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| Tuesday, November 3, 2009
[EECS General]
Dr. Ming Zhang, Microsoft Research, Redmond
"Automating Network Application Dependency Discovery: Experiences, Limitations, and New Solutions"
11:00 a.m.
Tech C211
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EECS General
These listings cover a wide range of events and generally are open to everyone.
| | UPCOMING EVENTS | Top | Wednesday November 25, 2009
3:00 p.m.
Physics Conference Room: F211 | Zhenyu Hou, Master's Thesis (Public Presentation)
"Novel Low-Loss-Low-Crosstalk Nano-Waveguide
Crossing Using Elliptical Reflectors "
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | Monday November 30, 2009
12:00 noon
Ford 3.340 | Timothy Zwiebel, Master's Thesis (Public Presentation)
"GAIL: A Design and Implementation of a Constrained Guarded Action Intermediate Language suitable for Rewrite-Based Optimization"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | Tuesday December 1, 2009
1:00 p.m.
Ford 3.340 | Chih-Hung Wu, Master's Thesis (Faculty Only)
"Achieving High Performance and Security for FPGA-based Designs"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | Tuesday December 1, 2009
3:00 p.m.
Tech L324 | Yongming Tu, Master's Thesis (Faculty Only)
"Design and Fabrication of Novel Ultra Compact Concave Grating"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | Wednesday December 2, 2009
2:00 p.m.
Tech L324 | Yunan Zheng, Master's Thesis (Public Presentation)
"Device Design and Optimization for Active Nanophotonic Devices"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | Friday December 4, 2009
3:30 p.m.
Tech L324 | Dr. Qing Hu,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department,
Cambridge, MA
"Terahertz Quantum Cascade Lasers and Real-time THz Imaging"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | Monday December 7, 2009
9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
TBD | An event to honor PhD candidates Can Bayram and Pierre-Yves Delaunay, first and second place winners (respectively) of The 2009 Boeing Engineering Student of the Year competition.
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| [EECS General] | Monday February 1, 2010
Midnight
www.google.com/anitaborg | Google is proud to announce the 2010 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, awarding a group of female students a $10,000 scholarship, for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | Thursday May 13, 2010
4:00 p.m.
Hughes Auditorium, 303 E. Superior (Chicago Campus) | Dean's Grand Challenge Lectures in Medicine and Engineering presents
Alok Choudhary, John G. Searle Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Link
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| [EECS General] | | RECENT EVENTS | Top | November 20, 2009 | Prof. Alex Kuzmich, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Distributed quantum systems / Nuclear laser spectroscopy"
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| [EECS General] | November 20, 2009 | Michael Hwang, Master's Thesis (Public Presentation)
"Experiments in Formation Control by Decentralized Estimation and Control"
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| [EECS General] | November 18, 2009 | "Social Media for Business: Building Your Brand Organically"
Speaker: Scott Manley, Co-Founder and CEO of FYIndOut
Complete details at www.infotech.northwestern.edu/Manley
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| [EECS General] | November 17, 2009 | Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Associate Professor, Computer Science dept, Purdue University
"Defending Against Pollution Attacks in Network Coding for Wireless Mesh Networks"
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| [EECS General] | November 17, 2009 | Fang Ou, Ph.D. Qualifying Exam
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| [EECS General] | November 14, 2009 | MSIT Information Session. Saturday 11/14, 2:30 - 5:00 pm, Evanston Campus, Tech L324
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| [EECS General] | November 13, 2009 | Andy G. Gocke (with John Lange and Peter Dinda), Northwestern University, Department of EECS, McCormick
"The Design and Implementation of Intel Hardware Virtualization Support in the Palacios Virtual Machien Monitor"
Symposium details
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| [EECS General] | November 12, 2009 | Debasish Das
Dissertation Title: "Improving Efficiency & Accuracy of Static Timing Analysis and Optimization"
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| [EECS General] | November 12, 2009 | MSIT Information Sessions. Complete details and pre-registration at: www.infotech.northwestern.edu/infosessions
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| [EECS General] | November 12, 2009 | Prof. Zhigang Zhu, City College, City University of New York
"Dynamic 3D Mosaics for Urban Scene Modeling and Target Detection"
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| [EECS General] | November 11, 2009 | NED TALKS presents Chris Flink, IDEO partner and Associate Professor at Stanford University
"Growth and Adventure in a Lousy Job Market"
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| [EECS General] | November 10, 2009 | Join Intel to meet and hear Mark Brazier give a technical presentation about Intel. Intel is also interested in meeting students interested in learning more about the employment opportunities.
Intel is targeting Computer Science/Computer Engineering students --- MS and PhD.
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | November 9, 2009 | Dr. Steve Casper will discuss the Master of Bioscience (MBS) program at Keck Graduate Institute. Students in engineering and life sciences are encouraged to attend.
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | November 7, 2009 | InPursuit Internship Conference
Brought to you by University Career Services and Business and Professional Women (Student Organization)
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | November 6, 2009 | 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.
Deadline for applications is midnight on Friday November 6th.
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| [EECS General] | November 6, 2009 | Join RoundArch to meet and hear Mark Ferry, Director of Technology and Pek Pongpaet, Lead Interactive Developer give a presentation about RoundArch and their potential employment opportunities. RoundArch is targeting Computer Science/Computer Engineering students --- undergrad, MS and PhD.
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| [EECS General] | November 5, 2009 | Morteza Dehghani, Final Defense
"A Cognitive Model of Recognition-based Moral Decision Making"
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| [EECS General] | November 3, 2009 | Dr. Ming Zhang, Microsoft Research, Redmond
"Automating Network Application Dependency Discovery: Experiences, Limitations, and New Solutions"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | November 2, 2009 | PhD Dissertation Defense: Karl Deng
"Dissertation title: IDnet Mesh: Towards User Accountability for the Internet"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | October 29, 2009 | Ehsan Maani
"Cross-layer optimization for efficient video communication over reliable networks" (Public Presentation)
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| [EECS General] | October 28, 2009 | Ken Forbus
"Companion Cognitive Systems"
Free event, Online registration required.
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| [EECS General] | October 27, 2009 | Jaspal Sandhu, University of California-Berkeley
"Building Design Capacity in Global Health"
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| [EECS General] | October 21, 2009 | Yu Zhang
Dissertation title: "Application-Driven On-Chip Network Modeling"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | October 21, 2009 | Bach Q. Ha, Doctoral Qualifier"Computational Complexity of Sequential Pricing on
Social Networks"
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| [EECS General] | October 20, 2009 | Tom Joyce is a globally recognized artist, designer, and blacksmith. Bio.
This event is cancelled, and may be rescheduled next quarter.
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| [EECS General] | October 20, 2009 | Josep M. Pujol, Telefonica Research Labs in Barcelona
"Scaling Online Social Networks without Pains"
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| [EECS General] | October 20, 2009 | Wendy Yip, Doctoral Prospectus
Dissertation: "Investigation of electromagnetic properties of multi-particle systems
in the optical and microwave regions"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | October 20, 2009 | Sevket Derin Babacan, Final Defense
"Bayesian Techniques for Image Recovery"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | October 20, 2009 | Cutting Carbon - Merging Good Science and Good Policy
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | October 13, 2009 | Matt Parkinson, Engineering Design and Mechanical Engineering Departments, Penn State University
"Body Size and the Ethics of Design"
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| [EECS General] | October 9, 2009 | Minaxi Gupta, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University (Bloomington)
"Phishing infrastructure fluxes all the way"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | October 8, 2009 | Details to come
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| [EECS General] | October 6, 2009 | Michael P. Friedlander,
University of British Columbia
"Algorithms for Large-scale Sparse Reconstruction"
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| [EECS General] | October 6, 2009 | Karl Ulrich, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
"Innovation Tournaments"
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| [EECS General] | October 5, 2009 | Dror Baron, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
“Compressed Sensing Meets Information Theory”
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | October 5, 2009 | David F. Little
Dissertation:"Learning from mixtures of sounds – machine and animal differences"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | October 2, 2009 | Behnaam Aazhang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Center for Multimedia Communication (CMC),
Rice University, Houston, TX
and
Center for Wireless Communications (CWC),
University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
“Context Aware Wireless Networks: A Physical Layer Perspective”
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | October 1, 2009 | Michael N. Leuenberger, University of Central Florida (UCF)
"Optical transitions and quantum computing in the 15_(N-V)^- Center in Diamond"
Hosted by the Solid State and Photonics Division
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| [EECS General] | October 1, 2009 | Matt Cushman, Managing Director at Knight Equity Markets
"High Frequency Trading"
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| [EECS General] | September 30, 2009 | A reception welcoming new and returning students, faculty, and staff.
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | September 29, 2009 | Holger Boche, Technical University of Berlin
“Characterization of Convex and Concave Resource Allocation
Problems in Interference Coupled Wireless Systems”
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| [EECS General] | September 21, 2009 | Dr. Ioan Raicu, Center for Ultra-scale Computing and Information Security, EECS, Northwestern University
"Many-Task Computing: Bridging the Gap between High Throughput Computing and High Performance Computing"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | September 15, 2009 | Continental breakfast, Introductions, TGS Resources, and more
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| [EECS General] | September 12, 2009 | The International Office (IO) is pleased to offer incoming international undergraduate students the opportunity to participate in the 2009 Undergraduate International Student Orientation (ISO). This year’s orientation will take place from September 12–15, 2009, just before Wildcat Welcome. To participate, incoming international undergraduate students must complete and return the Undergraduate ISO Registration Form by August 14, 2009.
International Office Undergrad Student Orientation info
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| [EECS General] | September 11, 2009 | GEECS is sponsoring Friday morning coffee and bagels. Everyone is welcome!
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | September 10, 2009 | Prof. Michael R. Lyu
Computer Science and Engineering Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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| [EECS General] | September 8, 2009 | 2009 International Graduate Student Orientation & Welcome Reception
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The McCormick Tribune Center
The International Office (IO) is pleased to invite all incoming international graduate students and post-doctoral fellows to the 2009 International Graduate Student Orientation and Welcome Reception, to be held on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. In order to participate, all new international graduate students and post-docs should RSVP by completing the form below.
RSVP no later than Monday, August 31, 2009.
Int'l Office Web Site and RSVP form
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| [EECS General] | August 14, 2009 | Angela Yingjun Zhang, Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
"MAPEL: Achieving global optimality in non convex power control problem"
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| [EECS General] | August 10, 2009 | The 2nd Annual North American School of Information Theory will be held at Northwestern University from August 10-13. The school features short courses and a keynote lecture presented by 4 distinguished professors on topics related to information theory. Around 150 graduate students and post docs from more than 40 institutions will participate in the school, which is generously supported by the IEEE Information Theory Society, DARPA, ARO, NSF, the MSIT program at Northwestern,USC, Notre Dame and the McCormick School. Professors Donging Guo and Randall Berry in the EECS department are co-chairs of the Program and Local Arrangements.
More information can be found at: http://www.itsoc.org/people/committees/student/2009-school-of-it
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| [EECS General] | July 24, 2009 | Shih-Fu Chang, Director of the Digital Video and Multimedia Lab and
Professor and Chair of Electrical Engineering,
Columbia University
"Image/Video Classification and Search:
Addressing Semantic Gap and User Gap"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | July 24, 2009 | There will be GEECS-sponsored coffee, bagels, and sundry sweets at the
usual time and place
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| [EECS General] | July 23, 2009 | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology Seminar Series
Dr. Rohit Pappu, Washington University, St Louis
"Dissecting the Complexities of Sequence Context and Solvent on Polyglutamine Conformations and Assembly"
Please arrive early if you would like complimentary food and refreshments beforehand.
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| [EECS General] | June 19, 2009 | Come join us celebrate with our graduates! Refreshments will be served.
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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | June 5, 2009 | Awards will be presented to faculty and students. Please join us for Fun, Festivities and Food!
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| [EECS General] | 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"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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.
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | May 21, 2009 | Judy Olson,
"Distance collaboration: What makes it successful?"
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | 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 14, 2009 | Larry J. Greenstein, Rutgers University-WINLAB
"Channel-Based Spoofing Detection in Wireless Networks"
Details/Abstract
| [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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| [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 Grad School"
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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | 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
Details/Abstract
| [EECS General] | April 29, 2009 | IEEE 2009 Kickoff!
Free Food and Drinks!
All Majors Welcome!
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| [EECS General] | April 27, 2009 | Segal Seminar Series: Dr. Tina Seelig, Stanford University
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20
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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | April 3, 2009 | Theory and Economics Visit Day
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| [EECS General] | March 17, 2009 | Dr. Xin Chen,Research and Emerging Technologies Department of NAVTEQ Corporation "Next Generation Map Making"
Details/Abstract
| [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 | Nikos Hardavellas, Ph.D. Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
"Near-Optimal Block
Placement and Replication
in Distributed Caches"
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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | March 9, 2009 | Uri Nadiv, Tel Aviv
"On the Convergence of Regret Minimization Dynamics in Concave
Games"
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| [EECS General] | 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 | Ian Kash, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University
Optimizing Scrip Systems: Efficiency, Crashes, Altruists, and Learning"
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| [EECS General] | March 2, 2009 | John H. Weber, CEO of Remy International
"Leading Companies in Really Tough Times"
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| [EECS General] | February 26, 2009 | Pierre Dillenbourg, "Two Facets of Collaboration Technologies: Dual Eye Tracking and Interactive Furniture"
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| [EECS General] | 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 | 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 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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| [EECS General] | January 20, 2009 | Jeremy Gilbert, Assistant Professor, Northwestern Univ
"Design of News"
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| [EECS General] | January 15, 2009 | Michael Schober (The New School)
"Being Copresent with Virtual Partners"
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| [EECS General] | December 11, 2008 | Brian Scassellati, Yale University
NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN MOVED TO MARCH 2009
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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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 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] | 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 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | September 23, 2008 | Welcome Reception for All EECS Students
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| [EECS General] | September 23, 2008 |
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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | September 16, 2008 | New Graduate Student Orientation
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| [EECS General] | September 15, 2008 | The Graduate School Orientation for all New Graduate Students
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| [EECS General] | September 15, 2008 | Miroslav N. Velev, Aries Design Automation
"Exploiting Structure for Efficient Formal Verification and Boolean Satisfiability"
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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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 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 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] | 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 | 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 12, 2008 | The Female Researchers in EECS -- FREECS -- are hosting a visit from Jane Margolis (UCLA) and Allan Fisher (CMU)
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| [EECS General] | 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 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 | 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 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 | Rosalind Picard, MIT
"Emotional Intelligence Technology and Autism"
Technology and Social Behavior Speaker Series
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| [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 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 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"
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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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [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 4, 2008 | Aron Culotta, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Massachusetts, "Learning to Extract Knowledge from Text"
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| [EECS General] | 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”
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| [EECS General] | February 26, 2008 | Vijay Subramanian, Hamilton Institute, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
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| [EECS General] | 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 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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| [EECS General] | February 15, 2008 | Umut Acar, Toyota Technological Institute
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| [EECS General] | February 8, 2008 | Huzefa Rangwala, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Minnesota
"Machine-Learning Based Methods for Protein Structure Prediction"
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| [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 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 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 12, 2007 | Wayne Phoel, of Lincoln Laboratories
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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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 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 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 | 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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| [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 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | May 19, 2006 | "Entanglement Sudden Death: What is it, and what to do about it"
Details about this seminar
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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | April 24, 2006 | "Spoken Documents and Information Management," by Professor Mari Ostendorf, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Washington
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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | 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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| [EECS General] | March 10, 2006 | Seminar by Prof. Rohit Negi
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