DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of May 21 - 25, 2001

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

As you all know, Motorola Foundation donated $500,000 to us last year to take on various initiatives in the ECE department. One of the activities was to start a Motorola Sponsored Distinguished Lectureship series. Our first visitor was Prof. Joe Cruz from Ohio State University who gave our First Motorola Distinguished Lecture on "Game Theory of Engineering Systems" on April 25. Joe Cruz is a leader in the field of Controls and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. I am sure that those of you who attended his seminar found it to be extremely exciting.

On Tuesday, May 22, the department will host our Second Motorola Distinguished Lecture by Prof. Ken Kennedy. Prof. Kennedy is a Chaired Professor of Computer Science at Rice University, Director of the Center for High-Performance Software Research, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and has served as Co-Chair of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee. His seminar will be on "A Framework for Generating High-Performance Problem Solving Systems" at 4PM in the ECE Conference Room. All faculty and students are encouraged to attend the seminar.

We are delighted to have the opportunity to bring such highly visible researchers to Northwestern, and are thankful to Motorola for enabling us to do this.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Motorola Distinguished Lecture Series

DATE: Tuesday, May 22, 2001
TIME: 4:00 p.m. (Reception following)
PLACE: Tech L324
TITLE: "Telescoping Languages: A Framework for Generating High Performance Problem-Solving Systems"
SPEAKER: Ken Kennedy, Ann and John Doerr Professor and Director, Center for High Performance Software, Rice University

EXAMINATIONS

There are no examinations scheduled this week.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

Professor Manijeh Razeghi was recently named to the following:

TRAVEL

Professor Seng-Tiong Ho traveled to San Jose, CA, May 16, to make a optical technology presentation at Blue S Research.

CSRL NEWS

STAROFFICE TO BE UPGRADED

StarOffice, Sun's MS Office-like productivity suite (including word processor, spreadsheet, and other tools) will be upgraded this week from version 5.1 to version 5.2. I will in next week's newsletter provide instructions for what each user must do to begin using the new version, but basically, they will be the same as they were for the previous version, for those of you who are already familiar with the StarOffice suite.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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