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Calendar Archive, December 2006
Update: Please note the change of date.
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm
Place: Bethesda Marriott, 6711 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda, MD
Directions: From Silver Spring, take I-495 West to Exit 36 North (Rt. 187, Old Georgetown Rd.), turn right onto Old Georgetown Rd., then left onto Democracy Blvd. and look for the Marriott on the right.
From Rockville, take I-270, follow the signs for Northern Virginia at the divide, then take Exit 1 (Democracy Blvd.), turn left onto Democracy Blvd, and look for the Marriott on the left (make a U-turn at Fernwood Rd.). From Northern Virginia, take I-495 to I-270, then take Exit 1 (Democracy Blvd. East), and proceed as above.
More Info: This meeting is for officers only.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or
nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Information Hiding: A Tutorial Information Theory Viewpoint
Sponsor: Signal Processing Society, Washington Chapter
Speaker: Phillip Regalia, Catholic University of America
Time: Reception and networking 6:00 pm, lecture 6:30 pm
Place: University of Maryland, Kim Engineering Building, Room 1110, College Park, MD
Directions: From the north or I-495, take Route 1 South. Approx. 2 miles south of the Beltway, turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediately turn right onto Paint Branch Drive and the Kim Engineering Building will be on the left (after a stop sign). From the south on Route 1, turn left onto Campus Drive, and follow above directions. Free parking after 4:00 pm in Lots T and XX. See
www.parking.umd.edu/themap.
From the College Park Metro Station (Green line), take the free UM campus shuttle, get off at the first stop, walk back for a hundred yards, turn left onto Paint Branch Drive and look for the Kim Engineering Building on the left.
More info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Send an email message to washington.sps@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions:
See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: The Washington and Northern Virginia chapter of the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society will elect its 2007 officers at this meeting. All members are welcome to give a brief presentation on their background to be nominated for an officer position.
Contact: Please RSVP by Dec. 4 to Debi Siering at
siering@ieee.org.
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions:
See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: The Women in Engineering affinity group will elect its 2007 officers at this meeting. All members are welcome to give a brief presentation on their background to be nominated for an officer position.
Contact: Please RSVP by Dec. 6 to Debi Siering at
siering@ieee.org.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System and Incremental Train Control System
Sponsors: Vehicular Technology Society, Land Transportation Committee; American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: L. E. (Larry) Light, P.E., Senior Director New Technologies, Amtrak, Philadelphia, PA
Time: 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
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. All interested persons are invited to attend our monthly luncheon meeting.
Cost: $20 cash at door for lunch.
Contact: Please make reservations by 4:00 pm Friday, December 8 by contacting Karl Berger at kwb@dcm-va.com
or 703-803-9171, or Ken Briers at ken.briers@parsons.com or 202-775-3397.
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultant’s Network
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Chevy's Fresh Mex Restaurant, Ballston Common Mall, 4238 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
Directions: Ballston Common is two blocks south of Ballston Metro station (Orange line).
Contact: Rick Cunningham at
rick@corridor-rd.com.
Diamond Stories
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Information Hiding: A Tutorial Information Theory Viewpoint
Information hiding is a 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 include 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 theory viewpoint, along with coding techniques which are adapted to information hiding, including dirty paper coding and nested lattice codes. Some standard techniques for watermarking are revisited in this framework, and gaps between theoretically achievable embedding capacity and practical attainable rates are emphasized. Relationships to cryptography, dual source coding problems, and high-capacity multi-user communications are also reviewed.
Phil Regalia received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1988. He spent many years working in France at the National Institute of Telecommunications, with sabbatical visits at the Delft University of Technology and the Army Research Lab in Adelphi, Maryland. He returned to the United States two years ago and is now at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Regalia was elected as an IEEE Fellow in 2000 for his 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 Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, and serves as an associate editor with the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, and the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing.
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Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System and Incremental Train Control System
Mr. Light will speak on the current status of ACSES (Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement System) and ITCS (Incremental Train Control System). ACSES uses imported European transponders to enhance the existing Automatic Train Control System in the Northeast Corridor. This unique blend of two very reliable tried and proven systems to achieve full Positive Train Control (PTC) was required for 150 mph operation in the Northeast Corridor.
ITCS is a new communications-based system overlaid on the existing fixed (wayside) signal system on Amtrak's Michigan Line, a 70-mile portion of the Chicago-Detroit Corridor. The immediate goal of this project is to raise the maximum speed of Amtrak trains in a 70-mile portion of the Chicago-Detroit Corridor from 79 to 110 mph. The long range goal is to develop the state of the art for the "emerging corridors" such as the Midwest Initiatives out of Chicago as the hub. On these lines there is currently no cab signal infrastructure, and there are many highway grade crossings, the two most challenging areas for signaling and train control in the development of higher speed passenger services.
ACSES has been under development since 1992, and ITCS since 1995, giving Amtrak a wealth of experience in what has worked, and what has not worked, in the search for improved safety for higher speed trains.
L. E. (Larry) Light is currently the senior director of new technologies at Amtrak. He is now involved in two active Amtrak train control systems, ACSES in the Northeast Corridor, ITCS in a Midwest Corridor, and a joint effort with other carriers to develop a universal, on board platform to facilitate train control operation on multiple emerging systems in North America.
Light received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Bucknell University and did some graduate work in computer science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Pennsylvania.
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