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EECS Weekly

Thursday, September 3, 2009

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Upcoming events:

FRI 9/18: The GEECS popular coffee, bagels, and sweets hour - At the usual time and place, and all are welcome. 10:00 a.m. in Ford 2.227

WED 9/23: Graduate Research Seminar - Stephen Tarzia will present "Sonar-based Measurement of User Presence and Attention" at 12:00 noon in Ford ITW

WED 9/30: EECS Welcome Reception . All are invited. Pizza and beverages. . 4:00 p.m., Ford ITW Auditorium.

WED 9/30: One last photo session! New and returning graduate students, faculty, staff are welcome to drop in for a quick digital photo. 3:00 - 4:00 in Ford 3.317 (in the hour prior to the EECS Welcome Reception to be held in Ford ITW)

Wednesday 10/7: Distinguished Speaker Series welcomes Prof. Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University. [link]

Student Job Opportunities:
New:
9/16 - NU Model UN needs webmaster
9/15 - Exxon Mobil Upstream Research hiring graduate students. On-campus 10/14-16.
9/15 - NAVTEQ seeks engineer (Chicago)
9/14 - Where2 LLC has PT Web Developer / Programmer opening
9/14 - Optiver looking for traders, software developers. Apply thru CareerCAT. On campus 9/23

Details and contact information

Alok Choudhary named John G. Searle Professor
August 24, 2009, Megan Fellman, NU NewsCenter
Alok Choudhary, professor and chair of the electrical engineering and computer science department and professor of technology industry management in the Kellogg School of Management, has been named a John G. Searle Professor.

His research interests include high-performance computing, data mining and its applications, computer architecture and the design of software systems. Choudhary has written more than 300 papers on these topics and has written 11 book chapters.

Choudhary is founding director of the Center for Ultra-scale Computing and Information Security that conducts highly innovative information technology research. Currently the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy and many companies support his work. Choudhary is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE). Read the full story.

Faculty Activities & Accolades

Aggelos Katsaggelos was the Technical Program Co-Chair for the Int'l Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), London and the Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Chicago in May 2009. In August, Prof. Katsaggelos served as general Co-Chair of Int'l Conf. on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009) in San Francisco, and the Latin-American Conference on Networked and Electronic Media (LACNEM 2009) in Bogota, Colombia.

Ian Horswill gave an invited talk at Microsoft Research called "Twig: a simple, AI-friendly, character world for believable agents" in September.

Aggelos Katsaggelos gave a plenary talk on "Compressive Sensing" at LACNEM 2009.

Prem Kumar has been reappointed to a two year term as AT&T Professor of Information Technology, through August 31, 2011. This recognizes Prof. KumarâEs continued success in photonic communications and computing.

Upcoming Exams

Ning Wen -- Ph.D. Defense
Date/Time/Location: Monday, September 28, 2009 / 3:00 p.m. / Ford 3.340
Title: "Linear Ad Hoc Networks:Â Information Propagation, Reliability and Delay"
Committee: Prof.Â Randall Berry,Â Â Committee chair (EECS), Prof. Michael Honig (EECS), Prof. Dongning Guo, (EECS)
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If you wish to attend, as a courtesy please contact the Committee Chair in advance.

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