Student assistantships in Colorado

[Alspector]

  GRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANTSHIPS IN NEURAL SYSTEMS IN COLORADO

There are several student assistantship positions available
in the electrical and computer engineering department
at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.
These are under the direction of Professor Joshua Alspector.
A brief description of the areas of interest follows:

The application of neural techniques to recognize patterns
  in handwritten documents and in remote-sensing images.
  The documents are from the Archives of the Indies in Seville
  and date from the time of Columbus. The object is to develop
  a version of the UNIX 'grep' command for visual images.  This
  could also be applied to the detection of scenes in videos based
  on a rough visual description or a similar image.

The application of neural-style chips and algorithms to demanding problems in
  signal processing.  These include adaptive non-linear equalization
  of underwater acoustic communication channels and magnetic recording
  channels.  It is likely also to involve integrating the learning electronics
  with micro-machined sonic transducers directly on silicon.

Learning algorithms for implementation in VLSI.
  There is an existing learning system based on the Boltzmann
  machine.  Improvements to this system and new algorithms are sought.

Adaptive user models for information services on the internet
  and in other distributed information systems.  A system
  that predicts preferences for movies has been researched for
  a video-on-demand service.  Similar systems for other information
  products and services such as music, restaurants, personalized news, shopping,
  etc. will be investigated.

Wireless local area networks.  A system which uses low power
  electronics for classroom size wireless communication among
  a variety of terminals will be researched.  This system may use
  low power neural signal processing in analog VLSI.

Smart sensors for sports activities to aid in physiologic and performance
  measurements of athletes at the Olympic Training Center.


COMPLETED applications are due July 8, 1996 for the Fall, 1996
semester.  For more information on applications contact:

Susan M. Bennis
ECE Graduate Coordinator
Univ. of Colorado at Col. Springs
Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng.
P.O. Box 7150
Colorado Springs, CO 80933-7150
(719) 593-3351
(719) 593-3589 (fax)
smbennis at elite.uccs.edu




For further information on projects contact:



Professor Joshua Alspector
(719) 593 3510
josh at vlsia.uccs.edu