Celebrating 30 years of DSP at Rice

Duncan Hall
McMurtry Auditorium, Room 1055
Rice University
February 19, 1999

February 18, 1999 (Thursday)

4:00pm
 		
         Communications R/Evolution

Arun Netravali, Executive VP Research of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
(MS'69, PhD'70)

        		
    










February 19, 1999 (Friday)




    

        8:00 - 8:30 AM

		Registration
 
Continental Breakfast		
        
    

    

        8:30 - 8:45 AM
		Welcome
    

    

        
        Malcolm Gillis, President

        Tony Elam, Executive Director, 

        Computer & Information Technology Institute

        Geoffrey Orsak (Master of Ceremonies), Associate Professor, 

        Southern Methodist University (BS'85, MEE'86, PhD'90)
        		
    

    

        The Past and Present

    

    

        8:45 - 9:45 AM
        History of DSP at Rice
University
    

    

	    
		James Kaiser, Bellcore
    

    

        9:45 - 10:15 AMBreak
		
    

    

        10:15 AM - 12:15 PMAlumni Presentations
    

        

        
		Speakers:

        Jim McClellan, Georgia Tech (MS'72, PhD'73)

        Maite Brandt-Pearce, University of Virginia (BS, BA '85, MEE '89, PhD '93)

        Julius Smith, CCRMA, Stanford University (BSEE'75)

		John Treichler, VP Research, 

Applied 
Signal Technologies (BA'70, MEE'70)

        		
    

    

        Lunch (Martel Hall, Duncan Hall)
    

    

        The Future

    

    

        1:30 - 3:00 PM
		Rice Faculty Presentations
    

    

	    
		Don Johnson, Richard Baraniuk, Behnaam Aazhang, Joe Cavallaro
    

    

        3:00 - 3:45 PM
		Break and Poster session with current MS/PhD students (DH3092)
    

    

        3:45 - 4:15 PM
		DSP in Industry
    

    

        
		Gene Frantz, TI Fellow, Texas Instruments
    

        
4:15 - 5:00 PM
		Panel Discussion: "The
Future of DSP"
    

    

        
		Speakers:

        John Treichler (Moderator), VP Research, 

        Applied 
        Signal Technologies (BA'70, MEE'70)

        Gene Frantz, TI Fellow, Texas Instruments

        Larry Marple, Chief Scientist, Orincon Corporation (BA'69, MEE'70)

        Arun Netravali, Executive VP Research at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (MS'69, PhD'70)

        		
    

    

        5:00 PM
		Closing Remarks/Reception
    

    

        Dinner (Dore Commons, Baker Hall)
    

    

        6:30 - 7:00 PM
		Reception
    

        7:00 - 8:30 PM
		Dinner
    

    

        8:15 - 8:45 PM
		Closing Remarks
    

    

        
		Speakers:

        Malcolm Gillis, President

        C. Sidney Burrus, Dean of Engineering (BA'57, BS'58, MS'60)

		Thomas Parks, Cornell University (Rice Faculty 1967-86)		
    

        
After-Dinner Program
    

    

        9:00 PM


		Introductions by Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, Professor of ECE and Mathematics

        Director, Laboratory for Machine Intelligence and Neural and Soft Computing

        University of California at Irvine (Rice Faculty 1965-90)
    

    

        
		The First Class

        C. Sidney Burrus and Thomas Parks
    

    

        
		Where are they now?

        John Treichler		
    










February 20, 1999 (Saturday)












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