Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Hypersonics: State-of-the-Art in High Speed Air Transportation
Sponsor: Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Mike Richman, OSD
Time: 5:00 pm
Place: General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems (formerly DSR,
Inc.), Ballston Office, 4121 Wilson Blvd, Suite 302, Arlington, VA
Directions: Convenient to Ballston Metro stop, Orange line. Or, from I-66, exit at Fairfax Drive East Toward Rosslyn. Turn right on Randolph, turn right on Wilson Blvd., turn right into building 4121 underground parking garage entrance. (Alternate parking across the street at the Ballston Common Mall Garage.)
More info: Dr. Richman will provide a technical review of the current advances in this exciting flight technology.
Cost: Free, registration required.
Contact: RSVP by Sept. 30 to Ms. Carmen Bray at carmen.bray@gd-ais.com or 703 469-3886.
Tuesday, October 4, 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: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants’ Network
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; speaker at 7:00 pm
Place: Corner 7 Cafe, 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: We will network and exchange marketing ideas. Please come prepared to discuss your ideas.
Contact: Sai Chiang at 703-203-0771 or
creativesystem@ieee.org.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Corner 7 Cafe, 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: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your e-mail.
Sponsor: Women in Engineering, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Co-sponsors: Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society; Communications Society, Computer Society; Information Theory Society; Lasers and Electro-optics Society; and Society for Social Implications of Technology
Speakers: Russell Harrison, Stuart Huang, Dr. Lee Hollaar
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2 Conference Room 1N100A/B, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: Off Route 123 in Tysons Corner. See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More info: The speakers will define intellectual property (IP) in relation to patents and copyrights and discuss the following: pitfalls people encounter in relation to IP infringements and how to avoid them; definition of primary and joint IP in terms of partnership with other individuals and companies; contributory copyright infringement; and upcoming patent reform and laws. For speakers' biographical information, see Diamond story below.
Contact: Please RSVP by 5:00 pm Oct. 11 to Debi Siering at
siering@ieee.org or 703-488-4769.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Use of Locomotive Horns and Exceptions...Safety and Quiet
Sponsors: Vehicular Technology Society, Land Transportation Committee; American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: Ronald E. Ries, Federal Railroad Administration
Time: 11:30 am
Place: American Public Transportation Association, Conference Room, 11th Floor,
1666 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Take the Metro to Farragut North station (Red Line, use K Street exit) or Farragut West station (Orange & Blue lines, use 17th Street exit).
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Cost: $18 cash at door.
Contact: Please make reservations with Gene Cox at
gene.cox@fra.dot.gov or 703-915-2828 (cell);
Karl Berger at kwb@dcm-va.com or 703-803-7917;
or Ken.Briers at ken.briers@parsons.com
or 202-775-3397.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Novel Self-Adaptive Applications Strategies Using Smart Satellites
Sponsor: Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Richard B. Gomez, George Mason University, School of Computational Sciences
Time: 3:30 pm
Place: Showcase Room 237, George Johnson Center, George Mason University, Fairfax
Directions: See
www.gmu.edu/vcenter.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: James C. Tilton at
james.c.tilton@nasa.gov.
Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Time: 8:30 am (See the workshop program at
www.aipr-workshop.org for program event times and other information.)
Place: Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC
More Info: The AIPR Workshop brings together researchers from government, industry, and academia in an elegant setting conducive to technical interchange across a broad range of disciplines. The papers span a range from research to fielded systems and provide, to managers and developers alike, a broad vision of the applicability of image analysis technologies.
Contact: Send email to Al Williams, general chair, at
chairman@aipr-workshop.org.
Sponsor: IEEE-USA
Place: National Academy of Sciences Building, 2100 C St. N.W, Washington, DC
Directions: Approx. 8 blocks from Foggy Bottom-GWU Metro Station (Blue, Orange lines). See
http://www.nationalacademies.org/about/contact/nas.html for driving or walking directions.
More info: This conference is sponsored by Sen. John Warner of Virginia, and its purpose is to discuss ways to promote innovation in the Mid-Atlantic region. It should also be relatively substantive with good discussions on the state of the economy in the Mid-Atlantic region. The discussions that take place at this conference are expected to influence legislation next year. For more information or to register,
see
www.acceleratinginnovationconference.com.
Cost: There is no fee to attend this conference, but seating is limited.
Sponsors: Power Engineering Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter; Industry Applications Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speakers: Kevin McCarthy, APC; Greg Maheux, Chesapeake Systems
Time: Social hour at 5:45 pm; snacks at 6:00 pm, speaker at 6:30 pm
Place: KEMA Consulting, 4400 Fair Lakes Court, Fairfax, VA
Directions: From I-66, take the Fairfax County Parkway North exit. Turn right onto Fair Lakes Parkway at the first light, then left onto Fair Lakes Court at the first light. KEMA is in the first building on the left (AFCEA).
More info: This meeting is required for participants in the October 22 facility tour. Refreshments will include assorted sandwiches, potato chips, dessert, coffee, tea and soda.
Cost: Free for members (including student members), $10 for guests.
Contact: RSVP by October 19 at 5:00 pm to Monica at 703-387-6021, or Sirak Belayneh at sbelayne@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
Russell Harrison is the Legislative Representative for Grassroots activities for the IEEE-USA. This year, he is traveling throughout the United States advocating these programs to the IEEE members. This information is vital in informing members of upcoming bills that directly impact industry and ultimately the US workforce. Mr. Harrison holds a B.A. in Political Science form Allegheny College and a master's degree in public policy from the University of Maryland.
Mr. Harrison's presentation will focus on what IEEE-USA is doing in lobbying for patent reform laws.
Stuart Huang is a partner and registered patent attorney with Steptoe & Johnson LLP. Mr. Huang's practice emphasis is in intellectual property and includes all phases of practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, litigation in Federal Courts, Section 337 proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission, counseling on intellectual property acquisition strategy, and intellectual property. Mr. Huang holds a B.S. in bioengineering science from Johns Hopkins University, an M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, and a J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law.
Mr. Huang will address questions such as: What are some of the common mistakes that inventors make in processing patents and how to avoid them? What is the purpose of a Non-Disclosure Agreement? What is a non-compete clause in an employment contract?
Lee A Hollaar is a professor in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. Dr. Hollaar holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois. He is currently working on a new approach to patent reform and laws governing shrink-wrap and click-on licenses.
In 1996-97, Dr. Hollaar served as a committee fellow in the intellectual property unit of the U.S. Senate's Judiciary Committee, where he focused on patent reform legislation, and on database protection legislation that became the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Dr. Hollaar played a major role in adding two vocabulary words to intellectual property law: Inducement and Forseeability. Inducement was recognized by the Supreme Court in a unanimous Grokster opinion. This prompted a new look at the contributory copyright infringement that has led to the introduction of the Induce Act in the 108th Congress. Forseeability as a limit on doctrine of equivalents in patent law is the heart of the Supreme Court’s decision. Dr. Hollaar chaired the IEEE-USA intellectual property committee during the amicus briefing.
Dr. Hollaar will discuss how IEEE members can approach and assist Congress and state legislatures to help them with technology-oriented legislation.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Use of Locomotive Horns and Exceptions...Safety and Quiet
The locomotive horn is a well established and effective safety means of alerting pedestrian and motor vehicle operators at highway-rail crossings about approaching trains. Under revised regulations, a community can elect to meet certain countermeasure requirements that will permit it to establish a quiet zone, enabling trains to pass without sounding horns. This is an option that has been a long time in the making!
Ronald E. Ries is Staff Director, Highway Rail Crossing and Trespasser Division, Federal Railroad Administration (FRA). After graduating from the University of Washington with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, Mr. Ries was hired in 1974 by the Davenport, Rock Island and North Western Railway, in Davenport, Iowa. Ron joined the FRA in October 1994 as a Crossing and Trespasser Regional Manager for Region 8, based in Vancouver, Washington. While there, he worked with state agencies, railroads and communities in the Pacific Northwest promoting highway-rail grade crossing safety and trespass prevention. Since October 1997, Ron has worked on crossing safety and trespass prevention issues at FRA Headquarters, with the Crossing Safety and Trespasser Prevention Programs team. He was appointed Staff Director of the crossing team in January 2001. Ron has worked with several national studies on crossing safety and trespass prevention and cooperates with Transport Canada on these issues. He is actively involved with Operations Lifesaver and is a member of its Program Development Council.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Novel Self-Adaptive Applications Strategies Using Smart Satellites
This talk presents self-adaptive application strategies to operationally process and exploit spectral information on-board smart remote sensing satellites in real time. The goal is to greatly increase onboard processing capabilities and reduce data volumes for hyperspectral systems by incorporating this intelligent-based approach. The approach focuses on the future development of hardware and software methods using an architecture based on Reconfigurable Computers that work more like the human brain and body. These smart satellites will be self-sensing, self-repairing, and self-adaptive. If something is not exactly right, the smart satellite will not need a signal from ground control. The spacecraft itself decides what's best and then takes the necessary action to address the problem.
This is a revolutionary means to process and exploit on board, huge amounts of hyperspectral data without the need to have an expert spectral analyst in the loop. Special attention will be paid to spectral libraries and novel usage of exemplar spectra. This involves techniques that are beyond the forefront of current database research. NASA has recognized the value of using a hyperspectral sensor flying with or slightly behind of the imaging sensor platform to identify features of interest to be processed. The hyperspectral sensor is used to identify the presence of a feature and verify its composition. The employment of a near real time feature recognition system on the hyperspectral sensing satellite is invaluable. We envision that a reconfigurable architecture incorporating evolutionary algorithms will be developed knowing that self-adaptive satellites may be the key to success.
Richard B. Gomez is an internationally recognized expert in the field of hyperspectral remote sensing. He has worked in industry (Texas Instruments and ANSER), in federal government, and in academia (University of Texas at El Paso, New Mexico State University, and George Mason University). At George Mason University, he is a Research Professor with the School of Computational Sciences and Principal Scientist at the Center for Earth Observing and Space Research. Dr. Gomez currently teaches introductory and advanced quantum computing and hyperspectral imaging graduate courses.
Dr. Gomez received his B.S. degree in physics from Texas Western College in 1963, his M.S. degree in physics from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1965, and his Ph.D. in physics from New Mexico State University in 1976. He worked for the federal government for many years, reaching the level of senior executive service with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He served as the deputy for space and environmental systems in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
He created, organized, and chaired several times, the highly successful International Symposium on Spectral Sensing Research (ISSSR) that is still held every 18 months. Dr. Gomez was elected in 2001 to serve as Potomac Region Director for the ASPRS (2001–2003). He currently serves on the IEEE-USA Committee on Transportation and Aerospace Policy as vice chair for its Defense Aerospace activity. He has also served as vice chair of its Remote Sensing activity.
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