Fri 6/5: GEECS Coffee, Bagels, More! All are invited. 10:00 a.m. in Ford 2.227 [link]

Fri 6/5: EECS Faculty and Student Awards Ceremony. Refreshments. 2:00 p.m. in Tech L324 [update: winners and photos]

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MSIT
Segal Design Institute

Student Job Opportunities:
No new this week

Details and contact information for previous job postings is available at this link.

EECS's Birnbaum and Hammond team up with Medill professors to save the news industry
June 4, 2009, Editor & Publisher
Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism is developing technology applications that it hopes will help shore up the news industry. As traditional mass media business models decline, the project aims to apply technology in ways that generate new revenues or reduce journalism's production and distribution costs while maintaining its standards. "Interactive services that deliver news to consumers increasingly are technology-driven, and will be developed by journalists and technologists in collaboration with one another," said Rich Gordon, adding that "technology can be used to help journalists do their jobs better." Rich Gordon is Medill's director of digital technology in education, and Kristian Hammond and Larry Birnbaum, professor and associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science in Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering. [link to the article] Read the student projects blog

Faculty Activities & Accolades

Abraham Haddad's textbook on "Probabilistic Systems and Random Signals" has been translated into Chinese and published in Taiwan by Prentice Hall-Pearson Education Taiwan Ltd.

Upcoming Exams

Earl Joseph Wagner -- Ph.D. Final Examination
Date/Time/Location: June 5, 2009 / 10:00 A.M. / Ford 3-340
Dissertation: "Extracting and Aggregating Information about Situations Over Time to Present the Context of News"
Committee: Prof. Lawrence A. Birnbaum, Chairperson; Prof. Kenneth D. Forbus (EECS); Prof. Christopher K. Riesbeck (EECS)

Ionut Trestian -- Ph.D. Final Qualifier
Date/Time/Location: Friday, June 5, 2009 / 3:00 P.M. / Ford 3-340
Dissertation: “N/A ”
Committee: Prof. Alexandar Kuzmanovic, Chairperson; Prof. Peter Dinda (EECS); Prof. Gokhan Memik (EECS)

Serkan Ozdemir -- Ph.D. Final Defense
Date/Time/Location: Monday, June 8, 2009 / 3:30 pm / L324
Dissertation: "Mitigating the Effects of Process Variations through Microarchitectural Techniques"
Committee: Prof. Gokhan Memik, Chairperson; Prof. Hai Zhou (EECS); Prof. Fatma Seda Memik (EECS); Prof. Russ Joseph (EECS)

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