Affiliates meeting set for Oct. 2-3

Affiliates
meeting set for Oct. 2-3
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Faculty talks
and student poster presentations will highlight the 2001
Affiliates Meetings at Rice.

The Department
of Computer Science and the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering both have put together a lineup of
talks and poster sessions showcasing the departments’
breadth and providing a view of the future of computation
and computer engineering for the industrial community.

The computer
science department meetings will be held Oct. 2, while the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s
meetings are scheduled for Oct. 3. All meetings will be
held in McMurtry Auditorium, Anne and Charles Duncan Hall.
Additionally, the computer science department will host
student poster displays in Martel Hall, and the computer
and electrical engineering department will use rooms 3092
and 3076 in Duncan Hall for posters sessions.

Represenatives
from national corporations such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft,
National Instruments and Texas Instruments will be in attendance.
There is no charge for Rice faculty, staff and students
wishing to get an update on trends in computing research
and education.

Technical talks
will include:

• “Future
Microprocessors: Technology, Applications and Architecture,”
Scott Rixner, assistant professor of computer science and
in electrical and computer engineering;
• “Recent Advances and Future Applications in
Multi-Hop Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networking,” Dave
Johnson, associate professor of computer science and in
electrical and computer engineering;
• “Developing Realtime 3D Computer Games: A Vehicle
for Education in Graphics and Software Engineering,”
Joe Warren, professor of computer science;
• “Advanced Infrared Gas Sensors: Development
and Real-World Applications,” Frank K. Tittel, the
J.S. Abercrombie Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering;
• “New Directions in Image Coding,” Michael
Orchard, professor in electrical and computer engineering;
and
• “Exploiting Instruction-Level Parallelism for
Memory System Performance,” Vijay Pai, assistant professor
in electrical and computer engineering and computer science.

For registration
and additional infor-mation, see the Department of Computer
Science Web site, <www.cs.rice.edu/>,
or the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Web site, <www.ece.rice.edu/>.