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Newsletter of the Central Texas Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. Published monthly. Deadline for inclusion is the 27th day of the previous month. Send submissions, comments, questions to Dennis Ferguson, Editor, dferguson@ieee.org CONTENTS1. Section Activities2. Chapter Activities3. News & Information4. Local Conferences5. Other ConferencesIEEE EXTERNAL LINKS
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1. Section ActivitiesChairman's ColumnThe Central Texas Section was represented at the Region 5 meeting in Grapevine, TX by me as CTS Chairman and Region 5 Society Liaison Chairman; Kenny Rice, CTS Treasurer; Clif Denny, Past CTS Chair and member of the Region 5 Audit Committee; and Scott Atkinson, Past CTS Chair. The Region 5 Green Technology Conference ran the two days before the Region 5 meeting, and included a presentation by Joe Redfield, Past CTS Chair and current Membership Development Chair, along with his son, Neal, a high school senior. They discussed using angle adjustments on solar panels to shift peak power to a different time of day to coincide with expected peak electric rates when time of day sensitive pricing becomes a reality. Among the Student Awards, the University of Texas - San Antonio team earned the $2000 first prize in the second annual CCET/IEEE Design Competition, which was sponsored by the Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (CCET) and IEEE Region 5. Congratulations to the team members, Gerardo Trevino, Jeremy Halbardier, Olakunle Sosanya, and Javier Guerrero. The faculty advisor was Dr. Joe Jamshidi. The topic this year was Practical Solar Photovoltaic DC Control and Supply System. The sponsor explained that they expect that the student design will be commercialized. For next year, the competition topic will be Home Energy Management Device for Home Renewable Energy Systems including Real Time Pricing. Details will be available soon at https://www.ieeecontest.com/, so students can submit it as a senior design project before the end of this school year. In the Region 5 Awards, Freescale was nominated by Dina Triyoso as the Outstanding Large Company. I accepted the award for Freescale. The Award will be presented to an officer of the company at the Fourth Annual Brain Party in Austin. As a reminder, we need to start chapters this year in at least three of the following societies.
We have several expressions of interest in being part of one of our new chapters. If you are interested in helping, please contact me. Tom Grim Back to TOP Membership DevelopmentmyIEEE Membership PortalmyIEEE is a members personalized gateway into IEEE membership. Log in today (IEEE Web Account required) for a comprehensive view of IEEE membership and the latest IEEE has to offer. See www.ieee.org/myieee.
Did you know about IEEEIEEE GOLD Webinar - The IEEE has an ongoing focus on Graduates Of the Last Decade (GOLD) members. Each month there is a free webinar covering topics that are pertinent to the new engineer. Upcoming topics are:
You DO NOT need to be a GOLD member to participate. For more information and a listing of available recorded Webinars, see https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/gold/events. Joe Redfield Back to TOP Section & Chapter NewsFourth Annual Brain PartyA one-of-a-kind celebration for Central Texas Section engineers, the Brain Party is in its fourth year with co-hosts, the Austin Chamber of Commerce and IEEE. Featuring great food and live entertainment, all Central Texas Engineers and IEEE members are invited to attend this festive event on May 4th, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Hilton Austin Downtown. To register, just submit your name, email address, company and IEEE membership status to vsegna@austinchamber.com. Admission at the door with business card or student ID. For more information visit https://www.AustinHumanCapital.com/BrainParty. Sponsored by: Cirrus Logic, I2MTC and The University of Texas Center for Lifelong Engineering Education, Cockrell School of Engineering. Engineering EthicsThursday, 3 June from 8:30 am – 10:30 am, Thompson Conference Center 2nd Annual Door64 Tech FairTuesday, 15 June, AT&T Conference Center, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm. Registration available soon. Great opportunity for networking and to see what local tech companies are doing! Life Member Technical Tour of the Panama CanalIn March, Central Texas Section Life Member's Group members Scott Atkinson and Bob Harris and their spouses joined 28 other members and their spouses or guests in the first of what is scheduled to become an annual Life Members Technical Tour. This first tour was to The Republic of Panama. We spent almost three days on the primary attraction, transiting sections of the canal, touring the Miraflores visitor center and other canal properties, and observing the new sections of the canal under construction. Local IEEE member Enrique Tejera with the Panama Canal Authority arranged for a behind the scenes tours of the control room, and a visit to the motor and generator repair and rewinding workshop of the ACP Division de Energia areas not open to the public. We saw Gatun Dam, for many years the largest earth-filled dam in the world. We had many trips across Gatun Lake, the second largest man-made lake in the world. The new canal under construction is a US $5.25 billion project for construction of two new flights of locks to be built parallel to, and operated in addition to, the old locks. The project due for complication in 2014 on the 100th anniversary of the canal will handle most of the ships in existence today. Another "behind the scenes" tour on the trip was one to the Smithsonian Institution's Rain Forest Research facility and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute on Barro Island in Gatun Lake. There, after an overview of the research underway, we took tours into the jungle to observe research firsthand. Again, this was special to our IEEE group and not something you can do on your own on a Panama visit. One day was spent visiting an aborigine Embera-Wounaan Indian Village of about 100 individuals. On another occasion we were treated to more modern native Panamanian dancers in their native costumes. We also toured many Panama City sites, learning more of the history of the canal at the Museum of the Interocean Canal of Panama located in the old French Canal Administration Building. We were given Briefings at CATHALAC (The Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America and the Caribbean), and visited the Smithsonian teaching museum in Panama City. Finally, there was a full day's tour at a houseboat "hotel" an hour and a half boat ride into a remote part of Gatun lake where we could kayak, swim or fish and observe some of the animals of Panama. On the trip we saw Two and Three-toed Sloths, Crocodiles, Iguanas, Toucans, 4 varieties of Monkeys, and many more species. This was a great inaugural tour. Watch future issues of the Analog for information on the next tour to the UK in 2011 which is currently being planned. Discover EngineeringDiscover Engineering is a Central Texas program that coordinates classroom visits from local engineering volunteers. The mission of Discover Engineering is to excite K-12 students to pursue careers in math, science, and engineering through hands-on engineering activities and collaborative, volunteer-driven initiatives of the engineering and education communities. During the 2008-2009 school year, Discover Engineering volunteers visited over 13,000 students from more that 80 schools in the greater Austin area. Over 800 volunteers from more than 50 area companies, government organizations and professional societies participated in these visits. Registration for volunteers and teachers for the 2010-2011 school year is now open on the Discover Engineering web site (https://www.centexeweek.org). Teachers can sign up for a single classroom visit, an entire grade level, or an entire school. Individuals, Teams or entire companies can sign up as volunteers. Please take a few minutes to look at our web site, then sign up as a volunteer. And don't hesitate to pass this information on to any others you think would be interested. John Purvis Back to TOP Continuing EducationThe Engineering Leadership Institute begins its 2009-2010 year with a one-week intensive bootcamp, training engineering managers to:
This program also includes quarterly follow on workshops, geared to the participant's needs. Certification from the Engineering Leadership Institute is available. Register now at https://lifelong.engr.utexas.edu/management/index.cfm. Back to TOP Student BranchesSt Mary's University - San Antonio (https://engineering.stmarytx.edu/ieee/) Texas State University - San Marcos (new branch, 2009) Trinity University - San Antonio University of Texas at Austin (https://ieee.ece.utexas.edu/) University of Texas at San Antonio (https://ieee.utsaengineering.org) Student Member NewsHumanitarian Technology Challenge Launches Student Design CompetitionIEEE is sponsoring a Regional Student Design Competition for solutions to one of three humanitarian problems as part of the joint IEEE-United Nations Foundation Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC). The competition runs from Oct. 2009 to May 2010. HTC is a partnership among humanitarians, technologists, funders, and others, to develop implementable technological solutions to some key challenges facing humanitarian health and disaster workers today. The participants volunteer their time to collaborate for the benefit of humanity. The Regional Student Design Competition challenges students to provide a working prototype, scale model or detailed engineering design specifications for a project that satisfies one of the three Challenges. The project can be developed by student individuals or by student teams. Teams must be led by an IEEE student member. More information about the HTC project, and detailed descriptions of the challenges, can be found at https://www.ieeehtc.org. Rules for the regional student design competition can be found at https://www.ieeehtc.org/index.php/htc/students/challenge. Back to TOP Calls for VolunteersDissertation Research SupportPortable data storage devices (PDSD), while creating many benefits for storage and transportability for electronic data, has also created a number of challenges for organizations that include lost or stolen data that can include personal identification information (PII) as well as increasing the dangers of viruses, worms, malware, etc being introduced into the organizations technology infrastructure. I am looking to interview employees of organizations that use technology as a component of completing business processes and procedures to determine (1) the level of understanding of the dangers associated with PDSD’s, (2) is there a concerted effort to educate employees on these dangers associated with PDSD’s and (3) are their efforts in place to protect PDSD’s and associated data at a general level not detailed level. If anybody is willing to speak with me regarding this topic and help with my dissertation research by being a respondent, I can be reached at 210-723-7493 or 210-524-2125 to provide further details or via email at Paul.Cooper@phoenix.edu or RadBnUSMC@gmail.com or RadBnUSMC@email.phoenix.edum. Back to TOP 2. Chapter ActivitiesMultiple Chapter Events
Back to TOP Chapter Meeting NoticesAntennas & Propagation/Microwave Theory and Techniques
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| Topic/Title | Electromagnetic Bandgap for Noise Mitigation and Performance Enhancement in Antenna Design and System EMC |
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| Speaker | Xin Wu |
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| Date/Time | Thursday, 13 May 2010, 7:00-9:00pm |
| Cost | Free, Food Provided, |
| Reservations | Please RSVP attendance and any special dietary requirements to jeremypruitt@ieee.org. |
| Location | Texas State University, San Marcos |
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Topic/Title | Beyond Innovation - Dealing with the Risks and Complexity of Processor Design |
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Speaker | Dr. Carl Anderson, IBM Fellow |
Abstract | The most important aspect of a successful design team is its culture and discipline. Innovation plays a part in the design of complex processor chips but does not determine if a project gets completed or is successful. Technical leaders not only need to innovate but manage resources and risk. This talk describes the discipline, risk management, resource management and problem identification and solving that needs to be in the culture of a successful design team. |
Date/Time | Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 6:30-8:00pm |
Cost | none |
Reservations | not required |
Location | UT Campus - ACES 2.402 |
Notes |
The joint Circuits & Systems/Solid State Circuits Societies normally meet on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. This meeting is open to the public and interested parties. Additional details will be posted at the website. If you have any questions about this meeting or this group, please contact renhaoxing@ieee.org or zhuoli@ieee.org
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No Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology meetings are scheduled for May.
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Topic/title | When Good Enough Makes a Project Early Enough or: Don't Try to Be On Time! |
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Speaker | Jorge Boria, Sr. Vice-President International Process Improvement Services, Liveware |
Abstract | Have you ever planned a trip very carefully and found yourself ahead of schedule at some point in the road? Did this cause you to stop until plan and actual were synchronized again? If you are like most of us, you probably continued to drive leisurely and arrived at your destination early. Maybe, if the appointment was for a very precise time, you drove around a bit once you had made sure that under all odds, you could make the appointment, but not before! |
Date/time | 13 May 2010 |
Location | Microsoft Technology Center: Austin |
Cost | None |
Reservations | None |
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No Computer Society - San Antonio meetings are scheduled for May.
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| Topic/Title | The Career Achiever Manifesto |
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| Speaker | Matt Genovese |
| Speaker Bio | Matt Genovese is an engineer, and founder of door64.com, a community of 8000 technology professionals in Austin, Texas dedicated to empowering technology professionals to grow peer networks. Matt is also a lead at JobCannon.com, a company helping job seekers and career achievers manage the job search process. |
| Abstract | There is a need to assert the employee's rights. Employers, whether large corporations or small consulting firms, have a duty and an obligation to understand the wants, needs, legal and financial obligations to these employees. The Career Achiever must defend his rights and be willing to be assertive and selective in order to ensure success. |
| Date | Wednesday,26 May 2010 |
| Location | China Star Restaurant, 6134 Hwy 290 E, Austin TX. Westbound access road of 290E, just east of IH 35 |
| Cost | $5.00 minimum charge for the restaurant. Supper is at optional extra cost. |
| Reservations | Not required. All interested parties are invited to attend. |
| Notes |
Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network.
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No Electromagnetic Compatibility Society meetings are scheduled for May.
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Topic/Title | 3D Interconnect Challenges and How Matching Networks Provide A Path For Performance Improvement |
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Speaker | Jeffrey Visser: Jeffrey Visser is the Integration and Test Manager at SVTC Technologies, Inc. SVTC is a development solutions provider to a broad range of technologies from CMOS, Bio-MEMS, Photo-voltaic, MEMS, III-V to 3D interconnect and NVM. He has ~20 years experience in industry, with 13+ in semiconductors and has lead or worked on projects and technologies ranging from MRAM, JFET integration, NVM development, BEOL integration, CMP development, yield/ cycle-time improvement, to RF/microwave design and VLSI layout. Jeffrey has been working on his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University since 2006, has an MSEE from California Polytechnic University Pomona, and a BSEM from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. |
Abstract | As MEMS technology has improved with advancements in micro-fluidics, gyroscopes, and various sensors so has industries capability to interconnecting these devices. 3D interconnect is not a new idea; however 3D interconnect is only recently an idea that is being realized within our industry. We now see the development of multi stacked chips integrating CMOS with analogue RF with MEMS. Finally with the enablement of die to wafer bonding we are seeing an exponential curve in industry flexibility and potential growth. With this tremendous growth comes tremendous challenges as to how these systems are integrated maintaining a high signal to noise ratio, and optimal energy transfer. This talk is the first of three regarding this issue, highlighting where we are currently as an industry, some of the challenges we have faced and how we have overcome those challenges, and finally the benefits that can be realized by incorporating various matching network approaches within the interconnect of these new novel device systems. |
Date/Time | Thursday, 27 May 2010 from 6:00 - 7:30pm |
Refreshments | Light refreshments are provided |
Reservations | Please RSVP to Christian Catalan at Christian.Catalan@amd.com. We need an accurate count to purchase refreshments. |
Location | Sematech: Room F-C - Map at https://www.sematech.org/corporate/map.htm |
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No Engineering in Medicine and Biology meetings are scheduled for May.
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The Engineering Management Society has become the Technology Management Council. Information about meetings can be found in the sections for Technology Management Council - Austin and Technology Management Council - San Antonio
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No Graduates of the Last Decade meetings are scheduled for May.
For more Information contact Jason Polendo jpolendo@ieee.org
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No Laser and Electro Optics Society meetings are scheduled for May.
For more information, contact Ray Chen
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| Topic/Title | Vintage Electronic Equipment Exhibit |
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Speaker | The format will be informal and visitors can visit all the table top exhibits. Exhibitors will explain how the equipment was obtained and how they were personally involved in the use or design. |
Abstract | Come and see Electrical Engineering history! Life Members who have unique instruments and pieces of equipment from decades past will exhibit and talk about their experiences. Ten members currently plan to bring exhibits and about twice as many are expected by May 1st. Items already on the list of exhibits include:
Space is available for more table-top exhibits. Do you have a piece of electrical history in your garage or attic? A test instrument that you used, a Dumont television set, a kit microcomputer, parts catalogs or magazines from the 60's, 50's, 40's or earlier? Anyone who would like to participate should contact Ernest Franke (e.franke@ieee.org) so exhibit space can be planned. |
Date/Time | 1 May 2010 at 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm |
Location | The location is tentatively planned for an Engineering laboratory at Trinity University. Final details will be available soon. |
Cost | $2.00 for cost of refreshments. |
Reservations | Please indicate plans to attend. Please email to Bob Harris atboss@ieee.org or texaspi@texas.net or Ernest Franke at e.franke@ieee.org. |
| Notes | For additional info: Scott Atkinson, LSM, 481-4932, s.atkinson@ieee.org |
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| Topic/Title | LCRA's Hydroelectric Operations |
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| Speaker | Michael McCluskey |
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| Date/Time | Tuesday, 25 May 2010 |
| Location | El Gallo Mexican Restaurant |
| Cost | $11 or $13 for IEEE members and accompanying spouses |
| Reservations | Please RSVP if you plan to attend. To reply or for further information, please contact Kevin Ewing via email at kewing@shermco.com. |
| Notes | The bar will be available to those who care to purchase a drink or beer. When you order, you will have a choice from nine special selections and six traditional combinations on our menu. |
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No Power and Energy Society - San Antonio meetings are scheduled for May.
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No Product Safety Engineering Society meetings are scheduled for May.
We encourage you, others in your organization, or other interested parties to participate in our meetings. The PSES meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm, with the program starting at 7:00pm. For further information about the PSES, please contact Dale Ritzen at (512) 651-5338.
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Topic/Title | A Unified Platform for Communication Systems Design and Prototyping: An LTE MIMO Case Study |
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Speaker | Dr. Ian C. Wong received the BS degree in electronics and communications engineering (magna cum laude) from the University of the Philippines in 2000, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004 and 2007, respectively. |
Abstract | Due to the rise in complexity of current and next-generation communication systems, the cost of development cost for these systems is becoming increasingly prohibitive, especially for applications that do not benefit from economies of scale. The existing paradigm of teams that focus separately on theory and algorithm design, HW/SW design, prototyping and implementation, with a likewise diverse set of tools and HW/SW platforms, is proving to be inefficient, especially with the ever-tightening cost and time-to-market requirements. Hence, a unified platform that simplifies transition from theory and algorithm development to first prototype implementation is highly valuable. |
Date/Time | Thursday, 20 May 2010 at 6:00-7:30 pm |
Location | AT&T Labs - 9505 Arboretum Blvd, Austin, TX 78759 |
Cost | Admission is Free |
Reservations | |
Notes |
Check our website https://www.cts-comsoc-sp.org for details. |
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No Joint Signal Processing/Communications Society - San Antonio meetings are scheduled for May.
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Topic/Title | An Update on Seed Stage Investment in Austin, the State and the Nation |
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Speaker | With over 30 years of experience in technology management, Jamie Rhodes is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at Texas State University working with the newly created Center for Research Commercialization. Previously he founded Perceptive Sciences Corporation. Over its ten year history, Perceptive Sciences grew to be recognized as one of the nation's top market research companies built on the use of cognitive psychology. |
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Date/Time | Wednesday, 12 May 2010 from 11:30am - 1:00 pm |
Location | Satay Restaurant https://www.satayusa.com/ |
Cost | Cost for luncheon: $12 for IEEE members, $14 for non-IEEE members |
Reservations | RSVP online at https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/1999. For questions, contact Leslie Martinich at lmartinich@ieee.org. |
Notes |
Contact Doug Russell for more information about the Austin TMC.
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Topic/Title | 1st Annual IEEE/ASEM Engineering Management Symposium |
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Abstract | The San Antonio Technology Management Council is hosting the 1st Annual IEEE/ASEM Engineering Management Symposium on Friday, May 21 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. The Symposium will be held at the University of the Incarnate Word Grossman International Conference Center (ICC). We will have a keynote speaker and a poster session along with the opportunity to network over light food and drinks. As part of the Symposium, we will be holding a poster session. No abstract submission is required for review. The poster simply needs to be in the domain of Engineering Management or Management of Technology and no larger than 4 ft by 3 ft in size. |
Date/Time | Friday, 21 May from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm |
Reservations | There is no registration fee. Please RSVP by Friday, 7 May to Roxanne Constable at Roxanne.Constable@brooks.af.mil if you plan to attend. A final schedule will be emailed in early May. |
Location | |
Notes | Please email Michael Frye at mfrye@uiwtx.edu if you have any questions. |
Contact Nils Smith (nils.smith@ieee.org) for information about the San Antonio TMC.
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Jointly held with the Technology Management Society - Austin (see above).
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Game designer Jesse Schell gave a talk this February that is being called the most disturbing presentation ever. He imagines a future in which we will still shop, eat cereal, brush our teeth, and watch TV. But everything we do and (more important) all the information we attend to will win us points and benefits across a vast incentives network engineered by corporations and government entities. Or, more tersely: We will live in a game. Read more at Games.
The smaller electronics get, the more challenging the task of transferring data between chips. The thin wires that complement minuscule circuitry can handle only so much. Sony Corp. recently offered a solution, announcing thatit has created wireless chip-to-chip links that can transfer data at speeds up to 11 gigabytes per second over distances as long as 50 millimeters. Getting rid of the wires "will let us use simple substrates...and help us produce smaller ICs," says a Sony spokesman. Read more at Chips.
A new chink has been found in the cryptographic armor that protects bank transactions, credit-card payments, and other secure Internet traffic. By starving a cryptography chip of input voltage, researchers were able to decode a 1024-bit crypto key in 104 hours. And although programmers have devised a patch for it, clever hackers might still be able to break through. Read more at Cryptography.
The ability to write effective papers, articles, and reports is an essential part of an engineer's job, but the writing process can be intimidating to even experienced professionals. To help members improve their writing for peer-reviewed journals, the IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade group recently presented a one-hour webinar, "A Survival Guide for Scientific Writing in the Academic and Professional Environments." Read more at Survival Skills.
The British House of Commons’ Science and Technology Committee has issued a report largely clearing the East Anglia Research Unit and its suspended director, Phil Jones, of scientific wrongdoing. Though the development has been widely noted in the elite European press, from France’s Le Monde to Britain’s Independent, it’s received less attention in the U.S. press. That’s regrettable, as the so-called Climategate scandal has had a greater impact on American public opinion.
To quote from The Independent’s report, the Commons committee found no evidence that Jones had “deliberately withheld or manipulated data in order to support the idea that global warming was real and that it was influenced by human activities.” Further, it found nothing “to suggest that the hallowed peer review process had been subverted by Professor Jones, and no reason to question the scientific consensus that global warming is happening and that it is influenced by human activities.” In the commission’s own words, the “scientific reputation” of Jones and the CRU is “intact.”
The report did take East Anglia to task for withholding information in response to Freedom of Information requests, but it put more of the blame on the university than on the climate unit or Jones, who it said had been “scapegoated” to some extent. It recommended that climate researchers be more open with data and methods in the future.
The parliamentary inquiry prompted by the hacked East Anglia e-mails is but one of several, and so the House of Commons report is not the last word or necessarily the most authoritative word in this matter. But it is surely the most high-level of the inquiries, and so on the face of it, the committee’s report should lay Climategate to rest. But will it? Read more at: Climategate.
IEEE is sponsoring a Regional Student Design Competition for solutions to one of three humanitarian problems as part of the joint IEEE-United Nations Foundation Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC). The competition runs from Oct. 2009 to May 2010.
HTC is a partnership among humanitarians, technologists, funders, and others, to develop implementable technological solutions to some key challenges facing humanitarian health and disaster workers today. The participants volunteer their time to collaborate for the benefit of humanity.
Three challenges have been identified:
Reliable Electricity: Availability of electric power for lighting and other electronic devices in resource-constrained environments. Important for education, communications, and economic development.
Data Connectivity of Rural District Health Offices: Capability of exchanging data among remote field offices and central health facilities. Important for accessing treatment protocols, creating and monitoring health trends, and sharing results of treatments.
Individual ID Tied to Health Records: Consistent availability of patient medical records. Important for ongoing treatment of patients, especially migrants and those with long-term diseases.
The Regional Student Design Competition challenges students to provide a working prototype, scale model or detailed engineering design specifications for a project that satisfies one of the three Challenges. The project can be developed by student individuals or by student teams. Teams must be led by an IEEE student member.
More information about the HTC project, and detailed descriptions of the challenges, can be found at https://www.ieeehtc.org. Rules for the Regional Student Design Competition can be found at https://www.ieeehtc.org/index.php/htc/students/challenge.
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2010 IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference - I2MTC 2010 on 5 May 2010 at the Austin Hilton.
2010 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory - ISIT on 12 June 2010 at the Austin Hilton. For more information see https://www.isit2010.org/.
56th IEEE Pulp and Paper Industry Conference - PPIC on 20 September 2010 at San Antonio's Omni La Mansion Del Rio Hotel. For more information see https://www.ieee-pcic.org/Conferences/futureconf.html.
16th International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design on 18 August 2010 in Austin. For more information see https://www.islped.org/.
2010 Solar Technology Workshop on 17 September 2010 in Austin at Freescale Semiconductor. For more information see https://ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/stw/.
IEEE Petroleum and Chemical Industry Technical Conference (PCIC 2010) on 20 September 2010 at the San Antonio Marriott River Center. For more information see https://www.ieee-pcic.org.
2010 IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting - BCTM on 4 October 2010 at the Austin Radisson Hotel & Suites. For more information see https://www.ieee-bctm.org/.
IEEE 19th Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS) on 25 October 2010 at the Austin Crowne Plaza Hotel. For more information see https://www.epeps.org.
2010 IEEE International Test Conference (ITC) on 31 October 2010 at Marriott Austin Downtown/Convention Center. For more information see https://www.itctestweek.org/.
IEEE Conference Search can be found at https://www.ieee.org/web/conferences/search/index.html.
See also https://www.wikicfp.com - A place to organize and share Calls for Papers.
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