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Technological Institute in September
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Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department of Northwestern University
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Ollie Cossairt
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We are pleased to welcome Oliver (Ollie) Cossairt to EECS. Ollie is Assistant Professor in EECS and the Lisa Wisner-Slivka and Benjamin Slivka Junior Professor of Computer Science. His research interests lie at the intersection of optics, computer vision and computer graphics.
Ollie writes, "I am fascinated with the idea that cameras can be very finely tuned towards specific purposes, and that doing so can be an excellent way to capture specific visual information." Read more about Ollie's research interests and background at his web page: eecs.northwestern.edu/~ollie/
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Kumar returns to his alma mater to talk about quantum communications
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Prem Kumar delivered an Institute Lecture at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India -- his alma mater -- on the topic of Quantum Communications on September 14. He was last at the Institute 36 years ago (M.Sc., class of 1976) and traveled there last week on invitation of the Institute's Dean of Research and Development, Dr. Ajit Chaturvedi. As a guest of the Institute, Prem also interacted with photonics area faculty and students in the departments of chemistry, electrical engineering, and physics.
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Alok Choudhary Meets Steven Chu
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Alok Choudhary and Steven Chu
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Alok Choudhary met with United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu at the 2012 Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship Annual Conference, July 26. Prof. Choudhary gave the keynote address: "Discovering Knowledge from Massive Networks and Science Data-Next Frontier for HPC." Reprinted from the September NU Research Newsletter
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Findler paper from 2002 wins award in 2012
| Robby Findler |
Robby Findler and Matthias Felleisen ICFP'02 paper, "Contracts for Higher-Order Functions", was awarded the 'ACM SIGPLAN Most Influential Paper Award.' Presented annually to the author(s) of a paper presented at the ICFP held 10 years prior to the award year, the award includes a prize of $1,000 to be split among the authors of the winning paper. The papers are judged by their influence over the past decade. More
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79 new graduate students welcomed to EECS
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The morning orientation was led by Prof. Chris Riesbeck, EECS Graduate Program Director, and mentor/advisor to graduate students. A dozen members of our faculty gave five-minute presentations, and Chris Riesbeck gave his annual talk on how to succeed as a grad student.
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September 20, 2012
Vol 1, No. 1
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Alan V. Sahakian, Professor and Chair of EECS
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CS101: a conversation
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Animation made by Jason Hartline to promote CS101
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Find out why you (and everyone else) should take CS 101 this fall. Watch this video animation which provides authors an easy method for writing explanatory dialogues. A CS 101 class project will involve using Xtranormal to explain material from lectures. See nucs101.org for details.
-Jason Hartline, EECS Associate Professor
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EECS Jobs Board
Newly posted jobs & internships for EECS students and alumni
+CollabLab seeks Java/C# Programmer
+Leigh Bienen project
seeks techie
+Lake Partners
seeks Analyst
+Nuclear Regulatory Comm. seeks nuke safety trainees
+MobiU2012 Summit 9/24
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If you like our new format, let us know!
This EECS Weekly is the same publication you've been receiving, but in a new HTML format. We plan to launch an EECS Quarterly toward the end of each quarter, which will contain all the highlights of the quarter.
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