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Behrooz Parhami: 2008/09/29 || E-mail: parhami at ece.ucsb.edu || Other contact info at: Bottom of this page Go up to: ECE / CE faculty, ECE home page, or CE home page
Teaching and availability (follow the "Teaching and Textbooks" link below for course details): ECE 1 (s '08, s '09), ECE 154 (w '08, w '09), ECE 252B (s '08, s '09), ECE 254B (f '08), ECE 257A (f '07) Fall 2008 (Sep. 22 to Dec. 12, 2008) open office hours: Tues. 12:00-1:30, Thur. 2:00-3:30 Winter 2009 (Jan. 5 to Mar. 21) open office hours: TBD To arrange a consultation meeting by appointment, send e-mail with a few proposed time slots
Brief technical biography: Behrooz Parhami (PhD in computer science from University of California, Los Angeles, 1973) is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara. He has research interests in computer arithmetic, parallel processing, and dependable computing. In his previous position with Sharif (formerly Arya-Mehr) University of Technology in Tehran, Iran (1974-88), he was also involved in educational planning, curriculum development, standardization efforts, technology transfer, and various editorial responsibilities, including a five-year term as Editor of Computer Report, a Persian-language computing periodical. His technical publications include over 250 papers in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences, a Persian-language textbook, and an English/Persian glossary of computing terms. Among his publications are three textbooks on parallel processing (Plenum, 1999), computer arithmetic (Oxford, 2000; 2nd ed. forthcoming in 2009), and computer architecture (Oxford, 2005). Professor Parhami is a Fellow of IEEE, a Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society, a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and a Distinguished Member of the Informatics Society of Iran for which he served as a founding member and President during 1979-84. Professor Parhami serves on the editorial boards of IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems and International J. Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems. He also served as Chairman of IEEE Iran Section (1977-86) and received the IEEE Centennial Medal in 1984. His consulting activities cover the design of high-performance digital systems and associated intellectual property issues.
“You’re up to date. Take my advice and try to keep it that way. It’ll be tough to do; make no mistake about it. The phone will ring and it’ll be the administrator – talking about budgets. The doctors will come in, and they’ll want this bit of information and that. Then you’ll get the salesman. Until at the end of the day you’ll wonder what happened to it and what you’ve accomplished; what you’ve achieved. “That’s the way the next day can go, and the next, and the one after that. Until you find a year has slipped by, and another, and another. And then suddenly, one day, you’ll find everything you knew is out of date. That’s when it’s too late to change. “Listen to an old man who’s been through it all, who made the mistake of falling behind. Don’t let it happen to you! Lock yourself in a closet if you have to! Get away from the phone and the files and paper, and read and learn and listen and keep up to date. Then they can never touch you, never say, ‘He’s finished, all washed up; he belongs to yesterday.’ ” Arthur Hailey, The Final Diagnosis.
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