Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department
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EC '14

It was another great year for EECS at the 15th ACM Conference of Economics and Computation (EC '14) and affiliated workshops and meetings, as a total of seven Northwestern affiliated papers were presented at the event, held June 8-12, 2014 at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA. The conference is the premier event for research at the intersection between computer science and economics.

   

Five accepted NU affiliated papers were presented at the main conference, while Nima Haghpanah and  Prof. Jason Hartline presented their paper, titled, "Reverse Mechanism Design" at the National Bureau of Economic Research's Market Design Working Group Meeting (NBER), and Prof. Nicole Immorlica, Greg Stoddard and Vasilis Syrgkanis presented their paper, titled, "Social Status and Badge Design" at The 4th Workshop on Social Computing and User Generated Content. All EECS participants are either current or former members of Prof. Hartline's Theory Group. Read More   

Chang Liu
Manijeh Razeghi, Walter P. Murphy Professor was an Invited Speaker and Session Chair ("Optoelectronic Devices") at the Workshop on Compound Semiconductor Devices and Integrated Circuits (WOCSDICE/EXMATEC 2014), held on Monday, June 16, 2014 in Delphi, Greece.

Prof. Razeghi presented her paper, titled, "III-Nitride based Semiconductor for Optoelectronic Devices From Deep UV (200nm) to THz (300 microns)", in the "Optoelectronic, THz Low Band Gap-Semiconductor Devices" session.  Read More 

Aggelos Katsaggelos

Aggelos Katsaggelos, Professor & AT&T Chair was quoted in an Chicago Tribune article, titled, "My Wife the Dentist and Other Misadventures with Speech-to-text Technology" by Eric Zorn, published on Thursday, June 12, 2014.

 

In the article, Prof. Katsaggelos is interviewed reguarding the inability of voice-to-text programs to transcribe slightly complicated speech correctly. He is quoted as referring to the difficulty of identifying phonemes or our tendency to eliminate or elide syllables, as "reduced speech." Read More 

 

2014 Northwestern Graduation Schedule
Thursday June 19
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Jobs, Internships 

New this week:

 
Prana Diabetes Needs Summer Intern for Building Mobile App's in Chicago

Part Time Research & Planning Summer Job for NU Student (25-50 Hours Total)

International Visiting Undergraduate Student Intern Needs Room to Rent (NOW-9/6)

Evanston Resident Needs Computer Repair

Engineering Tutoring Opportunity for 2014-2015

Multiple AfterCollege Scholarships Available: Deadline Monday 6/30

Political Science Professor Seeking CS Student for Summer Wikipedia Study (API & Web Scraping)

Feinberg IT: User Support Specialist Position Available

GE Healthcare Full-Time Job Opportunity

INCS Data Analyst Job Opportunity

METRA Hiring Senior Network Engineer

The Data Incubator Announces Expanded Fall Postdoc/PhD Bootcamp

Fresenius Kabi Hiring Software Engineer & R&D Engineer

EECS Visiting Scholar Needs Room to Rent (6/13-12/31)

Retia Medical, LLC is Looking for a Biomedical Signal Processing Engineer

Be the First to Crack the NSA's Code

Motorola: Corporate Strategy Intern Reporting to CEO

McCormick Marketing Opening for Student Marketing Aide (Summer, June-September)

FDA Employment Opportunities for Northwestern Electrical Engineers

CDW Position Available in Advanced Analytics

Teaching Opportunity for Graduate Student

Start-up Wobova Looking for Front-end Developer

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