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Calendar Archive, February 2007
Tuesday, February 6, 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.
Updated! More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome. This meeting will include a film and presentation by members of the University of Maryland solar engineering team, sponsored by the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. The students will talk about their past, present and future activities in solar home architecture and design, and their plans for the next Solar Decathlon competition.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or
nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
An Evening with Internet Pioneer Dr. Robert E. Kahn
Sponsors: Internet Society of Washington; George Mason University School of Management
Speaker: Dr. Robert E. Kahn
Time: 6:30-9:00 pm
Place: Mason Hall, George Mason University, 4400 Univesity Drive, Fairfax, VA
Directions: See
www.gmu.edu/welcome/Directions-to-GMU.html. Allow extra time for driving on campus.
More Info: In the mid-70's technology pioneers Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf developed the common computer language that gave birth to the Internet. Today, as chairman, CEO and president of the Corporation for Research Initiatives, Kahn continues to nurture the development of the medium he helped create. He will share his insights on the future of network-based technologies. See Diamond story below. This lecture is part of GMU's Hot Topics in Technology Management Speaker Series. Refreshments will be provided.
Contact: Janet Palmisano at jpalmisa@gmu.edu. Please RSVP at
http://som.gmu.edu/web.asp?eventscalendar&calid=351&caldateid=1089.
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Please note the date and location change!
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Olive Garden Restaurant, 12980 Fair Lakes Shopping Center, Fairfax, VA
Directions: Take I-66 to Exit 55 North (Route 7100, Fairfax County Pkwy). Turn right at Fair Lakes Pkwy. Go 0.3 mile and turn right at Fair Lakes Circle. Go 0.6 mile and turn left at Fair Lakes Shopping Center.
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.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
Development of ZnO/SiO2/Si Guided Shear Mode Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Devices for Biosensor Applications
Sponsors: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society; Electron Devices Society; Signal Processing Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Ms. Soumya Krishnamoorthy
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, Conference Room 1N100 A/BA, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story below. Light Refreshments will be served.
Cost: Free for IEEE members.
Contact: Please RSVP to Paul Otto at
potto@ieee.org.
CANCELED Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Millimeter Wave Imaging
Cancelled due to inclement weather.
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Speaker: David Wikner, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD
Time: Dinner 5:30 pm (at Clyde's), lecture 7:00 pm (at Mitre)
Place: Dinner at Clyde's of Tysons Corner, 8332 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA; Lecture at Mitre Corporation, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
Cost: $15 for dinner ($20 with alcoholic beverage(s)).
More Info: See See Diamond story below, or www.ieee.org/mtt-wnva.
Contact: Please RSVP for dinner by COB Friday, Feb. 9 to Roger Kaul at
r.kaul@ieee.org or 301-394-4775.
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Solid-State Ultra Violet Optical Sources and Their Application Towards Low Cost, Lightweight Biological Agent Detectors
Sponsor: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
Speaker: David Sickenberger, Edgewood Chemical Biological Center, Aberdeen, MD
Time: Light refreshments and socializing 6:00 pm, lecture 6:30 pm, optional dinner following lecture with the speaker at a local restaurant.
Place: University of Maryland, A. V. Williams Building, Room 2460, 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 take Paint Branch Drive and the A.V. Williams Building will be on the right. From the south on Route 1, turn left onto Campus Drive, and follow above directions. Free parking is available after 4:00 pm in selected lots (read signs carefully). See
www.parking.umd.edu/themap.
Contact: Dominique Dagenais at 301-951-7095 or
dominique_dagenais@avanex.com, or Mary Tobin at 301-394-2046
or mtobin@ieee.org.
Sponsor: IEEE-USA
Time: 10:00 am to 4:30 pm
Place: National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the Judiciary Square Metro station (Red line).
More Info: This one-day festival features dozens of hands-on activities provided by local engineering chapters and national organizations. There will be activities and characters from the popular TV show Cyberchase, and a sneak peak at the new PBS series Design Squad. See www.eweekdcfamilyday.org for more details.
Cost: Free
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: NOAA National Weather Service, Silver Spring Metro Center (SSMC2) 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.
More Info: This is the first meeting of the Washington and Northern Virginia Women in Engineering affinity group this year and we are excited to talk about what we have planned! Bring a friend -- he or she does not have to be a WIE member to attend. We will be introducing our new membership incentives and attendee plan and package. Light snacks will be provided before and during the meeting, and afterwards everyone is welcome to join us at a nearby restaurant for food, drinks, networking and socializing.
Contact: Please RSVP by Feb. 15 to Charity Burd at charity.burd@ieee.org.
Sponsor: District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies
Speaker: Dr. Mark McHenry, President, Shared Spectrum Company
Time: 11:30 am
Place: Pier 7 Restaurant, 650 Water Street SW, Washington, DC
Directions: Complimentary 3 hours of parking, or walk from the Waterfront Metro Station (Green line).
More Info: Dr. McHenry will discuss Next Generation (XG) Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Radios that determine locally unused spectrum and operate on these channels without causing interference to the existing "non-cooperative" users.
See www.dcceas.org (Engineers Week link) for reservation information.
Cost: $25 (Tables for 10 are $250.)
Contact: Reservations required. Please contact Ruplu Bhattacharya at newdcceas@aol.com or 301-428-2751, by Feb. 15.
Time: Executive Committee 9:00-10:00 am, Full Planning Committee 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Location: Marriott Suites, Cafe Board Room, Democracy Blvd., Bethesda, MD
More Info: Volunteers are needed to help plan the IEEE Global Communication Conference to be held in Washington, DC in November. For more information about the conference, see
www.comsoc.org/confs/globecom/2007.
Contact: Jerry Gibbon at 202-276-2265, or Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE GlobeCom in the subject line of your email.
Sponsor: District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies
Speaker: Mark L. Uhran, Assistant Associate Administrator for the International Space Station, NASA Headquarters, Space Operations Missions Directorate
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 8777 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
More Info: The program includes DCCEAS awards for the Engineer and Architect of the Year. The region's winning team in the National Engineers Week Future City Competition will also be recognized at the banquet. The keynote speaker is NASA's lead program manager for the International Space Station. See www.dcceas.org (Engineers Week link) for reservation information, including choice of entrees.
Cost: $45 (Tables for 10 are $450.)
Contact: Reservations required. Please contact Ruplu Bhattacharya at newdcceas@aol.com or 301-428-2751, by Feb. 15.
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Multimedia Forensics: Where Sherlock Holmes Meets Signal Processing
Sponsor: Signal Processing Society, Washington Chapter
Speakers: K.J. Ray Liu and Min Wu, University of Maryland, College Park
Time: Reception and networking 5:30 pm, lecture 6:00 pm
Place: University of Maryland, Kim Engineering Building, Room 1111, 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. See shuttle schedule at www.transportation.umd.edu/routes/schedules/CollegeParkMetro.pdf.
More info: See Diamond story below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members.
Contact: Send an email message to washington.sps@ieee.org.
CANCELED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Economic Valuation of Spectrum
Sponsor: Communication Society, Northern Virginia Chapter; Society for Social Implications of Technology
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: Last September's spectrum auctions in the 1710-1755 and 2110-2155 MHz bands raised $90B. How should spectrum be valuated, from an economic supply-demand theory? Are lower bands worth more? Upper bands? An invited speaker will discuss economic theories of spectrum valuation.
Cost: Free for IEEE members.
Contract: Please RSVP to Fred Seelig at
fred.seelig@ieee.org.
CANCELED Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Service or Commodity: What is the Future of the Engineer?
Canceled in honor of John Margosian.
Sponsor: Life Members Affinity Group
Speaker: Amarjeet S. Basra, P.E.
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: John Margosian at 301-365-1257 or
jmargo@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
An Evening with Internet Pioneer Dr. Robert E. Kahn
Bob Kahn is a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols, only one of his multiplicity of achievements---some of which also include director of DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office, where he initiated the U.S. government's billion dollar Strategic Computing Program, the largest computer research and development program ever undertaken by the federal government; responsibility for the system design of the Arpanet, the first packet-switched network; conceived the idea of open-architecture networking; founded CNRI, which organized five prototype gigabit networks, the so-called "test beds." He is also a co-founder and former trustee of the Internet Society.
In his recent work, Dr. Kahn has been developing the concept of a digital object architecture as a key middleware component of the National Information Infrastructure (Information Super Highway). This notion is providing a framework for interoperability of heterogeneous information systems and is being used in many applications such as the Digital Object Identifier (DOI). He is a co-inventor of Knowbot programs, mobile software agents in the network environment.
Among his numerous awards are the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the A. M. Turing Award, the National Medal of Technology, the Secretary of Defense Civilian Service Award (twice), the IEEE Third Millennium Medal, and the 2003 Digital ID World award for the Digital Object Architecture as a significant contribution (technology, policy or social) to the digital identity industry. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in May 2006.
Dr. Kahn is chairman, CEO and president of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), which he founded in 1986 as a not-for-profit organization to provide leadership and funding for research and development of the National Information Infrastructure.
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Thursday, February 8, 2007
Development of ZnO/SiO2/Si Guided Shear Mode Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Devices for Biosensor Applications
Zinc Oxide (ZnO) is a material system with a highly reactive surface and offers the opportunity for effective bio-ZnO interfaces, thus making ZnO an excellent template for mass based bio-sensing applications. One of the critical steps in developing such devices is to functionalize specific proteins onto ZnO. In our work, we have immobilized a pro-inflammatory cytokine, namely, (Interleukin6) IL-6, in the range of 0.276 pg/ml-10 pg/ml, on the surface of ZnO and visualized at each stage with SEM and AFM studies. The protein-protein interactions were measured with the antigen/antibody immunoassay of solid-phase (Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assayt) ELISA.
ZnO with a high piezoelectric coefficient is capable of generating very high frequency (GHz) surface acoustic wave devices. We have developed a ZnO/SiO2/Si based high frequency guided shear mode surface acoustic wave device operating as high as 1.5 GHz. The mass sensitivities of the system have been modeled and experimentally verified. We find that the mass sensitivity that can be achieved in this system is more than double that seen in a Poly Methyl Meta Acrylate (PMMA) guiding layer based device. This SAW system has been used to detect Il-6 in trace amounts of a few fg of mass.
Soumya Krishnamoorthy is a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering at the University of Maryland College Park. Prior to that, she worked as an analog design engineer at Applied Micro Circuits Corp. in their high speed transceiver group. Her research interests include wide band gap semiconductor based biosensor design, custom high speed analog, and Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) design.
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This presentation will review progress that has been made over the last fifteen years in the design and use of millimeter-wave (MMW) imagers. This technology has been pursued because of its capability for imaging through clothing, fog, smoke, and dust with high enough spatial resolution to be useful. This makes it appropriate for such applications as concealed weapons detection, helicopter situational awareness in low-visibility, and surveillance. This type of imaging is distinct from radar in that the receivers do not usually perform coherent detection and ranging. Rather, imagery is collected in a manner similar to an infrared or visible camera and data is presented in an easy to interpret two-dimensional image. In this talk the device technologies, system architectures, and phenomenology associated with MMW imaging will be discussed. Also presented will be the outlook for future imaging systems that promise affordability in kilo-pixel camera systems.
David Wikner has been actively involved in MMW radar and imaging research for the past 18 years at the Army Research Laboratory. His work has focused on advanced imaging system architectures, device technology and phenomenology. He developed a Stokes-vector passive MMW imaging system that is used for studying the polarimetric signatures of materials and objects for Army applications. His current work pursues the development of affordable device technology for next generation MMW imagers.
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Tuesday February 27, 2007
Multimedia Forensics: Where Sherlock Holmes Meets Signal Processing
Every technology has its time: in the past decades, we have witnessed advances in communication and networking infrastructure, followed by the development of multimedia compression and coding standards, and then the demands of content search and retrieval. This path of technological evolution has naturally led to an unsolved critical issue, that is, information assurance and forensics. Multimedia forensics reconstructs what has happened to the content to answer who has done what, when and how. It is an emerging new field seeing its horizon rising via the interdisciplinary interactions of signal processing, cryptology, communication and information theory, game theory, and the psychology of human visual and auditory perception.
In this talk, three exemplary multimedia forensic cases will be illustrated to highlight the excitement of Sherlock Holmes in the 21st century when examining evidences for multimedia documents and devices via the tools of signal processing. These forensic studies can provide useful evidence to help answer a number of questions arising from law enforcement, intelligence operation, journalism, and technology intellectual property protection. For example, can it be determined whether one company's new product infringes an existing patent by its competitor? How did a terrorist group make a propaganda video aired in the Middle East? By what brand and model of A/V equipment? Was there any editing or alteration done to a digital photo reporting a potential piece of breaking news? To whom was it distributed and where was it from? Who was the source leaking a classified picture?
New technologies of traitor tracing forensics, device forensics, and content forensics developed by the University of Maryland research teams will be presented in the talk.
Dr. K.J. Ray Liu is professor and associate chair of graduate studies and research in the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Maryland, College Park. Dr. Liu leads the Maryland Signals and Information Group (SIG) with research contributions encompassing broad aspects of information forensics and security; multimedia communications and signal processing; wireless communications and networking; biomedical imaging and bioinformatics; and signal processing algorithms and architectures, in which he has published over 400 refereed papers.
Dr. Liu is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of numerous honors and awards including the National Science Foundation 1994 National Young Investigator Award, the IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award in 1993 and 2005, IEEE 50th Vehicular Technology Conference Best Paper Award in 1999, IEEE Signal Processing Society 2004 Distinguished Lecturer, EURASIP Best Paper Award in 2004, and EURASIP 2004 Meritorious Service Award. He was named 2007-2008 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by University of Maryland.
Dr. Liu was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, the founding editor-in-chief of EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, and the prime architect and proposer of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and IEEE Journal on Selected Topics of Signal Processing. Dr. Liu is vice president for publications and on the board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He is serving as the general chair of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Hawaii, 2007.
Dr. Min Wu received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering and the B.A. degree in economics from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University in 2001. Since 2001, she has been with the department of electrical and computer engineering and the Institute of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, where she is currently an associate professor. Dr. Wu leads the Media and Security Team (MAST) at University of Maryland, with research interests on information security and forensics, multimedia signal processing, and multimedia communications.
Drs. Liu and Wu are co-authors of Multimedia Fingerprinting Forensics for Traitor Tracing, EURASIP Book Series on Signal Processing and Communication, 2005. Dr. Wu co-authored Multimedia Data Hiding, Springer-Verlag, 2003, and holds five U.S. patents.
She is an associate editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and an area editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. She is a member of the IEEE technical committees on Image and Multi-dimensional Signal Processing, on Multimedia Signal Processing, and on Multimedia Systems and Applications. She received a National Science Foundation CAREER award in 2002, a University of Maryland George Corcoran Education Award in 2003, an MIT Technology Review’s TR100 Young Innovator Award in 2004, and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2005. She is a co-recipient of the 2004 EURASIP Best Paper Award and the 2005 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. For more information, see Dr. Wu's webpage at www.ece.umd.edu/~minwu.
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