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Next Meeting Every Thurs
These groups meet every Thursday from 12:00-12:50 at AFIT, Bldg. 640, Room 265. IEEE members and non-IEEE members welcome. “Bring Your Own Lunch” The meeting lasts under an hour and guarantees that you’ll be back to work on time. The meeting starts in working group format with each attendee relating current research/study progress, problems, failures, solution etc. Following that, there is a 15 minute featured speaker. It's also a good way to network with other Government engineers. If you have any questions, please contact: Prof. Andrew J. Terzuoli, Jr. Air Force Inst of Technology (AFIT) Office: 1-937-255-3636 x 4717 Pager: 1-888-988-2440 (Toll Free) Vmail: 1-937-239-4979 Private Fax: 1-513-860-3228 Local email: Andrew.Terzuoli@afit.edu Global email: a.j.terzuoli@ieee.org DSN: 785-3636 x 4717
NOTE: FOR NON-GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES & CONTACTORS - please SEND A FAX TO “IEEE THURSDAY MEETING COORDINATOR” at (937) 656-4055 or (937) 904-8065, 24 hours in advance so that a base pass can be made out for you and left at the Visitor Center in Area B off of Springfield Street gate number 1B. You will need some kind of I.D. to pick up your pass. Bldg. 640 is located at the intersection of Loop Rd. and 11th/12th Streets, near the AFRL twin towers building (Bldg 620). Parking is in front or rear of Bldg. 640 (parking in the rear is more plentiful). Allow an extra 15-20 minutes to go through the visitor center.
If you have any questions,
please contact
AFIT Prof. Andy Terzuoli 255-3636,
ext 4717 a.j.terzuoli@ieee.org
Signal Processing Society Distinguished Speaker Series
The Signal Processing Society is pleased to announce the start of our new distinguished speaker series. The goal of this series is to attract experts on a variety of cutting-edge signal processing technologies of interest to our local chapter.
Also, if you have any recommendations or requests for future speakers (or would like to be a guest speaker yourself!), please send me your ideas.
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CS Meeting: Tuesday, Mar 18 at 11:30 AM
Title:
Enemy behavior identification in
on-line sensor streams
Please note: Attendees limited to U.S. citizens (this month only)
When: Tuesday, March 18 11:30-12:30
Where: Lockheed Martin
STS (Simulation, Training, and Support) 3000 Presidential Drive, Suite 215 (2nd
floor) Fairborn, OH
RSVP: Dave Perez, david.perez.ctr@wapfb.mil or (937)257-4318
Presenter: Dr. Richard R. Brooks, Associate Professor, Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clemson University Clemson, SC
Abstract: We consider the problem of identifying an adversary's higher level behaviors in distributed sensor streams of on-line sensor data. We specifically address the level 2 (situation assessment) and level 3 (threat assessment) data fusion problems in the Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) heirarchy. We use symbolic features data output from the level 1 (object assessment) fusion level. Hidden Markov Models (HMM) are a computational tool widely used for applications like voice recognition. Unfortunately HMM design typically relies on the existence of a priori information. We extend the e-machine approach developed by Dr. Crutchfield at the Santa Fe institute in order to infer HMM behavior detection models directly from symbolic data streams. Our extension allows detection routines to be inferred directly from data samples without any a priori information. We also note that current HMM methods detect behaviors using a maximum likelihood approach, which has many drawbacks. One major drawback is that the maximum likelihood approach ignores the number of data samples processed. We present a new approach that uses confidence intervals to determine the presence of behaviors in sensor data streams. Verification of our approach uses the Department of Defense One SAF test bed war game tool for data verification.
Bring a lunch if you wish. Free for IEEE & ACM members.
Previous Computer Society Meetings
High-Throughput Computing for Massive Data Sets Using Stream-based Data Pipelines and Hybrid Computing Architectures
Speaker: Mr. Scott Lightner, Chief Architect, Qbase
Abstract: Mr. Scott Lightner, Chief Architect from Qbase Inc., will present a modern approach to High-Throughput Computing (HTC) for massive data sets. The sizes of today's data sets are growing at an exponential rate. Medical imagery, aerial sensor data and nationwide collections of structured data, are all growing in size while advances in data analytics algorithms are becoming more complex and computationally expensive. Advances in commodity computer technology (CPU's, memory and disk drives) are not keeping pace with today's processing needs. The presentation will focus on HTC solutions being developed at Qbase which combine cluster computing, hybrid computing architectures, parallel file storage and high-speed networks with stream-based data pipeline software and self-aware systems management software to provide an adaptable, fault-tolerant platform for performing advanced analytics on massive data sets.
Bring a lunch if you wish. Free for IEEE & ACM members.
Andrew Sarangon, a new faculty within the Electro-Optics Dept. at UD, is looking for interested members and volunteers from the Dayton Section to form a LEOS chapter. Anyone interested please call Andrew at 229-3190. The Field of Interest of LEOS is lasers, optical devices, optical fibers, and associated lightwave technology and their applications in systems and subsystems in which quantum electronic devices are key elements. The society is concerned with the research, development, design, manufacture, and applications. For more information on this society check out
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/leos/http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/leos/
NEW
SMC/EMBS IEEE Joint Chapter. Systems, 
Man,
& Cybernetics Society and Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society
Dr. Michael Haas, the Founding Chair of the Joint EMB-SMC Chapter in Dayton, has begun accepting nominations for Founding Officers to serve during 2007. Anyone interested in volunteering as a Founding Officer for this joint chapter is asked to e-mail Dr. Haas at Michael.haas@wpafb.af.mil or phone him at 255-8768.
Announcing the formation of a new an SMC/EMBS IEEE Chapter in the Dayton Section. It is a joint chapter of two societies: SMC stands for Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and EMBS stands for Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Michael Haas has accepted to Chair this chapter and will form a team of officers in the upcoming weeks. All interested parties welcome!
To date this chapter has 7 EMBS members & 5 SMC members. Members of either society are encouraged to participate. You don’t need to be a member of both societies.
Miami Valley Consultants Network
The September meeting of the Miami Valley Consultants Network will be held on Friday, September 10, at 11:30 at the Engineers Club. Please make reservations at 937-228-2148.
Meetings: 2nd Friday of month at the Engineer's Club of Dayton,
110 E. Monument Ave. Meetings start at 11:30 am with lunch followed by a presentation.
Open to all self-employed professionals, full or part-time. Call the Engineers
Club at (937) 228-2148 to reserve your spot at the table. It can cause difficulty
if you arrive without a reservation. For more information contact: Dr. Joe Martino
at jmartohio@aol.com or Check out our web
site and link to the websites of our consultant members at http://members.aol.com/mvohconsultants
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