2008 ECE Affiliates Conference Agenda

Wednesday, October 15
Duncan Hall, Rice University

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8:00-8:50am		Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00am		ECE Affiliates Program Update (pdf) Ashutosh Sabharwal, Assistant Professor of ECE Chair, ECE Affiliates Program Director, Center for Multimedia Communication
9:15am		Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering Highlights (pdf) Behnaam Aazhang, J.S. Abercrombie Professor Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9:30am		Urban-Scale Ultra-Low Cost Wireless Networking (pdf) Ed Knightly, Professor of ECE and CS
10:00am		Break
10:30am		Active Integrated Circuit Metering Techniques for Security and Digital Rights Management (pdf) Farinaz Koushanfar, Assistant Professor of ECE
11:00am		Toward Large-scale Optoelectronic Integration on Silicon (pdf) Qianfan Xu, Assistant Professor of ECE
11:30am		ECE Affiliates Luncheon (Registration Required) at The Grand Hall, Rice Student Center
1:00pm		Demo floor Featuring ECE Student Research and Award-Winning Research Projects
2:30pm		Error Tolerance for Scaled Electronic Technologies Kartik Mohanram, Assistant Professor of ECE and CS
3:00pm		Make "Sense" for Computing (pdf) Lin Zhong, Assistant Professor of ECE and CS
3:30pm		Break
4:00pm		Keynote - Server and Data Center Design for the Exascale Era Dr. Partha Ranganathan Principal Research Scientist at Hewlett-Packard Labs Webcast
		Reception following lecture in the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen Sponsored by ECE and CS