Department Hosts Two New Seminar Series

The Department hosted two new seminar series during the Fall ‘98 semester in Computer Engineering and Microelectronics, adding to the already successful Electrophysics Seminar Series.

These new initiatives were aimed at bringing some of the top experts in the Microelectronics and Computer Engineering fields to the University for faculty, students, and interested engineers from both government and industry.

The Research in Computer Engineering Colloquium included the following seminars from researchers outside of the University:

• “Impulse: Building a Smarter Memory Controller,” by Prof. Wilson Hsieh, University of Utah
• “Instruction Set Architectures,” by Prof. Trevor Mudge, University of Michigan
• “Engineering Software for Embedded Control and Communication Systems,” by Jack Ganssle, from The Ganssle Group
• “Future Computer Architecture: Managing Complexity,” by Prof. Jim E. Smith, University of Wisconsin
  

In addition, Maryland faculty members presenting their research for the series included: Profs. Uzi Vishkin, Ben Schneiderman, David Stewart, Manoj Franklin, Donald Yeung, Bruce Jacob, and Charles Silio.

The Microelectronics Colloquium included the following seminars from researchers outside of the University:

• “TCAD Applications to CMOS Process Development: Doping Profile Extraction and Design Calibration,” Dr. Wenchao Liang, the Intel Corporation.
• “Evolution of CMOS and Memories: From 100 nm to 10 nm!” by Dr. Sandip Tiwari, IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center.
• “Sub - 100nm Silicon Technology,” by Dr. Steven Hillenius, Lucent Technologies
• “MEMS 2003 and Beyond” (co-hosted by ISR), by Dr. Albert Pisano, DARPA and UC Berkeley

The colloquium also featured Prof. Michael Pecht, from the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

For information on the Research in Computer Engineering Colloquium, the Microelectronics Colloquium, the Electrophysics Seminar Series, and other special events hosted by the department, please visit the Department’s seminar series web page.