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| Friday, July 3, 2009
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| | | UPCOMING EVENTS | Top |
Tuesday September 8, 2009
Details to come!
Int'l Office | The International Office will host an orientation for international graduate students. Check their website for details (to be posted at a later date): Int'l Office Web Site
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June 19, 2009 | Come join us celebrate with our graduates! Refreshments will be served.
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June 12, 2009 | Philip Wadler, Professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the University of Edinburgh
"Well-typed programs can’t be blamed"
Free lunch is provided.
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June 10, 2009 | Forget about your end-of-quarter stress for just a bit, and come socialize/drink with your fellow colleagues at the GEECS Happy Hour!
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June 5, 2009 | Awards will be presented to faculty and students. Please join us for Fun, Festivities and Food!
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June 4, 2009 | John Otto
"Down the Block and Around the Corner: The Impact of Radio Propagation on Inter-vehicle Wireless Communication"
To appear in ICDCS, June 2009.
This talk will not take place today; it has abeen postponed to a date yet to be determined.
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June 3, 2009 | Vipin Kumar, William Norris Professor and Head
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
"Discovery of Patterns in Global Earth Science Data using Data Mining"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
May 29, 2009 | The Optimization Center presents two brief presentations:
Stefan Wild (Argonne): "Optimization without derivatives"
Victor Zavala (Argonne): "Exploiting Weather Forecast Information
in Smart Grid Operations"
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May 29, 2009 | Stop by this Friday anytime after 10 a.m. for free schmear,
socialization, and completely legal, performance-enhancing hot drink.
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May 28, 2009 | The NU IEEE Student Branch invites you to join us on Thursday for our
annual IEEE/EECS picnic.
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May 27, 2009 | Jorge Nocedal, Professor, EECS Department, Director of the Computational Science Institute,
"Nonlinear Optimization Applications in Image Processing, Machine Learning and Energy Modeling"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
May 27, 2009 | Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems presents Wednesdays @ NICO featuring
Dongning Guo, EECS Department, McCormick School of Engineering, "Compressed Sensing and Its Application in Large Wireless Networks"
NICO Coffee Hour will follow for questions, networking, and collaboration.
http://www.northwestern.edu/nico/
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May 27, 2009 | Prof. Claudio Chamon, Department of Physics, Boston University
"Fractional charges in graphene"
See the flyer.
Sponsored by the Solid State and Photonics Division.
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May 21, 2009 | Judy Olson,
"Distance collaboration: What makes it successful?"
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May 21, 2009 | The Graduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (GEECS)
Society invites you to attend our Mix 'n Mingle Social Hour!
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| [EECS General] |
May 20, 2009 | Joan Feigenbaum, Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science, Yale University
"Privacy in Algorithmic Mechanism Design"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
May 14, 2009 | Larry J. Greenstein, Rutgers University-WINLAB
"Channel-Based Spoofing Detection in Wireless Networks"
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| [EECS General] |
May 14, 2009 | Bill Tetzlaff, PhD, former President of the IBM Academy of Technology, Emeritus Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Research Division, and a member of the external EECS Advisory Board at Northwestern University
"The n Things I Wish I Knew Before the PhD Job Search"
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May 14, 2009 | Bill Tetzlaff, PhD, former President of the IBM Academy of Technology, Emeritus Distinguished Engineer in the IBM Research Division, and a member of the external EECS Advisory Board at Northwestern University
"The n Things I Wish I Knew Before Grad School"
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May 13, 2009 | Alan Sahakian, Professor, EECS Department (joint with Biomedical Engineering),
"Fixing a Broken Heart: Mechanisms and Treatment of the Atrial Cardiac Arrhythmias"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
May 13, 2009 | Female Researchers in EECS (FREECS) is hosting a panel on "The Truth about Publishing" featuring Prof. Nicole Immorlica, Prof. Joan Chiao, Kate Lockwood, and Lauren Scissors.
Dinner will be served. RSVP to nufreecs@gmail.com
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May 11, 2009 | Prof. Smitha Vishveshwara, Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Exploring One-Dimensional Conduction in Carbon Nanotubes"
See the flyer.
Sponsored by the Solid State and Photonics Division.
Host Prof. Matthew Grayson.
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May 8, 2009 | campusCATALYST
Are you innovative? Passionate? Ready to make an impact?
Apply for campusCATALYST- a student driven consulting corps for nonprofits. We are seeking a group of bright, high-achieving problem solvers who are interested in learning about the intersection of business and nonprofit management. Learn more at www.campuscatalyst.org.
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May 7, 2009 | CodeRun offers students of NU an opportunity to participate in a fun development competition that grants scholarships, valuable prizes, and job opportunities
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May 7, 2009 | McCormick Office of Career Development,
Staff Information Session
on
Walter P. Murphy Cooperative Engineering Education Program
Professional Engineering Internship Program
Engineering Projects in Service Learning
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| [EECS General] |
May 6, 2009 | Andrew M. Weiner, Scifres Family Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
"Optical Pulse Shaping and Applications"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
April 29, 2009 | Michael L. Honig
"Battle of the Bandwidths:
Spectrum Markets, Interference Management, and Wireless System Design"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
April 29, 2009 | IEEE 2009 Kickoff!
Free Food and Drinks!
All Majors Welcome!
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April 27, 2009 | Segal Seminar Series: Dr. Tina Seelig, Stanford University
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
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April 22, 2009 | Gregory W. Wornell, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"On the Sufficiency of Ignorance: Recent Lessons in System Architecture"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
April 22, 2009 | Dr. Timothy E. Carone, Director of Architecture Services, Allstate Insurance Co.
"Innovation: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"
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| [EECS General] |
April 17, 2009 | Faculty, Staff, Students, Guests of EECS are all invited to participate in the EECS Department International Potluck
Click here to let us know what you're bringing, and see what others are bringing.
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April 17, 2009 | The School of Communication's 26th Annual
VAN ZELST LECTURE
featuring
Carnegie Mellon University
Herbert A. Simon Professor
of Human-Computer Interaction
ROBERT
KRAUT
Ph.D., Social Psychology,
Yale University
"Designing Online Communities
from Theory"
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April 15, 2009 | Emmanuel J. Candes, Ronald and Maxine Linde
Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, California
Institute of Technology
"Compressive Sensing: An Overview"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
April 15, 2009 | Dave Choffnes
"On the Effectiveness of Measurement Reuse for Performance-Based Detouring"
To appear in INFOCOM, April 2009.
Link to the GEECS Wiki Calendar
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
April 10, 2009 | Professor Manish Parashar,
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
Rutgers University
"A Computing Engine for the Clouds (and Grids)"
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| [EECS General] |
April 10, 2009 | Faculty and Students:
Join us every week for the *** Optimization Happy Hour ***
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April 8, 2009 | Fritz Henglein, Deptartment of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen (DIKU)
"Domain-specific languages for next-generation enterprise systems"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
April 3, 2009 | Theory and Economics Visit Day
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| [EECS General] |
March 18, 2009 | Manuela Veloso, Herbert A. Simon Professor, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University
"Multi-Robot Teamwork Selection and Learning"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
March 17, 2009 | Dr. Xin Chen,Research and Emerging Technologies Department of NAVTEQ Corporation "Next Generation Map Making"
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| [EECS General] |
March 17, 2009 | Ilya Wagner,
Post Doctoral Researcher,
University of Michigan
"An Effective Verification Solution for Modern Microprocessors"
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| [EECS General] |
March 12, 2009 | Dr. Diana Huffaker, Associate Professor,
California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI),
Electrical Engineering Department,
University of California at Los Angeles
"Integrated Nanomaterials for Optoelectronic Devices"
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| [Center for Quantum Devices Seminars] |
March 12, 2009 | Nikos Hardavellas, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
"Near-Optimal Block
Placement and Replication
in Distributed Caches"
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| [EECS General] |
March 11, 2009 | Nicole Immorlica
"Marriage, Honesty, and Stability"
This event was recorded on video
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
March 9, 2009 | Dr. Qing Cao, Post Doctoral Research Associate,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
"Declarative Tracepoints: A Programmable and Application Independent Debugging System for
Cyber-Physical Systems"
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| [EECS General] |
March 9, 2009 | Professor Tara Javidi, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego
"Communicating Delay-Sensitive and Bursty Information Over an outage Channel"
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March 9, 2009 | Uri Nadiv, Tel Aviv
"On the Convergence of Regret Minimization Dynamics in Concave
Games"
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March 5, 2009 | Tammara Massey,
Ph.D. Candidate,
University of California, Los Angeles
"Data Driven and Optimization Techniques for Mobile
Health Systems"
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| [EECS General] |
March 4, 2009 | Jiawei Han, Database and Information Systems Research Lab,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Mining, Indexing, and Searching Graphs in Large Data Sets"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
March 4, 2009 | Ian Kash, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Optimizing Scrip Systems: Efficiency, Crashes, Altruists, and Learning"
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March 2, 2009 | John H. Weber, CEO of Remy International
"Leading Companies in Really Tough Times"
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February 26, 2009 | Pierre Dillenbourg, "Two Facets of Collaboration Technologies: Dual Eye Tracking and Interactive Furniture"
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February 25, 2009 | Sartaj Sahni, Professor and Chair of Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering, University of Florida
"Data structures and algorithms for packet forwarding and classification"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
February 24, 2009 | John Zimmerman, associate professor, Carnegie Mellon School of Design
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| [EECS General] |
February 23, 2009 | Engin Ipek, Computer Architecture Group, Microsoft Research
"Reconfigurable and Self-Optimizing Multicore
Architectures"
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| [EECS General] |
February 18, 2009 | Dr. Lance Williams, Principal Researcher at Nokia Research Center Hollywood
"The Humanoid Touch"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
February 18, 2009 | John Reppy, Computer Science Department, University of Chicago
"The Manticore Project"
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| [EECS General] |
February 9, 2009 | Pablo Montesinos,
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne
"Practical Time Travel of Multiprocessors"
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| [EECS General] |
February 5, 2009 | Benjamin Lee,
Post Doctoral Researcher,
Computer Architecture Group,
Microsoft Research
"Statistical Inference for Tractable Architectural Analysis"
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| [EECS General] |
January 29, 2009 | Earl Wagner will present "Rich Interfaces for Reading News on the Web"
Earl will present this talk at IUI2009on February 9th.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
January 27, 2009 | Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon's School of Design, Human-Computer Interaction Institute
Design Research? Join the Revolution!
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| [EECS General] |
January 22, 2009 | Haryadi Gunawi, Ph.D. candidate at University of Wisconsin,
Madison
"Towards Reliable Storage Systems"
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January 20, 2009 | Jeremy Gilbert, Assistant Professor, Northwestern Univ
"Design of News"
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January 15, 2009 | Michael Schober (The New School)
"Being Copresent with Virtual Partners"
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December 11, 2008 | Brian Scassellati, Yale University
NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN MOVED TO MARCH 2009
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December 11, 2008 | Shoji Tominaga, Department of Information Science,
Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Chiba University, Japan
"Viewpoint and Illumination-Independent Digital Archiving of Art Paintings"
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December 5, 2008 | Ellen Spertus, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Mills College
"Evaluating Similarity Measures: A Large-Scale Study in the Orkut Social Network"
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December 4, 2008 | Lei Xia
"Towards Virtual Passthrough I/O on Commodity Devices"
to be presented at WIOV 2008, affiliated with OSDI 2008, on December 10
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
December 3, 2008 | Professor Manijeh Razeghi
Walter P. Murphy Professor
Director of Center for Quantum Devices
"Modern Atomic Engineering:: Inspiration from Nature"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
November 20, 2008 | Interested in study abroad opportunities with technical course credit, or summer research abroad?
Interested in a PhD/Masters in Germany?
Interested in advancing your PhD research by spending a few months to a year abroad with a German collaborator?
Download the flyer.
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November 19, 2008 | Nicole Immorlica, Assistant Professor
"Marriage, Honesty, and Stability"
This talk has been cancelled and will be rescheduled.
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
November 19, 2008 | The Graduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (GEECS)
Society invites you to attend a Cookie/Coffee Hour before Nicole Immorlica's "Meet the Faculty" lecture
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November 18, 2008 | Invitation to all McCormick School of Engineering ME and EECS Undergraduates to Explore your Futures
Join Assoc. Professor Karon MacLean, Dept of CS, University of British Columbia*
Topic: Interaction Design for Touchable Interfaces and Graduate Studies** at the UBC
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November 14, 2008 | Nicos Malgaveras, PhD, Associate Professor,
Aristotle University, Lab of Medical Informatics, Thessaloniki, GREECE
"Personalised Health micro-bio-nano and ICT based technologies for efficient, safe and quality disease management : The European perspective"
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| [EECS General] |
November 13, 2008 | Michael Tanenhaus, University of Rochester
"Eye Movements and Spoken Language Comprehension: From Speech Perception to Interactive Conversation"
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| [EECS General] |
November 12, 2008 | Doug Downey
"Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
November 7, 2008 | Prof. Nikos Sidiropoulos,
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
"Multicast beamforming and admission control for UMTS-LTE and 802.16e"
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| [EECS General] |
November 5, 2008 | 
Amir Yacoby, Department of Physics, Harvard University
"Charge Fractionalization in Quantum Wires"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
October 30, 2008 | Wolfgang Utschick, Joint work with Andreas Dotzler and Johannes Brehmer
“Advanced Physical Layer Techniques for Wireless Mesh Networks”
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| [EECS General] |
October 29, 2008 | Yan Chen
"Monitoring, Diagnosing and Securing the Internet"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
October 27, 2008 | Dr. Marco Zuniga, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Galway, Ireland
“Exploiting Heterogeneity to Enhance Random Walk-based Queries”
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| [EECS General] |
October 23, 2008 | Solid State & Photonics Division welcomes
Prof. Jacob (Koby) Scheuer, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
"Micro-Cavities based Devices: New Directions and Applications"
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October 22, 2008 | Female Researchers in EECS (FREECS) is hosting a panel discussion:
"Academic vs Industry Jobs"
Panelists: Seda Ogrenci Memik, Elizabeth Gerber, Judy Asher, Renae Martinez.
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October 17, 2008 | Josh Anon, Technical Director at Pixar
"The Pixar Process"
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| [EECS General] |
October 17, 2008 | Tom Bishop, Heriot Watt University (England)
"On Computational Photography"
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| [EECS General] |
October 17, 2008 | SSP Presents:
Dr. Muzammil Arain, Department of Physics, University of Florida
Optics of Gravitational Wave Interferometers
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| [EECS General] |
October 16, 2008 | Venkat Padmanabhan, Microsoft Research India
"Nericell: Rich Monitoring of Road and Traffic Conditions using Mobile Smartphones"
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| [EECS General] |
October 16, 2008 | John Holm, Intel Corporation
"Inside the Next Generation Intel ® Core ™ Microarchitecture (Nehalem)"
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| [EECS General] |
October 16, 2008 | Abhishek Das
"Evaluating the Effects of Cache Redundancy on Profit"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
October 15, 2008 | Janak H. Patel, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"CMOS Process Variations: A 'Critical Operation Point' hypothesis"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
October 9, 2008 | Ao-Jan Su
"Thinning Akamai" To be presented at USENIX/ACM SIGCOMM IMC'08 on October 20th in Vouliagmeni, Greece.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
October 3, 2008 | Northwestern Female Researchers in EECS (FREECS) invite all women in
an interest in EECS, TSB, and MTS to Wii and Brie. There will be wine, cheese and
friendly Wii competition.
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October 1, 2008 | The Graduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (GEECS)
Society invites you to attend our New Student Welcome and Happy Hour
event!
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September 26, 2008 | Professor Giuseppe Caire,
Electrical Engineering Department,
University of Southern California
"Asymptotic Performance of Linear Receivers in MIMO Fading Channels "
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| [EECS General] |
September 25, 2008 | Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft
"Enterprise Uses of Emerging Technologies"
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| [EECS General] |
September 25, 2008 | ANNUAL WELCOME RECEPTION for Graduate Students,
Faculty, and Staff!
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September 23, 2008 | Welcome Reception for All EECS Students
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September 23, 2008 |
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September 22, 2008 | Chan Zhou,
Fraunhofer Mobile Communications Institute,
Technical University of Berlin
"Throughput Optimality of Queue-length-based Scheduling Policies"
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| [EECS General] |
September 20, 2008 | Junior Science Cafe, geared toward teenagers, debuts on Saturday. Guest speaker Matthew Grayson, professor of engineering at Northwestern University in Evanston, is scheduled to discuss "1941: The Historical Debate Over Nuclear Technology."
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| [EECS General] |
September 19, 2008 |
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September 17, 2008 | Dr. C. Mohan,
IBM Fellow and IBM India Chief Scientist
mohan@almaden.ibm.com
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/u/mohan/
"Global Technology Outlook (GTO)"
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September 16, 2008 | New Graduate Student Orientation
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September 15, 2008 | The Graduate School Orientation for all New Graduate Students
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September 15, 2008 | Miroslav N. Velev, Aries Design Automation
"Exploiting Structure for Efficient Formal Verification and Boolean Satisfiability"
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| [EECS General] |
September 10, 2008 | "Pivot: Automatically Offering Information and Services to Real-World Shoppers"
To be presented at NGMAST'08 (http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/NGMAST08/) on September 16th in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
August 25, 2008 | Masaaki Hirano, Optical Communications R&D Laboratories
"Silica-based highly nonlinear fibers and their applications"
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| [CPCC Seminar] |
August 21, 2008 | The Graduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (GEECS) Society invites you to attend a lunch for EECS graduate students, faculty, and staff.
When: Thursday (8/21) from 12-1pm
Where: Tech L324
What: Falafil, Hummus, Salad, Pita, and Kifta from Olive Mountain
Hope to see you there!
GEECS
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August 1, 2008 | David Choffnes
"Taming the Torrent: A practical approach to reducing cross-ISP traffic in P2P Systems"
To be presented at SIGCOMM '08 on in Seattle, WA.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
July 10, 2008 | Richard Han, Computer Science Department, University of Colorado
Experiences Building In Situ Wireless Sensor Networks, and Ongoing
Research Directions
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| [EECS General] |
July 9, 2008 | Nithin Nakka
"Application-Aware Reliability and Security"
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| [EECS General] |
June 18, 2008 | Nikita Borisov, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Network Flow Watermarking"
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| [EECS General] |
June 11, 2008 | Graduate Student Yao Zhao will present "Load balanced and Efficient Hierarchical Data-Centric Storage in Sensor Networks"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
June 9, 2008 | Dr. Hugo Cable, Postdoctoral Researcher, Louisiana State University
"Managing Photonic Loss"
Due to inclement weather and flight delays, this event has been cancelled.
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| [CPCC Seminar] |
June 6, 2008 | EECS Faculty and Student Awards Ceremony
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| [EECS General] |
June 5, 2008 | Goce Trajcevski, Ph.D.,
Research Associate Professor
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department,
Northwestern University
"The Geometries of Mobile Data"
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| [EECS General] |
June 4, 2008 | Alex Shye
"Learning and Leveraging the Relationship between Architecture-Level Measurements and Individual User Satisfaction"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
June 3, 2008 | Female Researchers in EECS (FREECS) present:
Valerie E. Taylor,
Texas A&M University
"Performance Analysis and Optimization of Large-Scale Scientific Applications on Cluster Systems with Chip Multiprocessors"
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| [EECS General] |
June 2, 2008 | Anjali Agarwal, Telcordia Technologies
"Advances in Optical Code Division Multiplexing"
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| [CPCC Seminar] |
May 28, 2008 | Jack Lange
"Experiences with Speculative Remote Display"
To be presented at USENIX 08, Boston MA, in June 2008.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
May 27, 2008 | Zhuowen Tu, Lab of Neuro Imaging (LONI), Department of Neurology, UCLA
"Auto-context Model"
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| [EECS General] |
May 22, 2008 | Ao-Jan Su
"Relative Network Positioning via CDN Redirections" To be presented at IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) Beijing, China, June 2008.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
May 22, 2008 | Dan Schonfeld, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Illinois at Chicago
"Evolution and Genomic Structure: A Signal Processing Perspective"
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| [EECS General] |
May 19, 2008 | Dr. Renu Tripathi, Palomar Observatory at Caltech
"Development of a High Power Sum-Frequency Sodium Laser for 'Laser Guide Star' Application"
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| [EECS General] |
May 15, 2008 | Technology and Social Behavior Speaker Series presents Wendy Kellogg, IBM
"Ten Years of Social Computing at IBM"
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| [EECS General] |
May 14, 2008 | Ramanathan Narayanan
"Mining Protein Interactions from Text using Convolution Kernels"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
May 12, 2008 | The Female Researchers in EECS -- FREECS -- are hosting a visit from Jane Margolis (UCLA) and Allan Fisher (CMU)
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May 12, 2008 | Ph.D. Candidate John Giacomoni, University of Colorado at Boulder
"FastForward for Efficient Pipeline Parallelism: A Cache-
Optimized Concurrent Lock-Free Queue"
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| [EECS General] |
May 9, 2008 | Seda Ogrenci Memik,
"Thermal-Aware Design"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
May 7, 2008 | Jinyu Yan, "Speeding melody search with vantage point trees"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
May 7, 2008 | Professor Carl A. Gunter
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"DoS Models and Counter-Measures"
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| [EECS General] |
May 5, 2008 | Aditi Majumder, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
"Unconstrained Multi-Projector Displays"
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| [EECS General] |
May 2, 2008 | Dr. Debra Rolison, Naval Research Laboratory
"Creating S&T Professional and Institutional Change through Subversion, Revolution, and
Meteorology"
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| [Center for Quantum Devices Seminars] |
May 2, 2008 | Song Ci, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, University of Nebraska - Lincoln
"Cross-Layer as Optimization Unification: a Theoretical Framework for Quality-Driven Multimedia Communications"
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| [EECS General] |
April 30, 2008 | Rohit Kate, Ph.D.,
University of Texas - Austin
"Learning for Semantic Parsing with Kernels Under Various Forms of Supervision"
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| [EECS General] |
April 25, 2008 | John Laird, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan
"The Future of Cognitive Architecture: Down, Up, and Sideways"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
April 24, 2008 | David Little
"Learning musical instruments from polyphonic audio with weak labels"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
April 23, 2008 | The Graduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (GEECS) Society invites you to attend a
Cookie/Coffee Hour.
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| [EECS General] |
April 22, 2008 | Robby Findler, Computer Science Department, University of Chicago
"Interoperability: calculi for multi-language programs"
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| [EECS General] |
April 17, 2008 | Jiahui Liu
"LocalSavvy: Aggregating Local Points of View about News Issues"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
April 17, 2008 | Rosalind Picard, MIT
"Emotional Intelligence Technology and Autism"
Technology and Social Behavior Speaker Series
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] |
April 17, 2008 | Vasiliki N. Ikonomidou,
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH)
"Applying Tissue Specific Imaging to Brain Imaging in Multiple Sclerosis"
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| [EECS General] |
April 16, 2008 | Lloyd "Nick" Trefethen, Professor of Numerical Analysis, Head of the Numerical Analysis Group,
Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of Balliol College
"Computing Numerically with Functions instead of Numbers"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
April 11, 2008 | Gokhan Memik, Assistant Professor, EECS Department
"Learning and Leveraging the Relationship between Architectural Properties and User Satisfaction"
Details/Abstract
| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
April 9, 2008 | Jieyi Long
"An O(nlogn) Edge-Based Algorithm for Obstacle-Avoiding Rectilinear Steiner Tree Construction"
To be presented at International Symposium on Physical Design (ISPD) on Apr. 15, 2008, in Portland, OR.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
April 8, 2008 | Faculty Candidate Jacob Beal, MIT
"Learning by Learning to Communicate"
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| [EECS General] |
April 4, 2008 | Dr. Almadena Chtchelkanova,
Program Director,
National Science Fountation
"Current Programs and Opportunities in CISE at NSF"
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| [EECS General] |
April 4, 2008 | Nihar Jindal, Assistant Professor, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota
"Multiuser MIMO Downlink Made Practical: Achievable Rates with Simple Channel State Estimation and Feedback Schemes"
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| [EECS General] |
April 3, 2008 | Dr. Chi-Keung (CK) Luk, Software Pathfinding and Innovation Group,
Intel Corporation
"Exploiting Multicore Parallelism with Dynamic Instrumentation and Compilation"
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| [EECS General] |
March 28, 2008 | Prof. Kohzo Hakuta, University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Tokyo, Japan
"Manipulating Single Atoms and Single Photons Using Optical Nanofibers"
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| [CPCC Seminar] |
March 21, 2008 | Dr. Xiaotong Zhuang, Advanced Compilation Technology Group,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
"Compiler Optimizations in the Heterogeneous Multicore Era"
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| [EECS General] |
March 20, 2008 | Jonathan Bachrach, Research Scientist,
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
"Spatial Computing in Proto"
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| [EECS General] |
March 18, 2008 | Douglas Downey,
University of Washington
"Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] |
March 14, 2008 | Northwestern Female Researchers in EECS present
Tracy Camp
ACM Distinguished Speaker and Professor, Colorado School of Mines, "The Incredible Shrinking Pipeline"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] |
March 12, 2008 | Meet the Faculty: Jason Hartline: "Auctions in the Unknown"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
March 12, 2008 | Kevin Gold, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
"Robotic Models of Self-Recognition and Word Learning"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] |
March 10, 2008 | Lan Bai will present a talk entitled "Adaptive Filesystem Compression for Embedded Systems" in advance of the conference Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Munich, Germany, March 2008.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
March 10, 2008 | Dr. Matthew Might,
Chief Research Officer - Diagis, LLC, and
Chief Technology Officer - Yaplet, LLC
"Static analysis of higher-order programs"
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| [EECS General] |
March 10, 2008 | Toshikazu Nishida, Interdisciplinary Microsystems Group,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Florida
"Noise Floor of MEMS-based Piezoresistive Microphones"
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| [EECS General] |
March 7, 2008 | Todd Coleman, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Information Theoretic Approaches for Utilizing Packet Timings in Networks"
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| [EECS General] |
March 7, 2008 | Dr. Shaun Gittens
Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Human-Centered Computing Laboratory,
Department of Computer Science,
Auburn University
"Optimal Treemap Visualization Techniques for Complex Predictive Models"
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| [EECS General] |
March 6, 2008 | Meet the Faculty: Peter Dinda, "The User in Experimental Computer Systems Research"
Details/Abstract
| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
March 4, 2008 | Aron Culotta, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Massachusetts, "Learning to Extract Knowledge from Text"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] |
March 3, 2008 | Xi Chen
Title: Design and Implementation of a High-Performance Microprocessor Cache Compression Algorithm To be presented in Data Compression Conference (DCC), March 2008.
Details/Abstract
| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
February 29, 2008 | Meet the Faculty: Lance Fortnow
"Computational Awareness"
Details/Abstract
| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
February 27, 2008 | Computer Engineering InfoSession, for engineering undergraduates deciding on a major. Catering by Pita Inn!
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| [EECS General] |
February 26, 2008 | Neil Vachharajani,
Ph.D. Candidate,
Princeton University
“Intelligent Pipelined Multithreading Speculation”
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] |
February 26, 2008 | Vijay Subramanian, Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] |
February 25, 2008 | Abishek Das
Title: An Efficient FPGA Implementation of Principal Component Analysis based Network Intrusion Detection System To be presented in Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Munich, Germany, March 2008.
Details/Abstract
| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
February 25, 2008 | Bor-Yuh Evan Chang,
Ph.D. Candidate,
University of California, Berkeley
“Precise Program Analysis with Data Structures”
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| [EECS General] |
February 22, 2008 | Jiebo Luo, Kodak Research Labs
"Multimedia Mining Based on Content Recognition and Contextual Inference"
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| [EECS General] |
February 21, 2008 | EECS Distinguished Speaker Series presents Shree Nayar
Details/Abstract
| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
February 19, 2008 | Dean’s Seminar Series and the Segal Design Institute present designer Bruce Mau: "It's about the design of the world."
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] |
February 18, 2008 | Xi Chen
Title: Operating System Controlled Processor-Memory Bus Encryption To be presented in Design, Automation & Test in Europe (DATE), Munich, Germany, March 2008.
Details/Abstract
| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
February 15, 2008 | Umut Acar, Toyota Technological Institute
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] |
February 15, 2008 | Xu Li, "Optical Sensing of Cellular Changes"
Details/Abstract
| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
February 11, 2008 | Jack Cosgrove
"PICSEL: Measuring User-Perceived Performance to Control Dynamic Frequency Scaling"
To be presented at ASPLOS 2008 conference on March 3 in Seattle.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
February 11, 2008 | Abhishek Das will present "An Efficient FPGA Implementation of Principal Component Analysis based Network Intrusion Detection System"
Details/Abstract
| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
February 8, 2008 | Huzefa Rangwala, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota
"Machine-Learning Based Methods for Protein Structure Prediction"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] |
February 4, 2008 | Arbee Chen, Computer Science, National Changhchi University, Taipei Taiwan
"Continuous Evaluation of Fastest Path Queries on Road Networks"
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| [EECS General] |
January 30, 2008 | Capital One recruiting on campus.
Capital One is seeking applicants for Business Analyst positions. Log onto the Career Center website to submit your resume. Details at the Job Opportunities page
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| [EECS General] |
January 21, 2008 | Sergio Verdú, Princeton University
"Information Theory Today"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
January 18, 2008 | Robby Findler,Computer Science Department, University of Chicago,
"Why Programming Matters"
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| [EECS General] |
December 10, 2007 | EVENT IS CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER
John H. Weber CEO, Remy International
"Intellectual Property and Green Technology in the Automotive Industry"
Sponsored by the MS in Information Technology program.
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| [EECS General] |
December 7, 2007 | Dr. Christoph Bartneck, Eindhoven University of Technology
Embodied Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary Challenge
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| [EECS General] |
December 6, 2007 | Andreas Moshovos, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., University of Toronto
"Predictor Virtualization and RegionTracker: Two Ways of Exploiting Multi-Megabyte Caches"
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| [EECS General] |
November 30, 2007 | Randy Freeman
"Abstract Dissipativity and Robot Swarms"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
November 28, 2007 | GRS: Kate Lockwood
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
November 27, 2007 | Xinyu Feng, Research Assistant Professor,
Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTI-C)
"Building Certified System Software"
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| [EECS General] |
November 26, 2007 | Féréchteh Hosseini Teherani, Eshbach Scholar, Northwestern University
Founder, CEO,
Nanovation SARL, Orsay FRANCE,
http://www.nanovation.biz
"From Research to Market: How to Build a High Tech Start-Up"
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| [EECS General] |
November 20, 2007 | Sekhar C. Tatikonda, Yale University
"The Value of Information in Information Theory"
EECS Communications and Networking Seminar
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| [EECS General] |
November 16, 2007 | Dongning Guo
"The Wireless Challenge: An Information-Theoretic View"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
November 12, 2007 | Wayne Phoel, of Lincoln Laboratories
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| [EECS General] |
November 8, 2007 | Chang Liu
Micro Nanotechnology for Bioinspired Sensing"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
November 7, 2007 | Prof. Bin Liu, Eshbach Scholar
Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing China
"Towards a Powerful Mini-Parser for
Internet Protocol Identification"
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| [EECS General] |
November 1, 2007 | Matthew Grayson
"Luttinger Liquids and the Exotic World of One-Dimensional Conductors"
Details/Abstract
| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
October 26, 2007 | Shree Nayar, T.C. Chang Professor, Computer Science Department at Columbia University, New York, New York
"Computational Cameras: Redefining the Image"
Event has been rescheduled to February 21.
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
October 25, 2007 | Dr. Boris Zibitsker, BEZ Systems
"The role of Performance Prediction for Planning and Management of Multi-tier distributed Environments"
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| [EECS General] |
October 24, 2007 | Jieyi Long
ACTA: A Self-Adjusting Clock Tree Architecture to Cope with Temperature Variation"
To be presented in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov, 2007.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
October 19, 2007 | Margo Seltzer, Professor, Harvard School of Engineering and Applies Sciences
“Provenance-Aware Storage Systems”
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
October 18, 2007 | Dr. Hans Zogg
Thin Film Physics Group,
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
"Epitaxial lead-chalcogenides on Si for mid-IR detectors and emitters including cavities"
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| [Center for Quantum Devices Seminars] |
October 17, 2007 | Jia Wang
Graduate Research Seminar in Computer Science and Engineering
Funded by Symantec Corporation for 2007
"Gate Sizing by Lagrangian Relaxation Revisited"
To be presented in IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov. 2007.
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
October 12, 2007 | Marlan O. Scully, Texas A&M University and Princeton University
"Quantum Erasure and the Foundations and Applications of Quantum Mechanics"
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| [CPCC Seminar] |
October 9, 2007 | Srini Devadas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"A Search for an Efficient Reconfigurable Computing Substrate"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
October 5, 2007 | Patrick J. Wolfe
Statistics and Information Sciences Laboratory,
Harvard University (joint work with the Harvard Biorobotics Laboratory)
“Bayesian Changepoint Detection Through Switching Regressions:
Contact Point Determination in Material Indentation Experiments”
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| [EECS General] |
October 4, 2007 | Harold H. Kung,
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
Northwestern University
Northwestern's CEET: "Center for Energy Efficient Transportation"
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| [EECS General] |
October 3, 2007 | Gabriel H. Loh, Assistant Professor
School of Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
3D Integration: The Next (R)evolution in the Design of Microprocessors
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| [EECS General] |
September 28, 2007 | Krishnendu Chakrabarty,
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University
"Automated Design of Microfluidics-Based Biochips: Connecting Biochemistry to Electronics CAD"
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| [EECS General] |
September 27, 2007 | Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
"Mitigating Attacks Against Measurement-Based Adaptation Mechanisms in Unstructured Multicast Overlay Networks"
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| [EECS General] |
September 27, 2007 | Robert Nowak
McFarland-Bascom Professor of Engineering,
University of Wisconsin Madison
"Genomic Network Tomography"
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| [EECS General] |
September 26, 2007 | Image Processing Seminar
Nikolaos Galatsanos, Professor, Department of Computer Science
University of Ioannina, Greece
Bayesian Inference with Student-t Models for Image Processing Applications
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| [EECS General] |
September 25, 2007 | All returning and new EECS students, professors, and staff are invited! All the pizza and 'go-withs' you can imagine! Come, join us and have a good time.
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| [EECS General] |
September 25, 2007 | Professor David Tse, Wireless Foundations, University of California at Berkeley
"Breaking the Interference Barrier"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
September 24, 2007 | Matthias Holick, Mobile Networking Group and Ubiquitous Communications Group
Multimedia Communications Lab, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany Vaccinating Ad hoc and Mesh Networks against Misbehaving Nodes
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| [EECS General] |
September 18, 2007 | New Student Orientation for EECS students. Lunch with Dean Ottino in Cohen Commons at 12:30.
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| [EECS General] |
August 24, 2007 | Huaiyu Dai
Assistant Professor, EECS Department, North Carolina State University
"Location-Aided Distributed Consensus"
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| [EECS General] |
August 24, 2007 | Sanjay Shakkottai
Professor,
University of Texas at Austin
“Looking at Large Networks: Coding vs. Queueing”
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| [EECS General] |
June 16, 2007 | Undergraduate Convocation – McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Admission by ticket only. 847-491-7379
Welsh-Ryan Arena/McGaw Memorial Hall
2705 Ashland Avenue
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| [EECS General] |
June 15, 2007 | MS Recognition and PhD Hooding Ceremony – Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 847-491-3553
No tickets required
Ryan Family Auditorium
Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road
Preceded by 7:45 AM reception in Grand Foyer, Technological Institute
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| [EECS General] |
June 15, 2007 | Undergraduate Reception – McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
847-491-7379
2145 Sheridan Road
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| [EECS General] |
June 15, 2007 | 21 students will be graduating as part of the
Professional Masters Recognition Ceremony McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, 847-491-3553
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| [EECS General] |
June 14, 2007 | Dr. Jianwei Huang
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Princeton University
"FAST Copper for Broadband Access"
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| [EECS General] |
June 8, 2007 | Peter D. Drummond Center for Quantum-Atom Optics
University of Queensland, Australia "Quantum noise simulations of fiber squeezing"
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| [EECS General] |
June 8, 2007 | Kaibin Huang
Ph.D. Student, University of Texas at Austin
"Limited Feedback for MIMO Communications"
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| [EECS General] |
June 7, 2007 | Lunch provided ...
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| [EECS General] |
June 6, 2007 | Brooke Foucault and Emily Goodmann "The Culture and Social Impact of Computing"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
June 5, 2007 | The Annual EECS Department International Pot Luck
brings together faculty, students, staff and their guests.
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| [EECS General] |
June 4, 2007 | EECS/School of Communication Joint Seminar
Professor Rajesh Krishna Balan
School of Information Systems,
Singapore Management University
“Simplifying Cyber Foraging for Mobile Devices”
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| [EECS General] |
June 4, 2007 | Professor Volkan Rodoplu
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California Santa Barbara
“Energy Maps for Mobile Wireless Networks: Coherence time versus Node Mobility”
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| [EECS General] |
June 1, 2007 | Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
"Stories from the Networks Group"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
June 1, 2007 | EECS Faculty and Student Awards presentation.
Refreshments at 3:15.
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| [EECS General] |
June 1, 2007 | Professor Suman Banerjee
Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"A Client-Assisted Approach to Management in Wireless Networks”
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| [EECS General] |
May 30, 2007 | David Choffnes "Exploiting Emergent Behavior for Inter-Vehicle Communication"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
May 30, 2007 | Dr. Michael Chertkov
Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Physics of Algorithms or Loop Calculus for Graphical Models of
Statistical Inference"
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| [EECS General] |
May 29, 2007 | Edward M. Reingold
Department of Computer Science
Illinois Institute of Technology
“Determining Plurality - The Average Case”
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| [EECS General] |
May 25, 2007 | Russ Joseph
"Hardware/Software Support for Probabilistic Architectures"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
May 25, 2007 | Professor Matthew Grayson
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Northwestern University
"Corner Overgrowth, Shadow Overgrowth, and Cleaved-Edge Overgrowth: Novel MBE Techniques for Embedded Heterostructures"
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| [Center for Quantum Devices Seminars] |
May 24, 2007 | Alan V. Sahakian
Northwestern University
"The Incoherent Heart: Mechanisms and Treatment of Atrial Cardiac Arrhythmias"
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| [CPCC Seminar] |
May 23, 2007 | Bin Lin
"Time-sharing Parallel Applications With Performance Isolation and Control"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
May 22, 2007 | Tanu Malik
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University
"Large-scale Data Management for the Sciences"
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| [EECS General] |
May 21, 2007 | Eby G. Friedman
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Rochester
"Research Challenges in High Performance VLSI/SoC Circuits and Systems"
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| [EECS General] |
May 21, 2007 | Brian W. Fitzpatrick
Engineering Site Lead for Google Chicago
"A Recipe for Innovation"
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| [EECS General] |
May 18, 2007 | Dr. Joshua Yi
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
Austin, TX
"Analyzing and Improving the Statistical Rigor of Computer Architecture Simulation"
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| [EECS General] |
May 17, 2007 | Jennifer Rexford
Professor, Department of Computer Science
Princeton University
"VINI: Virtual Network Infrastructure"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
May 11, 2007 | John Kim
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
“High-Radix Interconnection Networks”
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| [EECS General] |
May 8, 2007 | Matthew Turk
Chair, Media Arts and Technology Graduate Program
Computer Science Department
University of California, Santa Barbara
"Vision Based Interfaces for Mobile Computing"
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| [EECS General] |
May 4, 2007 | Fabian Bustamante
"Grand Challenges in Large-Scale Distributed Systems"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
May 2, 2007 | Yao Zhao
"A Suite of Schemes for User-level Network Diagnosis without Infrastructure"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
May 1, 2007 | The Cognitive Science Program is proud to present:
Mark Steedman
University of Edinburgh
"The Surface-Compositional Semantics of Intonation"
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| [EECS General] |
April 27, 2007 | J. K. Aggarwal
A Cullen Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
"Recognition of Human Activity and Object Interactions"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
April 26, 2007 | Dr. Johan de Kleer
Principle Scientist, Embedded Reasoning Area
PARC’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory
"Diagnosis"
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| [EECS General] |
April 25, 2007 | Dr. Andrew J. Kerman
Optical Communications Technology Group,
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
"Superconducting NbN-Nanowire Single Photon Detectors"
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| [CPCC Seminar] |
April 24, 2007 | Prof. Kaoru Kurosawa
Ibaraki University, Japan
"Tutorial on Message Authentication Codes"
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| [CPCC Seminar] |
April 24, 2007 | Prof. Osamu Hirota
Tamagawa University, Japan
"Recent status of quantum stream cipher by Y-00 in Japan"
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| [CPCC Seminar] |
April 20, 2007 | Robert P. Dick
"Design and Synthesis of Embedded Systems"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
April 19, 2007 | Andrew Chraplyvy
Vice President, Optical Transport Networks Research Center
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
"High-Capacity Transmission Systems and Technologies"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
April 19, 2007 | Professor Vladimir Pavlovic
Computer Science Department, Rutgers University
"Discriminative Learning Methods for State Space Models”
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| [EECS General] |
April 16, 2007 | Eric Burger
Deputy CTO,
BEA Systems, Inc.
“Ubiquitous Access to IP Devices”
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| [EECS General] |
April 13, 2007 | Monica Lam
Stanford University
Professor, Department of Computer Science
"Consumerizing PCs: From Research to Product"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
April 10, 2007 | The McCormick Department Information Fair is the MAJOR event of the year!
Talk to department reps!
Learn about Co-Op! BS/MS! Study Abroad!
Declare your major
Eat delicious pizza!
Questions? Stop in Academic Services, Tech L269
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| [EECS General] |
April 9, 2007 | Prof. Jacob B. Khurgin
Johns Hopkins University
"Performance of nonlinear photonic crystal devices for wide bandwidth applications"
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| [CPCC Seminar] |
April 6, 2007 | Bahram Javidi
University of Connecticut
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
"Real Time 3D Visualization and Identification of Dynamic Biological Micro/Nano Organic Events"
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| [EECS Distinguished Lectures Series] |
April 5, 2007 | What is EECS?
Interested in computers and the Internet?
Want to know what makes your iPod work?
Looking for an exciting, high-paying job?
Want to learn about state-of-the-art research?
Join us at the Open House and discover that EECS is more than you think it is!
Click to see the Flyers
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| [EECS General] |
April 4, 2007 | The Graduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (GEECS) Society invites you to attend a coffee and cookie hour.
Hope to see you there!
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| [EECS General] |
April 2, 2007 | Jason Hartline, Ph.D.
Microsoft Research
"Economics, Algorithms, and the Internet"
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| [EECS General] |
March 30, 2007 | Don Norman
"Cautious Cars and Cantankerous Kitchens: Where Future Technologies May Fail"
Download the flyer!
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
March 28, 2007 | Bin Lin
Towards an Understanding of Decision Complexity in IT Configuration
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
March 22, 2007 | Nikhil Devanur
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Two Results in Approximation Algorithms”
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| [EECS General] |
March 19, 2007 | Mark W. Spong
Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering,
Center for Autonomous Engineering Systems and Robotics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Synchronization of Multi-Agent Systems"
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| [EECS General] |
March 15, 2007 | Nicole Immorlica, Ph.D.
Theory Group
Microsoft Research
“Algorithmic Game Theory with Applications to Online Auctions”
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| [EECS General] |
March 15, 2007 | Condensed Matter Seminar: Lucia Steinke
Walter Schottky Institut, TU Muenchen, Germany
(Ph.D. student of EECS Professor Matthew Grayson)
“Characterization and modelling of one-dimensional states in a bent quantum Hall system”
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| [EECS General] |
March 14, 2007 | Amit Mondal
When TCP friendliness becomes harmful
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
March 13, 2007 | Ying Wu
Visual Motion Analysis for "Machines That Can See"
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| [EECS General] |
March 13, 2007 | Professor Mari Ostendorf
Endowed Professor of System Design Methodologies in Electrical Engineering
Adjunct Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington
“The Use of Cross-Validation in Semi-Supervised Learning for Spoken Language Processing”
Video of Prof. Ostendorf's lecture
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| [EECS General] |
March 12, 2007 | Nir Ailon
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
“New Algorithms for High-Dimensional, Inconsistent Data”
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| [EECS General] |
March 9, 2007 | Beyond CMOS: New Paradigms for Materials Functionality
Dr. Jean-Pierre Leburton
Beckman Institute and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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| [Center for Quantum Devices Seminars] |
March 9, 2007 | Dr. Hooman Mohseni Learning from Nature: Sensing the Absolute Minimum Light Intensity
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| [Center for Quantum Devices Seminars] |
March 8, 2007 | Sponsored by Cooperative Education Engineering Program
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| [EECS General] |
March 8, 2007 | Julia Chuzhoy, Ph.D.
New Thresholds of Approximability: Problems and Techniques
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| [EECS General] |
March 7, 2007 | Conrad Albrecht-Buehler
Title TBA
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
March 2, 2007 | Ian Horswill
"How Do We Fix Introductory Computer Science?"
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| [Meet the Faculty Seminar Series] |
March 1, 2007 | Dr. Ophir Frieder
IITRI Chair Professor of Computer Science and
Director of the Information Retrieval Laboratory,
Illinois Institute of Technology
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| [EECS General] |
February 28, 2007 | David Little
Title TBA
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
February 21, 2007 | Ruiming (Raymond) Chen
"Fast Min-cost Buffer Insertion under Process Variations"
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| [Graduate Research Seminars] |
February 19, 2007 | “A Fast Mesh Refinement Algorithm”
Benoit Hudson
School of Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University
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February 14, 2007 | Graduate Research Seminar in Computer Science and Computer Engineering - Lei Yang
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February 9, 2007 | Hooman Mohseni
"A two-way Street: Using Photonics for Bio Applications and Using Bio For Photonics Applications!"
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February 2, 2007 | Precise measurement and control of light-matter interactions
JILA, National Institute
of Standards and Technology
and University of Colorado
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February 2, 2007 | Graduate Research Seminar in Computer Science and Computer Engineering - Yan Gao
Title: Detecting stealthy attacks over high speed networks in real time
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January 25, 2007 | Yi Ma, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Clustering and Classification via Lossy Data Compression
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January 10, 2007 | Interested in computer engineering as a major? Attend the CD Info Session and meet current CE majors, see lab demos by CE students, and hear 5-minute talks by the CE professors.
Hosted by CE professors Russ Joseph, Seda Memik, Robert Dick, and Larry Henschen.
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December 5, 2006 | "Multicore Scaleout -- From Platform-level Scalability to Trusted Services
for Distributed Enterprise Applications" by Prof. Karsten Schwan
CERCS -- Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems
Georgia Institute of Technology
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November 30, 2006 | Mikhail "Mike" Atallah
Purdue University
"Security Issues in Collaborative Computing"
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November 16, 2006 | Rama Chellappa
Minta Martin Professor of Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and UMIACS
University of Maryland, College Park
"Pattern Recognition in Video"
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November 9, 2006 |
Robert M. Gray
Stanford University
"Packet speech on the Arpanet: A history of early linear predictive coded (LPC) speech and its accidental impact on the Internet Protocol"
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November 6, 2006 | "Interaction of Rate and Medium Access Control in Wireless Networks,"
by Peter Marbach,
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
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November 3, 2006 | "Large Scale Urban Mesh Networks: From Development to Applications," by Professor Edward Knightly,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University.
Hosted by Aleksandar Kuzmanovic.
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November 3, 2006 | "Network Coding: From Theory to Reality,"
by Professor Baochun Li,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Toronto
Hosted by Prof. Yan Chen.
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November 2, 2006 | "Incentive-Compatible Interdomain Routing," by Vijay Ramachandran, Stevens Institute of Technology.
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November 1, 2006 | "Algorithms for Sequence Finding and Selection Problems," by Professor D. T. Lee,
Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering &
Graduate Institute of Electronics Engineering, National Taiwan University.
Hosted by Professor Ming-Yang Kao.
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October 27, 2006 | "Femtosecond Fiber Lasers and Their Applications"
Dr. Jacob (Kobi) Lasri
Product Manager, Ultrafast Lasers, Precision Photonics Corp.
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October 24, 2006 | "Wide Area Video Surveillance: Tracking and Behavior Analysis,"
Dr. Yunqian Ma
Honeywell Labs
Hosted by: Professor Ying Wu
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October 20, 2006 | Biing-Hwang (Fred) Juang
Georgia Institute of Technology
Motorola Foundation Chair Professor
Bell Labs Fellow, Member NAE, Academia Sinica
"Advances & Challenges in Selective Areas of Multimedia Communication and Signal Processing"
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October 18, 2006 | "Putting Disk Spatial Locality Information on the OS Map to Speedup Disk Accesses," by Prof. Xiaodong Zhang,
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University.
Hosted by Prof. Yan Chen.
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October 16, 2006 | "III-Nitride Optical Sensors for UV-A/visible and High-energy Detection," by Dr. Jose Luis Pau Vizcaino,
ISOM and Dpto. Ingenieria Electronica, ETSI Telecomunicacion,
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Ciudad Universitaria SPAIN
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October 16, 2006 | "DNA-Based Storage and Retrieval of Digital Signals and Applications
in Life Sciences," by Dr. Sotirios Tsaftaris,
EECS Department, Northwestern University.
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October 13, 2006 | "Polarization dependent loss and its effect as a waveform distorting mechanism"
Prof. Mark Shtaif
School of Electrical Engineering
Department of Physical Electronics
Tel Aviv University
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October 12, 2006 | "HOLD THAT THOUGHT! WHY I CARE ABOUT AUTOMATING THE CAPTURE OF EVERYDAY ACTIVITIES"
Gregory D. Abowd
Georgia Tech
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October 9, 2006 | Jack Dongarra
University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory
"The Impact of Multicore on Math Software and Expoiting Single Precision Computing to Obtain Double Precision Results"
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October 6, 2006 | "What is Information?" by Wojciech Szpankowski, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University,
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/spa
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September 28, 2006 | "Quantum interferometry: From Quantum Eraser to Quantum Lithography," by Prof. M. Suhail Zubairy, Texas A&M University.
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September 26, 2006 | "Reducing the Complexity of Graphical Models via Cycles," by Thomas Halford, Communication Sciences Institute, University of Southern California.
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September 26, 2006 | "Flip Chip Integration of a Large Format Array of MOEMS Devices for Space Infrared Astronomy," by Dr. Christine Allen, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
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September 25, 2006 | "TCP and Wireless Networks," by Stephen Hanly, Associate Professor, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
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September 22, 2006 | "The Use of Carbon Nanotubes and Si Semiconductor Nanowires for Electronic Devices," by Dr. Didier Pribat, LPICM/Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau Cedex, France.
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September 21, 2006 | EECS Graduate Student Welcome Party for faculty and graduate students. We hope to see you there!
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September 15, 2006 | "A Unified Framework for Indexing and Retrieval of Multimedia Documents Based on High-Dimension Feature Extraction and Discriminative Classifier Learning," by Prof. Chin-Hui Lee, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
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August 28, 2006 | "New Directions In Internet Congestion Control: Quality-of-Service (QoS), Uncooperative Users, Large Bandwidth-Delay and Lossy Networks," by Prof. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Dept. of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering (ECSE), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Hosted by Yan Chen.
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August 14, 2006 | "Engineering Across Nano-Micro-Macro Scales for Applications in Bioinspired Sensing," by Professor Chang Liu, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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June 23, 2006 | "Separating Linguistic and Speaker-Specific Information in the Acoustic Signal of Speech," by Dr. Carol Espy-Wilson, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland; and Dr. Suzanne Boyce, Associate Professor, Dept. of Language Pathology and Speech Science, University of Cincinnati.
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June 16, 2006 | You are cordially invited to attend the Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Reception for Graduating Students
Where: Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
Ground Floor Lobby
2133 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Please RSVP to 847/491-3451 or brooke@eecs.northwestern.edu by Friday, June 9, 2006
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June 15, 2006 | "Engineering Across Nano-Micro-Macro Scales for Applications in Bioinspired
Sensing and Scanning Probe Lithography," by Professor Chang Liu, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UIUC
Co-Hosted by: Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and the International Institute for Nanotechnology.
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June 1, 2006 | The 2005-06 EECS Student and Faculty Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday, June 1 at 3:00pm in Tech L324.
Last year's Best Teacher Award recipient, Professor Mary Phillips, will give a talk following the awards ceremony.
Refreshments will also be served.
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June 1, 2006 | IEEE Presents...
The Annual EECS Picnic!
*Food:* **Brats, Hot Dogs, Burgers, Veggie Burgers and sides**
*Activities:* Frisbee, Croquet, Volleyball, Soccer, AND MORE!
Come enjoy some free food and drinks and relax with your EECS classmates, professors and TAs!*
*A great way to end the year with some food, fun and games! *
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May 30, 2006 | Kris Hammond
"Theory and Practice of Needles and Haystacks: Stories from the InfoLab"
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May 26, 2006 | "Sexy Types: the Future of Type Systems for Programming Languages," by David MacQueen, Chair of the Computer Science Department, University of Chicago
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May 23, 2006 | "Catamount as a Virtualization Layer for HPC Systems," by Professor Arthur B. Maccabe, Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico. Hosted by Professor Peter Dinda.
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May 19, 2006 | "Entanglement Sudden Death: What is it, and what to do about it"
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May 16, 2006 | Hai Zhou
"To Optimize or Not to Optimize: Algorithm Design in VLSI CAD"
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May 11, 2006 | "Hospital Noise, Its Role in Patient Well-Being and the Challenges for Noise Engineering," by James (Jim) E. West, Research Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
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May 11, 2006 | 10:00am -- "The n Things I Wish I Knew Before Grad School"
11:00am -- "The n Things I Wish I Knew Before the PhD Job Search"
2:00pm -- "The n Things I Wish I Knew Before My First Engineering Job"
Talks given by EECS Advisory Board Member William Tetzlaff, Ph.D, President of the IBM Academy of Technology.
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May 4, 2006 | "DipZoom: An Internet Measurements Marketplace," by Professor Michael Rabinovich, Computer Science Department, Case Western Reserve University. Hosted by Fabian Bustamante.
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May 4, 2006 | Selim Shahriar
"Putting Atoms and Photons to Work: From Holographic Navigation to
Detection of Gravitational Waves"
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May 3, 2006 | "A Framework for Internet Measurement Calibration," by Professor Paul Barford, Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin. Hosted by Yan Chen.
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April 24, 2006 | "Spoken Documents and Information Management," by Professor Mari Ostendorf, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington
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April 20, 2006 | "Automated Security Policy Management," by Ehab Al-Shaer, Ph.D., Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Telecommunications & Information Systems, DePaul University. Hosted by Aleksandar Kuzmanovic
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April 18, 2006 | Bryan Pardo
"Finding Structure in Audio for Music Information Retrieval"
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April 6, 2006 | "Grand challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks", by Ian Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, Ken Byers Distinguished Chair, Professor in Telecommunications
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April 4, 2006 | Thrasos Pappas
"Mathematical and Perceptual Models for Image Analysis: The Need for Understanding Human Vision"
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March 16, 2006 | EECS Distinguished Seminar: "Engineering Education and the Changing Role of Research Universities in the 21st Century" by Venkatesh Narayanamurti, Dean of Engineering and Applied Science, Harvard University
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March 10, 2006 | Seminar by Prof. Rohit Negi
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March 7, 2006 | Jack Tumblin
"Re-Thinking Photography: What Devices Should Capture Visual
Appearance?"
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