News

• MSIT Professor is visiting professor in Hong Kong.
  Professor Michael Honig was recently the visiting Wei Lun professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• MSIT Tribune is featured on McCormick Engineering web site.
  A recent MSIT Tribune was featured on the McCormick School of Engineering website. Kris Hackney of SPSS, Inc., presented the topic: The Predictive Enterprise: Chicago Executive Tells How to Elevate Organizations to a New Level. Read article here.
• MSIT Director Travels to China for Presentation.
  Dr. Abraham Haddad is traveling to Chengdu, China to present a paper and participate in a panel discussion (as the only US participant) at Chinasoft: 2009 EU-China Information Society Summit Forum.
• MSIT graduate Glenn Allison ('08) Featured in March Issue of Network World.
  Glenn Allison, Manager of Network Services at Grainger, was recognized in the March 2009 issue of Network World.  Glenn's team was able to reduce costs while also improving availability of the network.   See more here or download the PDF.
  
  
• MSIT graduate Bob Gariano co-authors book.
  Alum Bob Gariano (Class of  2006) recently co-authored a book, "Fundamental Talent," with Victoria Fine. It discusses how recruiting and retaining motivated and talented people is a differentiator in building shareholder value.  For more information, click here. 
• MSIT graduate Kelly Koenig puts her expertise in quantum nanotechnology to use battling identity theft.
  MSIT graduate Kelly Koenig was featured in the Chicago Sun-Times' January 17, 2009 Business section. Click here to read article.
  
  
  
  
• Yan Chen is invited as the TPC Co-Chair for the 5th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureCom) 2009 to be held on September 14-18 at Athens, Greece.  See more details at http://www.securecomm.org/.
• Positioning Strategy Research Results from Marketing Professor Alex Chernev
  When designing products, companies often choose one of two positioning strategies. They can opt for a narrow, specialized positioning, whereby the product is presented as a master of one, characterized by a single feature. Alternatively, companies can choose a broad, all-in-one positioning, whereby the product is described as a jack of all trades, combining different attributes in an all-in-one solution. Which of these two positioning strategies works best? Click here for more.
• Chen won an NSF Cyber Trust award
  Yan Chen gave an invited talk at Juniper Networks Inc.entitled "NetShield: Matching with a Large Vulnerability Signature Ruleset for High Performance Network Defense" in July 2008. Juniper is one of the major network infrastructure companies. For the same project, Chen won a NSF Cyber Trust award recently.

• Alok Choudhary awarded a United States Patent
  Alok Choudhary and co-inventors Anshuman Nayak, Malay Haldar, Vikram Saxena, and Prithviraj Banerjee were awarded a United States Patent for "System for architecture and resource specification and methods to compile the specification onto hardware"  Details can be found at this link: <http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/activities-accolades/#264>
• MSIT Director Abraham Haddad in South Korea to attend IFAC 17th World Congress, Elected IFAC Fellow ----
  Abraham Haddad, Henry and Isabelle Dever Professor of EECS, travelled to Seoul South Korea to attend the IFAC 17th World Congress (www.ifac2008.org) and attend meetings of the IFAC Council as the US representative and other related meetings. He also received the IFAC Fellow award during the Congress held on July 10, 2008. The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator. Prof. Haddad's citation reads: "For contributions to analysis, optimization and control of stochastic systems with applications to vehicle guidance and communications networks." The list of 2008 IFAC Fellows is found here.
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