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Calendar Archive, June 2009
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:45 pm
Place: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the 12th Street entrance. The AAAS building is one block from Metro Center (Red, Orange and Blue lines).
Street parking is free after 6:30 pm (no parking 4:00-6:30 pm). There is a pay parking lot at the intersection of 9th St. and New York Ave., and an underground parking garage at 14th St. and New York Ave.
See map at www.aaas.org/dcwest.pdf.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Contact: RSVP to Monica Taysing-Lara at m.taysinglara@ieee.org or 202-725-2225.
Sponsor: Society for Technical Communication
Cosponsor: Professional Communication Society
Time: 6:00-8:30 pm
Place: NRECA Conference Center, 4301 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
More Info: No matter where you are in your career, you should always be prepared to get back into the job market. Come learn the latest trends in the job search process and start laying the groundwork for your next job search. This event will be a progression. Each speaker will host a 25-minute roundtable discussion. At the end of each discussion, you will move to another table with a different topic and speaker.
Cost: IEEE or STC members $5; non-members $15. Includes a light dinner.
Contact: Please preregister by May 31 by following the Registration link at
http://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/561. For questions, contact Hugh Owen at
hugh.owen@ieee.org.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Virginia Railway Express: Planning for Growth
Sponsor: Land Transportation Committee of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society and American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: Mark Roeber, Manager, Public Affairs and Government Relations, Virginia Railway Express
Time: Lunch 11:30 am, presentation 12:00 noon
Place: American Public Transportation Association, 11th Floor Conference Room, 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 and Blue lines, use 17th Street exit).
More Info: The National Capital Land Transportation Committee (LTC) holds monthly lunch meetings from September though June. The LTC is jointly sponsored by the ASME Rail Transportation Division and the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society of the Washington and Northern Virginia Sections. All interested persons are invited. Membership in ASME or IEEE is not required.
Cost: $20 cash at the door for lunch.
Contact: Please RSVP by 4:00 pm Friday, June 5 to Karl Berger at
karl.berger@dcm-va.com or 703-803-7917.
Sponsor: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Washington University
Speaker: Mark Morgan, Research Faculty, Computer Science Department,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Time: 1:00-2:00 pm
Place: Phillips Hall 640, George Washington University, Washington, DC
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: Dr. Harrington at
rharring@gwu.edu.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: Dinner 6:00, business meeting 7:00-8:00 pm
Place: Fairfax County Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Conference Room 8, Fairfax, VA
Directions: See
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/maps/locatMap.htm. From I-495, take I-66 West to Exit 55B Fairfax County Pkwy North (Route 7100). Turn right onto Fair Lakes Pkwy East. Turn right at light onto Monument Dr. Turn right at light onto Government Center Pkwy. The Government Center is on the left.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact:
Jeff Poston at poston@ieee.org or
703-983-7020.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Microbolometer Sensor Arrays: Material and Process Issues in Manufacturing
Sponsor: Electron Devices Society
Cosponsor: Sensors Council chapter
Speaker: Dr. Sandra Hyland, BAE Systems
Time: Refreshments 6:15 pm, presentation 6:45 pm
Place: George Mason University, Room 3207, Engineering Building, 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA
Directions: The Engineering Building was formerly known as Academic VI. It is next to Research I and opposite the Aquatic center.
The campus map at
http://eagle.gmu.edu/map/fairfax.php shows this location as "Future Site of Academic VI." For driving directions, see
www.gmu.edu/gmu/Directions-to-GMU.html.
Parking: Use Sandy Creek Parking Deck or Mason Pond Parking Deck (near the Center for Performing Arts). Present the ticket to the meeting organizer for validation.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: For more information, contact Murty Polavarapu at murtyp@ieee.org or at 703-367-1497.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Lifegraphs for Mobile Mirror Worlds: Linking Supply, Value, and Customer Chains
Sponsors: DC ACM, DC SIGADA, DC SIGGRAPH, and the Washington Academy of Sciences
Speaker: William Glascoe, with contributions by Dr. Nicholas Polys
Time: 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Place: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the 12th Street entrance. The AAAS building is one block from Metro Center (Red, Orange and Blue lines).
Street parking is free after 6:30 pm (no parking 4:00-6:30 pm). There is a pay parking lot at the intersection of 9th St. and New York Ave., and an underground parking garage at 14th St. and New York Ave.
See map at www.aaas.org/dcwest.pdf.
More Info: See Diamond story below. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Contact: William Fielder, Chair, DC ACM, at winter@frostmarch.com.
Sponsor: Life Members
Speaker: Dr. Demetrios Matsakis, U.S. Naval Observatory
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: Dolley Madison Library, 1244 Oak Ridge Ave, McLean, VA
Directions: Take Exit 46 from the Beltway and proceed on Route 123 North to McLean, VA, about 2 miles. After crossing Old Dominion Dr., turn left at the next street, Ingleside Ave., and then left on Oak Ridge Ave. The library is on the left.
More Info: See Diamond story below. A light lunch will be provided to those who make a reservation.
Contact: RSVP to Dave Booth at 540-364-1350 or dbooth@ieee.org.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Update on the James Webb Space Telescope and its Ability to See Exoplanets
Sponsor: National Capital Astronomers
Speaker: Dr. John Mather, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: University of Maryland Observatory, Metzerott Road, College Park, MD
Directions: See www.astro.umd.edu/openhouse/obs_info/index.html.
More Info: See Diamond story below. Weather-permitting, there will be observing through the telescopes after the meeting. National Capital Astronomers has regular monthly meetings September through June on the second Saturday of the month. Meetings with educational presentations are free and open to the public. For more information, see http://capitalastronomers.org/.
Sponsor: Women in Engineering
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: TBA
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Contact: RSVP by Friday, June 12 to Varetta Huggins at vhuggins@ieee.org.
Sponsors: Power Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: Chuck Sisung
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, 4300 Wilson Blvd., Suite 750, Arlington, VA
Directions: From Ballston Metro Station (Orange line), turn right at top of escalator then left on the street. Proceed two blocks toward Macy's, turn right and walk one block to Ballston Point at the intersection of Wilson Blvd. and Glebe Rd. If driving, see
www.ari.vt.edu/ari_directions.html. There is a parking garage in the building with a $1 charge for 3 hours. After 6:00 pm, there is limited free street parking.
More Info: A light dinner buffet will be served, followed by the program. All interested persons are invited.
Cost: Free for IEEE members; $10 for non-members.
Contact: Rich Phillips at rdphillips@ekfox.com or 800-520-4771 ext. 113.
This meeting has been CANCELED.
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants' Network
Contact: Monica Mallini at m.a.mallini@ieee.org.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
CMMI for Services: Cost-Effective Approaches to Early Use
Sponsors: Computer Society, American Society for Quality (ASQ) Section 509 Software SIG, Society for Software Quality (SSQ)
Speaker: Marilyn Ginsberg-Finner, Northrop Grumman
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Video teleconference with sites in McLean and Silver Spring. Addresses are provided at the registration link below.
More Info: See Diamond story below or
www.asq509.org/ht/d/sp/i/2499/pid/2499. All interested IEEE members and guests are invited to attend. Pizza and soda will be served.
Cost: Free
Contact: Advance registration is required to enter the facilities. Register by Monday, June 22 at http://www.asq509.org/ht/d/DoSurvey/i/26913. If your plans change, please email ankums@mitre.org to cancel your reservation.
Diamond Stories
Modern grids have tremendous potential for the scientific community both in terms of increasingly large resource pools from which to draw compute power and in terms of scientific collaboration. However, despite this potential, adoption by users remains quite low. Grids usually prove difficult to learn and use resulting in user frustration. In essence, grids fail to provide adequate user interfaces for their very target audience. Genesis II and the XCG at the University of Virginia are challenging these stereotypes and have built a compute (primarily for High-throughput computation) and data grid that attempts to ease the average user into grid functionality by presenting him or her with a familiar user interaction abstraction -- namely that of the file system. By presenting grid resources as files and directories Genesis II enables not only a more seamless user experience but also one more readily manipulated by scientific research techniques such as shell scripts and legacy executables. Mark Morgan will give a brief overview of grid technology and will then describe in detail the Genesis II system and the cross-campus grid or XCG initiative currently underway there.
Mark Morgan received his M.S. in computer science from the University of Virginia in 1999. As the senior software engineer at Avaki Corporation from 2000 to 2003 he helped transition the Legion grid project from an academic research project to a commercialized compute and data grid product. Now back at the University of Virginia as a member of the Computer Science Department's Research Faculty and as the lead software architect for Genesis II, he continues to stay very active in grid research. He maintains an active role in the Open Grid Forum, having chaired one working group and co-authored a number of specifications in other groups. His interests include programming languages, computer architecture, and operating systems.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Microbolometer Sensor Arrays: Material and Process Issues in Manufacturing
Microbolometer sensor arrays provide "night vision" and are used in a variety of applications sensing infrared radiation from such sources as people, vehicles, and engines in low-visibility environments. Manufacturing microbolometers, which measure temperature to sense infrared light, requires selecting materials that both fulfill the necessary temperature-sensing task and are compatible with manufacturing capabilities. The integration of process capabilities for both CMOS processing and MEMS processing introduces constraints on materials, deposition and etching processes, and critical dimensions. This talk will review a manufacturing flow for uncooled microbolometer sensor arrays and discuss the relevant materials and processing trade-offs made to create the final sensing array.
Sandra Hyland, Ph.D., has 25 years experience in semiconductor manufacturing and program management. She is currently a senior semiconductor engineer at BAE systems as the technical lead for microbolometer products at the Manassas, VA, foundry. In her previous job, she served in various positions at Tokyo Electron, including etch process manager for TEL's technology center in Albany, NY, and as the etch process manager for the eleven-person group supporting customers on the East coast. Prior to her management assignment, she was an etch process engineer supporting Dominion Semiconductor and National Semiconductor. She has also served as a staff officer at the National Research Council's National Materials Advisory Board and as an advisory engineer at IBM.
Dr. Hyland has a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from Cornell University, an M.S. in electrical engineering from Rutgers University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Hyland is a member of the American Vacuum Society, Electrochemical Society, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. She is a fellow of the Society of Women Engineers, and currently chairs the National Research Council's Committee on Engineering Aviation Security Environments - False Positives from Explosive Detection Systems.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Lifegraphs for Mobile Mirror Worlds: Linking Supply, Value, and Customer Chains
Have you wondered why record and bookkeeping has not been automated for all of us? From the moment a legal or natural person is known to be on the way to last data generating event of its corpse. This talk examines lifegraphing (not life logging) in the context of the proliferation of 3D Computer-Aided everything, the payment card industry's infrastructure, the electronic health records mandate, geographical information systems, and electronic data interchange standards. To fully understand the conceptualization of lifegraphs, a 100-year story of a person born in the year 2000 is used to explain what lifegraphs are (aren't) and how they may change the chains between government, corporations and citizens who come live by them.
William Glascoe will conduct most of the talk, with a brief contribution by Dr. Nicholas Polys.
William Glascoe is a project manager in the Logistics & Supply Chain Management subpractice of CSC's Federal Consulting Practice and an Air Force Reserves' Lieutenant Colonel at the National Security Space Office. He recently won a CSC Leading Edge Forum Grant to investigate extensible 3D (X3D) for enterprise applications, which yielded the idea of lifegraphs as he defines them.
Glascoe is a certified Project Management Professional and recently returned from a year-long assignment in Baghdad where he managed business planning projects for the DoD Task Force to Improve Business and Stability Operations in Iraq. He was a Software Risk Manager at the Office of Naval Research's Best Manufacturing Practices Center of Excellence in College Park, MD during 2007. Between 1996 and 1999, he was the Chief, Software Integration and Test in a classified System Program Office during his third Air Force active duty assignment. He is a certificate holder of the Air Force Institute of Technology's Software Professional Development Program.
Glascoe holds a B.S. in applied physics from the U.S. Air Force Academy, and an M.S. in telecommunications from University of Colorado at Boulder.
Dr. Nicholas Polys heads the VT-ARC Visualization Group. He has developed interactive 3D graphic content and systems for over 9 years. His research interests lie at the heart of human-computer interaction: the intersection of visualization, virtual environments, and perception.
After his undergraduate research in Cognitive Science at Vassar College (1996), he jumped into the networked information space of the WWW developing audio, visual, and 3D assets and software. His doctoral work at Virginia Tech (2006) examined perceptual cues and layout behaviors for Information-Rich Virtual Environments for desktop to immersive platforms.
As a co-author of the international standard Extensible 3D (X3D) and Director of the Web3D Consortium, he is the author of numerous peer-reviewed papers, tutorials, and workshops. Currently, he is a researcher for Virginia Tech Research Computing building information architectures and user interfaces for computational scientists.
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Dr. Demetrios Matsakis, head of the Time Service Department of the U.S. Naval Observatory will review how GPS works, emphasizing the many improvements being planned in the constellation and at the USNO, which provides the time reference for GPS. New frequencies are being made available, coordination with Galileo and other Global Navigation Satellite Systems is being established, and the USNO itself has embarked upon an ambitious plan to provide more precise time to the constellation. This includes new frequency standards, a new building to house them, and an improved theoretical and electronic infrastructure.
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Saturday, June 13, 2009
Update on the James Webb Space Telescope and its Ability to See Exoplanets
The James Webb Space Telescope is on track for a launch in 2014. Dr. Mather will review the status and progress on the key hardware. The first primary mirror segments are already at Marshall space Flight Center for cryogenic tests, the mid IR instrument has already had successful tests of the engineering model, and the detectors are showing excellent performance. Dr. Mather will describe the scientific objectives of the mission, with emphasis on the predicted capabilities for observing planets by the transit technique and through direct imaging. Recent direct observations of planets by HST and by adaptive optics from the ground have shown that, under favorable circumstances, much can be learned.
Dr. John C. Mather is a Senior Astrophysicist in the Observational Cosmology Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. His research centers on infrared astronomy and cosmology. As an NRC postdoctoral fellow at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (New York City), he led the proposal efforts for the Cosmic Background Explorer (1974-76), and came to GSFC to be the Study Scientist (1976-88), Project Scientist (1988-98), and the Principal Investigator for the Far IR Absolute Spectrophotometer on COBE. He and his team showed that the cosmic microwave background radiation has a blackbody spectrum within 50 parts per million, confirming the Big Bang theory to extraordinary accuracy. As Senior Project Scientist (1995-present) for the James Webb Space Telescope, he leads the science team, and represents scientific interests within the project management.
Dr. Mather is the recipient of many awards, including the Nobel Prize in Physics (2006) with Dr. George Smoot, for the COBE work.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2009
CMMI for Services: Cost-Effective Approaches to Early Use
Released ahead of schedule in February, the Capability Maturity Model Integration for Services (CMMI-SVC) is a CMMI constellation that covers the activities required to manage, establish, and deliver services. Currently, some service organizations apply CMMI for Development (CMMI-DEV) to their work, but this requires significant interpretation. CMMI-SVC is relevant to any organization concerned with the delivery of services, including enterprises in sectors such as defense, IT, health care, finance, and transportation.
This presentation provides an overview of the new service Process Areas and suggests cost-effective approaches to early use.
Marilyn Ginsberg-Finner has worked in the telecommunications and defense industries, performing, managing, and consulting on process improvement, SQA, acquisition risk management, and other topics. She served on 6ó teams and led and contributed to successful CMMI appraisals. She is currently with Northrop Grumman, as a process consultant for U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM) Life Cycle Management Command Software Engineering Center.
She is a Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE); senior member of ASQ; and a member of NJ SPIN, ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society. Her previous activities included Program Chair of Jersey SIGAda, member of IEEE Software Engineering Standards Executive Committee, and ISO USTAG.
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