Fri 4/17: EECS International Potluck. This historically well-attended event is not to be missed! 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Tech L324. [link]

Fri 4/17: Optimization Happy Hour, Wilkinson Lab, weekly at 4pm [link]

Wed 4/22: Distinguished Speaker Series presents Greg Wornell, 4:00 p.m. [link]

Wed 4/22: MSIT and MEM present an evening speaker event with Timothy Carone, "Innovation: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly" in the Cohen Commons. Reception at 5:30 p.m., talk to follow at 6:00 p.m. [more]

Wed 4/29: Meet the Faculty Series presents Michael L. Honig,"Spectrum Markets, Interference Management, and Wireless System Design" 4:00 p.m.[link]

More events links:
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MSIT
Segal Design Institute

Student Job Opportunities:
New this week
4/16 — Career Development Week: April 20-24
4/16 — Google Lime Scholarship for Students with Disabilities
4/16 — Roundarch seeks 2-3 FT and Interns with CS/IT background
4/13 — Linux Computer Programming Aide 2
4/10 — HTML, CSS experts, FT Summer (NU)
Details and contact information for these jobs is available at this link.

Bandwidths could jam as fans flock to fan "EECS at NU" page on Facebook
The EECS Department now has a Facebook page: EECS at NU. We welcome everyone to take a look and participate. Another EECS entity, the Theory & Econ Group [website] (run by EECS faculty members Lance Fortnow, Nicole Immorlica, Jason Hartline and Ming-Yang Kao) is also represented on Facebook.

Insightful Information Theory
Gregory W. Wornell is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his talk entitled "On the Sufficiency of Ignorance: Recent Lessons in System Architecture" he will discuss the information embedding problem and its companion problem of bit-stealing, the problem of compression with distortion side information, and the rateless coding problem. Read more
Wednesday, April 22 at 4:00 p.m. in the Ford ITW Auditorium.

In the News

Don Norman is featured in Dwell Magazine’s May issue: “If you've long loathed your leaky faucet, this is your chance to gracefully drop the drip. Professor Donald Norman offers his expert opinion on what makes a spectacular tap.” [link]

Faculty Activities & Accolades

Lance Fortnow is Editor-In-Chief of a new journal for ACM, Transactions on Computation Theory (ToCT). The inaugural issue was published this month.
Ken Forbus gave a talk at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this week.
Abraham Haddad is traveling to Chengdu, China to present a paper and participate in a panel discussion (as the only US participant) at Chinasoft: 2009 EU-China Information Society Summit Forum
Manijeh Razeghi's book Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering(Third Edition) was published on March 27, 2009, by Springer.
Don Norman is among the co-hosts of the Second NSF Interdisciplinary Graduate Design Workshop, April 16-17, 2009. [link]
Don Norman was appointed to the National Academies of Science Committee for a workshop on Usability, Security, and Privacy of Information Systems. [link]

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