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ECE SEMINAR SERIES

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                            Thursday, October 26, 2000
                                       4:00 PM
                          Scaife Hall Auditorium, Rm. 125
                                 Refreshments 3:30 PM
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          ``Industry/University Collaboration in Imaging, Computing and
                                    Robotics Technologies''


                                         Ellen Hughes
                    Senior Engineer and University Programs Manager
                                      Research Department
                                       Northrop Grumman
                                 Science and Technology Center
                  Pittsburgh


                                           ABSTRACT

                   We will present an overview of research programs
                   within the Imaging & Information Research Department
                   of the Northrop Grumman (NG) Science & Technology
                   Center, which is located in Churchill, just east of
                   Pittsburgh. In this overview, we will highlight
                   programs that are being jointly pursued by our group
                   and CMU faculty and students as a part of the NG - CMU
                   Technology Exchange Alliance. These programs
                   include Data Processing using Reconfigurable Cached
                   Virtual Hardware, Image Understanding Algorithm
                   Research for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery, Sonar
                   Mine Detection and Classification, Underwater
                   Detection of Man-made Objects, and Underwater
                   Robot Swarms. To illustrate how CMU students
                   contribute to our work, students participating in this
                   alliance will present the programs and technology that
                   they are jointly creating with NG.


                                             BIO

                   Ellen Hughes is a Senior Engineer and University
                   Programs Manager in the Imaging & Information
                   Research Department of the Northrop Grumman
                   Science & Technology Center. She has an B.S. from
                   Wright State University in Electrical Engineering and
                   an M.S. from CMU in ECE. During the past year,
                   she has been working to develop the Technology
                   Exchange Alliance between NG and CMU by identifying
                   and pursuing joint research that brings together
                   unique resources and creates new technologies that
                   would not have existed without this alliance. Prior to
                   this, she worked for two years at the CMU Robotics
                   Institute and School of Computer Science performing
                   computer vision research on the Informedia Digital
                   Video Libraries Project. Before joining CMU she worked
                   for ten years as a senior engineer in Northrop
                   Grumman (formerly Westinghouse) developing
                   computer vision and image processing systems.