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Agilent Guest Lecture: The Society of the Future
Thu, Feb 10, 2005 @ 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
The Society of the Future: The Mega Trends of the 21st Century and Their Implications on the Global Research Community Presented by: Dr. Ishak, Director, Photonics & Electronics of Agilent Laboratories We are approaching a very interesting era in which Digital Consumer Electronics and Life Sciences will drive a lot of the high technology research and products. Both waves will have major impacts on our society and will create an environment in which people's lives will be prolonged and improved and they will be able to communicate better with eachother. Photonics and Electronics will have major impacts on both waves: Digital Electronics and Biosciences. The integration of Photonics and Electronics, with the utilization of micromechanics, will allow us to develop sophisticated systems never achieved before. The presentation will cover the Mega Trends in demographics, environment, security and safety, health care, and the convergence of computers, communications & consumers. In addition, the impact of these trends on the research communities around the world will be discussed in details.
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium
Audiences: Faculty / Graduate Students
Contact: Sylvia Adams
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor. -
Continuous-Time Digital Filters and Other Mixed-Domain Processors\N
Fri, Feb 11, 2005 @ 03:00 PM
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
The main part of this talk by Yannis Tsividis of Columbi University considers the mixing of two domains usually kept
separate: the digital domain, and the continuous time domain. When a
continuous-time analog signal is to be processed using conventional DSPs, it
is first sampled and quantized. This introduces aliasing of both the signal
and the quantization distortion. He proposes to quantize, but not sample, the
input signal, producing continuous-time binary signals which are processed
directly using continuous-time digital hardware. This eliminates aliasing and
results in much smaller in-band quantization error than is possible with
conventional digital techniques. Preliminary experimental and simulation
results support these claims. He then introduces other mixed-domain signal
processors, including linear analog filters which use nonlinear signal
decompositions and processors in which digital waveforms are processed
directly with analog circuits. The emphasis of the talk is on principles, some
of which may lead to practically important results whereas others may be
interesting only from a conceptual viewpoint.Yannis Tsividis received the B.S. degree from the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis in 1972, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of
California, Berkeley, in 1973 and 1976, respectively. Since 1976 he has been
with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York,
where he currently holds the Charles Batchelor Memorial Chair. He has done
extensive work in analog and mixed-signal MOS integrated circuits at the
device, circuit, system, and computer simulation level, starting with the
first fully-integrated MOS operational amplifier in 1975. A Fellow of the
IEEE, Dr. Tsividis has received or co-received several research awards,
including the 1984 Baker Prize Award for the best IEEE publication, the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society's Darlington (1987) and Guilllemin-Cauer (1998)
Best Paper Awards, and the 2003 International Solid-State Circuits Conference
L. Winner Outstanding Paper Award. He received Columbia's Presidential Award
for Outstanding Teaching in 2003 and the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award in
2005.
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Host:Â Prof. John ChomaLocation: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - ontology Auditorium.
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Eric Mankin
This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.
