December 4, 2008         Send your news items to eecsnews@eecs.northwestern.edu

December rolls in:
fir needles, bills, icicles,
assorted sharp jabs.
  - anonymous

FRIDAY 12/5 - Ellen Spertus, Assoc. Professor of Computer Science, Mills College
"Evaluating Similarity Measures: A Large-Scale Study in the Orkut Social Network"
Time/Location: 4:00 PM, Tech L324; Abstract/Bio

THURSDAY 12/11 - Shoji Tominaga, Department of Information Science,
Graduate School of Advanced Integration Science, Japan: "Viewpoint and Illumination-Independent Digital Archiving of Art Paintings"
4:00 PM, Ford ITW Auditorium
Abstract/Bio/Further Links

11/24/2008 - Developing A Neighborhood Watch For The Internet
Fabian Bustamante and doctoral student David Choffnes are building a participatory approach to detecting, isolating and reporting network anomalies: the Network Early Warning System, or NEWS for short. Read the entire article here

11/25/2008 - Slashdot.org - Researchers Latch Onto BitTorrent To Spot Connection Problems
"Northwestern University researchers (Bustamante and Choffnes) have developed a system that gives a heads up about traffic problems on the Internet, where there is no central management system." Link

Manijeh Razeghi and members of the Center for Quantum Devices publish in Applied Physics Letters and Applied Physics B. Link

Yan Chen is invited as the TPC Co-Chair for the 5th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureCom) 2009 to be held on September 14-18 at Athens, Greece. Link

Sausan Yazji - PHD Qualifying Exam
Date/Time/Location: Friday December 5, 2008 / 10:00 AM / Tech L324
Title: "Implicit User Re-Authentication for Mobile Wireless Devices"
Committee Chairman: Peter Scheuermann

2/2/2008 - New AfterCollege Job Listings
12/2/2008 - Computer Vision R&D Scientist / Networking Scientist - Los Angeles
11/24/2008 - Research Computing Specialist - Columbia Business School
Details about these postings are here.

Check out the AfterCollege Job Resource to access alumni contacts and relevant job and
internship opportunities exclusive to EECS.