Engineering
hosts Conference on Info Sciences and Systems
The Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering will host the 37th
annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems from
Wednesday, March 12, to Friday, March 14, on the Homewood
campus. CISS began at Princeton in 1967, was moved to Johns
Hopkins during the late 1970s and now alternates between
the two universities.
The purpose of the conference is to provide
information sessions for new advances, applications and
ideas in the fields of wireless communications, networking,
signal and image processing, computer engineering and
information theory. One highlight will be a special session
in optical communication. Nearly 200 technical papers are
scheduled for presentation by faculty and graduate students
from many major educational institutions.
For more information, go to
www.ece.jhu.edu/ciss/index.html.
Historic
lighting demonstrations offer a glimpse into the
past
The first of two historic lighting demonstrations at
Homewood House Museum will be presented on Thursday,
March 13, as part of its exhibition O Say Can You See?
Revolutions in Lighting Technology.
In "1,000 Years of Lighting Technology: A Working
Demonstration of Lamps from Primitive to Kerosene,"
Baltimorean Dan Sohn, a board member of the Rushlight Club,
an international association of collectors and students of
antique lighting, will demonstrate lighting used through
the Industrial Revolution. The talk begins at 6:30 p.m. in
Remsen Hall on the Homewood campus.
Prior to the demonstration, from 4 to 6:15 p.m.,
Homewood House will be open for a reception and the
opportunity to see the lighting exhibit. The cost for the
talk is $5 for Homewood members; $7 for nonmembers. To make
reservations, call 410-516-5589.
The second talk, "The Romance of Gas Lights," is
scheduled for March 27. O Say Can You See? will continue
through March 30. For more information, go to
http://www.jhu.edu/historichouses or
http://www.rushlight.org.
Chair of program
in PTE receives engineering honor
James Spall, chair of the Applied and Computational
Mathematics Program in the Johns Hopkins
Part-Time Programs
in Engineering and Applied Science, has been named a
fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.
A fellow is the highest grade of membership in the
international organization. Spall received the honor for
his contributions to the field in the area of mathematical
algorithms as applied to stochastic (random) systems.
"After 20 years with Johns Hopkins University, four
years of which have been with the Part-Time Engineering
Programs, Jim has more than earned this recognition," Allan
Bjerkaas, associate dean of PTE, said. "He is an integral
part of the PTE staff and has added to the success of our
programs. I speak for the entire faculty when I add my
congratulations to Dr. Spall for this outstanding
accomplishment."
The number of IEEE fellows elected in a year is no
more than 1/1,000th of the total IEEE voting membership.
Olesker is guest
for March Neighborhood Author Series
Longtime local journalist Michael Olesker will share
stories of the city and generations of fascinating
Baltimoreans at the next Neighborhood Author Series event
sponsored by the
Johns
Hopkins University Press.
Olesker will discuss his book Journeys to the Heart of
Baltimore at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 12, in the
Peabody Room of the Episcopal Diocesan Center, located at
North Charles Street and University Parkway.
The monthly Neighborhood Author Series, featuring
Baltimore-based writers of books published by the Press, is
organized by the university's Office of Community Affairs
and the JHU Press, America's oldest continuous university
press and the area's leading publisher of books about the
history, people and environment of Maryland and the
Chesapeake region.
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