http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/ Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Northwestern University webmaster@eecs.northwestern.edu Sun Jul 6 14:29:05 CDT 2008 PHP 4.3.9 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades/#258 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades#258 Yolanda Rankin, Ph.D. has accepted a Research Scientist position at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA. Yolanda will be working in the Services Research division to design and develop 3D virtual worlds to support globally distributed customers. Sun Jul 6 14:29:05 CDT 2008 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades/#255 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades#255 Nanostructured Sensors - Type-II superlattices could be the next solution for fast and uniform infrared imaging.<br> By Manijeh Razeghi<br><br> Infrared photon imaging between 3 and 14 m has important applications in security, defense, astronomy, and a number of other areas. Soldiers need infrared imaging to conduct surveillance in the dark. Astronomers and climatologists want imaging systems to learn more about our universe and world. Researchers at the Center for Quantum Devices at Northwestern University have overcome several challenges in integrating Type II superlattice materials into IR imaging systems. Their innovative work using nanotechnology to create these structures has resulted in fabrication of the first high-quality IR camera with a 10 m cutoff wavelength. <br><a href="http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/docs/SPIE_Professional_Magazine_July_2008.pdf">Read the full article</a>. [pdf] Sun Jul 6 14:29:05 CDT 2008 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades/#250 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades#250 Yan Chen was invited to give a distinguished lecture at Intelligent Automation, Inc. in June 2008. The title of his speech is "Anomaly/Intrusion Detection and Prevention in Challenging Network Environments". Intelligent Automation, Inc. (IAI) is one of the top IT incubator companies that provide technical R&D services and innovative applications and toolkits to federal agencies, first tier systems integrators and commercial clients. IAI has more than 10 million dollar annual grants from various federal agencies such as DARPA. It won the prestigious Tibbetts Award twice (in 2000 and 2007) from the Small Business Administration and the Small Business Technology Council for excellence in technology research and commercialization. Sun Jul 6 14:29:05 CDT 2008 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades/#249 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades#249 Abraham Haddad, Henry and Isabelle Dever Professor of EECS, is traveling to Seoul South Korea to attend the IFAC 17th World Congress (www.ifac2008.org) and attend meetings of the IFAC Council as the US representative and other related meetings. He will also receive the IFAC Fellow award during the Congress. Sun Jul 6 14:29:05 CDT 2008 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades/#244 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades#244 Hai Zhou has received a Technical Leadership Award from ACM SIGDA (Special Interest Group on Design Automation) on the Design Automation Conference held in Anaheim, June 8-13. Sun Jul 6 14:29:05 CDT 2008 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades/#240 http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades#240 Prem Kumar was an invited speaker at the Workshop on Quantum Cryptography: The Commercialization Future of Quantum Key Distribution and Physics Based Security held as part of the 5th Annual Meeting of the MIT Center for Integrated Photonic Systems, MIT, Cambridge, MA, May 14-15, 2008. Kumar represented Northwestern University and his company, NuCrypt LLC, with a talk entitled, "Physics-Based Cryptography Compatible with Fiber-Network Infrastructure." For details on the Workshop and other invited participants, see: http://www.rle.mit.edu/cips/annual08/QuantumCryptograph.html. Sun Jul 6 14:29:05 CDT 2008