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Thursday, August 21, 2008

[EECS General]

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

12-1 pm
Tech L324




EECS General

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Thursday August 21, 2008
12-1 pm
Tech L324
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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Monday September 15, 2008
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Graduate School Orientation for all New Graduate Students
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Tuesday September 16, 2008
8:00 a.m. - 12: 00 noon
Tech L324
New Graduate Student Orientation
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Friday September 19, 2008
All day

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Tuesday September 23, 2008
8:00 a.m.

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Tuesday September 30, 2008
3:00 p.m. - 5: 00 p.m.
Tech L324
Welcome Reception for All EECS Students
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RECENT EVENTSTop
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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July 9, 2008
Nithin Nakka
"Application-Aware Reliability and Security"

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June 18, 2008
Nikita Borisov, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Network Flow Watermarking"

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June 6, 2008
EECS Faculty and Student Awards Ceremony
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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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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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May 27, 2008
Zhuowen Tu, Lab of Neuro Imaging (LONI), Department of Neurology, UCLA
"Auto-context Model"

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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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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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May 7, 2008
Professor Carl A. Gunter University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"DoS Models and Counter-Measures"

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May 5, 2008
Aditi Majumder, Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
"Unconstrained Multi-Projector Displays"

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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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April 23, 2008
The Graduate Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (GEECS) Society invites you to attend a Cookie/Coffee Hour.
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April 22, 2008
Robby Findler, Computer Science Department, University of Chicago
"Interoperability: calculi for multi-language programs"

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April 17, 2008
Rosalind Picard, MIT
"Emotional Intelligence Technology and Autism"
Technology and Social Behavior Speaker Series

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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 8, 2008
Faculty Candidate Jacob Beal, MIT
"Learning by Learning to Communicate"

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April 4, 2008
Dr. Almadena Chtchelkanova, Program Director, National Science Fountation
"Current Programs and Opportunities in CISE at NSF"

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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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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 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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March 20, 2008
Jonathan Bachrach, Research Scientist, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
"Spatial Computing in Proto"

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March 18, 2008
Douglas Downey, University of Washington
"Autonomous Web-scale Information Extraction"

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[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"

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March 12, 2008
Kevin Gold, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
"Robotic Models of Self-Recognition and Word Learning"

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[EECS General]  
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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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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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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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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March 4, 2008
Aron Culotta, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Massachusetts, "Learning to Extract Knowledge from Text"
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February 27, 2008
Computer Engineering InfoSession, for engineering undergraduates deciding on a major. Catering by Pita Inn!
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February 26, 2008
Neil Vachharajani, Ph.D. Candidate, Princeton University
“Intelligent Pipelined Multithreading Speculation”

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February 26, 2008
Vijay Subramanian, Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
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February 25, 2008
Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
“Precise Program Analysis with Data Structures”

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February 22, 2008
Jiebo Luo, Kodak Research Labs
"Multimedia Mining Based on Content Recognition and Contextual Inference"

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[EECS General]  
February 19, 2008
Dean’s Seminar Series and the Segal Design Institute present designer Bruce Mau: "It's about the design of the world."
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February 15, 2008
Umut Acar, Toyota Technological Institute
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February 8, 2008
Huzefa Rangwala, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota
"Machine-Learning Based Methods for Protein Structure Prediction"

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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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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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December 7, 2007
Dr. Christoph Bartneck, Eindhoven University of Technology
Embodied Intelligence: A Multidisciplinary Challenge

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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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November 27, 2007
Xinyu Feng, Research Assistant Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTI-C)
"Building Certified System Software"

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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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November 20, 2007
Sekhar C. Tatikonda, Yale University
"The Value of Information in Information Theory"
EECS Communications and Networking Seminar

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November 12, 2007
Wayne Phoel, of Lincoln Laboratories
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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]  
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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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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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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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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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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September 18, 2007
New Student Orientation for EECS students.

Lunch with Dean Ottino in Cohen Commons at 12:30.
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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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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 5, 2007
The Annual EECS Department International Pot Luck
brings together faculty, students, staff and their guests.

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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
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
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 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 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 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 26, 2007
Dr. Johan de Kleer
Principle Scientist, Embedded Reasoning Area
PARC’s Intelligent Systems Laboratory

"Diagnosis"

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[EECS General]  
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 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 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 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 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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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 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 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 19, 2007
“A Fast Mesh Refinement Algorithm”
Benoit Hudson
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

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[EECS General]  
January 25, 2007
Yi Ma, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Clustering and Classification via Lossy Data Compression

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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
November 2, 2006
"Incentive-Compatible Interdomain Routing," by Vijay Ramachandran, Stevens Institute of Technology.
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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
September 21, 2006
EECS Graduate Student Welcome Party for faculty and graduate students. We hope to see you there!
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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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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[EECS General]  
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 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 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 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 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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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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