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[Small Logo] April 2005 [Small Logo]
04/25
  • ICA Software ready for downloading.
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    04/19
  • 24.704 Lecture 13: Final course project presentations.
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    04/18
    Tue.
  • 24.377 Final Exam: Frank Kennedy Bldg., Brown Gym., 6:00 PM.
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    04/17
    Mon.
  • Mentorship: Justin Olivier.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Steve Miller (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Bin Huang (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Hakim El Boustani (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
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    04/12
  • 24.704 Lecture 12: Ch.16 Dictionary techniques; LZ, Storer
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    04/11
  • UMARS: General Meeting (Rm. 234b, New Eng. Bldg.; 5:00-6:30 PM)
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    04/10
    Mon.
  • Mentorship: Justin Olivier.
  • Computer Engineering Selection Committee meeting.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
       Selection of a PIC microcontroller development system.
  • Research Review: Alexis Denis (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Jonathan Greenberg (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Martin Stadler (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
  • Registration for CCECE'2000 in Halifax.
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    04/07
  • TRLabs, MMS, & Synodon: SAR compression; conference call.
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    04/06
  • 24.377 Lecture 26 (last): Review of course material and 1999 exam.
  • 24.377 Tour: Vansco Electronics, 1305 Clarence Avenue, 3:00 PM.
  • TRLabs & VTN: Animation compression; conference call.
  • Demo: Rotary Career Symposium, Convention Centre, 6:00-9:00 PM.
        (with Richard Dansereau and Alexis Denis).
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    04/05
  • 24.704 Lecture 11: Ch.13 Statistical Techniques 2: McMillan, EH
       Ch. 15 Arithmetic coding
  • IEEE Seminar: "A new DSP architecture: The TigerSHARC" by Rasekh Rifaat, Analog Devices, Rm. 234b, New Engineering Bldg., 12:30 PM.
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    04/04
  • 24.377 Lecture 25: Ch.6, P2: BDD simplification concepts, the ITE operator, ROCBDDs
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    04/03
    Mon.
  • Mentorship: Justin Olivier.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Luotao Sun (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Richard Dansereau (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Hong Zhang (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
  • TRLabs & Synodon: Radar compression; conference call.
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    [Small Logo] March 2005 [Small Logo]
    03/31
  • Presentation: Computer Engineering, first-year students; Senate Chambers, 1:45 PM.
  • Meeting: Computer Engineering Curriculum; Rm 459, 2:30 PM.
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    03/30
  • 24.377 Lecture 24: Ch.6, P1: Analysis and synthesis of ROBDDs
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    03/29
  • 24.704 Lecture 10: Ch.12 Statistical Techniques 1: Step, SF, H
       Ch. 13 Kraft inequality
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    03/28
  • 24.377 Lecture 23: Ch.6, P1: Intro to binary decision diagrams, BDDs
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    03/27
    Mon.
  • Mentorship: Justin Olivier.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Andreas Besier (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Jin Chen (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Randy Alan (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
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    03/23
  • 24.377 Lecture 22: Ch.5, P2: The Branch & Bound algorithm
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    03/22
  • 24.704 Lecture 9: Ch.11 RLE
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    03/21
  • 24.377 Lecture 21: Ch.5, P2: Heuristic minimization; reduction of cover matrix
  • DEMO: McGraw-Hill/Ryerson books.
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    03/20
    Mon.
  • Mentorship: Justin Olivier.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Steve Miller (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Bin Huang (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Hakim El Boustani (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
  • Consulting: Fish scale fractal analysis and classification with neural networks.
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    03/17
  • Undergraduate Thesis Day. Six of my students presented their theses.
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    03/16
  • 24.377 Lecture 20: Ch.5, P1: The complete sum; reduction of unate & binate functions
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    03/15
  • 24.704 Lecture 8: Ch.8 Redundancy
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    03/14
  • 24.377 Lecture 19: Ch.5, P1: Direct minimization
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    03/13
    Mon.
  • Mentorship: Justin Olivier.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Alexis Denis (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Jonathan Greenberg (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Martin Stadler (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
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    03/10
  • Meeting: My undergraduate thesis students re: oral presentations.
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    03/09
  • 24.377 Lecture 18: Ch.4, P6: Boolean function algebras
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    03/08
  • 24.704 Lecture 7: Ch.7 Entropy; Ch.8 Redundancy
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    03/07
  • 24.377 Lecture 17: : Senate Chambers.
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    03/06
    Mon.
  • Mentorship: Justin Olivier.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Luotao Sun (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Richard Dansereau (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Hong Zhang (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
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    03/03
  • Meetings: My undergraduate thesis students re: review of docs.
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    03/02
  • 24.377 Lecture 16: Ch.4, P5: Formulae, functions, cofactors, Boolean expansion theorem
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    03/01
  • 24.704 Lecture 6: Ch.6 Information
  • IEEE: Executive Meeting, HVDC; 12:00 noon.
  • APEGM: ARC Meeting; 5:00 PM.
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    [Small Logo] February 2005 [Small Logo]
    02/29
  • 24.377 Lecture 15: Ch.4, P4: Isotone property; consensus theorem
  • Presentation: Undergraduate thesis topics for next year.
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    02/28
    Mon.
  • Mentorship: Justin Olivier; East River Heights Collegiate.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Andreas Besier (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Jin Chen (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Randy Alan (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
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    02/25
  • Meeting: Computer Engineering Curriculum; Rm 459, 2:30 PM.
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    02/24
  • 24.377 Lecture 14: Ch.4, P4: Boolean algebras
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    02/23
  • 24.704 Lecture 5: Ch.4 Performance & applications
       Ch.5 Source message models
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    02/22
  • 24.377 Lecture 13: Ch.4, P3: Lattices
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    02/21
    Mon.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Steve Miller (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Bin Huang (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Hakim El Boustani (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
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    02/16
  • Departmental Council Meeting.
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    02/14
    Mon.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Alexis Denis (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Jonathan Greenberg (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Martin Stadler (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
  • SEMINAR: "New Radio Transmitter Fingerprinting Techniques" by me, Sturgeon Creek Collegiate, 7:30 PM.
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    02/14
  • Midterm Break (February 14 to 18).
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    02/10
  • 24.377 Lecture 12: Ch.4, P3: Algebraic systems; lattices
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    02/09
  • 24.704 Lecture 4: Ch.3: Metrics; Ch.4 Performance
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    02/08
  • 24.377 Lecture 11: Ch.4, P3: Posets; Hasse diagrams
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    02/07
    Mon.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Luotao Sun (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Richard Dansereau (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Hong Zhang (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
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    02/03
  • 24.377 Lecture 10: Ch.4, P2: Functions, mapping, & classes of relations
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    02/02
  • 24.704 Lecture 3: Ch.2, P2: Time invariance, scale invariance
  • Meeting: Department Head Search Committee.
  • Meeting: Computer Engineering Position Search Committee.
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    02/01
  • 24.377 Lecture 9: Ch.4, P1: Sets and binary relations
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    [Small Logo] January 2005 [Small Logo]
    01/31
    Mon.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
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    01/27
  • 24.377 Lecture 8: Appendix G: Gates, latches, flip-flops; Assignment 1
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    01/26
  • 24.704 Lecture 2: Ch.2, P1: Signals; processing techniques
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    01/25
  • 24.377 Lecture 7: Ch.3, P2: Symbolic synthesis of LUNC; Appendix B: SIS & VIS
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    01/24
    Mon.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Andreas Besier (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Jin Chen (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Randy Allan (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
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    01/20
  • 24.377 Lecture 6: Ch.3, P1: Direct synthesis of LUNC.
  • New Systems: Vol. 1.02: A new PalmPilot? Internet maps. Peta chip.
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    01/19
  • 24.704 Signal & Data Compression graduate course.
       Classes start today in Room 566, Old Eng. Bldg., 2:30 PM. Welcome.
       24.704 Lecture 1: Overview of the course.
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    01/18
  • 24.377 Lecture 5: Ch.2, P3: Complexity.
  • 24.377 Lab 1: Starts this week.
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    01/17
    Mon.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Steve Miller (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Bin Huang (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Hakim El Boustani (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
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    01/13
  • 24.377 Lecture 4: Ch.2, P2: Discussion of Lab 1 (Alexis Denis substituting).
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    01/12
    Wed.
  • Departmental Council Meeting.
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    01/11
    Tue.
  • 24.377.377 Lecture 3: Ch.2, P2: Synthesis of circuits.
       Labs start in two weeks.
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    01/10
    Mon.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Alexis Denis (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Jonathan Greenberg (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Martin Stadler (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
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    01/06
    Thu.
  • 24.377 Lecture 2: Ch.2, P1: Systems & technology mapping.
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    01/05
  • TRLabs: Seminar on Fractal Compression.
  • Biomolecular Computing: Several chapters of a new postgraduate course notes completed.
  • New book: Computational Beauty of Nature by Gary W. Flake.
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    01/04
    Tue.
  • 24.377 DSD2.
       Classes start today in Room 234b, New Eng. Bldg. Welcome.
  • 24.377 Lecture 1: Chapter 1: Introduction and orientation.
  • Syllabus distributed in class.
  • 24.377 Course Notes, Chapters 1 & 2 Parts 1 to 3, Appendix A:
       revised versions uploaded.
  • December issue of Computer Post distributed to class.
  • Demonstration of a walker robot, chips, radios, this course site.

  • 24.705 Switching & Automata Theory graduate course.
       Classes start today in Room 234b, New Eng. Bldg. Welcome.
       (NOTE: 24.705 runs in parallel with 24.377.)
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    01/03
    Mon.
  • Syllabus for the new 24.377 Digital Systems Design 2 (DSD2) undergraduate course printed. The previous name of the course introduced by me last year was 24.422 Switching & Automata Theory.
  • Hakim El-Boustani started as my new Ph.D. student. Welcome.
  • Martin Stadler started as my new M.Sc. student. Welcome.
  • Research Meeting: All my graduate students (Rm. 566, 11:30-12:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Luotao Sun (Rm. 533, 12:30-1:00 PM).
  • Research Review: Richard Dansereau (Rm. 533, 1:00-1:30 PM).
  • Research Review: Hong Zhang (Rm. 533, 1:30-2:00 PM).
  • 800 messages related to robotics.
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    [Small Logo] General Interest Items [Small Logo]
     
  • An electronic book Principles of Computer Architecture
       by Miles J. Murdocca and Vincent P. Heuring has been mirrored at this site.

  • The February 1999 issue of the Proceedings of the IEEE
       is dedicated to asynchronous systems design.
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  • "Wireless communications for the twenty-first century" by Andrew Viterbi.
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  • Three articles uploaded:
    - "An informal introduction to formal methods," by C. Michael Holloway.
    - "Application of logic to digital system design," by Paul S. Miner.
    - "Detailed database example," by Ricky W. Butler.
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  • An article "The life of SPICE" by Larry Nagel.
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