Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2006-07 Distinguished Lecture Series

Information Infrastructure Institute (iCUBE) and F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Lecture Series

Each year the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering presents a Distinguished Lecture Series, which brings prominent researchers in the electrical, computer, and software engineering fields to campus. The 2006-07 Distinguished Lecture Series was held in conjunction with support from the Information Infrastructure Institute (iCUBE) and F. Wendell Miller Lecture Series. (Note: To download  and view the videos of the lectures, you'll need QuickTime player. To download a free version of QuickTime, go to www.apple.com/quicktime.)

2006-07 Distinguished Lecture Series

September 18
"Protocols for Adaptive Modulation and Coding in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks," by Michael Pursley, Holcombe Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University

October 23
"Primacy of Place: The Reorientation of Software Engineering Demanded by Software Architecture," by Richard Taylor, Professor, Department of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California at Irvine

November 27
"Means and Metrics: Towards a Quantitative Spectral Analysis," by Tryphon Georgiou, Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair in Electrical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota

January 22
"Distributed Inference in Sensor Networks: Topology and Tradeoffs," by José Moura, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University VIDEO

February 8
"Self-organizing Wireless Sensor Networks in Action,"by John Stankovic, BP America Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia VIDEO

    Co-hosted by Department of Computer Science

March 29
"An Integrated Approach Toward Power Electronics System," by Fred Lee, Lewis A. Hester Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Distinguished University Professor, Virginia Institute of Technology and State Universit

April 23
"Is Systems Biology the Nexus for Future of Computational Science?" by Shankar Subramaniam, Professor, Department of Bioengineering, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at San Diego