DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Week of May 27 - 31, 2002

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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

It seems that there is no week in which Professor Valerie Taylor is missing from this newsletter. She deserves congratulations on two major events: The Provost approved her promotion to the rank of Professor effective September 1, 2002. In addition, she has been appointed to the National Science Foundation CISE Advisory Committee by the NSF Assistant Director for CISE, Dr. Peter Freeman.

Our alumna, Dr. Susan Hagness, who received both her BS and PhD from ECE under the guidance of Prof. Allen Taflove, has been named by MIT as one of the top 100 technologists under the age of 35. She is currently an assistant professor in the ECE Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Best wishes for a pleasant Memorial Day holiday.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENTS

JOINT CS/ECE DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES IN SYSTEMS AND ARCHITECTURE
DATE: Thursday, May 30, 2002
TIME: 3:00 p.m.
PLACE: M345, Reception following in L324
TITLE: "The Virtualization of Modern Computing Resources"
SPEAKER: Professor Mendel Rosenblum, Computer Science Department, Stanford University

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES/AWARDS/HONORS

The following work was recently highlighted in the "Opto & Laser Europe" magazine, May 2002, page 13:

J. E. Sharping, M. Fiorentino, P. Kumar, and R. S. Windeler "A microstructure-fiber based optical parametric oscillator," to be presented at the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO'2002), Long Beach, California, May 19--24, 2002; paper CTuB2.
--Prem Kumar

TRAVEL

Professor Renato Figueiredo traveled to Gainesville, Florida, May 20-22, for research meetings to discuss NSF middleware initiative proposal at the University of Florida.

Professor Yehea Ismail is traveling to Phoenix, Arizona, May 26-30, to attend and present two papers in the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos traveled to Orlando, Florida, May 13-17, to attend the IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech,and Signal Processing (ICASSP). He was accompanied by Graduate student Andrew Segall. While there three papers he co-authored were presented. He also ran the meeting of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Board, and attended the IEEE SIgnal Processing Society's Publications Board meeting, the Industrial DSP Technology meeting, and the Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee meeting. During the Awards Ceremony, he was awarded the IEEE SP Society 2001 Meritorious Service Award and a 2001 best paper award for his paper "An Optimal Polygonal Boundary Encoding Scheme in the Rate-Distortion Sense," IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Jan. 1998, co-authored with his past PhD student Guido Schuster (now a University Professor in Switzerland), who also attended the conference.

Professor Manijeh Razeghi traveled to Daytona Beach, FL, May 21-22, for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), "Semiconductor UV Optical Sources (SUVOS)" Kickoff Meeting.

OTHER NEWS

Professor Donald Frey of the Industrial Engineering and Management Science Department gave a generous donation of $5,000 to the NU Solar Car Team.
-- C.-H. Wu

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