In the News    

5/6/2008 - Researchers use Akamai to find local BitTorrent peers. Fabián Bustamante's group is experimenting with ways of keeping the traffic local that don't require the cooperation of ISPs.

5/6/2008 - Bustamante and Choffnes' Ono discussed at Slashdot. New Software Allows ISPs and P2P Users to Get Along Without Getting Too Cozy

4/25/2008 - Nuit Blanche blog buzz: Compressed-sensing. Compressed-sensing community talks about research by Tumblin's group

2/21/2008 - Cassell: Virtual peers help children with autism. Psychologist and linguist Justine Cassell says that interaction with virtual peers releases hidden social skills in children with autism spectrum disorder.

2/11/2008 - Media Summary: Manijeh Razeghi. A Northwestern team, led by Manijeh Razeghi, Walter P. Murphy Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science has become the world’s first to demonstrate back-illuminated single photon detection from a III-nitride photodetector

2/11/2008 - Tumblin's work noted in American Scientist.org. Computational Photography -- New cameras don't just capture photons; they compute pictures. By Brian Hayes

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Activities & Accolades    

Katsaggelos is Distinguished Lecturer in Chicago, Istanbul, Santa Clara. Aggelos Katsaggelos presented lectures at University of Illinois Chicago, Bogazici University, and at National Semiconductor

Bustamante honored by Science Foundation of Ireland. Fabián E. Bustamante awarded the E.T.S. Walton Award by the Science Foundation of Ireland

Valtchanov, Borisov, Bereczky in top 100, ACM ICPC. ICPC 2008 World Finals -- Nikolay Valtchanov, Nikola Borisov, and Anda Bereczky and coach Peter Dinda received honorable mention in the World Finals of the ACM Int'l College Programming Contest World Finals in April 2008

Hadded elected IFAC Fellow. Abraham Haddad has been elected IFAC Fellow to be presented in Seoul, South Korea on July 10, 2008 during the IFAC World Congress.

Kumar receives Distinguished Lecturer Award. Prem Kumar receives Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) of the IEEE for 2008-09.

Wetzel wins NSF GRFP. Graduate Student Jon Wetzel among winners of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) for 2008. Jonathan's field of study is Comp/IS/Eng - Artificial Intelligence, including Robotics, Computer Vision and Human Language Processing.

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Events & Seminars

Graduate Research Seminar: Ramanathan Narayanan — May 14

TSB: Wendy Kellogg, IBM — May 15

Renu Tripathi, Palomar Observatory at Caltech — May 19

Graduate Research Seminar: Ao-Jan Su — May 22

Graduate Research Seminar: Jack Lange — May 28

Graduate Research Seminar: Alex Shye — June 4

Graduate Student Orientation — September 16

Welcome Reception for All Students — September 30

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Openings in eecs

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Faculty Opening: Programming Languages And Compilers At All Professorial Ranks