DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of January 28 - February 1, 2002

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

We have our first ECE faculty meeting of the quarter (and of the calendar year 2002) on Thursday, January 31, 2002, at noon, with lunch served at 1:00. Please make every attempt to attend. Dean John Birge is planning to attend this meeting.

Congratulations are in order to our EE senior, Ning Li, for receiving one of the Ford Motor Company's $2,000 awards for capstone course work. She is working with Professor Prem Kumar.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

TRAVEL

Professor Manijeh Razeghi gave an invited talk entitled, "Recent Advances and Future Trends in Mid-Infrared Semiconductor Lasers," and was a session chair, "Session D: Lasers for Network," at the Contemporary Photonics Technology (CPT) Symposium, Tokyo, Japan, January 15-17, 2002.

ERRATA: Please note corrected title for the 2nd Place paper for Alireza Yasan, which was listed last week.

"Very High Quality p-type AlxGa1-xN/GaN Superlattice," winner for "Best Student Paper Award" presented at the International Semiconductor Device Research Symposium (ISDRS) in Washington, DC, December 5-7, 2001.

CFS NEWS

UNIX TIPS

Seven years ago, when I started working here, NU IT had one of Steve Jobs' wonderful NeXT Cube computers, and on it they ran the Webster.app electronic dictionary application. There also existed client software so that ECE (and other departments) could do lookups from the Unix command line by simply typing 'webster WORD'. That was an indispensible utility. Eventually, the old Cube's hard disk failed and NU IT retired the machine, leaving us without our beloved webster. Well, lament no more! Thanks to the web and to the University's subscription to the Encyclopedia Britannica, there is an acceptable alternative solution. Add the following to your alias list and enjoy!

alias d 'lynx -nopause "http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=\!*"'

Then simply type 'd WORD' and your definition will appear, complete with hypertext links.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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