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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

I wish all the students the best of luck in their exams, this being Final Exam week. Students will be busy preparing for the exams, and faculty busy grading them.

We will all be able to relax next week owing to Spring Break. Next week there will be no ECE Newsletter because of the Spring Break.

-Prith Banerjee
Chairman

SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT

Center for Photonic Communication and Computing Seminar
DATE: Friday, March 21
TIME: 1:00 p.m.
PLACE: Tech A230
TITLE: "InAs/InP Quantum Dash Lasers and Optical Amplifiers Operating at 1550 nm"
SPEAKER: Alberto Bilenca, Electrical Engineering Department, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

EXAMINATIONS

Friday, March 21, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 10:00 a.m.
Room M416
Tianyi Jiang
"Power Aware High-level Synthesis Techniques for FPGAs"
Committee Members: P. Banerjee (chairman), R. Dick, and H. Zhou

Friday, March 21, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 10:30 a.m.
Room L324
Steve C. Chiu
"Processor-Embedded Smart Storage for I/O-Intensive Workloads"
Committee Members: A. Choudhary (chairman), P. Scheuermann, and W.-K. Liao

Friday, March 21, 2003: Ph.D. Qualifying Examination - 2:00 p.m.
Room L324
Xiaoyong Tang,
"High-Level Synthesis Algorithms for Low Power Design"
Committee Members: P. Banerjee (chairman), R. Dick, and H. Zhou

TRAVEL

Professor Prith Banerjee will travel to San Jose, CA, March 18-19, to meet with various companies.

Professor Abe Haddad is traveling to Turtle Bay, Oahu, Hawaii, March 14-17, to represent Prith Banerjee at the ECEDHA (ECE Department Heads Association) annual meeting at the Turtle Bay Resort.

Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos traveled to Granada, Spain, February 20-23, to give an invited plenary talk entitled "Efficient Video Communication over Lossy Channels," at the Workshop on the Computational and Information Infrastructure in the Astronomical DataGrid.

Professor Bruce Wessels is traveling to NSF in Arlington, VA, March 17-18, to participate in a proposal review panel.

CFS NEWS

S/KEY SERVICES SHUTDOWN REMINDER

A reminder that on May 1st, 2003, all S/Key-regulated services, including telnet, rlogin, rsh, and ftp, will be disabled. Anyone still depending on s/key should immediately begin using SSH for logins and SFTP for file transfers. If help is needed, please contact as soon as is convenient. Find below, links to SSH software for various OS platforms:

Despite signs posted on the walls, rules posted on the hallway tackboard, and individual verbal warnings, there is constant abuse of the no-food, no-drink policy in the Wilkinson lab. After some weekends, the CFS has found whole pizza boxes, jugs of fruit juice, soda bottles, and all kinds of food wrappers in the lab--often left on the workstation tables, instead of in the trash--as if there had been a party in the lab. On a daily basis, one can walk into the lab at random times and find students with soda bottles or coffee cups on the tables next to them, while prohibitive signs in a large, red font hang on the wall above their heads.

Therefore, with direct authorization from both the ECE Department Chairman and Associate Chairman, ANY STUDENT FOUND WITH FOOD OR DRINK WILL IMMEDIATELY HAVE HIS OR HER LAB PRIVILEGES REVOKED FOR ONE WEEK. Please take this warning seriously and do not put the CFS in a position where it must enforce this policy.

-Pred Bundalo
Computing Facilities Manager

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