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IEEE Orlando Section Monthly
Welcome to the IEEE Orlando Section web site.
Established in 1959 and serving over 1,400 members in
Orange,
Osceola,
Seminole,
Lake
and Sumter
counties
Vol.
XLV 
No. 5
May 2012
www.ieee.org/orlando
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Employment Assistance:
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Conferences:
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Oct 8-10: 2012 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (IPCC 2012), Orlando, FL
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Others Links:
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IEEE Orlando Section Executive Committee Meeting
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Date:
Tuesday, May
8th, 2012
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Time:
6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Social and Refreshments 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. ExCom Meeting |
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Tentative Agenda:
TBA
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Place:
Orlando Business Development Center, District 2 (affiliated with the UCF and the S.B.A.)
at 3218 East Colonial Drive, Suite #G, Orlando, FL 32802
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Directions:
In Herndon Plaza just east of Maguire Blvd.
This is the shopping center across Colonial Drive from Fashion Square.
It is on the west end of the building around to the South-West corner from the HH Gregg entrance.
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Cost:
Free to all IEEE members and Non-IEEE members. |
RSVP:
IEEE Orlando Section ExCom Members:
Register Here
Others:
Register Here |
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Contact:
Mike Orlovsky,
410.979.0476 (Cell)
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Website:
www.ieee.org/orlando
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IEEE Orlando AESS Distinguished Lecturer
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Date:
Wednesday, May
16th, 2012
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Time:
6:30 - 7:00 p.m. Social and Refreshments 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. Lecture and Discussions
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Topic:
Particle flow for nonlinear filters” by Fred Daum, AESS Distinguished Lecturer.
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Abstract:
“We have invented a new nonlinear filter theory that is roughly ten orders of magnitude faster than standard particle filters for the same accuracy. Moreover, our filter beats the extended Kalman filter accuracy by several orders of magnitude for difficult nonlinear problems. This theory can be applied to essentially any estimation or decision problem, including: tracking, guidance and navigation, control, robotics, Bayesian decisions, predicting the weather and the stock market. We show many numerical results for various nonlinearities, with both stable and unstable plants, varying process noise, measurement noise, initial uncertainty of the state vector, and dimension of the state vector from d = 1 to 30. Our theory uses particle flow (like physics) to compute Bayes’ rule, rather than a pointwise multiply. We do not use resampling of particles or proposal densities or importance sampling or any Markov chain Monte Carlo method. But rather, we design the particle flow with the solution of a linear first order highly underdetermined PDE, like the Gauss divergence law in electromagnetics. The talk explains what a particle filter is, and why engineers like particle filters, but we also explain the curse of dimensionality. We explain particle degeneracy and how we solve it with a simple cartoon. This talk is for normal engineers who do not have nonlinear filters for breakfast.”
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Place:
Orlando Business Development Center, District 2 (affiliated with the UCF and the S.B.A.)
at 3218 East Colonial Drive, Suite #G, Orlando, FL 32802
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Directions:
In Herndon Plaza just east of Maguire Blvd.
This is the shopping center across Colonial Drive from Fashion Square.
It is on the west end of the building around to the South-West corner from the HH Gregg entrance.
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Cost:
Free to all IEEE members and Non-IEEE members. |
RSVP:
IEEE Orlando Section ExCom Members:
Register Here
Others:
Register Here |
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Contact:
Mike Orlovsky,
410.979.0476 (Cell)
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Website:
www.ieee.org/orlando
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News from Women in EECS
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Friday, March 16th, Women in EECS at UCF, ACM at UCF, Valencia Robotics Society,
Valencia College Department of Architecture, Engineering, and Technology,
and Orlando Section of IEEE debuted Robots ROCK (Reaching Out to Creative Kids),
an EECS Youth Out-reach program, at Tildenville Elementary School.
Eleven volunteers engaged with 80 Fifth Graders in a robot racing exercise followed by a
Question and Answer session about technology education. Every child had the opportunity
to interact with a pre-assembled LeTry robot in a relay race. The teams then graphed their
performance on a chart. Many of these children had never had interaction with robots before,
and most of them were interested in Math and Technology as future careers.
Check out our website for pictures of the event, to request us to come to an elementary school,
and to volunteer for future events!
www.robotsrock.org
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Women in EECS
University of Central Florida
womeneecs.ucf@gmail.com
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IEEE Orlando Section Congratulates our New Senior Members!
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The IEEE Orlando
Section
congratulates our
new Senior Members!:
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Joe Natharoj Juisai
Abhijit Mahalanobis
Gita Sukthankar
For details on how
to apply for IEEE
Senior Member grade
and view the 2012
review panel meeting
dates, visit the
IEEE Senior Member
homepage:
https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/senior/index.html.
For Senior Member
inquiries, contact
senior-member@ieee.org.
Helpful Senior Member web links:
Senior Member Update
Senior Member
Application
Senior Member
Reference Form
Senior Member
Nomination Event
Guide
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For Sale: Top-Quality Multiuse Nylon Bags with Orlando Logo
The bag has been designed with many zippered compartments and can be carried with either a shoulder strap or handles.
These sturdy, versatile bags are suitable for travel (they fit under an airline seat), for gym/athletic apparel, for electronics accessories, or for books.
The bags have been donated to the IEEE Orlando Section by the Chair of the AUTOTESTCON 2010 Conference. As such, they are available only through the IEEE Orlando Section at the deeply discounted price of $15.00, payable in cash or by check to the IEEE Orlando Section.
To purchase these bags or for additional information please contact
Dr. William (Bill)
Hortos,
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