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Calendar Archive, July 2007
Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Capitol Hill Forum on Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles: Towards Energy Independence
Sponsors: IEEE-USA, the IEEE Power Engineering Society, the IEEE Vehicular
Technology Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Set America Free Coalition.
Speakers: Dr. Paul Werbos, program director, National Science Foundation, will give a presentation, "Towards Independence from Foreign Oil." Dr. Thomas Schneider, past chair of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee, will speak on "Transportation Efficiency through Electric Drive and the Power Grid." Thomas Gentile, director, Technology Transfer, National Grid; and chair of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee, will introduce the speakers. Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) will make opening remarks.
Time: Noon to 1:30 pm (lunch provided)
Place: Rayburn House Office Building, Room B-340, Washington, DC
More Info: This is a forum to discuss the emerging technology of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles and the role they can play in reducing our nation's gasoline usage and dependence on foreign oil. According to Plug In America, there are significantly fewer harmful pollutants and CO2 produced to power a plug-in vehicle than a comparable gasoline powered car. The U.S. Department of Transportation says that plug-in cars capable of 50 miles per day would meet the needs of 80 percent of the American driving public.
Go to
www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/PHEV0607.pdf for more on plug-in electric hybrid vehicles.
Contact: To attend the briefing, contact Marjorie Springer at 202-530-8364 or m.springer@ieee.org.
Sponsors: RFID Technology Council members IEEE-USA, AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association), and RFID Business Association. Hosted by the U.S. Senate RFID Caucus.
Speakers: Panelists include Robert Cresanti, under secretary for technology, Department of Commerce; Paul Hunter, Customs and Border Protection, Office of Information Technology;
David Stephens, senior vice president, Public Sector, Savi Technology (Lockheed Martin); Michael Dempsey, vice president, NAVIS. Moderated by Doug Taggart, Overlook Systems Technologies, Inc.
Time: Noon to 1:30 pm (lunch provided)
Place: Hart Senate Office Building, Room 902, Washington, DC
More Info: At this educational luncheon an expert panel will be discussing how Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology assists in protecting America's ports. IEEE-USA is a founding member of the RFID Technology Council steering committee and the lead coordinator for this event.
Contact: For more details or to register, see
www.rfidtechcouncil.org/portsecurity.html.
Sponsor: Graduates Of the Last Decade (GOLD)
Speaker: Dr. Van Le
Time: Presentation at 6:00 pm, light refreshments following the talk at 7:00 pm
Place: Oracle Building, 1910 Oracle Way, Reston, VA
Directions: From the Dulles Toll Road, take the exit for Reston Parkway North. Take the first right onto Sunset Hills Rd. Take the next right onto Oracle Way.
More Info: Dr. Le will present a first-hand account of what it takes to prepare for the CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional) exam.
Cost: Free for IEEE members or non-members. Invite your friends!
Contact: IMPORTANT: We must provide a list of attendees ahead of time to Oracle. To attend, you must RSVP no later than Sunday, July 8 to Chuck Baldi at
cbaldi@ieee.org or Van Le at
vanble@ieee.org. Please bring a photo ID.
Wednesday, July 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 your subject line.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Robotics and Automation Society Chapter Kick-off Meeting
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: University of Maryland, Kim Engineering Building, Room 1105, 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: The purpose of this first meeting is to discuss the direction of the chapter and future activities. In addition to RAS members, all interested members of the Washington Section or neighboring sections are invited to attend to discuss mutually beneficial activities.
Contact: Please RSVP to Raj Madhavan at raj.madhavan@ieee.org. Include items you would like to have on the meeting agenda.
Sponsors: International Association of Software Architects, Computer Society, Signal Processing Society, Antennas and Propagation Society, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Speaker: Stephen Cohen, Microsoft Enterprise Services
Time: (To be rescheduled)
Place: Microsoft, 12012 Sunset Hills Rd., Reston, VA
Directions: Take the Dulles Toll Rd. to Exit 12 North (Reston Pkwy). Turn left on Sunset Hills Rd. For a Microsoft link to a map, click here.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Please RSVP Debi Siering at siering@ieee.org by July 17.
Sponsor: Northern Virginia Section, Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), Women in Engineering
Place: Lake Fairfax, Reston, VA
Time: 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm
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: All section members (including student members) and their guests (including children) are invited. There is no charge. Hot dogs, hamburgers, and vegetarian burgers will be grilled, and cold sodas will be provided. Optionally, a food item, such as a dessert or side dish, would be appreciated, or bring along an outdoor game. Please no alcohol.
Contact: In order that we may plan appropriately, please RSVP to
Chuck Baldi at cbaldi@ieee.org or Laura Black at
astarte@ieee.org no later than Wednesday, July 11. Let us know how many will be attending, and whether you will be bringing a dessert or side dish to supplement.
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Thursday July 26, 2007
Bioinformatics Research on Cyclosarin Exposure Detection
Sponsor: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Cosponsor: Society for Social Implications of Technology
Speaker: Olivia Peters
Time: 7:00 to 8:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, Conference Room 1N100, 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.
Contact: Please RSVP by Wednesday, July 25 to Paul Otto at potto@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
There is no better time to introduce new practices then when a project team realizes it is failing. In that moment, when there is undeniable proof that the status quo can't be the way forward, when the only thing worse than failing is being the reason for failure, that an otherwise change resistant organization willingly passes the necessary authority to an agent of change. This talk will cover several practices applied during some of the most difficult real world circumstances and drill into why they were more successful than prior, less Agile, efforts.
Stephen Cohen has spent the majority of his career supporting the U.S. government in its efforts to develop software. Having worked with more than 25 federal and numerous state and local agencies, he has had the opportunity to develop low level tools, real-time, high data rate, large storage, mission, and simulation systems.
He has taught enterprise architecture for internal Microsoft Consultants as well as presented for Microsoft's Engineering Excellence Group and Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Conference. His web presentation on project recovery is available to Project Management Institute members and he blogs from time to time on enterprise architecture and agile project recovery at
blogs.MSDN.com.
Today he is an architect for Microsoft Enterprise Services and spends his time using Agile practices to recover failing projects.
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Thursday July 26, 2007
Bioinformatics Research on Cyclosarin Exposure Detection
This presentation will summarize work done to identify genetic biomarkers for cyclosarin exposure detection. Several of the most popular biomarker identification approaches will be compared, including fold change analysis, principal component analysis, local maximum clustering, and gene correlation. Each of the approaches utilizes a distinct classifier based either on Mahalonobis distance, Naive Bayesian maximum likelihood methods, or neural networks. While the analysis focuses on differentiation between the exposed and the unexposed samples, the approach proposed is expandable to a more general classification scheme, capable of differentiating between the low, the medium and the high level exposure groups.
With a background in both engineering and the life sciences, Olivia Peters has maintained an interest in biotechnology and computational biology throughout her career. Her research interests have included the application of biologically-inspired signal processing techniques to the design of communications devices, novel algorithms for the analysis of microarray data, and computational modeling of inter-cellular processes. Ms. Peters has a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, 1999, an M.S. in biomedical engineering from the University of Virginia, 2000, and expects to finish her Ph.D. in computational biology at George Mason University in 2007.
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