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This week is Ford Engineering Week at Northwestern and the McCormick School. The activities involved can be found at:
Also this week, the ECE Advisory Board meets on Friday, May 17, 2002.
It is going to be a very busy week with many activities. We look forward to your participation in many of the events.
-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman
CENTER FOR QUANTUM DEVICES (CQD) Seminar/Colloquium
DATE: Thursday, May 16, 2002
TIME: 8:30 am
PLACE: MLSB/Cook Hall Room 4051
TITLE: "Issues in Analog Optical Fiber Communications"
SPEAKER: Dr. Mary R. Phillips
Joint CS/ECE Distinguished Lecture Series in Systems and Architecture
Date: Thursday, May 16, 2002
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Place: Room: L211 Tech -- Reception follows in B211 Tech
Title: "Distributed Systems Go (Large Scale) Embedded"
Speaker: John A. Stankovic, BP America Professor and Chair of Computer
Science Department, University of Virginia
Tuesday, May 14, 2002: M.S. Final Examination - 2:30 p.m.
Room L324
Shayan M. Zaidi
"Mine Scan: Interactive Mining and Manipulation Application of
Computed Tomography Scanner Status Information Integrated with Medical
Imaging Systems for Clinical and Management Operations"
Committee Members: P. Scheuermann (chairman), L. Henschen, and
D. Channin
Tuesday, May 14, 2002: M.S. Final Examination - 4:00 p.m.
Room L324
Joseph A. Zambreno
"Enhancing Compiler Techniques for Memory Energy Optimizations"
Committee Members: A. Choudhary (chairman), P. Banerjee, and
R. Figueiredo
Wednesday, May 15, 2002: M.S. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room B211
Naveen Arulselvan
"Efficient Power Allocations in Wireless ARQ Protocols"
Committee Members: R. Berry (chairman), M. Honig, and A. Haddad
Wednesday, May 15, 2002: M.S. Final Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room L324
Remy Blaettler
"Context Aware Information System for Mobile Users"
Committee Members: P. Scheuermann (chairman), L. Henschen, and
A. Pashtan
Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos and his Ph.D. student Carlos Luna traveled to Pittsburgh, PA, April 24-27, to attend the Packet Video Symposium and to present a paper they co-authored. Also, Professor Katsaggelos attended the meeting of the Steering Committee of the PV Symposium.
Professor Valerie Taylor is traveling to Phoenix, AZ, May 16-17, to visit the conference site of SC 2003 (Super Computing), for which she is the Technical Program Co-Chair.
If you are graduating, discontinuing your studies at Northwestern, or just finishing up as a Teaching Assistant with a key to one of the labs, PLEASE return keys to me before you leave.
Thank you. --Carol Surma, Room L359
You can look at news from previous weeks in Old News .