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From the Central Texas Section Chair
Beginning on August 15,
IEEE holds elections. Among the other items on the
ballot is a broadly disputed proposed IEEE
Constitutional Amendment. Many people oppose this
amendment, and I will quote a message from the ComSoc
Board of Governors:
During its 26 May 2016 meeting, the IEEE Communications
Society's Board of Governors carefully reviewed and
considered the proposed IEEE Constitutional Amendment
change that will be on the IEEE members' ballots with
the start of the IEEE Election on August 15th. As a
result, the Communications Board of Governors
unanimously passed this motion:
-
"The BoG of the IEEE Communications Society
opposes the proposed constitutional amendment and
modified board structure."
-
The reasons behind the position include the
following:
- The problem statement that the proposed amendment
is attempting to
solve is not well-defined and the
proposed solution adds complexity
- The existing IEEE Constitution offers alternative,
less complex
ways of accomplishing the intended
improvements
- The risk associated with a major constitutional
change is not
clearly outweighed by its possible
benefits.
- There are serious risks that the Bylaws changes
induced by the
Constitutional Amendments will
reduce the visibility and control of
IEEE societies
and geographical regions on key strategic decisions
made by the IEEE Board of Directors for the future
of the IEEE.
- There is a risk that the proposed changes, like
the Constitutional
Amendment, will shift too much
power from IEEE members to IEEE
Corporate Staff.
The IEEE Communications Society BoG wants Society
members to be fully informed voters, so this motion was
also unanimously passed:
"It was moved for the Society to create and communicate
a balanced view of the pros and cons of the
constitutional amendment to the membership of the
Society and to inform members of the Society on the BoG
position about the Constitutional Amendment."
We urge you to read about the proposed changes, make up
your own mind about them, and dutifully exercise your
right to vote to influence IEEE's future.
For background, the IEEE governing documents, including
the Constitution and Bylaws, can be found here.
The proposed changes to the Constitution can be found here
Similarly, you can learn more about the IEEEin2030
effort to evolve the IEEE organizational structure here:
And those opposing this amendment have set up a web site
with information as to why they are opposed and which
can be found here:
However you decide to vote, please vote.
Recent IEEE votes have only had around 17% of the
voting members participating. Your vote, whether
yes or no, does count.
Enjoy your summer!
Leslie Martinich
Chairman, Central Texas Section
lmartinich@ieee.org
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News of Interest to the Section
New Central
Texas Section Chapter
Founding Chair and Officer, Brent Lunceford
received notification from IEEE on June 27, 2016 that
the petition to form a new Sensors Council Chapter has
been approved. This new chapter will pull together the
topic of MEMS & sensors into a single chapter.
The next meeting will be on July 26, 6:00-8:00pm at
Silicon Labs. See further information here.
The IEEE
Sensors Council focuses on the theory, design,
fabrication, manufacturing and application of devices
for sensing and transducing physical, chemical, and
biological phenomena. With an emphasis on the
electronics, physics, and reliability aspects of
sensors and integrated sensor-actuators.
Membership in the Sensor Council is free if you are
already a member of one of the sponsoring IEEE
Societies. Those Societies are: AES, AP, BT, CAS, COM,
CPMT, C, DEI, ED, EMB, EMC, IE, IA, IM, MAG, MTT, OE,
PE, PHO, RA, SP, SSC, UFFC, and VT.
2016 IEEE Maker Project Contest
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ideas! We’re looking for entries from participants who
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anything you have engineered. We want to see what you
are building from scratch and how it can help enhance
our world.
Submission Categories:
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23 December 2016.
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The dual career ladder represents the choice of career
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Authors Raymond E. Floyd and Richard H. Spencer
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For more on the dual career ladder, see this article
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The Living Resume Series, by Harry T. Roman, helps you
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IEEE Maker Project competition: deadline 17 September
The IEEE Maker Project competition has
launched and will run through 17 September 2016. This
year, Thomas Coughlin, IEEE Senior member and Chair of
the IEEE Public Visibility Committee, will serve as
the host of this competition and will be featured in
an ongoing video series that will highlight cool
projects and events on the contest website.
If you’ve been tinkering with a tech project that
solves complex problems and has application in the
real world, here’s your chance to showcase your work.
Contest categories include accessibility, education,
entertainment, health and safety, sustainability, and
transportation.
Learn
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None this month
Li-Fi, The future of the wireless internet access
The world is observing the birth of a new
global wireless internet and communication technology
called Li-fi. The new technology is expected to have a
USD 9 billion market in few years.
This groundbreaking wireless technology will be a highly
possible replacement to Wi-Fi technology in few years
once it will be available commercially and more people
learn about it. It is fascinating and big deal but most
of us did not hear about it and the way it works or why
it is different from Wi-Fi.
Li-fi or Light Fidelity is a wireless bidirectional
high-speed communication technology similar to the Wi-Fi
but much safer and faster. Li-fi or Light fidelity refer
to the new wireless form of visible light communication
technology uses LED lights as a medium to enable
high-speed communication similar to Wi-Fi except Wi-Fi
uses radio frequency. Li-fi has been tested at many
places in many countries including the French company
Oledcomm. The company will be installing over
250,000 Li-fi enabled LED lights to provide wireless
internet for Paris Metro every day via Li-fi, or Light
Fidelity. The UAE-based internet provider company Du
jointly with Zero 1, a Dubai-based company announced
that they have officially launched Light Fidelity in
Dubai. Zero 1 has already tested Li-fi and will be
installing it by the end of this year at Silicon Oasis.
Carrefour, the French multinational retailers is
collaborating with Philips for installing Li-fi LED
systems at their stores. The ministry of the industry
and information technology in China announced that the
managed to achieve a rate of 50 Gbits per second.
Li-fi was introduced to the world by the German
professor Harald Haas the Chair of Mobile Communications
at the University of Edinburgh in 2011 and was presented
to the market in 2015. We should give professor Hass the
credit for what he has accomplished, and let his works
praise any credit on our success in this industry
belongs to the man who is actually in 1873 published the
first theory of electricity and magnetism and found the
science of electromagnetism and stated that light was
electromagnetic in nature and the electromagnetic
radiation of other waves are possible, Clerk
Maxwell. It was 2000 years before professor Haas
when the electric and magnetic phenomena were noticed
first time by the Greek mathematician Thales and in
1600, William Gilbert from England performed the first
experiment of electric and magnetic phenomena, in 1750,
Benjamin Franklin from America established the law of
conservation of charges, Charles D.E. Coulomb from
France measured electric and magnetic forces, Karl Gauss
from Germany formulated his famous divergence to volume
and its surface, in 1800, Alessandro Volta from Italy
invented the voltage cell and the electric battery, in
1819, Hans Christian from Denmark discovered that
electricity in a wire could produce magnetism. Later,
Andre Ampere from France invented the solenoidal coil
from producing magnetic fields, George Simon Ohm from
Germany invented his famous law relating voltage,
current and resistance and in 1831, Michael Faraday from
England demonstrated that changing magnetic field could
produce an electric current, and electricity could
produce magnetism. About this time, Joseph Henry from
America invented the electric telegraph. In 1886,
Professor Heinrich Hertz the father of radio invented
the first antenna, and in mid-December 1901, Marconi
announced to the world the he has received radio signal
at St. John’s Newfoundland which had been sent across
the Atlantic from a station he had built in Cornwall,
England. Since that time there was no end to further
development in communication.
Communication systems & the Electromagnetic
Radiations:
Communication systems use the electromagnetic radiations
which are created when an atomic particle, such as an
electron, is speeded up by an electric field, initiating
it to travel. The movement yields oscillating electric
and magnetic fields, which travel at right angles to
each other in a bundle of light energy called a photon.
Photons travel in harmonic waves at the fastest speed
possible known as the speed of light. The waves have
certain characteristics, given as frequency, wavelength
or energy.
Electromagnetic radiation spans a vast range of
wavelengths and frequencies. This range is known as the
electromagnetic spectrum. The EM spectrum is generally
divided into seven regions, in order of decreasing
wavelength and increasing energy and frequency. The
common names are: radio waves, microwaves, infrared
(IR), visible light, ultraviolet (UV), X-rays and gamma
rays. Usually, lower-energy radiation, such as radio
waves, is expressed as frequency; microwaves, infrared,
visible and UV light are usually expressed as
wavelength; and radiation with higher energy, such as
X-rays and gamma rays, is expressed in terms of energy
per photon. All electromagnetic radiations are lights
but we can only see a small portion which we call
visible light. Visible light falls in the range of the
EM spectrum between infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV).
Wi-Fi but Li-fi uses visible light which is 10,000 times
larger than radio frequency. Wi-Fi uses radio frequency
current supplied to an antenna and creates
electromagnetic filed propagate into space where any
device equipped with wireless network adaptors can
detect the signal and modulate it. A customer
using Wi-Fi is able to turn the Wi-Fi off by only
disabling the Wi-Fi service option from his device where
if he Li-Fi is transmitting information via lighting
that varies in intensity faster than the human eye can
see. Chips inside LED will process that information.
Li-fi technology can send and receive streams of data at
the same time. By very fast and refined changes of the
current, the optical output varies at extremely very
high speed. This process can be simplifies by 0 1 logic.
1 if LED is on, 0 if it is off. More like Morse
code with rates million times higher. This new
technology is based on a very fast ON/OFF LED
function. A Li-Fi system consists of light source
(LED), internet connection and a photo detector.
Additional improvements can be achieved if we use array
of LEDs for parallel data transmission, or different
color of LED.
Some of the main features of Li-fi are , low maintenance
costs, not expensive as Wi-Fi is, power saving as it
uses LED, secured more than Wi-Fi as it does not
go beyond the area covered by the light, this also means
there's less interference between devices.
On the other hand, high installation cost still
one of the issues service providers have to work toward
lowering it. Li-Fi will probably not completely replace
Wi-Fi in the coming years and both technologies will
work together to achieve more efficient and secure
networks. The rapid adoption of LED light bulbs has
created a big investment opportunity for organizations
and businesses.
Related IEEE "The Institute" article: The
Benefits of Indoor Farms in Big Cities
Tips, Tools and Gadgets
Education is important, particularly
continuing education for those of us in technology.
I am always looking for new ways to keep up and
learn. I came across Highbrow
a short time ago.
Highbrow offers relatively short (10 lesson) courses
on a variety of topics. The lessons
are short (about 5 minutes in length) and they are
emailed to you each day over a 10 day period.
Obviously these are not in-depth courses, but they
do offer a quick overview of a subject. The brief
lessons and short duration of the courses means that
you can try several without the effort significantly
encroaching upon your busy schedule.
While I would not recommend this avenue if you seek
expertise in a subject, I do think that Highbrow
offers a unique offering. I have finished one course
and I am in another now. I have also identified a
few others that I plan to take in the future.
Fortunately, Highbrow seems to be adding a handful
of new courses each month so I will not soon exhaust
their offerings.
If you have comments, or suggestions as to something
I should mention in a future issue, please let me
know at john.purvis@ieee.org.
I look forward to reading your comments and
suggestions.
John Purvis III IEEE LSM, P.E.
john.purvis@ieee.org
https://johnpurvis.wordpress.com
Past Section Chair, Analog Editor
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Professional Development
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Career
CTS
Job
listing
The Central Texas
Section receives job postings from time to time. These
are posted on the Section Web site. If you have a job
to post to the site, send the information to cts-webmaster@ieee.org
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find jobs and develop their careers.
The IEEE
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The IEEE Job Site has
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navigation to better serve IEEE members. Its still
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but with the use of HTML5 technology, the site boasts
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the IEEE Job Site more user-friendly.
The IEEE-USA
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Conferences,
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or Workshops
- July 25-28, 2016: 2016 IEEE 16th International
Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT)
See https://www.ask4research.info/icalt/2016/
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August 3, 2016: NIWeek 5G Summit
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why of 5G research. Hear wireless communications
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September 17, 2016: 2016 IEEE N3XT Austin
Galvanize
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October 2-5, 2016: 2016 IEEE Professional
Communication Society (ProComm)
AT&T Education and Conference Center
1900 University Avenue
Austin, TX, USA
Final submission deadline: 06 Jun 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 02 May 2016
See https://sites.ieee.org/pcs/procomm2016/
for more information
October 23-27, 2016: 2016 IEEE International
Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC)
The Marriott Renaissance Hotel
9721 Arboretum Blvd
Austin, TX, USA
Abstract submission deadline: 05 Apr 2016
Final submission deadline: 10 Jul 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 01 Jun 2016
See https://intelec2016.org
for more information
October 23-26, 2016: 2016 IEEE Compound
Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS)
Doubletree by Hilton Austin
6505 N IH 35
Austin, TX, USA
Abstract submission deadline: 01 May 2016
Final submission deadline: 15 Jul 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 30 May 2016
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- November 7-10, 2016: IEEE/ACM International
Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)
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December 6-9, 2016: 2016 88th ARFTG Microwave
Measurement Conference (ARFTG)
Hilton Austin
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Abstract submission deadline: 07 Oct 2016
Full Paper Submission deadline: 11 Nov 2016
Final submission deadline: 11 Nov 2016
Notification of acceptance date: 24 Oct 2016
See https://www.arftg.org
for more details
February 20-24, 2017: 2017 IEEE/ACM International
Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO)
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Non-IEEE Meetings and Events of interest
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Texas
Tech Pulse Calendar of Texas High Tech Events
Second & Fourth Friday of evey month: TechRanch
Austin, Campfire
Come join our
entrepreneurial community every 2nd and 4th Friday of
the month.
Want to connect and network with local tech
entrepreneurs? Validate your business idea? Interested
in getting more involved with Tech Ranch? Come out for
a Campfire!
Campfire is all about connecting you to the larger
tech startup community. Every 2nd and 4th Friday at
3:30 PM, we gather interesting, accomplished people
from across Austin’s vast entrepreneur ecosystem so
you can get the introductions, insight, and help you
need to move your business forward, while also helping
others.
July 1-3, 2016: RTX
Austin's Rooster Teeth Productions LLC
multimedia studio will host it's RTX convention in
Austin. RTX, which Rooster Teeth executives hope
attracts 60,000 attendees in its sixth year, is
scheduled for July 1-3 at three sites in downtown
Austin: the JW Marriott, Hilton Austin and Austin
Convention Center. Tickets are available online.
July 8-9, 2016: Texas Linux Fest
We are excited to officially announce the
return of Texas Linux Fest in 2016. This year's event
is scheduled for July 8 and 9 at the Austin Convention
Center in Austin, Texas. This year will mark seven
years of Texas Linux Fest, the annual Linux and open
source software event for Texas and the surrounding
region. The program will be comprised of hall day
tutorials on Friday July 8th, and a general session
program and an exhibit hall on Saturday July 9th.
Register
here
July 18, 2016: Making Standards Work - Open Standards
and Open Source
Monday, July 18, 2016
8:00am 4:30pm
Four Seasons Austin
98 San Jacinto Boulevard Austin, TX, 78701
When it comes to Enterprise Architectures, what does
it mean to be "open"? In the technology industry,
often we hear about things such as "open standards" or
"open source" but what does open mean in each context
and why are those differences important?
Both inside and outside the industry, the concepts
behind Open Standards and Open Source are often
confused. But when it comes to Enterprise
Architectures, most organizations should be taking
advantage of both to support infrastructures that can
enable the kind of Boundaryless Information Flow™
today's digital enterprises need.
This event will focus on how organizations can use
openness as an advantage and how the use of both open
standards and open source can help enterprises support
their digital business strategies. Sessions will look
at the opportunities, advantages, risks and challenges
of openness within organizations.
Learn
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August 1-4, 2016: NI Week
Austin, TX
Austin Convention Center
The 22nd annual NIWeek conference presented by NI
begins August 1 in Austin, Texas, and brings together
the brightest minds in engineering and science. More
than 3,200 innovators representing a wide spectrum of
industries, from automotive and telecommunications to
robotics and energy, will discover the latest
technology to accelerate productivity for
software-defined systems in test, measurement, and
control.
Register
here
January 14, 2017: Data Day Texas
Data Day Texas is based entirely on feedback
from the Austin
data community. What do you want to see this
year? Take a moment and share your thoughts with us at
suggestions@datadaytexas.com.
Since 2013, Data Day Texas has been held at Austin's
premier event facility -- and one of the most warm and
welcoming conference venues in the country -- the
AT&T Conference Center at the University of Texas.
As usual, we'll be taking all three floors of the
facility -- every spare inch of the building -- room
enough for 10 tracks, workshops, birds of a feather,
meetups, office hours, demos, happy hours, lounge, and
a job fair.
Read more
January 15, 2017: Data Day MD
Sunday, January 15, 2017 from 8:00 AM to
8:00 PM (CST)
AT&T Executive Education and Conference
Center | 1900 University Avenue | Austin, TX
78705
Based on feedback from the community, the inaugural
Data Day MD will be held on January 15, 2017. Data Day
MD is an extension of the successful Data Day Texas
conference which in its 5th year drew 750
attendees. Data Day MD is all about the
intersection of Data, Medicine, and Healthcare --
learning to take advantage of new tools and
technologies, like big data, natural language
processing, machine learning, analytics, and the
internet of things.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-day-md-tickets-22257139704
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Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics (STEM) Events and Information
July 11-13, 2016: Community Event: Go-For-Launch
The three-day day camp will run July 11 – 13 at St.
Edward’s University and is open to high school students
up through rising college sophomores. Tuition is
$250 and includes lunch and snacks.
Students will spend three days with an astronaut and
other mentors in residence designing an experiment to
fly to the International Space Station (ISS). The
projects will be judged before the end of the camp, and
the winner gets the chance to have its design built,
flown to the ISS, and conducted on the ISS!
There’s room for up to 200 students. St. Ed’s is
the ONLY university in Texas hosting a Go-for-Launch
camp this summer! Go-for-Launch gives new meaning
to St. Ed’s slogan: “Take on Your World!”. There are
ways students can raise funds to offset the $250
tuition, click here for more information. Also, students
can register for as little as $10 with commitment to
fundraise via PopCorn Factory or FannieMae.
Register
here.
Women in
Science and Mathematics (WiSM)
While the express goal of this website is to
recruit and retain women students in sciences and
mathematics at Eastern Illinois University, there is
plenty of good information on the site for the rest of
us. Readers may like to start with Further Reading,
where they can link to media coverage of women in
science from around the web. From there, they may select
Biographies of Women in Science, where they can access
dozens of biographies of women who have made
contributions to fields as diverse as chemistry,
primatology, biophysics, and astronomy. In addition, the
site features links to half a dozen other websites on
the topic, from the Smithsonian's photo portraits of
women scientists to the San Diego Supercomputer Center's
coverage of women scientists from around the world.
STEMblog
STEMconnector is both a resource and a service
that is designed “to link those advocating science,
technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education
across disciplines and distances.” It seeks to connect
diverse educators, professionals, and government
officials together based on a love of applied science.
The STEMblog, a project of STEMconnector, is updated
regularly and focuses its energies on the relationship
between business and STEM subjects. Recent articles, for
example, have alerted readers to corporate-sponsored
prizes for high school science teachers, a recognition
of National Engineers Week, and the math behind a new
Android app. For readers who are looking to make
connections between STEM subjects and industry partners,
the STEMblog is an informative site to check back on
regularly.
Texas Girls Collaborative Project
TryEngineering.org
IEEE’s online engineering
education resource for pre-university educators, parents
and students, is now available in a new mobile-friendly
format. Visitors can now access the TryEngineering
content they love, anywhere, any time on virtually any
device including desktops, tablets and smart phones.
Starry Sky Austin
Starry
Sky
Austin is an educational astronomy program for
all. The mission of Starry Sky Austin is to share the
enthusiasm and knowledge of the universe with others and
in doing so, bring about a sense of wonder and
appreciation for our universe. Starry Sky Austin offers
programming, stargazing classes, Girl Scout badges, and
other exciting ways to get everyone curious about
astronomy through an informal approach.
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Local Chapter Activities
The IEEE is organized into Societies and Special Interest
Groups. The full list as well as a link to join each
can be found here.
The
Central Texas Section has several Society and
Special Interest Group Chapters with their own local
activities as listed below. Note that some Joint Chapters
represent more than one Society.
You can subscribe to an RSS feed of all Central Texas
Section meetings that have been scheduled through vTools here
Click Meetings to see the next 180 days of
planned CTS activity.
ALL of the Chapter
Technical meetings are open to the public!!!
The
Central Texas Section Chapters
Antennas &
Propagation/Microwave Theory and Techniques (AP/MTT)
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Join
CTS CEDA on LinkedIn
NOTE: Being a member of the following IEEE Societies makes
you eligible to be a member of CEDA: AP, CAS, C, ED, MTT
and SSC. However, you need to go to the IEEE
web site and sign in to be added as a FREE member of
CEDA. See this PDF
for detailed instructions.
The CEDA chapter normally
meet on the 3rd Thursday 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 zhuoli@ieee.org.
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Joint Circuits and
Systems/Solid-State Circuits (CAS/SSC)
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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. IIf you
have any questions about this meeting or this group,
please contact zhuoli@ieee.org.
Components, Packaging and
Manufacturing Technology (CPMT)
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Austin Computer Society (C)
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San Antonio Computer Society (C)
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Central Texas Consultants
Network Affinity Group
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Secure Element -- Protecting Your Digital Life
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Dr. H. Karen Lu is a long time IEEE Senior
Member. She is a principal security
architect at Gemalto, a digital security
company. Karen has over 10 years of
experience and expertise in security, risk
management, identity and access management, and
privacy protection. She holds 19 patents and
has 60+ publications spanning several research
fields. Karen received her Ph.D. from the
University of Pittsgurgh. She holds the
Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK),
and is a Certified Information System Security
Professional (CISSP), a contributor to the Cloud
Security Alliance (CSA) and to the World Wide Web
Consortium (W3C), and an active member of the Open
Web Application Security Project (OWASP).
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We live in a digital society. How safe is
our digital life? What risks are our
personal information facing? How do we
secure our electronic devices (e.g. smart phones,
PCs, passports, smart meters)? How do we
safely access online services? Why do our
banking cards have chip symbols? Answers to
these questions vary through time, location, and
context, but some principles of protection are
surprisingly steady. To help understand all
this, I will first provide some background about
secure elements, and then explain how the secure
elements provide security and privacy protections
in our digital life. We will also learn how
products can incorporate these secure elements,
how services can utilize them, and how people and
machines can benefit from them.
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27-July-2016
6:00 to 6:30pm -- Networking
6:30 to 8:30pm -- Business and Program
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$5.00 minimum cost for the restaurant.
Supper is optional at extra cost.
Reservations are not required. All
interested parties are invited to attend.
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Pok-e-Jo's Smokehouse
2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave.
Austin, Texas
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Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the
Consultants Network.
More
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Electromagnetic Compatibility
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Electron Devices Society (ED)
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Engineering in Medicine and Biology
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Young Professionals
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Devon Ryan prepared this 'highlight'
video of Young Professional activities at SXSW 2015.
Follow the Young Professionals on Facebook
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Instrumentation and Measurement
Society (IM)
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Photonics Society (PHO)
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For more information, contact Mikhail Belkin
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Life Members (LM) Affinity Group
Life members must be at least 65 years of age and
have been a member of IEEE or one of its predecessor
societies for such a period that the sum of his/her age
and his/her years of membership equals or exceeds 100
years. When an individual achieves Life member (LM)
status, their basic membership dues and Region
assessments are waived on 1 January of the year
following attainment of LM status.
More information on LM
Austin Life Members
Affinity Group
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19-July-2016
2:00 PM Networking and lunch
2;15 PM Presentation TBA
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PoK-e-Jo's Smokehouse
2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave.
Austin, Texas
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The Austin Life Members Group meets monthly. Except when
meeting jointly with other groups, the Life Members meet
on the third Tuesday each month. Meetings usually begin
with informal networking from 2:00 to 2:15 p.m., followed
by presentations from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. by experts in
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San Antonio Life Member
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Austin Power and Energy Society
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Two Presentations: IEEE Xplore, LCRA Unmanned
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Jalyn Kelley of IEEE
Jalyn Kelley is an IEEE Client Services Manager,
providing training and support to IEEE customers
in the central and southern U.S. Jalyn previously
worked as a Research Analyst at Computer Sciences
Corporation (CSC) providing strategic market and
technical research to IT specialists in the field.
Jalyn has also worked as an Assistant Editor of
Information Services at the San Antonio
Express-News and she received a Master of
Information Science from the University of Texas
at Austin.
Ray Renner of LCRA
Ray began his career in Surveying with the State
Department of Highways and Public Transportation
(now TxDOT) in 1975 as a Rodman/Chainman on a
survey crew. From 1975 until 1990 Ray worked for
private sector surveying, engineering, and aerial
mapping firms in Houston, Albuquerque, Denver, and
the Central Texas area. In 1990 Ray joined the
Lower Colorado River Authority “Field Engineering”
group which was renamed Surveying, Mapping, and
GIS. Along with his roles in surveying, Ray worked
in the Project Management Office at LCRA for seven
years. After moving back into the Surveying group
Ray progressed in the ranks to Supervisor of
Surveying Operations and then to Manager of
Surveying, Mapping, and GIS.
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This overview of the latest value-added features
and "insider tips" for searching IEEE Xplore will
cover how to easily download equations and
figures, find standards in HTML, stay current by
setting-up saved search alerts and Table of
Content alerts, find paper and patent citations,
locate information on new product technologies,
related patents, companies, or organizations using
author affiliation.
Will give a brief history of the UAS Program and
how it came to exist at LCRA. A description of the
aircraft we currently have along with an overview
of current and proposed FAA regulations. The
presentation will show some of the work products
we have been asked to provide and talk about the
departments throughout LCRA that have requested
our services.
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26-July-2016
Time: 6:00 to 6:30 PM
Social 6:30 to 7:00 PM
Dinner 7:00 to 7:30 PM
Business Meeting 7:30 to 8:30 PM
Program 9:00 PM room closes for the benefit of
long distance drivers and early risers
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El Gallo Mexican Restaurant
2910 S Congress
Austin, Texas
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Dinner: Choose from a select menu of soups,
salads and dinner plates.
Cost: • IEEE Members and accompanying spouses: $11
to $17 for dinners ($2 non-meal participants) •
Visitors (non-IEEE members): $14 to $20 for
dinners ($5 non-meal participants) • IEEE Student
Members: $3 for dinner (no charge for non-meal
participants) • Student Visitors (non-IEEE
members): $6 to $10 for dinners ($2 non-meal
participants) • All: $2 for non-alcoholic
beverages • A bar is available for those who care
to purchase a beer or other alcoholic beverage
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If you plan on attending, please RSVP by sending
an e-mail to ieee.pi2.austin@zxtech.net.
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San Antonio Power and
Energy Society (PE)
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Product Safety Engineering Society
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Austin Joint Signal Processing/Communications Society
(COM/SP)
Recognized as the 2015 ComSoc Chapter of the
Year and a 2015 Chapter Achievement Award
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San Antonio Joint Signal
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Sensor Council (SC)
Membership in the Sensor Council is free if you are
already a member of one of the sponsoring IEEE
Societies. Those Societies are: AES, AP, BT, CAS, COM,
CPMT, C, DEI, ED, EMB, EMC, IE, IA, IM, MAG, MTT, OE,
PE, PHO, RA, SP, SSC, UFFC, and VT.
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July 26, 2016
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Silicon Labs
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Joint Systems, Man & Cybernetics
Society (SMC) & Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Society (AESS)
AESS Chapter of the Year Award
2016 for US-based chapters
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If you missed the excellent February meeting on
"Supersized Robots" you can watch the video here.
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Austin Technology and Engineering Management Society
(TEM)
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org)
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San Antonio Technology and
Engineering Management Society
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Women in Engineering Affinity Group
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org)
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