http://www.eecs.utk.edu/ 2008-08-21T11:10:05-04:00 http://www.eecs.utk.edu/ http://www.eecs.utk.edu/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2008-08-16T12:53:43-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-08-16-12-53-matlab-license-rollout Do you speak MATLAB? Over one million people around the world do and now you can too. Free! The University of Tennessee is accelerating its pace in science and engineering by providing MATLAB, Simulink and 54 companion products free to all faculty, staff and students. In July 2008, a UT system-wide license agreement with The MathWorks was acquired and the MATLAB family of products is ready for distribution. Our MATLAB rollout event is August 27-28 in the University Center Shiloh room and everyon… text/html 2008-08-13T10:26:25-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-08-13-10-25-ph.-d.-dissertation-defense-for-andy-perkins WHEN: Wednesday, August 13th at 12:30 p.m. in CL 211 TOPIC: Addressing Challenges in a Graph-Based Analysis of High-Throughput Biological Data ADVISOR: Michael Langston AbstractGraph-based methods used in the analysis of DNA microarray technology can be powerful tools in the elucidation of biological relationships. As these methods are developed and applied to various types of data, challenges arise that test the limits of current algorithms. These challenges arise in all phases of dat… text/html 2008-08-04T10:28:34-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-08-04-10-26-ms-thesis-defense-for-rakesh-mallem 414 Ferris HallWednesday, August 6, 2008 @ 9:00 A.M.Design and Development of an APD Algorithm Development Board for Positron Emission TomographyRakesh Mallem, Master’s CandidateDr. S. K. Islam, Major Professor AbstractUsing the PET scanner, three dimensional images of the human body with sufficient detail can be viewed which help physicians to visualize both normal metabolic functions and discover the chemical processes underlying physical abnormalities. Commercial PET scanners employ Photo Mu… text/html 2008-07-24T10:32:08-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-07-24-10-30-ms-pilot-presentation-for-daniel-lucio DATE: Friday, July 25, 2008 TIME: 10:00am PLACE: Claxton 202 TITLE: Hardware Sensors Monitoring with PAPI ABSTRACT Modern computer hardware have sensors to monitor the health and status of different computer components. Most of these sensors can be read and monitored, if you know how to do it. But, even if you can read them, you still need to know how to properly interpret (massage) the information just read. In this presentation, I will talk about the details of the work I did to enable th… text/html 2008-07-17T16:39:16-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-07-17-16-38-ph.-d.-defense-for-yunqiang-yang College of EngineeringDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science‐ Announcement of a Doctoral Dissertation Defense ‐Ferris Hall 414Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 9:00 A.M.“Development of a Real-time Ultra-widebandSee Through Wall Imaging Radar System”Yunqiang Yang, Ph.D. CandidateDr. Aly E. Fathy, Major ProfessorAbstractSee-Through-Wall technology has emerged as a must-have enabling technology by both the military and commercial sectors. The use of Ultra-Wideband ??UWB?? in recent years … text/html 2008-07-17T16:37:37-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-07-17-16-36-ph.d.-defense-for-songnan-yang College of EngineeringDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science‐ Announcement of a Doctoral Dissertation Defense ‐Ferris Hall 414Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 12:30 P.M.“Antennas and Arrays for Mobile Platforms-- Direct Broadcast Satellite and Wireless Communication”Songnan Yang, Ph.D. CandidateDr. Aly E. Fathy, Major ProfessorAbstractFlexibility of any proposed communication links is becoming one of the most challenging features. Direct broadcasting satellite services, for example, w… text/html 2008-07-17T16:34:31-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-07-17-16-33-thesis-defense-for-harold-gonzales Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science‐ Announcement of a Master of Science Thesis Defense ‐Claxton Hall Room 206Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 10 A. M.“L‐encoder: Video transcoding in the logistical network” Harold Thomas Gonzales, Master’s CandidateDr. Micah Beck, Major ProfessorAbstractTranscoding, the transformation of digital information from one encoding format to another, is a prominent operation in the realm of digital video and audio. This process of changing the encoding… text/html 2008-07-03T12:35:20-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-07-03-12-31-junqing-sun-places-third-in-acm-student-research-competition Junqing Sun, a recent PhD graduate from the Min H. Kao Department of Electrical Engineering and [Sun] Computer Science, placed third in the ACM Student Research Competition Grand Finals. He previously won the Student Research Contest at Supercomputing '08 and was selected as one of the finalists from the winners of each of the student research contests at the major international ACM conferences. Dr. Sun and his advisor, Gregory D. Peterson, were invited to attend the ACM annual awards ceremony… text/html 2008-07-01T15:01:50-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-07-01-15-00-high-performance-computing-challenges An Overview of High-Performance Computing and Challenges for the Future Thursday, August 07, 10AM Jack Dongarra, Computer Science and Mathematics DivisionNuclear Science and Technology Division Seminar10:00 AM, JICS Building (5100), Auditorium (Room 128)Contact: Kevin T. Clarno <clarnokt@ornl.gov>, 865.241.1894Contact: Alice Rice <riceaf@ornl.gov>, 865.576.2237 Abstract In this talk we examine how high performance computing has changed over the last 10-year and look toward the future in ter… text/html 2008-06-30T11:44:09-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-06-30-11-43-51st-ieee-international-mwscas-2008 The 51st IEEE International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS 2008) will be held during August 10-13, 2008, in Knoxville, TN. The City of Knoxville is located in the heart of East Tennessee, undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and livable areas in the United States. Home to the University of Tennessee, the World’s Fair Park and minutes from the Great Smoky Mountains. Downtown Knoxville features convenient hotels, unique restaurants, eclectic shopping and nighttime entertainment… text/html 2008-06-27T12:39:17-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-06-27-12-38-ornl/nccs-blue-gene/p-workshop July 29 - 31, 2008 Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and IBM have teamed to bring the next generation of the IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer to the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) at Oak Ridge National laboratories (ORNL). The Blue Gene/P system configuration, with 8,192 compute cores, will provide more than 27 teraflops of computing capability. text/html 2008-06-06T14:14:01-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-06-06-14-13-professor-alexeff-to-present-at-icops Professor Emeritus Igor Alexeff will present an invited paper on Plasma Antennas at ICOPS in Karlsruhe, Germany during the week of June 15, 2008. Professor Alexeff started ICOPS (International Conference on Plasma Science) at UTK in May of 1974. text/html 2008-06-06T14:11:08-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-06-06-14-10-dr.-icove-attends-annual-ul-meeting Dr. David Icove, P.E., represented UT this week at the annual meeting of Underwriters Laboratory (UL) in Chicago, serving as a member of UL's Advisory Committee. UL is the leading international standards-based engineering testing organization. UL unveiled at their annual meeting a new initiative to sponsor and fund more academic engineering research. Icove is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the EECS Department. text/html 2008-06-06T14:09:59-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-06-06-14-09-dr.-koschan-and-dr.-abidi-publish-new-book Dr. Andreas Koschan, EECS Research Associate Professor, and Dr. Mongi Abidi, EECS Professor, have published a new book titled “Digital Color Imaging Processing” at Wiley, New Jersey. It is the first textbook that presents an introduction to color in three-dimensional image processing and the emerging area of multi-spectral image processing. It is contained in 376 pages, 13 chapters, and is fully indexed. It breaks down into four fundamental sections: fundamentals, processing, scene analysis, an… text/html 2008-05-19T14:54:21-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-05-19-14-52-dr.-xiaorui-wang-receives-award-from-microsoft-research EECS assistant professor Dr. Xiaorui Wang has received an award from Microsoft Research for his proposal titled “Control-Theoretic Power and Performance Management for Green Data Centers”. The goal of this highly competitive award program is to stimulate research that could dramatically increase the power efficiency of computing. Dr. Wang was one of only four recipients of the 2008 Power Aware Computing Awards. text/html 2008-02-29T11:15:20-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-02-29-11-13-dr.-poore-named-vice-president-for-information-technology Dr. Jesse Poore, EECS professor and director of UT's Science Alliance, has been named Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer. Announcement text/html 2008-02-19T14:40:07-04:00 Markus Iturriaga Woelfel http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-02-19-14-38-cretaceous-software-soa-software-development-contest Cretaceous Software hereby announces the SOA Software Development Contest, a programming competition featuring a grand prize of up to $5000.00 in tuition assistance. Are you a talented developer who likes to master new, cutting-edge technologies? Are you interested in tackling the unique challenges associated with service oriented architecture? Would you like to have someone else pay your tuition next semester? If so, then grab a can of Red Bull, download the latest version of the Delve SOA Too… text/html 2008-01-29T21:11:07-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-01-29-20-46-songnan-yang-wins-ieee-rws-competition Mr. Songnan Yang was awarded “Best Paper” during the 2008 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium held in Orlando, Florida this January. His presentation “Novel Reconfigurable Multi-Band Antennas for Multi-Radio Platforms” was selected by a panel of 17 judges from a field of 75 students representing 59 countries. The best paper award included a $1,500 check and payment of all travel expenses. Congratulations to Songnan and his adviser Dr. Aly Fathy for this excellent achievement. text/html 2008-01-22T08:03:01-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2008-01-22-08-02-recent-e-mail-scams To: UT Knoxville Area Faculty, Staff and Students From: Information Security Officer Robert Ridenour Subject: Recent e-mail scams UT Knoxville Area faculty, staff and students have been the target of two e-mail scams this week. Both e-mails attempt to appear as official university communication from the Office of Information Technology and request that the user to reply with their e-mail password. In one case, the e-mail requests the user's date of birth and office location as well. text/html 2007-12-07T13:26:36-04:00 Randy W. Bond http://www.eecs.utk.edu/news/2007-12-07-13-23-potential-identity-theft-at-ornl Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) recently experienced a sophisticated cyber attack that appears to be part of a coordinated attempt to gain access to computer networks at numerous laboratories and other institutions across the country. A hacker illegally gained access to ORNL computers by sending staff e-mails that appeared to be official legitimate communications. When the employees opened the attachment or accessed an embedded link, the hacker planted a program on the employees' computers …