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ECE held its first faculty meeting of the academic year last week, and I am pleased to report on two important actions.
Professors Banerjee and Choudhary have been serving on a joint Committee with the CS department to work on cooperative activities. The first such activity agreed to by the Committee was approved by the ECE faculty and involves the cross-listing of three CS courses: Operating Systems (CS/ECE 343), Compiler Construction (CS/ECE 322), and Database Systems (CS/ECE 339).
The faculty also approved the appointment of Dr. Chris Jelen (who resigned as a faculty member last year to join Northrop Grumman) as an adjunct faculty member for a three-year term.
Finally, congratulations to our graduate student Jay Sharping, who is one of the three grand prize winners of the Optical Society of America New Focus Student Awards. Jay received a $10,000 prize.
-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman
Tuesday, October 23, 2001: M.S. Final Examination - 1:15 p.m.
Room L324
Ying Liu
"Using Word Net to Disambiguate Word Senses"
Committee Members: P. Scheuermann (chairman), A. Choudhary, and
L. Henschen
Tuesday, October 23, 2001: M.S. Final Examination - 2:30 p.m.
Room L324
Kohinoor Basu
"Design of Power-Aware Techniques for Data Transfer on Memory Bus"
Committee Members: A. Choudhary (chairman), P. Banerjee, and
H. Zhou
I am pleased to inform you that Jay Sharping is one of the
three winners of the New Focus Student Award, chosen from eight
finalists. Each winner received a $10,000 prize; they were awarded at
the Optical Society of America meeting held last week in Long Beach,
CA.
--Prem Kumar
Professor Prem Kumar traveled to Long Beach, CA, October 16-18, to attend the Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America. He presented two papers: M. Fiorentino, P. Voss, J. E. Sharping and P. Kumar, ``Fourth-order quantum interference at 1550 nm,'' and J. E. Sharping, M. Fiorentino, P. Kumar, and R. S. Windeler, ``Nonlinear fiber optics in microstructure fiber.''
Professor Manijeh Razeghi attended meetings at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, France , October 2-4, 2001. She attended the Nanotechnology Journal Editorial Board Meeting in London, England, October 5, 2001. She gave an invited seminar, "Type-I Material and Fabrication Issues," at the Army Research Office Quantum Cascade Workshop, Arlington, VA, October 9-10, 2001.
Peter Scheuermann traveled to Scottsdale, Arizona and chaired the NSF Workshop on Infrastructure for Wireless and Mobile Systems that took place on October 15, 2001.
Professor Valerie E. Taylor traveled to Houston, TX, October 18-21, as General Co-chair of the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Symposium (CDCS) 2001. Valerie gave the opening remarks as well as a Technical Presentation entitled, "What's Performance Got to Do With It?"
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