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Our faculty recruiting program continues this week with visits by three candidates: Wei Yu. from Stanford University in the Networks area is visiting us on Monday, April 8; The other two visitors are in the solid-state area and both are from the US Air Force: Gail Brown is visiting us on Tuesday, April 9 and James Lott is visiting us on Thursday, April 11. Please make every attempt to attend the seminars. Faculty are urged to get their students to attend as well.
Congratulations are in order to the following:
Prof. Valerie Taylor is the 2002 winner of the Computing Research Association A. Nico Habermann Award which she will receive in Snowbird in July 2002.
Prof. Prith Banerjee has a nice write-up in the EE Times about his successful company, AccelChip. A summary is given below.
Our graduate student, Joseph A. Zambreno, has been awarded an NSF Fellowship.
Congratulations to all.
-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman
DATE: Monday, April 8
PLACE: L324
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Wei Yu, Stanford University
TITLE: "Competition and Cooperation in Multi-User Communication
Environments"
DATE: Tuesday, April 9
PLACE: L324
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: Gail Brown
TITLE: TBA
Special Seminar
DATE: Wednesday, April 10
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech A230
TITLE: "RoboSoccer: Robots at Play"
SPEAKER: Professor Ian T. Young, Dept. of Applied Physics, Delft
University of Technology, The Netherlands
DATE: Thursday, April 11
PLACE: B211
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
SPEAKER: James Lott
TITLE: TBA
Monday, April 18, 2002: M.S. Final Examination
Peng Liu
"Option C"
Committee Members: R. Chang (chairman), P. Scheuermann, and A. Haddad
Wednesday, April 10, 2002: Ph.D. Final Examination - 4:00 p.m.
Room L324
Maxim Raginsky
"Dynamical Aspects of Information Storage in Quantum-Mechanical
Systems"
Committee Members: H. Yuen (chairman), P. Kumar, and
S. Shahriar
Professor Renato Figueiredo is traveling to West Lafayette, IN, April 10-11, to attend a Mini-workshop: Network for Computational Nanotechnology, at Purdue University.
Professor Hai Zhou will travel to San Diego from April 6-10 for the International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) '02. He is a TPC member of the conference and will chair a session on "Floorplanning and post-layout optimization."
ACCELCHIP TOOL SYNTHESIZES MATLAB DESIGNS
By Stephan Ohr
EE Times,
April 2, 2002 (3:43 p.m. EST)
SAN FRANCISCO: AccelChip Inc., a startup, believes it has cracked a longstanding design problem with a new tool that creates synthesizable Verilog and VHDL code from Matlab and Simulink designs for use in Xilinx or Altera field-programmable gate arrays. While Matlab and Simulink are popular simulators, there has heretofore been no easy path between them and customizable silicon, the company said.
AccelChip (Schaumburg, Ill.) is a spin-off of Northwestern University, where the technology for the company's AccelFPGA synthesis tool was developed under a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa)....
http://www.eedesign.com/story/OEG20020402S0049
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