figueiredo, Ph.D. Candidate, Purdue University

Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, February 21, 2001
TIME: 11:00 - 12:30
PLACE: Technological Institute - Room L324
TITLE: Automatically Mapping Code on an Intelligent Memor Architecture
SPEAKER: Jaejin Lee, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University

TRAVEL

Professor Prith Banerjee is traveling to Ft.Lauderdale, FL, February 22-25, to receive the IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award at the IEEE Computer Society Board Meeting.

OTHER NEWS

I regret to inform everyone that Chris Jelen, Assistant Professor of ECE in the solid-state engineering area, has decided to leave Northwestern University effective June 15, 2001. He will be joining Northrop Grumman.

I wish to thank Chris for the service he has provided to the ECE department and the Center for Quantum Devices (working with Professor Manijeh Razeghi) in the past two years. I wish him the best of luck in his future career.
-Prith Banerjee

CSRL NEWS

PINE UPGRADE

The Solaris version (SPARC and Intel) of the popular email reader, pine, will be upgraded to the latest version on Tuesday. The new version has support for POP, mail personalities ("roles"), and fixes security problems in the current release.

ANONYMOUS FTP SERVER

On Tuesday, ECE's anonymous ftp service (ftp.ece.northwestern.edu) will be moved to a new server. The move will be transparent to ECE users and, once global DNS servers are updated, to everyone on the internet. We ask that you abstain from modifying files in the ftp area all day Tuesday as a precaution.

WILKINSON LAB CLEANLINESS

Although there has been marked improvement in the appearance of the lab, we are still finding lots of food products in the lab. One blatant example is that we found a Papa John's pizza box in the lab's recycling bin. We also see Coke cans and plastic, non- recyclable items in that bin. So while we've made progress, there are still a few people that refuse to be polite. I hope to reach such people with this plea.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

OLD NEWS

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