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11/3/2009 - McCormick CS Student Joins Anita Borg Institute Board of Trustees. Eugenia Gabrielova is a senior who has worked on Distributed Systems research in the Aqualab at Northwestern. “It’s a great honor to be one of the first students to join the ABI Board of Trustees,” said Ms. Gabrielova. “The Anita Borg Institute offers programs that have a positive impact on students future careers. Attending the Grace Hopper Celebration this year provided me with a combination of networking, career guidance and exposure to new technologies that I cannot find anyplace else.” Ms. Gabrielova, another student, Shanna-Shaye Forbes from UC Berkeley, and Mark Bregman, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Symantec join the current Board of Trustees made up of senior executives from leading technology companies and academics who are focused on the recruitment, retention and advancement of technical women.

10/19/2009 - The New York Times - The Robots Are Coming! Oh. They're Here.. ...some kids at the Intelligent Information Laboratory at Northwestern University are suggesting that an average game day story can be bolted together without human intervention.

10/7/2009 - The New York Times - Prizes Aside, the P-NP Puzzler Has Consequences. By John Markoff. The September cover article in the Communications of the Association of Computing Machinery touched off a distinct buzz last month when more than 10 times the usual number of readers downloaded the article in the first two days it went online. The author of the article, Lance Fortnow, a computer scientist at Northwestern University McCormick School of Engineering, initially told [Moshe Y. Vardi, the editor in chief of the journal] that the article would be a short one. ”Still open,” he writes, was in first reaction to writing about the state of the work on solving the problem. Link to the article in nytimes.com.

10/2/2009 - Daily Northwestern -- iLab to bring virtual labs to high schools. A group of researchers at Northwestern are set on giving high school science a modern makeover: they're moving the science lab online. The project, called iLab Network, is using the Internet to give high school students remote access to the science labs of universities around the world, all with just a few clicks of a button. Kemi Jona, principal investigator for the iLab project, said he hoped the project would remove the economic barriers that high schools face in teaching science. Jona is an associate professor and the director of NU's Office of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education Partnerships.

10/2/2009 - Live Science: Technology -- Online Labs Aim to Revolutionize High School Science. Fifty years ago, a typical high school science fair featured several exploding volcanoes. Today, one would expect a science fair to look far more advanced. The sad truth, however, is that standard high school science has changed very little. "There is a growing gap between the practice of science the way researchers at Northwestern and other institutions are conducting it and what science looks like in high school," said Kemi Jona, research associate professor and director of the Office of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Education Partnerships (OSEP) at Northwestern University. "And that gap keeps getting bigger and bigger."

9/29/2009 - Razeghi featured in Society of Women Engineers Magazine. Manijeh Razeghi appears in the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Magazine Fall 2009 issue. The article title is "University Labs: Where Women Excel" and appears on p. 48-53 of the SWE Magazine. Read the article: www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/fall09/#/50

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Activities & Accolades

Internet Measurement Conference 2009. Fabian Bustamante, Yan Chen, and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic will host the Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) 2009 in Chicago next week, November 4- 6. IMC is the leading conference on Internet measurements.

Katsaggelos Gives Plenary Talk at LACNEM 2009. Aggelos K. Katsaggelos gave a plenary talk on "Compressive Sensing" at LACNEM 2009.

Katsaggelos General Co-Chair of ICCCN and LACNEM 2009. Aggelos K. Katsaggelos was the General Co-Chair of International Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009) and the Latin-American Conference on Networked and Electronic Media (LACNEM 2009)

Katsaggelos was Technical Program Co-Chair for WIAMIS and PCS. Aggelos K. Katsaggelos was the Technical Program Co-Chair for the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS) and the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) in 2009.

Hardavellas is co-author of paper selected for the IEEE Micro special issue. A paper co-authored by Nikos Hardavellas, Assistant Professor of EECS, was selected for the IEEE Micro special issue "Top Picks from Computer Architecture Conferences". Each year, IEEE Micro selects the most significant research papers in computer architecture based on novelty and long-term impact, and publishes revised versions of them in its January/February special issue.

Chen invited to Toronto. Yan Chen gave an invited talk entitled "NetShield: Matching with a Large Vulnerability Signature Ruleset for High Performance Network Defense" at the University of Toronto Networking Seminar in October 2009.

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