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EECS SEMINAR: "Unconstrained Multi-Projector Displays"
Monday May 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM — Technological Institute - Room L324
EECS SEMINAR
Aditi Majumder, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of California, Irvine
"Unconstrained Multi-Projector Displays"
Early generations of tiled multi-projector displays were expensive, driven by cost prohibitive monolithic rendering machines which justified the use of expensive rigid optical and mechanical infrastructure to register the images from the many projectors. Current generation multi-projector displays use commodity projectors, are driven by inexpensive PC clusters, and hence are very affordable. To support scalability, common due to reduced cost, automatic camera-based registration techniques have been explored in the last decade. But, despite the low cost and the supposed flexibility imparted by the automated registration, these displays are still quarantined to hi-tech environments that can provide a critical mass of 'educated' users. This is due to two reasons. First, these displays are still very constrained in terms of the devices, environment and architecture used, resulting in an utterly complicated deployment, unreasonable to expect of 'layman' users. Second, perfect seamlessness is yet to be successfully achieved in these, especially when built of commodity products. This talk presents the advances made to remove such constraints and bring in an hitherto unrealized ease in deployment that can be achieved by almost anyone. Methodologies will be presented that allow imperfect/uncalibrated devices, flexible driving architecture, and new generation devices and still achieve perceptually seamless displays. Thus, we advance the frontiers towards self-calibrating, flexible, reconfigurable and hence truly scalable displays.
Aditi Majumder is an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science in University of California, Irvine. She received her BE in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India in 1996 and PhD from Department of Computer Science, Universi
Event URL: http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/events/
For more information, contact:
Brooke Hildebrand
brooke@eecs.northwestern.edu
847-491-3451
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
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Swinney: Emergence of Spatial Patterns in Physical,...
Monday May 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM — Tech M416
Edward L. Reiss Memorial Lectures
Title: Emergence of Spatial Patterns in Physical, Chemical and Biological Systems
Speaker: Professor Harry Swinney, University of Texas
For more information, contact:
Danielle Jackson
danielle-jackson@northwestern.edu
847-491-5586
McCormick-Colloquia Engineering Sciences and Appli
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Annual ChBE Debates
Monday May 5, 2008 at 6:00 PM — Tech LR3
Monday, May 5, 2008
The Technological Institute, Lecture Room 3
6:00 pm
Panera will be served at 5:45 pmTopic for the 2008 Debates:
"Cognitive enhancers are becoming greater temptations for both students and professors in increasingly competitive academic environments. In order to ensure a level playing field, universities should not allow these drugs to be taken unless warranted by a medical condition."
Event URL: http://www.chem-biol-eng.northwestern.edu/news/events/debates/2008.html
For more information, contact:
Allison Sillers
a-strick@northwestern.edu
847-491-2773
Chemical and Biological Engineering
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Mu Sigma Recruiting Event
Monday May 5, 2008 at 6:00 PM — Tech Bldg Room L150
Dhiraj Rajaram from Mu Sigma, which specializes in business analytics, is looking to recruit people
(For permanent employment as well as summer internships) with excellent quantitative skills
(Statistics and data analysis, optimization, etc.)For business decision support models.
Mu Sigma helps clients institutionalize analytics in their organizations using global delivery. We are headquartered in Chicago USA with delivery center in Bangalore India. Mu Sigma's scientific community, which consists of practitioners from leading educational institutions in the United States, enable us to deploy cutting edge analytics for our clients. Talent from the best educational institutions (ISI, IITs, IIMs) in India is recruited to serve clients cost effectively. Our best-in-class processes leverage expertise in statistics and econometrics in the areas of marketing,risk and supply chain. The techniques our professionals use range from conventional statistical and operations research techniques to advanced artificial intelligence techniques.
For more information, contact:
Adam Cebulski
a-cebulski@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-4394
Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
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