DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of January 7 - 11, 2002

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

It is with pleasure that I welcome our faculty, staff, and students to the beginning of Winter Quarter 2002. Happy New Year to all. We hope you enjoyed the break and the holidays, and that you are coming back refreshed to start working five days a week again.

In a separate email, our seniors and faculty are notified of the Ford Fund for Capstone coursework proposals that are due on January 18, 2002. The announcement came from Dean Carr.

Enjoy the Winter quarter!

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

EXAMINATIONS FROM DECEMBER 2001

Monday, December 17, 2001: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Maxim Raginsky
"Dynamical Aspects of Information Storage in Quantum-Mechanical Systems"
Committee Members: H. Yuen (chairman), P. Kumar, S. Shahriar, and G. M. D'Ariano

Thursday, December 20, 2001: M.S. Final Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room L324
Marisa Ruffolo
"Comparison and Analysis of QoS Mechanisms"
Committee Members: C. C. Lee (chairman), A. Haddad, and R. Berry

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

Professor Chi-haur Wu has been informed that he has received another patent issued by the US Patent Office for work he did with D.T. Lee at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. US Patent No. 6,324,464 B1: "An Intelligent System for Regulating the Speed of an Electric Motorcycle," issued on November 27, 2001.

TRAVEL

Professor Prem Kumar traveled to Dallas, TX, November 26-29, 2001, and attended DARPA's QuIST Program Kickoff Meeting and the ARO MURI Annual Review.

Professor Kumar is traveling to Salt Lake City, Utah, January 5-7, to present an invited paper entitled, "Fiber-Optic Quantum Communications," at the 32nd Winter Colloquium on The Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE).

Professor Jorge Nocedal is traveling to Boulder Colorado, January 3-6, to visit the Computer Science Dept. at the University of Colorado, for continued research collaboration.

CSRL NEWS

OLD HARDWARE GIVEAWAY

As in the past, the Computing Facilities Staff has some old hardware--monitors and laser printers--that it no longer has room to store, and we are now giving this stuff away. Find this equipment in the alcove between the two Wilkinson lab doors. There are currently 6 large monitors (some multisync but mostly fixed-frequency) and 2 HP Laserjet IIs in the alcove. Unfortunately, we don't know the status of some of the items, but we assume it all mostly works.

Happy computing.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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