DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of March 4 - 8, 2002

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

The procession of seminar speakers continues this week, where we have a faculty candidate in VLSI from Princeton University visiting us on Tuesday, March 5. On Thursday we shall have the first of our distinguished lecture series in computer architecture jointly sponsored by the CS and ECE departments and the Dean. The speaker is James Smith from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Please note that his lecture is at 11:00 on March 7. Details on both seminars are to be found below.

It is time to start planning for the final exams and the Spring quarter as there are only two weeks of Winter quarter classes left.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

Faculty Candidate Seminar
DATE: Tuesday, March 5, 2002
TIME: 4:00 p.m.
PLACE: L324
Title: TBA, VLSI Design and CAD area
SPEAKER: Robert Dick, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University

Center for Quantum Devices (CQD) SEMINAR
DATE: Thursday, March 7, 2002
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
PLACE: MLSB/Cook Hall Room 2058
TITLE: "Quantum Computing Using Photonic Band Gap Cavities in NV-Diamond"
SPEAKER: Dr. Selim Shahriar, ECE Department, Northwestern University

Joint CS/ECE Distinguished Lecture Series in Systems and Architecture
DATE: Thursday, March 7, 2002
TIME: 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: Tech L361; Reception follows in Tech L324
TITLE: "Instruction Level Distributed Processing"
SPEAKER: James E. Smith, Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison

EXAMINATIONS

There are no examinations scheduled this week.

CSRL NEWS

SOFTWARE UPDATES

Various GNU software for both the SPARC and Intel versions of Solaris have been upgraded to current revisions. A list of the upgraded packages will soon be made available on the web as a link from our FAQs page. This list will then be maintained indefinitely. Of special interest are:

	gcc -- version 3.0.4 is installed in /meas/beta/bin.
	       After 3 months of testing, this release will supplant
	       the currently-installed version (2.8.1), so please
	       begin using it for your development work and send root
	       your feedback.
	
	ddd -- a graphical debugger
-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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