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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

This week I am delighted to announce the ten Motorola Undergraduate Research proposals that will be funded in the Winter'04 and Spring'04 quarters. Each student will receive $1250 per quarter funded.

Sherry Ho, advisor Prof. Chi-haur Wu, "Non-Contact Photo-Sensing Wired/Wireless Keyboard," Winter'04 and Spring '04.

Lisa Doris, advisor Prof. Manijeh Razeghi, "Distributed Feedback Quantum Cascade Lasers," Winter'04.

Derek Shiell, advisor Prof. Manijeh Razeghi, "Miniature GaN Based p-I-n Ultraviolet Photodetector for Portable Commercial Applications," Winter'04 and Spring'04.

Brian Wedel, advisor Prof. Robert Dick, "Power Smart Embedded Operating Systems," Winter'04 and Spring'04.

Steve Lieberman Edward Kim, advisor Prof. Gokhan Memik, "Investigating Performance-Energy Tradeoffs for Reliable Caches," Winter'04 and Spring'04.

Hugo Angelmar, advisor Prof. C. C. Lee, "Investigation of Active TCP Flows at Router Level to Improve QoS," Winter'04 and Spring'04.

Carey Tischler, advisor Prof. Ying Wu, "Action Recognition from Video," Winter'04 and Spring'04.

David Fang, advisor Prof. Alan Sahakian, "Accelerometer-based Body Position Sensing During Ambulatory ECG Monitoring," Winter'04 and Spring'04.

Rajib Kumar Nandi, advisor Prof. Larry Henschen, "Design and Implementation of a Home Network," Winter'04 and Spring'04.

Congratulations to these students and best wishes for some intriguing research. I also want to thank these faculty members for undertaking these projects without any matching grant this year.

Each student will be asked to present their research results in the first week of June at Motorola Headquarters in Schaumburg in front of the Motorola engineers.

Next week is exam week so I want to wish all our students good luck on their exams and a very happy and enjoyable holiday break.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

EXAMINATION

Thursday, December 11, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 3:00 p.m.
Room A230
Zhigang Chen
"Investigation of Novel Optical Scattering and Detection Properties of Micro-Scale Dielectric Particles"
Committee Members: A. Taflove (chairman), Vadim Backman, and M. Epstein

TRAVEL

Abe Haddad is traveling to Maui, December 7-15, to attend and present a paper at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Paper title: C. Schwartz and A. H. Haddad, "Control of Jump Linear Systems having Semi-Markov Sojourn Times." He will also attend the Board of Directors meeting of the AACC and other related meetings, as well as a meeting of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Editorial Board.

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