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CHAIRMAN'S COLUMN

In this newsletter, I am delighted to announce the recipients of the 2004-2005 year Motorola Sponsored Undergraduate Research Program. The aim of this grant is to allow our undergraduates to do research with faculty and senior graduate students so that they get to know what research is all about. The stipend this year is $1,200 per quarter for each student for Winter and Spring Quarters.

Daniel Morris
Advisor: Professor Robert Dick
Building reliable digital systems from unreliable nano-electronics: Examining the system level design tradeoffs

Jordan Kuhn
Advisor: Professor Yehea Ismail
Simplified Models for Power Distribution Networks

Andrew Collins
Advisors: Professors Gokhan Memik and Alok Choudhary
Modeling Data Mining Applications

Ryan Bunn
Advisor: Professor Gokhan Memik
Ultra-Low Power Wireless Communication Devices

Tom Nelson
Advisor: Professor Manijeh Razeghi
AIInGaN Based Deep Ultraviolet Optoelectronics

Derrick Elsner
Advisor: Professor Ying Wu
Total Immersive PowerPoint Presentations

Ed Huang
Advisor: Professor Thrasyvoulos Pappas
Image and Video Digital Halftoning Techniques

Elaine Jen
Advisor: Professor Seda Ogrenci Memik
Design of Secure Wireless Monitoring Systems

I wish to congratulate all the undergraduate students who were selected for these awards. I am looking forward to seeing the results of this research at the end of the academic year, when the results will be presented in a poster session at Motorola in June.

On Friday this week (Oct. 29, 2004) we expect a visit by William Tetzlaff of IBM. He is also a member of the ECE Advisory Board. He will be making presentations of interest to our faculty and graduate students. Please watch for the relevant announcements. We look forward to his visit.

-Abe Haddad
Interim Chairman

SEMINARS

COMPUTER ENGINEERING LECTURE SERIES
Speaker: LIN ZHONG
Title: Pervasive Interfacing: a Personal-Area Network of Wireless Interfacing Devices
Date: Thursday, 28 October 2004
Time: 11:00 AM
Location: L324 Tech (ECE Conference Room)
Host: Prof. Robert Dick

TRAVEL

Professor Dongning Guo is traveling to San Antonio, TX, for the 2004 Information Theory Workshop, Oct. 24-29. He is presenting a paper entitled, "Mutual Information and Conditional Mean Estimation in Poisson Channels."

Professor Bruce Wessels will travel to Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN, October 30-31, for the 51st Midwest Solid State Conference. He is presenting a paper entitled, "Ferromagnetic semiconductors for spintronics."

RESEARCH GRANTS

Prof. Alok Choudhary and Wei-Keng Liao have received a grant from Department of Energy for "Enabling Technology for Scientific Data Management " for $384,000.

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