DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of March 5 - 9, 2001

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

This month we have been very busy with faculty recruiting. Here is the latest schedule of faculty candidate visits and their hosts. Please mark your calendars. Thanks a lot to everyone for good attendance at the seminars.

Thursday Feb. 15
SUNG KYU LIM, Ph.D. UCLA, currently postdoc UCLA, area VLSI
HOST: Yehea Ismail

Friday Feb. 16
GERALD SCHULLER, Ph.D. Univ of Hannover, currently at Bell Labs, area signal and image processing
HOST: Thrasos Pappas

Tuesday Feb. 20
RENATO FIGUERIDO, Ph.D. Purdue, area computer architecture
HOST: Valerie Taylor

Wednesday Feb. 21
JAEJIN LEE, Ph.D. Univ. Illinois, currently at Michigan State, area computer architecture and compilers
HOST: Peter Scheuermann

Monday Feb. 26
HAI ZHOU, Ph.D. Univ. Texas, currently, Synopsys, area VLSI
HOST: Alok Choudhary

Tuesday Feb. 27
TEUNIS OTT, Ph.D. Univ. of Rochester, Currently, Telcordia, area networks
HOST: Mike Honig

Thursday March 1
QING ZHAO, Ph.D. Cornell, area networks/signal and image processing
HOST: Abe Haddad

Tuesday, March 6
VIJI SRINIVASAN, Ph.D. Michigan, area computer architetecture
HOST: Prith Banerjee

Wednesday March 7
WADE TORRES, Ph.D. MIT, area signal and image processing
HOST: Thrasos Pappas

Tuesday, March 13
MARC SNIR, Ph.D. Hebrew Univ., currently IBM T.J. Watson Center, area computer architecture
HOST: Prith Banerjee

Wednesday, March 14
YING WU, Ph.D. Univ. Illinois, image processing
HOST: Aggelos Katsaggelos

Thursday, March 15
MICHAEL VOSS, Ph.D. Purdue, Currently at Kuck and Associates, area computer architecture
HOST: Alok Choudhary

Thursday, March 29
EDMUND YEH, Ph.D. MIT, area networks
HOST: Randy Berry

In addition, there are five more nanotechnology candidates being interviewed for a joint appointment with the MSE and ECE departments.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

FACULTY CANDIDATE SEMINARS

DATE: Monday, March 5, 2001
TIME: 1:00 - 2:00
PLACE: Tech L251
TITLE: Energy and Charge Transport in Amorphous Organic Materials
SPEAKER: Marc Baldo, Princeton University

DATE: Tuesday, March 6, 2001
TIME: 11:00 - 12:30
PLACE: L324
TITLE: Hardware Solutions to Reduce Effective Memory Access Time
SPEAKER: Viji Srinivasan, Ph.D., University of Michigan

DATE: Wednesday, March 7, 2001
TIME: 11:00 - 12:30
PLACE: Room L324
TITLE: Generalized Frequency Modulation
SPEAKER: Wade P. Torres, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT

DATE: Thursday, March 8, 2001
TIME: 1:00 - 2:30
PLACE: Tech M345
TITLE: SCALPEL: Projection Electron-Beam Lithography
SPEAKER: Dr. Alexander Liddle, Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs

EXAMINATIONS

Monday, March 5, 2001: Ph.D. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Bin Chen "Sampling and Text Classification Techniques for Data Mining"
Committee Members: P. Scheuermann (chairman), A. Choudhary, and L. Henschen

Thursday, March 8, 2001: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 9:00 a.m.
Room L324
Amirali Baniasadi (RESCHEDULED)
"Performance and Power in Clustered Architectures"
Committee Members: A. Moshovos (chairman), P. Banerjee, A. Choudhary, and Y. Ismail

Friday, March 9, 2001: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Chi Zhou
"Pricing-Based Multi-Cell CDMA Resource Allocation for Wireless Voice and Data Services"
Committee Members: M. Honig (chairman), C. Lee, and R. Berry

TRAVEL

Aggelos Katsaggelos was in Washington, DC, February 22-23, 2001, to participate in the NSF Signal Processing Systems Review Panel.

Valerie E. Taylor traveled to San Francisco and San Diego, February 23-26, 2001, to participate in a meeting for the Grace Hopper 2002 Conference, for which she is the General Chair, and to run the CDC meeting at the NPACI All Hands Meeting.

CSRL NEWS

WEEKEND SERVER DISK CRASH

At about 2:00am this past Monday morning (February 26th), one of our main servers suffered a catastrophic system disk crash. We were able to replace the disk and bring the system on-line before the start of business that morning. If you experienced problems with the network during that time, that's why. There were some residual, little problems related to the automounter during the week, but they've all been resolved as well.

MONITORS AND SUN COMPUTERS GIVEAWAY

We have a lot of "pre-owned" (ok, used) but working Sun- and HP-branded monitors that we no longer have room to store. The Sun-branded monitors are all fixed frequency, while the HP monitors--which used to be in the Wilkinson lab--are multisync and are suitable for attaching to, say, a PC. The Sun monitors are usually bigger, however.

We will also begin giving away old Sun workstations--to go with those Sun monitors--that would make fine home server boxes on which can be run Solaris and Linux at least, but probably not X11. Among the Suns we'll give away are IPCs, IPXs, LXs, SPARCstation 1s, SPARCstation 2s and maybe a few SPARCstation 5s, 10s, and 20s.

All of this good stuff will be placed, a little at a time, in the alcove between the two Wilkinson lab doors. To start things off, there are some monitors out there right now.

Happy computing!

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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