Tuesday, March 1, 2005
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm
Place: Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Rd., Bethesda, Md.
Directions: From the north, take 270 South to Route 355 and exit at Wisconsin Ave. From the south, take 495 exit 34 (which is Wisconsin Ave.) to Pooks Hill Rd.
More info: All interested IEEE members are welcome to attend.
Contact: Jackie Hunter 703-803-8701 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Tuesday, March 1, 2005
How to Negotiate Successfully with a Real S.O.B.
Sponsor: Consultants Network, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Philip L. Marcus, President, Amberway Associates
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm, speaker at 7:00 pm
Place: Corner 7 Café, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the east or I-495, take Route 7 West, turn right on Towers Crescent Drive, then immediately right into the Marriott parking lot. From the west on Route 7, turn right onto Old Gallows Road just opposite the Marriott, proceed around to the left until you have completed almost a full circle, and turn left into the Marriott parking lot. Free parking.
More Info: Let’s face it: in time, everybody meets a real S.O.B. over the negotiation table. Whether it’s a boss or a business deal, sooner or later you run into someone who negotiates by bullying, desk pounding and wearing you down. Or maybe a steely cold stare. There are effective ways to cope with this type of behavior and to come out with what you want from the negotiation. Learn some winning strategies at this meeting.
Contact: Sai Chiang at 703-203-0771 or creativesystem@ieee.org.
Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Converting MATLAB Algorithms to FPGA or ASIC Designs
Sponsors: Signal Processing Society, Northern Virginia Chapter; and Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., George Mason University
Speaker: Michael Bohm, CTO and Vice President, AccelChip
Time: Refreshments at 7:00 pm. Lecture at 7:20 pm
Place: Johnson Center, Meeting Room C, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
More Info: See Diamond story, below, or http://ece.gmu.edu/~kwage/nova_sp.
Contact: Dr. Timothy F. Settle at 703-814-8247 or settlet@saic.com.
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
E-Business in the Hydrogen Economy: How to Make Virginia a Leader in the Production and Use of Hydrogen
Sponsor: Northern Virginia Technology Council
Panelists: Dr. Saifur Rahman, director of the Center for Energy and the Global Environment at Virginia Tech in Alexandria; Mr. Keith N. Cole, director of legislative and regulatory affairs, General Motors Corporation; and Mr. Barney Rush, CEO, H2Gen Innovations.
Moderator: Zachary Alexander, CEO, ebTDesign.
Time: Registration 7:30 am, program 8:00 to 9:30 am
Place: SAIC Conference Center, 1710 SAIC Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See www.nvtc.org/calendar/saic.htm
More Information: Join the NVTC eBusiness Committee for a panel discussion on the opportunities for extending Virginia's Internet dominance into the Hydrogen Economy. For details, see http://online.nvtc.org/calendar/geteventinfo.cfm?event=EBUS-13. Additional information about the subject may be found in a September 3, 2004 article in the IEEE Institute called “Getting a Handle on Hydrogen.”
Cost: NVTC members free, non-members $35
Contact: Zachary Alexander at 703-283-4325 or zack2003@ebtdesign.com.
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Corner 7 Café, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the east or I-495, take Route 7 West, turn right on Towers Crescent Drive, then immediately right into the Marriott parking lot. From the west on Route 7, turn right onto Old Gallows Road just opposite the Marriott, proceed around to the left until you have completed almost a full circle, and turn left into the Marriott parking lot. Free parking.
More info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Jackie Hunter at 703-803-8701 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsors: Power Engineering Society, Northern Virginia Chapter; Industry Applications Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Frank Ignazzitto, ReliOn, Inc.
Place: Alexandria Research Institute, 206 N. Washington St., 4th floor, Old Town Alexandria
Time: Social hour at 5:45 pm; snacks at 6:00 pm, speaker at 6:30 pm
More info: Refreshments will include assorted sandwiches, potato chips, dessert, coffee, tea and soda.
Cost: Free for members (including student members), $10 for guests
Reservations: Please RSVP by March 9 at 5 pm to Monica at 703-535-3446 or mmallini@vt.edu.
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
There will be no Maryland meeting of the Consultants Network in March.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
EMC Challenges In a Rapidly Changing Spectrum Environment
Sponsor: Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Julius P. Knapp, Deputy Chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commission
Time: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm (brown bag)
Place: Federal Communications Commission Laboratory, 7435 Oakland Mills Rd., Columbia, MD
Directions: From I-95 take Rte. 32 West, OR from Rte. 29 take Rte. 32 East. On Rte. 32, take the Broken Land Parkway North exit. Turn right onto Snowden River Parkway. At third traffic light, turn right onto Oakland Mills Rd. FCC facility is on the left, approx. 1 mile.
More Info: This is a brown bag lunch meeting. (There is a deli on Oakland Mills Rd. approx. 1/2 mile before the FCC.) See Diamond story, below, for info about speaker & presentation. The chapter's proposal for hosting the 2010 International IEEE EMC Symposium will also be discussed at this meeting. For more information about EMC activities, call Greg Snyder or Mike Violette at 301-417-0220, or Leo Makowski at 703-365-2330.
Contact: Pre-registration is required. Event is limited to 30 attendees. To register, please call Washington Labs at 301-417-0220 as soon as possible or email Lavern Robinson at lavern@wll.com.
Sponsor: Electron Devices Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Brent M. Segal, Co-Founder and COO, Nantero, Inc.
(Second speaker to be announced.)
Time: Registration at 4:00 pm, program at 4:30 pm
Place: Burns, Doane, Swecker & Mathis, L.L.P., 1737 King St., Suite 500, Alexandria
Directions: See www.burnsdoane.com/alex.html
More Info: See Diamond story, below, and www.atlanticnanoforum.org and www.nantero.com. Questions will follow each speaker's presentation. For more information, send an email to nano@burnsdoane.com.
Cost: Free
Contact: Please register using the RSVP link at www.atlanticnanoforum.org, or send an email to nano@burnsdoane.com.
Sponsors: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter and Baltimore Chapter
Time: 6:00 to 8:30 pm
Place: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Howard County Room 3, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD
Directions: Near the intersection of Rte. 29 and Gorman Road. See http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/visitor/visitorguide.html.
More Info: The IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society chapters are proud to co-host a graduate student poster competition to foster industry-academia collaboration and knowledge transfer covering all areas of optical science and technology. We welcome original or recently published poster presentations from graduate students in the Baltimore-DC-Northern Virginia area. An independent panel of judges will evaluate the posters, and a cash award of $300 and merit certificate will be awarded to the best poster. The deadline for poster submission and attendee RSVP is Wednesday, March 16. Please visit
http://www.ieee.org/BaltimoreLEOS
or http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/leos
for more details regarding rules and submission guidelines. Refreshments will be served during the poster competition.
Contact: Mary Tobin at mtobin@arl.army.mil.
March 23-24, 2005
Third IEEE International Workshop on Information Assurance
Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society
Place: College Park, MD
More Info: See www.iwia.org/2005.
Contact: Computer Society, Conference Services, 202-371-1013.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
The Telecomm Marketplace: A Technology Analyst’s Thoughts
Sponsor: Communications Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Susan Kalla, Senior Analyst and Senior Vice President, Friedman Billings Ramsey, Roslyn, VA
Time: Dinner 6:00 pm, speaker 6:45 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See http://www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members
Contact: Please RSVP to Fred Seelig at fseelig@mitre.org.
Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Automated Design and Optimization of Antennas using Genetic Algorithms
Sponsor: Antennas and Propagation Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Derek Linden, JEM Engineering
Time: Refreshments from 6:30 to 7:00 pm; lecture from 7:00 to 8:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 1, 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See http://www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre1_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Contact: RSVP to dc_aps@yahoo.com
Sponsor: Life Members Chapter (Washington and Northern Virginia)
Speaker: Raymond Meixner
Time: 1:00 pm (lunch)
Place: Marco Polo Restaurant, 245 Maple Ave., West Vienna, VA
Directions: From I-66 take the Nutley Street exit, North to Vienna, turn right on Maple Ave., and find Marco Polo on the left.
More Info: Wartime applications of technology on the field of battle for tactical advantage are legendary. See Diamond story, below.
Contact: John Margosian at jmargo@ieee.org.
This event was postponed to April 20, 2005
Sponsor: Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Mr. Jaime Esper, Space Exploration Systems Engineer, NASA
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, 4121 Wilson Blvd., Suite 302, Arlington, VA
Directions: Less than a block from the Ballston Metro station (Orange line). Or, if driving from the East on I-66, exit onto Glebe Road South, turn left on Fairfax Drive (East towards Rosslyn), OR, from the west on I-66, exit at Fairfax Drive (East). Then turn right on Randolph St., right on Wilson Blvd., and right into building 4121's underground parking garage. Alternate parking is across the street at the Ballston Common Mall Garage.
More Info: See http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/aess.
Contact: Roger Oliva at axe@computer.org or 703-573-6887.
Diamond Stories
Wednesday, March 2, 2005
Converting MATLAB Algorithms to FPGA or ASIC Designs
In the DSP domain, MATLAB is the domain-specific language of choice, with 97 percent of DSP design implemented on dedicated DSP processors. MATLAB provides both an efficient system-level verification environment and an efficient path to implementation. Unfortunately, the process of converting MATLAB to C code to run on the processor is reaching its limits. A DSP processor's inherent limitation of serial operation is becoming a bottleneck for advanced high-performance algorithms. To solve this problem, a new methodology must be in place to convert algorithmic MATLAB to a register-transfer language (RTL) that can be used by industry-standard synthesis and verification tools. Companies that use the new methodology will benefit from greater productivity, both in terms of the domain-specific language and from the new breed of best-in-class tools they will enable.
This presentation will show the process of taking a MATLAB algorithm down to a silicon representation. It will demonstrate a design style and methodology for implementing this algorithm in either an FPGA or an ASIC.
Michael Bohm is chief technology officer and vice president of engineering for AccelChip, Inc. Bohm was most recently chief scientist and technology fellow for Mentor Graphics.
Prior to AccelChip and Mentor Graphics, Bohm ran IC/ASIC development at Harris Semiconductor, where he worked closely with the founders of Synopsys when they started their company in Research Triangle Park, NC. Bohm worked onsite at Synopsys/Cadence/Cross Creek as a Harris Semiconductor employee from 1989-91, where he contributed to the development of their design compiler technology.
Bohm joined Mentor Graphics in 1991 and led the development of AutoLogic II. He later became vice president and chief scientist at Exemplar. When Mentor Graphics folded Exemplar into the company, Bohm oversaw the technical development and direction of their HDL tool set for FPGA design. Bohm holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology.
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Thursday, March 17, 2005
EMC Challenges In a Rapidly Changing Spectrum Environment
In this presentation, Julius Knapp will discuss how a number of recent matters before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) have raised fundamental policy questions relative to EMC, such as how to define harmful interference and what levels of interference protection levels are appropriate for services that rely on reception of extremely weak signals. Mr. Knapp will also discuss some of the EMC challenges posed by the introduction of new technologies such as ultra-wideband devices, dynamic frequency selection to facilitate sharing of spectrum between unlicensed devices and Department of Defense radars, smart antennas, and cognitive radio.
Julius Knapp is deputy chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology (OET). OET is the Commission's primary resource for engineering expertise and provides technical support to the chairman, commissioners and FCC bureaus and offices. Mr. Knapp has responsibility within OET for spectrum allocations and technical rules for radio frequency devices.
Prior to assuming his current position in May of 2001, Mr. Knapp served as the Chief of the Policy & Rules Division where he was responsible for FCC frequency allocation proceedings and for proceedings amending the FCC rules for radio frequency devices. Mr. Knapp was Chief of the FCC Laboratory from 1994-1997 where he was responsible for the FCC's equipment authorization program.
Mr. Knapp received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the City College of New York in 1974. He is a member of the IEEE EMC Society and is a Fellow of the Radio Club of America. He was the 2001 recipient of the Eugene C. Bowler award for exceptional professionalism and dedication to public service.
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Dr. Brent M. Segal is the co-founder and chief operating officer of Nantero, Inc., a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices. Nantero is developing NRAMT, a high-density nonvolatile random access memory. The company's objective is to deliver a product that will replace all existing forms of memory, such as DRAM, SRAM and flash memory, with NRAMT serving as universal memory. The potential applications are extensive and include the ability to enable instant-on computers and to replace the memory in devices such as cell phones, MP3 players, digital cameras, and PDAs, as well as applications in the networking arena. NRAMT can be manufactured for both standalone and embedded memory applications. Nantero is the first company to actively develop semiconductor products using carbon nanotubes in a production CMOS fab. Nantero's extensive intellectual property portfolio currently includes over 80 patent applications, of which more than 10 have already been granted.
Dr. Segal received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Harvard University in 2000 and has published frequently in journals including Journal of the American Chemical Society, Inorganic Chemistry, and various IEEE publications, including one in which Nantero was named one of the top ten companies for the next ten years. He previously ran laboratory operations at Metaprobe LLC, and was a Research Associate at Nycomed Salutar, Inc. Dr. Segal is co-author of over 50 patents and has worked extensively on intellectual property creation and protection issues at both Nycomed and Metaprobe.
He is an active member of the steering committee of the Massachusetts Nanotechnology Initiative (MNI), executive member of the Massachusetts NanoExchange (MNE) and a member of the New England Nanomanufacturing Center for Enabling Tools (NENCET) Industrial Advisory Board.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
The Telecomm Marketplace: A Technology Analyst’s Thoughts
Susan Kalla is recognized as one of the world’s most prescient and accurate high-tech analysts. Ranked by Institutional Investor in 2002 and 2003, Ms. Kalla is known for downgrading the telecom sector in 2000 before it collapsed and for upgrading the sector to catch the upturn in 2003. Dow Jones’ Barron’s has profiled her views on the telecom sector and individual telecom equipment and services stocks many times, and she is a frequent guest on CNBC, PBS, and Bloomberg television. Her research is a synthesis of experience, well-placed sources, relevant focus, and a deep understanding of the intricacies of the industries she covers.
Ms. Kalla is a senior analyst and senior vice president for technology research, telecommunications equipment and services at Friedman Billings Ramsey. She joined FBR in May 2001 with eight years of Wall Street experience, including senior analytical positions with ING Barings Furman Selz and Soundview Financial Group. Ms. Kalla has also held research, marketing and business development positions in the telecommunications industry, and she began her career as an engineer for the Public Broadcasting Service. Ms. Kalla received her bachelor and master degrees from the University of Maryland.
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
Automated Design and Optimization of Antennas using Genetic Algorithms
Demands on antenna performance, size, form, and cost are increasing as wireless communications and remote sensing become more and more ubiquitous. Genetic algorithms, which mimic biological evolution and adaptation, have been found to be very effective at producing counter-intuitive antenna designs that can satisfy challenging, and even competing, specifications. This talk will introduce genetic algorithms, and give many examples of challenging antenna design problems that have been solved using this technique.
Derek Linden has more than 10 years of experience in optimization and evolutionary algorithms, antenna design and electromagnetics. Since 1995, he has performed groundbreaking research in the automated design of wire and patch antennas using evolutionary optimization. Dr. Linden’s publication list includes 21 conference and journal articles, 22 presentations, three book chapters and two IEEE short courses in that area. He is co-inventor of the patented genetic antenna, and his research has been highlighted in Science News (4 September 1999, p.157), The New York Times (25 November 1999, p. D9), Wired magazine (February 2004, p. 114), and EDN (10 June 2004). Dr. Linden received his B.S. (1991) from the U.S. Air Force Academy, and his M.S. (1993) and Ph.D. (1997) from MIT.
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This talk will examine the technology of warfare in a historical perspective, focusing on the tactical advantages where then-current technology was exploited for battlefield gains. Notable examples will be highlighted through the 19th Century, including the American Civil War. Technology exploitation reached early-modern standards during the 19th Century with telegraphic communications and aerial observation. The talk will include descriptions of changes in battlefield tactics with consequent effects on the political and social structure of the warring nations. Ultimate societal benefit of wartime technology exploitation will be noted. A future talk will explore battlefield technology applications during the war-plagued 20th Century.
Raymond Meixner is uniquely qualified to deliver this talk by virtue of his predilection for history and 45 years of experience in RF/microwave systems design engineering. His experience includes D&D of RF/microwave systems, klystrons, TWTAs, PIN switches, and search and surveillance radars. His academic background includes a B.E.E. and M.E.E. from PUNY, and membership in Eta Kapa Nu and Tau Beta Pi.
Mr. Meixner is a Senior Life Member of IEEE. He served as chair of the Washington chapter of the Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT) Society, and was the digest editor for the 1998 MTT International Symposium.
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