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Calendar of Events
Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: Dinner 6:00 pm; meeting 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), 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. Validated parking.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Contact: Kiki Ikossi at ikossi@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Education Society (Northern Virginia, Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Central Virginia chapter)
Cosponsor: IEEE Professional Communication Society
Speaker: Trevor Owens, George Mason University
Time: Networking reception 5:00 pm, presentation 6:00 pm
Where: University of Mary Washington, Combs 139, Fredericksburg, VA
Directions: The University of Mary Washington (http://umw.edu) is 50 miles south of Washington, DC and 50 miles north of Richmond. From I-95, take Exit 130A. Follow Route 3 East Business to the traffic light at William Street and turn left. At the next traffic light, turn left onto College Avenue. Combs Hall is on the right. Proceed to the university gate and follow signs to the visitor parking area.
More Info: See Diamond story below. This is the first meeting of the new Education Society chapter. Refreshments and cash bar will be provided.
Contact: RSVP to Jennifer Polack-Wahl at japwahl@gmail.com.
Sponsors: National Capital Area Consultants' Network, Washington Section
Time: 3:00-8:00 pm
Place: Lake Fairfax Park
Directions: From the Beltway, take exit 47A (Route 7, Leesburg Pike) to Baron Cameron Avenue. Turn left on Baron Cameron Avenue and take the second left onto Lake Fairfax Drive. Follow the signs to the picnic. See
www.co.fairfax.va.us/parks/maps/lakefairfaxmap.htm.
More Info: IEEE will furnish drinks, ice, hot dogs, chips, charcoal, plates, napkins, and other stuff that is important for picnics. You should bring secret barbeque recipes, side dishes, desserts, games, spouses, kids, and significant others. Please leave alcohol and pets at home.
If you are an August baby (like those of us who plan these picnics), please bring a cake, and we will help you celebrate. For sultry August weather, we recommend a nice pecan pound cake without gooey frosting.
Cost: Free for IEEE members, student members, and guests.
Contact: RSVP to Wally Lee at w.h.lee@ieee.org with the subject line "IEEE CN Picnic RSVP." In the event the picnic is postponed due to bad weather, you will be contacted with a rain date.
Time: Light refreshments 6:30 pm; meeting 7:00 pm
Place: IEEE-USA, 1828 L Street NW, Suite 1202, Washington, DC
More Info: This month WIE is planning activities for the fall and discussing upcoming events and volunteer opportunities. During the meeting we will be creating teaching/training kits to assist WIE members who want to volunteer with school age children. After the meeting everyone is invited to join us at a nearby restaurant for food, drinks, networking and socializing.
Contact: Please RSVP by August 16 to Charity Burd at
charity.burd@ieee.org.
Sponsors: International Association of Software Architects (IASA), Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Reliability Society
Speaker: Michael Cohen, Cigital
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm
Place: Command Information, 1934 Old Gallows Road, Suite 200, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the Capital Beltway, take exit 47 (Leesburg Pike, Rte. 7 West toward Tysons Corner). After merging onto Leesburg Pike, make a U-turn at International Dr. then turn right onto Old Gallows Rd.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: RSVP by Tuesday, Aug. 21 to Debi Siering at
siering@ieee.org.
Sponsors: NIST, Robotics and Automation Society (Washington Chapter), Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Artifical Intelligence
Place: Courtyard by Marriott Washingtonian Center, Gaithersburg, MD
More Info: PerMIS'07 is the seventh in the series that started in 2000 and targets defining measures and methodologies of evaluating performance of intelligent systems. It will consist of five plenary addresses, four special sessions, and two panel discussions. For complete details, see www.isd.mel.nist.gov/PerMIS_2007.
Cost: $375, student $250. Registration deadline is August 21.
Contact: Dr. Raj Madhavan, Program Chair, at raj.madhavan@ieee.org or 301-975-2865.
Diamond Stories
Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University’s Fairfax Campus has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history--to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. CHNM sponsors more than two dozen digital history projects and offers free tools and resources for historians, including Zotero, Web Scrapbook, Survey Builder, Scribe, Poll Builder, and Syllabus Finder.
Trevor Owens is the technology evangelist for Zotero, CHNM's open-source research tool for the Firefox web browser. Zotero is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work--in the web browser itself. See www.zotero.org.
Owens received his bachelor's degree in history and the history of science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is currently working on a master's degree in history at George Mason University. Outside traditional historical scholarship, Trevor is interested in video games as a new medium. Before coming to the CHNM, Trevor was a member of the Games, Learning, and Society Conference planning committee.
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Often when developers are building an application with tight deadlines and lack of resources, there is limited time to think about all the ways an application could become vulnerable. Even trying to understand an application's security posture through an architecture can be complex, especially when one realizes that security is an emerging property. This talk aims to present some techniques that can be applied to high-level and medium-level architecture to help identify and prevent security vulnerabilities within an agile process.
Michael Cohen is a software security consultant at Cigital. As an avid software architecture enthusiast, he actively applies architectural practices when performing software security assessments and developing applications for some of the largest Fortune 500 companies.
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