Please respond to ronald_aloysius@ieee.org if you are planning to attend this meeting. Also, let me know if you will be joining us afterwards at Ruby Tuesdays for dinner so I can make reservations. Again, only the speaker’s dinner is paid for. The rest of us need to pay our own way.

Abstract:

Information hiding is a more recent viewpoint of watermarking, which exploits information theory to deduce fundamental limits on how much information can be hidden in a cover signal, subject to distortion constraints from embedding, and resilience due to signal degradation. Applications range from copyright protection, fingerprinting, embedding confidential patient information in medical images, and other areas of stenography. This talk presents a tutorial overview of recent results in information hiding stemming from an information theoretic viewpoint, along with coding techniques which are adapted to information hiding, including dirty paper coding and nested lattice codes. Gaps between theoretically achievable embedding capacity and practical attainable methods are emphasized, and relations to cryptography as well as high-capacity multi-user communications are likewise reviewed.

Biography:

Phil Regalia received his PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1988. He spend many years working in France at the National Institute of Telecommunications near Paris, and has had sabbatical stays with the Delft University of Technology (in the Netherlands) and the Army Research lab in Adelphi, MD. He was elected IEEE Fellow in 2000 for contributions to adaptive filtering, and has been active in Signal Processing for communications in recent years. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP J. Wireless Communications and Networking, and serves as an Associate Editor with the IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, the Int. Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, and the EURASIP J. Applied Signal Processing.

Dr. Regalia returned to the US two years ago, and is presently stationed with CUA in Washington, DC.

Directions to HEM:

The Historical Electronics Museum (HEM) is located near BWI airport. The address for the HEM is:

Historical Electronics Museum

1745 W. Nursery Road, Linthicum, MD 21090

410-765-0230

The directions for the HEM are as follows:

From Baltimore
Route 295 South (Baltimore Washington Parkway)
Take West Nursery Road exit, turn left at light and go through four stoplights.
Museum is on the left, next to the Marriott Hotel.

From Annapolis
Route 97 North
Take BWI Airport exit. Right at first light onto Aviation Boulevard.
Turn right at sixth light onto Elkridge Landing Road.
Turn right at second light onto West Nursery Road.
Museum is on the right, next to the Marriott Hotel.

From Washington
Route 295 North (Baltimore Washington Parkway)
Take West Nursery Road exit, stay right on ramp.
Go through three stoplights.
Museum is on the left, next to the Marriott Hotel.

From Route 195
Route 170 North (Camp Meade Road) towards Linthicum.
Left at first light onto Elm Road.
Left at light onto Elkridge Landing Road.
Right onto West Nursery Road.
Museum is on the right next to the Marriott Hotel.

From Interstate 95
Exit onto 195 East to 295 North and follow directions from Washington (above)

3. Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Meeting Notice

Title:

Slow Light: Fundamentals & Applications

Speaker:

Dr. Jacob Khurgin, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Location:

JHU Applied Physics Laboratory Howard County Room 3

Date:

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Time:

6PM Dinner

7PM Lecture

The Baltimore Chapter of the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society is pleased to announce Dr. Jacob Khurgin, Professor of Electrical Engineering of The Johns Hopkins University, as the first speaker in the Chapter’s Fall Technical Seminar Series. The event will be held at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Howard County Room 3 on Wednesday, September 27, 2006. A light dinner and refreshments will be served at 6pm followed by a discussion of current and future Chapter activities. The evening will culminate in a captivating technical lecture, beginning at 7pm. As always, new ideas and thoughts for Chapter activities are welcome. Please see below and the Chapter web site www.ieee.org\BaltimoreLEOS for more details. Please RSVP for the dinner by Monday September 25, 2005 to Baltimore.LEOS@ieee.org.

4. EMB Meeting Notice

There are two meetings scheduled for EMB which should cover September and October. The first is by Aditya Polsani who is Industrial Liaison for JHU BME. Aditya has really made a sizable effort to integrate entrepreneurial components in the BME curriculum by sponsoring events such as BME Design Day in the spring. This event highlights design and innovation in many facets of the BME curriculum. This meeting will serve to introduce IEEE and IEEE EMB as well as Aditya to a gathering of new and old students alike. The meeting will take place on Sept. 21 in Clark Hall.

The October meeting will profile a small biotech/bioinformatics firm, Infinite Biomed Tech. The efforts to raise money through multiple grants and the efforts to partner with other businesses as technologies mature. The speaker will be Mr. Santosh Venkatesha, who is currently VP in charge of Finance and a student of Wharton/UPenn. This is tentatively scheduled for Oct 26. November and December are still open and will consult future officers of IEEE EMB. They should be voted in by the September meeting.

5. 2006 MPAC-WIE Conference

Title:

Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century Engineer

Date:

October 14 – 15

Location:

Embassy Suites Baltimore-at BWI Airport

1300 Concourse Drive, Linthicum, Maryland 21090

Sponsors:

IEEE Region 2, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Northern Virginia, Southern New Jersey Sections and its Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Groups

Conference website:

http://www.ieee.org/region2/wie.htm

What is the conference all about?

This conference is a forum for communication of men and women members of IEEE, students and friends to discuss and share views on their professional needs and interests. It is a grassroots network organized by IEEE volunteers that promotes the professional interests of its members.

Attendance is open to all and not limited to Region 2 only. Registration will be limited when room capacity is reached.

Topics:

IEEE Resources for Modern Engineers

Gender Diversity in 21st Century Engineering

Conquering the Challenges of Graduate School

IEEE WIE (Women in Engineering) for the 21st Century

Our keynote speaker, Celia Desmond, President of World Class Telecommunications, 2006 Vice President of IEEE Technical Activities and 2006 VP Member Relations IEEE Engineering Management Society will talk about “Skills Requirements for Success in Today’s Competitive Environment using Trends in the Telecommunication Industry to illustrate”.

Join us for dinner on Saturday (Extra: live music entertainment). Our featured dinner guest speaker, Dr. Ruth David, is president and chief executive of Analytic Services, Inc., a public service research institution that provides research and analytic support on national and transnational issues.

Pre-conference Tour:

Oct 14 (11:00-12:00)

Historical Electronics Musuem (HEM)

1745 West Nursery Road, Linthicum, Maryland

Email: hemuseum@verizon.net

http://www.hem-usa.org/

Registration, Hotel and other information:

Online registration is currently being set up and will be announced separately.

Please mark you calendars and watch for updated information via e-mails and web announcements.

Exhibit Tables and Questions:

Call Holly Cyrus (609-226-5337) or contact any of the committee members (see enclosed flyer).

We look forward to your participation!!

Carole C. Carey

IEEE PACE Chair, Baltimore

IEEE WIE R2 Coordinator

IEEE EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology)

Standards Committee Chair and Liaison to IEEE-SA Standards Board

6. IEEE SECON 2006

IEEE SECON 2006 (www.ieee-secon.org/2006), the Third IEEE International Conference on Sensors, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks, will be held at the Hyatt Regency, Reston, Virginia September 25-28, 2006. SECON, which is sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (www.comsoc.org) and technically co-sponsored by AFCEA (www.afcea.org), will include two workshops, a tutorial, a poster session, a demo session, three panel sessions, a keynote talk and over 70 technical papers on topics related to sensor, ad hoc, and mesh communications and networks.

SECON provides a unique forum to exchange ideas, techniques, and applications, discuss best practices, raise awareness, and share experiences among researchers, practitioners, standard developers and policy makers in the fields of sensor, ad hoc, and mesh networks and systems. SECON grew out of IEEE INFOCOM (http://www.ieee-infocom.org) in 2004, creating an event that focused on the important and exciting topics of sensor, mesh and ad hoc communications and networks.

The technical program for SECON 2006 consists of more than sixty papers presenting research that address the communications, networking, applications, systems and algorithmic aspects of ad hoc, mesh and sensor networks, as well as practical deployment and implementation experiences. SECON 2006 will also include poster/demonstration sessions that will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of works in progress, industry demonstrations of new applications and techniques, practical implementations, industrial and commercial developments, research testbeds and demonstrations, recent research/implementation results and upcoming research challenges. To engage participants in discussions of practical issues in deploying sensor, mesh and ad hoc networks, SECON will include several panel sessions led by experts from industry and academia including one panel that is organized by AFCEA.

In addition to the conference program, SECON will host the following two workshops: the Second IEEE Workshop on Wireless Mesh Networks and the First IEEE Workshop on Networking Technologies for Software Defined Radio (SDR) Networks. SECON will also offer a tutorial, entitled "802.11s: Wireless Local Area Mesh Networking Standard".

The conference is organized to provide time for collegiality and continuity in the discussions of the various topics among participants from the industrial, governmental and academic sectors. We hope you will join us for this exciting program.

For more information on IEEE SECON 2006, including on-line hotel and conference registration, please visit:

http://www.ieee-secon.org/2006

and/or contact Prof. Krishna Sivalingam, UMBC, General Chair at krishna@umbc.edu.

7. IEEE Computer Society Conference

The IEEE Computer Society will sponsor the conference entitled:

"2006 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS) (Meeting #11227)”

This conference will be held 28 October - 4 November 2006 in Baltimore, MD.

For further information, please contact:

IEEE Computer Society

Conference Services

1730 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20036-1992

+1 202 371 1013, +1 202 728 0884 (Fax)

Conference Services Dept.

IEEE Operations Center

+1 732 562 3878.

8. IEEE Magnetics Society Conference

The IEEE Magnetics Society will sponsor the conference entitled "2007 10th Joint Magnetism and Magnetic Materials - INTERMAG Conference (#11973)". This conference will be held January 7-11, 2007 in Baltimore, MD.

For further information, please contact:

Ms. Diane Melton

Courtesy Associates

2025 M. St., NW

Suite 800

Washington, DC 20036

+1 202 367 2456

+1 202 973 8722 (Fax)

2007joint@courtesyassoc.com

Conference Services Dept.

IEEE Operations Center

+1 732 562 3878.

9. Call for Fellow Nominations

Forms and instructions for preparing nominations for IEEE Fellow grade membership are now available on the IEEE web site at www.ieee.org/fellows. Nominations may be prepared electronically or in hard copy form and must be submitted by March 1, 2007.

The grade of Fellow recognizes unusual distinction in the profession and is conferred upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. These accomplishments shall have contributed importantly to the advancement or application of engineering, science and technology, bringing the realization of significant value to society.

To recognize the entire spectrum of engineering activity, candidates are classified as Application Engineer/Practitioner, Research Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator, and judged accordingly. At the time the nomination is submitted, the candidate must be a senior member who has completed five years of service in any grade of IEEE membership excluding affiliate membership. The nominee’s dues must be current.

Anyone may submit a nomination. However, all nominations must be supported by at least five, but no more than eight, references from active IEEE Fellow grade members familiar with the candidate’s work. If the candidate is from Region 9, the IEEE Fellow Committee will accept references from senior members.

10. Mentoring

Topic:

IEEE Mentoring Connection - an online program to foster mentoring relationships between IEEE members

Call for IEEE Mentors

Opening 14 July 2006, IEEE is offering its members the opportunity to participate in an online program which will facilitate the matching of IEEE members for the purpose of establishing a mentoring partnership. By volunteering as a mentor, individuals use their career and life experiences to help other IEEE members in their professional development. As a mentee, you lead your partnership by selecting your mentoring partner from among those who have volunteered to serve in this capacity. We ask that you review the time and effort commitment to the program to ensure a successful mentoring partnership.

Presently, IEEE is offering potential Mentors, like you, the opportunity to enter the program first. IEEE has partnered with The Training Connection, a vendor that has developed a web-based mentoring program to facilitate the matching process. Participation in the program is voluntary and open to all IEEE members above the grade of Student Member.

If you are interested, please go to http://www.ieee.org/mentoring for information on the roles and responsibilities of each mentoring partner, the program, as well as additional information on time and effort commitments. To access the online program site visit the IEEE Membership Benefits page listed under Core Benefits “New for 2006” at:

http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/benefits/index.html

This will then take you to the online mentoring program site. We encourage you to take advantage of the IEEE network of technical professionals and sign up for the online mentoring program today.

If you have any questions, please contact Cathy Downer, IEEE Mentoring Program Coordinator, at

c.downer@ieee.org

11. Job Ad

Anyone who has a background in radar signal processing and algorithm development who might be interested in exploring an excellent opportunity with an Aerospace Company based in Connecticut, please contact the following. Candidates must be U.S. Citizens. All communications are kept strictly confidential.

Cas Hill

Hill Associates LLC

183 Bayberry Road

Fairfield, CT 06825

203-374-6838

hillassociates@optonline.net

12. Continuing EE Education

We are re-running this request for interest in a continuing education program. This program will be in the format of seminars focused on a particular topic of interest. The seminars may run either during the week after work hours or possibly on Saturday. The idea for the program is described below.

Name of project: Continuing EE Education (“CEEE”)

Goal: A section-level program aimed at:

Updating the IEEE members on new developments in the EE field.

Familiarizing engineers with basic new tools, products and techniques as well as giving them the initial knowledge and skills to use them.

Inviting representatives from different vendors to present leading novel products.

Giving tutorials in new areas.

Helping IEEE fellow members become more competitive, especially in times of uncertain jobs, off-shoring and salary stagnation.

Facilitating networking.

Broadening the horizon of each IEEE member.

Fostering collaboration between members of different societies as well as generation of new ideas (“cross-pollination” element).

The program should be open to all IEEE members, including students. It is meant to be a cross-societies initiative, i.e. should not be limited to narrow topics serving the interests of a single chapter only. Emphasis should be placed on meeting with experienced experts from different fields. Critical comparisons between different solutions of EE problems are expected to be made, and trends should be discussed.

Potential topics of interest could include, but are not limited to:

Software tools:

Programming languages

Compilers

Real-Time Operating systems

Debuggers

Emulators

Hardware tools:

Novel electronic components

Single-Board Computers (SBC)

Embedded solutions

FPGAs

Printed circuit board design (schematics capture, layout)

Circuit simulation (PSPICE)

Portable devices

Signal and image processing (examples, tools, help)

Wireless devices:

Theory

Standards

Available OEM products

Trends

Internet-based methods and devices:

Standards

Available tools

Contemporary design tools (like AutoCad and Solid Works)

Reliability and Compliance issues

We plan to invite qualified speakers from academia, industry and governmental institutions. The speakers will be professionals who can give first-hand information and share front-line experience on the technology, methods and tools being presented.

We plan to organize 2-4 meetings annually. Each meeting is planned to last for 2 hours or more. We could meet on weekdays, or on Saturdays.

Please send us your suggestions and preferences regarding topics, time and place of meetings, the name/acronym of the program etc.

Boris Gramatikov

Chair,

Baltimore Section

Bgramat@jhmi.edu