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Calendar Archive, April 2007
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
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: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
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, April 4, 2007
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (aka Cold Fusion): Problems, Progress and Prospects
Sponsor: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University
Speaker: Dr. David J. Nagel, George Washington University
Time: 3:00-4:00 pm
Place: 640 Phillips Hall, George Washington University, Washington, DC
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Dr. Harrington at rharring@gwu.edu.
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Olive Garden Restaurant, 12980 Fair Lakes Shopping Center, Fairfax, VA
Directions: Take I-66 to Fairfax County Pkway, Route 7100 (Exit 55B towards Reston - Herndon). Turn left onto Fair Lakes Pkwy. Turn left at Fair Lakes Shopping Center, and left again to stay on Fair Lakes Shopping Center to the Olive Garden.
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 email.
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Speaker: H. Bruce Wallace, MMW Concepts LLC, Havre De Grace, MD
Time: Reception 5:30 pm, dinner 6:00 pm, lecture 7:00 pm
Place: American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD
Directions: See www.acp.org/map.html. Ten-minute walk from College Park Metro station (Green line).
More Info: See Diamond story below. Please join the speaker and MTTS members for dinner (catered buffet) at the lecture site.
Cost: Lecture free; $15 for dinner.
Contact: Please RSVP for dinner only by COB Friday, April 13 to Roger Kaul at
r.kaul@ieee.org or 301-394-4775.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
International Cooperation in Global Earth Observations
Updated! New Location & Topic
Sponsor: Women in Engineering
Speaker: Helen Wood, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: NOAA National Weather Service, Silver Spring Metro Center, Room 2358, 1325 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD
Directions: The NOAA campus is located on East-West Highway at the intersection with Colesville Rd. NWS is the second building from the corner of East-West Hwy and Colesville Rd. A public parking garage is beneath the third building. From the Silver Spring metro station (Red line), exit the station and make an immediate left, go under the overpass and cross the plaza between buildings one and two. The entrance to building two is a revolving door.
More Info: See Diamond story below. Light snacks will be provided before the meeting at 6:30 pm, and afterwards everyone is welcome to join us at a nearby restaurant for food, drinks, networking and socializing.
Contact: Please RSVP by April 13 to Charity Burd at charity.burd@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Power Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: Alton Baum, P.E.
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: A light dinner buffet will be served, followed by the program. For more information about the speakers, Diamond story below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members, $10 for non-members
Contact: RSVP to Fred Pearson at fred.pearson@unisys.com or Jeff McWhirt at jmcwhirt@mitre.org.
Sponsor: Communications Society, Washington Chapter
Speaker: Barry Constantine, JDSU Communications Test Group
Time: Light dinner and networking 6:30 pm, presentation 7:00 pm
Place: JDSU, One Milestone Center Court, Germantown, MD
Directions: From the Washington area, take I-270 to Exit 16A East (Father Hurley Blvd./Damascus) and go right toward Damascus. Turn left at the first traffic light onto Observation Drive. Turn left at a blinking yellow light onto Milestone Center Drive, then turn left onto Shakespeare Blvd. Take the first right into JDSU and go around to the front of the lower of the two buildings. See
www.jdsu.com/company/locations/usa-md-gmtwn.html.
More Info: As more and more services are added to our telecommunications devices (streaming video, instant messaging, video conferencing to name a few) the complexity of integrating them increases. IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystems) is an architecture that promises to simplify integration while allowing more sophisticated capabilities. This presentation and demonstration will explain the architecture and design fundamentals of IMS and the market drivers behind it. See Diamond story below. As an added bonus, attendees may play with several "tech toys" (telecommunications test equipment and analyzers).
Cost: Free
Contact: Please RSVP by Tuesday, April 17 to Brenton C. Miller at 240-997-3566 or bmiller@marylandtechrev.com.
Sponsors: IEEE Engineering Management Society; Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, Washington DC Chapter; Institute of Industrial Engineers, National Capital Chapter; The Society for Manufacturing Engineers
Speaker: Gene Allen, MSC Software
Time: Light refreshments and networking at 6:00 pm; presentation at 6:30 pm
Location: CACI, 1600 Wilson Blvd. Suite 1300, Arlington, VA 22209
Directions: CACI is located within walking distance from the Rosslyn Metro Stop (Blue and Orange lines).
More Info: Decision making can be greatly improved and technology risks reduced by using simulation. Mr. Allen will discuss modeling and simulation and how it can simplify and improve decision making. His technique results in "decision maps" that show cause and effect information. Mr. Allen is currently working with IBM and Engineous to more broadly apply the modeling capability for commercialization. He is co-author, with Rick Jarman, of Collaborative R&D: Manufacturing's New Tool (National Association of Manufacturers, 1999). See Diamond story below.
Contact: Reservations are not mandatory, but will help in planning; please respond to
meetgres@aol.com.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Non-intrusive Mobile Health Monitoring and Intelligent Alerting Systems
Sponsor: Communication Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Speakers: Ms. Cindy Crump and Mr. Patrick Farrell, AFrame Digital, Inc.
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; speaker at 6:45 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members.
Contract: Please RSVP to
dennis.moen@ieee.org.
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
National Capital Area Consultants' Network Meeting
Time: Networking at 6:00 pm; dinner and business meeting at 7:00 pm
Updated! Place: Olive Garden Restaurant, 8133 Leesburg Pike at International Drive, Vienna, VA
Directions: From I-495, take Route 7 West (Exit 47A) toward Tysons Corner. Merge onto Rt. 7 and make a U-turn at Watson St. Parking garage is behind the restaurant.
More Info: All consultants, IEEE members, and guests are welcome to help the NCA-CN open its 2007 meeting series at this new venue.
Cost: Dinner $25 (includes entree, beverage, dessert, tax & tip)
Contact: Monica Mallini at
m.a.mallini@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Life Members Affinity Group
Moderators: Amarjeet S. Basra and Paul J. Nelson
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: Dolley Madison Library, 1244 Oak Ridge Ave, McLean, VA
Directions: Take Exit 46 from the Beltway headed toward Washington and proceed on Route 123 to McLean, VA, about 2 miles. After crossing Old Dominion Dr., turn left at the next street, Ingleside Ave. Proceed one block to the library on the left.
Contact: Amarjeet Basra at 703-324-2821amarjeet.basra@ieee.org.
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Graduate Student Poster Competition: Optical Science and Technology
Sponsors: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter and Baltimore Chapter
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Howard County Room 3, 11100 Johns Hopkins Road, Laurel, MD
Directions: APL is located approx. 1/2 mile west of Route 29.
See
www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/visitor/directions.asp.
More Info: The LEOS chapters are hosting 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 cash awards and merit certificates will be awarded to the best posters. Refreshments will be served during the poster competition. See
www.ieee.org/BaltimoreLEOS or
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/leos for more details regarding rules and submission guidelines.
Contact: Poster submission and attendee RSVP deadline is April 18, 2007. Thomas Clark at
thomas.clark@jhuapl.edu or 443-778-7220, or Mary Tobin at mtobin@ieee.org or 301-587-0971.
Friday, April 27, 2007
Quantization, Compression, and Classification: Extracting Discrete Information from a Continuous World
Sponsor: Signal Processing Society, Washington Chapter
Speaker: Prof. Robert Gray, Stanford University
Time: Reception at 3:30 pm; lecture at 4:00 pm
Place: University of Maryland, Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC), Room 3117, 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 CSIC Building will be on the right, next to the parking lot. 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 CSIC building on the right. See shuttle schedule at www.transportation.umd.edu/routes/schedules/CollegeParkMetro.pdf.
More Info: See Diamond story below. This is the third event in the SPS Washington Chapter's Spring 2007 Lecture Series and is sponsored by the IEEE Distinguished Lecture Program. All are welcome to attend.
Cost: Free for IEEE members.
Contact: Send an email message to washington.sps@ieee.org.
Sponsors: Northern Virginia and Washington Sections
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jeong H. Kim, President, Bell Labs
Reception: Registration and reception at 6:30 pm; dinner at 7:30 pm; awards presentation at 8:30 pm
Place: Hyatt Fair Lakes, 12777 Fair Lakes Circle, Fairfax, VA
Directions: From the Washington Beltway (I-495), take I-66 West. Take Exit 55B, Route 7100 North (Fairfax County Parkway). At the first traffic light, turn right onto Fair Lakes Parkway, then at the next light, turn right again onto Fair Lakes Circle. The Hyatt is 1/4 mile on the left.
More info: Join us to recognize distinguished IEEE members in the local area for their contributions. See Diamond story below for information about the keynote speaker.
Cost: $50 per person, tables of 10 are $500.
Contact: Reservations are required by Saturday, April 14. Please send the names of all attendees and a check payable to "IEEE NOVA Section" to Debra Meale, P.O. Box 6814, Woodbridge, VA 22195. A reservation form will be printed on p. 8 of the March-April Scanner.
Diamond Stories
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (aka Cold Fusion): Problems, Progress and Prospects
The problems surrounding cold fusion were diverse, many technical and some social. Now, the challenges to low energy nuclear reactions (LENR) include (a) the residual perception that the field is dead, (b) the difficulty in getting funding for the research and(c) the inability to acquire US patents. Despite these problems, there has been major experimental progress in the years since 1989. Dozens of "positive" experiments have been conducted by competent and credentialed investigators, who used adequate instrumentation, which was properly calibrated before, during and after the experiments. Reproducibility has improved significantly, but is still flawed. There are ten different types of experimental data for LENR. One of these is strong evidence for the transmutation of one heavy element into another. A complex new theory has been developed and needs more testing. Several prospects for LENR are playing out now. The structure of a LENR research program has been developed and published. The bottom line: despite many problems, nuclear reactions can occur at unexpectedly low temperatures, so LENR appears to be real, and what to do about it seems clear.
David J. Nagel is a research professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of The George Washington University. He received his M.S. in physics and Ph.D. in engineering materials from the University of Maryland. He worked as a physicist and manager at the Naval Research Laboratory for 36 years. For one-third of that time, Dr. Nagel was a member of the Senior Executive Service, and led the experimental and theoretical research and development efforts of about 150 government and contractor personnel. Dr. Nagel ranked first in his Naval ROTC class, and then spent 30 years in uniform. He commanded three reserve units, and retired from the Naval Reserve in 1990 with the rank of Captain. He has written or co-authored over 150 technical articles, reports, book chapters and encyclopedia articles. Dr. Nagel's current research and teaching at The George Washington University center on applications of MEMS and nanotechnology, especially wireless sensor networks, and on low energy nuclear reactions.
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Over the years, interest in millimeter-wave (MMW) technologies has varied greatly
depending on the constantly changing military needs or the opportunities in the
commercial sector. There are common misconceptions and erroneous data references that continue to appear that set back the progress of the development of MMW systems.
This presentation, originally presented as a plenary talk at the 2006 SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, will discuss three issues that crop up in MMW applications that are commonly addressed through the application of hearsay and superficial analysis. These issues involving scaling target signatures, eliminating multipath, and atmospheric
attenuation, will be discussed both from an analytical and historical perspective.
H. Bruce Wallace is an internationally recognized expert on millimeter-wave (MMW) and sub-MMW technology. He received a B.A. degree in physics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1971 and the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Delaware in 1984.
In 1974, after serving in the US Army, he joined the Ballistics Research
Laboratory where he investigated the application of millimeter-wave techniques to
weapon systems. Key among these studies was an MMW sensor system which combined
radar and radiometry into a single sensor. For his work, he received the U.S. Army
Research and Development Award in 1981.
From 1996 to 2004, he was the Chief of the RF & Electronics Division at the Army
Research Laboratory where he was responsible for the research that led to development
of the Army's Multifunction Radio Frequency System.
Mr. Wallace is currently president of his own firm consulting in MMW and Sub-MMW technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
International Cooperation in Global Earth Observations
Helen Wood is a senior advisor for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). In her previous position, she directed near real-time data processing, analysis and distribution operations for NOAA's fleet of environmental satellites. She has had extensive experience with the GEOSS activity both nationally and internationally. She served as Director of the Secretariat for the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations from its formation in 2003 until September 2005. In June 2006, she was designated the NOAA GEOSS Integration Manager. Recently she was appointed co-chair of the USGEO subcommittee.
Ms. Wood will give a brief overview of the international Global Earth Observation System of Systems activity and the U.S. national effort, with particular focus on expected societal benefits from this important initiative.
The intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is leading a worldwide effort to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems -- termed GEOSS. This is an activity that the U.S. initiated in 2003. Its purpose is to provide comprehensive, coordinated Earth observations from thousands of sensors worldwide, transforming the data they collect into vital information for society.
Since its inception, some 66 governments and more than 40 international organizations have joined the activity from around the world. Back home, the U.S. has formed a national, interagency planning and coordination committee, USGEO, that reports to the President's National Science and Technology Council.
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Power systems engineering encompasses a number of interesting areas from design and analysis, to system and equipment assessment, to failure investigation. One specific area of power engineering melds the technical with art. This area is called Selective Coordination of overcurrent protective devices. In this presentation, the balance of protection vs. selectivity is explored and challenged using practical examples in graphical format. Phase faults, ground faults, overload and overcurrent concepts are discussed around pertinent articles from the National Electrical Code. Most power engineers and electrical facility managers find the rules-of-thumb and nifty techniques described in this presentation exceptionally useful in their daily duties.
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IP Multimedia Subsystems, or IMS, was developed and promoted by 3GPP, the wireless standardization body that developed the GSM standard. Although it was originally meant to serve the needs of GSM wireless carriers, it has been adopted by several CDMA wireless carriers and wire-line service operators. Cable MSOs have also incorporated a version of the standard to support VoIP and other IP-based multimedia services with their networks.
IMS will fundamentally change the way telecom operators deliver services. By
implementing this technology, wireless and wire-line service operators hope to leap frog into the Internet age. For many wire-line operators, revenues and margins are under intense competitive pressure and evolving towards IMS is a necessity for their survival.
Some of the IMS topics to be discussed will include market drivers, applications (real and hyped), a technology overview, and a demonstration of simple SIP communication (SIP is the foundational protocol of IMS).
Barry Constantine received an M.S.E.E. from the University of Maryland in 1986 and a B.S.E.E. from West Virginia University in 1984. He has more than 15 years of experience in telecommunications and enterprise network management. He is currently working in the Office of the CTO, JDSU Communications Test Group, as a principal member of the technical staff.
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Engineering provides a knowledge base for decision making. An engineering knowledge base is the culmination of education, training, and experience that provides insight and understanding of how things work or don't work. A program's engineering knowledge base consists of the knowledge and expertise of all the personnel involved over the lifecycle of a program with all accompanying documentation.
The majority of an engineering knowledge base is learned from experience in testing and operations. However, learning from prototype testing and operational accidents/problems is both costly, time consuming, and risky. In the past, this has been an accepted cost of adopting new technologies, as it has been the only way we learn about what we do not know. The unanticipated and often non-intuitive results of new technologies are often realized in operations, and sometimes only after decades. This uncertainty is the result of combinations of factors or characteristics, all of which have natural ranges of variability. This variability and uncertainty has historically been taken into account through the use of safety factors, based on experience.
The advances and availability of computer capability can be used as a substitute for the experience-based safety factors used in design. Virtual data can be generated by running multiple physics-based analyses of a parameterized computer model, varying parameters across their natural ranges with each run. This process provides an accurate simulation of reality. Results are a cloud of points with each point being an accurate result of that specific combination of variables. The simulation process includes as many variables as possible. A simulation consists of 100 analysis runs, sampling all variables using advanced Monte Carlo sampling methods. One hundred analysis runs provides a simulation resolution equivalent to the resolution of inputs. This process minimizes the need for making initial assumptions, which are often a source of problems as people most often do not know what they do not know at the time of making their assumptions.
Different correlation methods are used to filter the number of variables in the simulation result to those individual variables, or groups of variables, that are most significant. This shows cause and effect information. Additionally, automatic outlier detection can be used to quickly identify those combinations of variables what generate anomalies. The combination of 1) cause and effect information and 2) the knowledge gained through understanding outliers provides accurate input to the engineering knowledge base that can be used for decision making. Simulation, using today's readily available computer capability, is being used to learn and gain otherwise unavailable knowledge for making decisions.
Gene Allen is director of collaborative development for MSC Software. In this capacity he has established a number of collaborative R&D programs applying computers in design and manufacturing to speed the development of better, safer products. He has worked in collaborative design automation efforts with numerous organizations including Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, Ford, General Motors, Pratt & Whitney, Texas Instruments, Kodak, DARPA, NASA, NIST, DOE labs. Earlier positions include director collaborative development at the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, assistant to U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, and associate with Booz Allen Hamilton. He holds a B.S. in nuclear engineering from MIT and served as a nuclear-trained Navy officer after graduation.
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Non-intrusive Mobile Health Monitoring and Intelligent Alerting Systems
AFrame Digital, Inc. is a small business with DARPA funding, developing ambulatory, non-intrusive mobile health monitoring and intelligent alerting systems. Cindy Crump, CEO, and Patrick Farrell, VP Engineering, will present trends in affordable wireless networking technologies that enable intelligent 'personal help' applications meeting both military and 'dual-use' civilian eldercare needs. They will demonstrate the Mobilecare Monitor system which provides secure, scalable multi-resident or multi-patient health monitoring in facilities-based outpatient and residential settings.
Cindy Crump is president, CEO and founder of AFrame Digital and has worked for more than 20 years at the forefront of network technology development, dividing her time between major commercial end-user enterprises, network service providers, and network equipment manufacturers. Most recently, Ms. Crump was responsible for all Federal sector and North American sales at Caspian Networks. She also held senior positions at the secure Internet e-Commerce pioneer, CyberCash, prior to its acquisition by Verisign. She has held executive level positions with MCIMetro heading the information systems development and production systems operations units. Cindy was senior director, systems development, finance and trading systems at Freddie Mac where her teams delivered state of the art trading room systems and financial services for Wall Street and 4,000 financial institutions. Ms. Crump holds an M.A. in economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a B.A. in economics from George Mason University.
Pat Farrell is vice president of engineering for AFrame Digital and has 30 years of experience delivering technically advanced computer systems. In recent years, he has focused on new applications of technology in three startup firms, Trufina, OneBigCD, and CyberCash. These firms addressed innovative business problems in eCommerce, identity validation and web-based multi-media applications. Prior to joining the startup world, Mr. Farrell was a senior principal at American Management Systems, an $800 million consulting firm with 6,000 employees. His clients included Corning Medical Labs, the U.S. Veterans Administration, Fannie Mae, Intelsat, major Fortune 500 industrial companies and many civilian and defense agencies. Mr. Farrell holds a B.S. in mathematics from Virginia Tech and a M.S. in computer science from George Mason University.
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Quantization, Compression, and Classification: Extracting Discrete Information from a Continuous World
Scientists and engineers often seek to measure, communicate, store, process, reproduce, or analyze signals encountered in the real world. Most such signals are inherently continuous or analog in nature, yet increasingly the means for communicating, storing, and manipulating such information are discrete or digital. Generally something is lost when continuous information is converted into discrete approximations, so a natural goal is to preserve as much of the original information as possible. This is the general problem of quantization, a technique that historically has cropped up in a variety of branches of signal processing, taxonomy, physics, mathematics, and statistics as well as playing a key role as the interface between a continuous world and digital processing. Quantization traditionally has been used to model analog to digital conversion, Shannon source coding, and data compression. Viewed generally, quantization also models the extraction of information from signals, including statistical classification, clustering methods, and some aspects of machine learning. This talk will describe the fundamentals of quantization along with examples and recent research topics in theory and application.
Robert M. Gray received the B.S.and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Southern California in 1969, all in electrical engineering. Since 1969, he has been with Stanford University, where he is currently the Lucent Technologies Professor of Engineering. His research interests are the theory and design of signal compression and classification systems.
Professor Gray was an associate editor (1977-80) and editor-in-chief
(1980-83) of the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. He was co-chair of the 1993 International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) and Technical Program co-chair of the 1997 and 2004 IEEE International Conferences on Image Processing (ICIP). He was co-recipient with L.D. Davisson of the 1976 IEEE Information Theory Group Paper Award and co-recipient with A. Buzo, A.H. Gray, and J.D. Markel of the 1983 IEEE ASSP Senior Award. He received the 1993 Society Award, the 1997 Technical Achievement Award, and the 2005 Meritorious Service Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and a Golden Jubilee Award for Technological Innovation from the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1998. He was awarded an IEEE Centennial medal (1994) and Third Millennium Medal (2000). He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) and has held fellowships from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the University of Osaka (1981), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation at the University of Paris XI (1982), and NATO/Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche at the University of Naples (1990). He received a 2002 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2007.
For more information about Dr. Gray, see http://ee.stanford.edu/~gray.
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Keynote speaker Jeong H. Kim is president of Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs, overseeing the communication industry's most heralded research organization. His team, which spans four continents, is responsible for designing the products and services that are at the forefront of communications technology as well as conducting fundamental research in a wide variety of fields such as optical networking/photonics, nanotechnology, wireless/mobility, advanced services/applications, physical sciences, computing and information sciences, and network software.
Dr. Kim originally joined Lucent Technologies in May 1998 when Lucent acquired Yurie Systems, Inc., a high-tech communications equipment company, which he founded in 1992 and served as its chairman and CEO.
During his tenure at Lucent, Dr. Kim initially served as the president of Lucent's former Broadband Carrier Networks, where he was responsible for Lucent's data networking products and offerings to service providers worldwide. In 1999, Dr. Kim was named chief operating officer and later president of Lucent's Optical Network Group where he oversaw the development, marketing and manufacturing of Lucent's next-generation optical networking systems.
Dr. Kim left Lucent in 2001 to join the University of Maryland faculty, with joint appointments in both the department of electrical and computer engineering and the department of mechanical engineering. He rejoined the company in April 2005 as president of Bell Labs.
Dr. Kim's early career encompassed computer design, satellite systems design and data communications, and included seven years as a Nuclear Submarine Officer in the U.S. Navy.
Dr. Kim holds a Ph.D. in reliability engineering from the University of Maryland, a master's degree in technical management and bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kim is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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