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On the cover: Fifty-one of the more than one hundred volunteers of the Future City Competition. The list is continued on page 15. Kenny Mui, AKRF, Inc., Dan Colangione, AKRF, Inc., Catherine Simpson, Arup, Janeth Costa, Apollo HVAC Corp/ASHRAE, Laureen Pellegrino, BAE Systems/SWE, Joseph Boccuzzi, Broadcom Corporation/IEEE, Herbert Browne, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers, Palak Jain (Jane), Clear Investments, Balvinder Blah, ConEdison/IEEE, Pedro PerezCabezas,, ConEdison/IEEE, Mawmita Khan, ConEdison, Oscar Walters, Demerara Engineering, Karen Armfield, DMJM Harris, Storm Gewirtz, DMJM Harris, Yurintzy Estrada, DMJM Harris,


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Notes from the Editor The May issue, which is the last issue before the summer break, has a contribution by Amitava Dutta-Roy on composing music using computers, based on the well-attended presentation by pro-fessor Elizabeth Hoffman for the Life Members Group in January 2008.

We have a ful l calendar of events this month. However there are several events for July and August in the planning stages, but no details were available at the t ime of publication. So I urge you to check the Monitor website and the online com-munity calendar on a regular basis for events that wil l take place during the summer. And if your chapter plans an event during the summer months, please send us the information, so that we can add the event to the website and the cal-endar.

If you want to become an active member of the NY Section, now is the t ime to speak up. Our nomination committee submitted a request for nominations for the year 2009. I attended the April meeting of the Executive Committee, where Pro-fessor Razani, Chair of the Electrical and Tele-communications Engineering Technology Depart-ment (ETET) of New York City College of Technol-ogy of CUNY presented a petit ion for the forming of a NY Chapter of the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS). We wil l keep you up-dated.

I received several suggestions for content this month, one of them was: “Each month, spotl ight a different NY section chapter.” The story could cover the chapter mission, contact information, what types of events/functions they have. So if you want to step up and be the f irst group to be in the “spotl ight”, email me and we shall set up an interview.

And now for some housekeeping. As you can see I have made changes to the cover, most im-portantly the line under the t it le, which used to say: “Published by the New York Section of Insti-tute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers”, now reflects the current viewpoint of the IEEE.

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CHAIR’S COLUMN By David Weiss Spring is the t ime for planting so you’ l l have things growing up later. I want to make you aware of some of the devel-

opments at the NY Sect ion intended to assure the sur-vival of our programs and to guide them so they are most relevant to your needs.

First, thanks in great measure to Professor Henry Bertoni , our Education Committee Chair, the NY Sec-t ion has become increasingly involved in the cert i f ica-t ion (Professional Development Hours and Continuing Education Units) of the lectures offered by our society chapters. What does this mean for you?

I t ’s an extra measure of assurance to you of qual-i ty offerings. Cert i f ied lectures must be prepared in advance and reviewed. We increasingly need the sup-port of our employers: they let us use their faci l i t ies and they provide funding in many ways. One is to reim-burse employees for educat ional expenses. By cert i fy-ing programs, we hope to better explain why companies should fund training and educational expenses. Please let us know i f there are part icular offerings that would be of interest to our audience.

Second, we can learn something from the enter-tainment industry: i t ’s good for business to promote your successes and to celebrate them. Thanks to our Historian, Mel Olken, we have such an occasion in the off ing. The IEEE has cert i f ied The New Yorker Hotel as a “Mi lestone in Electr ical Engineering” for bui lding the largest Private (DC) Generating Plant in the USA.

The Direct Current (dc) generating plant instal led at the New Yorker Hotel in 1929, capable of supplying electr ic power suff ic ient for a ci ty of 35,000 people, was the largest private generating plant in the U.S.A. Steam engines drove electr ic generators wi th exhaust steam used for heating and other faci l i t ies. The instal-lat ion used more than two hundred dc motors, and was control led from a seven-foot ( two-meter) high, s ixty-foot (eighteen-meter) long switchboard. We are working wi th the New Yorker on a sui table ceremony at which the IEEE plaque wi l l be instal led.

Third, we are extremely proud of our younger groups. GOLD (Chair - Michael Haroutunian), Student Activ i t ies (Chair - Mawmita Khan), and WIE (Chair – Alexandra Gagl iot ta) have brought great energy to our section. On Apri l 26th part ic ipated in an IEEE Region 1 Career Fair at Fair leigh Dickinson Universi ty in Tea-neck NJ. The IEEE means jobs!

Fourth, in response to these and other in i t iat ives,

the NY Section needs a management plan. We’re work-ing on i t . Our Budget Committee, headed by Dave Horn, has been hard at work helping to shape our ac-t iv i t ies. How much support can the Sect ion provide? How much funding must the Chapters, Aff in i ty Groups, and Committees generate? What other support can the Section provide? Recal l that the Region is taking an act ive role here as well . I t created the posit ion of In-dustr ial Relat ions Coordinator and appointed Ashutosh Dutta to head i t .

So we have much to be proud of and plenty to keep working on. As ye sow, so shal l ye reap. Happy plantings.

David Weiss ([email protected])

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR NY SECTION OFFICERS FOR THE YEAR 2009

The Nomination Committee of the New York Sec-t ion of the IEEE:

Stanley Karoly — Chair Robert Pel legr ino Benjamin Schal l Kenneth Vought Paul Sartor i

hereby sol ici ts nominations for off icers of the Ex-ecutive Committee of 2009 for the fol lowing posi-t ions:

I f you wish to nominate a fel low member you should know that any member in good standing of the New York Section, membership grade of mem-ber or higher, is el igible for nomination. I f you are interested in becoming part of the NY Section lead-ership you should express your interest to the Chair, David Weiss ([email protected]) or the Sec-retary of the Executive Committee, Balvinder Blah ([email protected]). Nominations should be postmarked no later than June 15, 2008 and mai led to:

Stanley Karoly, P.E., Chief Electr ical Engineer Chair of the nominations committee New York City Transit 2 Broadway, Ste. D 3.125 New York, NY 10004 E-mai l : s [email protected]

Executive Committee Chair Vice Chair –

Section Operations Vice Chair –

Section Activities Treasurer Secretary

Elected Committee Chairs By-Laws Chapter Organization Managing Editor Monitor Historian Long Range Planning Publications Special Events Web Master


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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

(Mark your calendar)

Friday, May 2, 2008 — 9:00 am – 5:00 pm LISAT 2008. The fourth annual conference on Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology (see back page) Location: Farmingdale State College For registration information and directions see www.ieee.li/lisat

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 — 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm WIE NY Section, presents Mary Lanzerotti, Ph.D. Professional Development Location: MTA Building 2 Broadway @ Bowling Green, New York, closest trains: 4 & 5, other nearby trains: 1, W, J & Z. RSVP required: By EOB Monday, May 5, to [email protected] No walk-ins allowed for security reasons.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008 — 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (see page 8)

Vehicular Technology Society & Communications Society Forum: CCTV in Motion Location: First Floor Conference Room, NYCT Building, 130 Livingston Street, Brooklyn NY 11201 Registration required by noon, Monday May 5, 2008. Email [email protected] For additional information and program specifics contact Sana Mushtaq at 718.422.9922 or by email at [email protected]

Thursday, May 8, 2008 — 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

GOLD, WIE, SAC, CN, NNJ— Signals Networking Mixer Location: Village Pourhouse, Vegas Room, 64 Third Avenue (sw corner of East 11 Street) New York, NY 10003 RSVP: [email protected] or [email protected]. www.pourhousenyc.com

Tuesday, May 13 , 2008— 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (see page 11)

Tappan Zee Subsection Meeting: The War of the Currents– Who Really Won? by Joseph Cunningham Location: Polytechnic University, Westchester Campus, 40 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532 For directions and information, visit the events page at IEEE Tappan Zee Subsection website, www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_york/tz/

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 12:00 – 2:00 pm

Section Executive Committee (ExCom) Meeting Location: Con Edison, 4 Irving Place New York, NY 10003 RSVP required: Paul Sartori [email protected]. No walk-ins allowed for security reasons.

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 — 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm (see page 13)

Closed Captioning of TV Broadcast: ATCS Standards, the second of two tutorials by Warner W. Johnston. Sponsored by WIE and the NY Chapter for Broadcast Technology. RSVP required: By EOB Monday, May 12, to [email protected] No walk-ins allowed for security reasons. Location: MTA Building 2 Broadway @ Bowling Green, New York, closest trains: 4 & 5, other nearby trains: 1, W, J & Z.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 — 6:00 pm *

FINAL EVENT CELEBRATING THE MTA’S 40th ANNIVERSARY: SUBWAY MOON “Subway Moon,” is a collection of stories inspired by the subway and told through music, image, and words by Roy Nathanson and "The Jazz Passengers," a group of high school students from New York’s Institute for Collaborative Education and visiting students from the suburbs of Paris. The Passengers’ part of the work was commissioned by Chamber Music America. The piece tells of a magi-cal underground place where people from diverse age groups, backgrounds, and sensibilities can think and reflect. Location: The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, The Great Hall, 7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue. No reserva-tions required. Free admission.

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 — 6 pm *

ENGINEERING EAST SIDE ACCESS In conjunction with the exhibition Tools of the Trade, Alan Paskoff of MTA Capital Construction will discuss the tools best suited to construction conditions, tunnel boring machines working to link Grand Central Terminal to the existing 63rd Street Tunnel, and LIRR facilities in Long Island City. Location: New York Transit Museum, on the corner of Boerum Place and Schermerhorn, in Brooklyn Heights. For directions and information: www.mta.info/mta/museum/whatsnew.htm

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 — 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm (see page 14)

Tappan Zee Subsection Meeting: Green Technology and Service, Jen Yao Chung, Ph.D. Location: Polytechnic University, Westchester Campus, 40 Saw Mill River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532 For directions and information, visit the events page at IEEE Tappan Zee Subsection website, www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_york/tz/

* At times we add non IEEE related events to the calendar because we feel that they are of interest to our readers.


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NY Section WIE Presents Mary Lanzerotti

IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & THE APS PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

RESOURCE GUIDE

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

MTA Building 2 Broadway @ Bowling Green, New York

O ur speaker Mary Yvonne Lanzerott i, PhD., Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, wil l discuss professional development within the context of to-day’s career environment. As part of this talk, she wil l present the 2007 Professional De-

velopment Guide, which was developed by members of the American Physical Society Committee on Careers and Professional Development (www.aps.org) in order to provide career guidance to scientists and engineers. The Guide l ists resources identif ied as important for professional devel-opment and is organized into ten chapters that represent steps that scientists and engineers can take to improve their professional development while working concurrently on a technical project, which may include but is not l imited to studying toward a degree, completing a thesis, applying for a job, or developing a career.

Mary Yvonne Lanzerott i Ph.D. is a Member of the research team at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. She received an A.B. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University, an M.Phil. from University of Cam-bridge, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University, al l in physics. Dr. Lanzerott i was the Integrator of the Instruction Fetch Unit on IBM's dual-core Power4 microprocessor and with colleagues prepared the IBM Power6 chip-level t iming analysis presented at 2007 International Solid-State Circuits Conference. The goals of her research are to develop analyt ical and statist ical techniques to (a) identify performance-l imit ing

circuitry and (b) design eff icient on-chip interconnections that satisfy IBM Server Group require-ments for high-performance microprocessors through the cooperative interactions of manual in-tervention and computer-aided design tools.

Dr. Lanzerott i has authored or co-authored 29 papers in refereed journals and conference publications. She has been granted three patents, with two patents pending. Her website is: www.research.ibm.com/people/m/myl.

Dr. Lanzerott i is recipient of the IEEE Region 1 Technical Innovation Award (Industry or Gov-ernment, 2007), the IEEE/LEOS Distinguished Service Award (2007), Engineer of the Year Award from the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) NY Section (2006), and IBM Research Division Out-standing Contribution Award (1998). She is Editor of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) News (www.sscs.org) and was Executive Editor of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Newsletter from 2001-2006 (www.i- leos.org). She was an elected member of the IEEE/LEOS Board of Governors from 2003-2005. She is a member of the IEEE/SSCS, IEEE/LEOS, IEEE/WIE, APS, and Phi Beta Kappa. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE.

RSVP Required: EOB May 5: [email protected]—All are welcome!

Closest trains: 4 & 5, other nearby trains: 1, W, J & Z. No walk-ins allowed for security reasons!


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COMPUTER-ASSISTED COMPOSITION A Review1 by Amitava Dutta-Roy, LF

O n January 22 , some forty members of the IEEE NY-Section and their guests, had the pleasure of attending an erudite pres-

entation on Computer-Assisted Music Composit ion by Elizabeth Hoffman, PhD., Associate Professor at the Music Department of New York University. The event was sponsored by PES and the Life Members’ Aff inity Group2. Perhaps those attend-ing the presentation already had a pretty good idea about the increasing role of electronics in the synthesis and of high f idelity in the reproduction of music. Who had not heard of the Moog synthe-sizer, Yamaha keyboard instruments, Roland per-cussions, Sony receivers, Onkyo amplif iers or Bose speakers? Electronic music pioneers such as Isao Tomita (Japan), Jean Michelle Jarre (France), and Wendy Carlos (USA) of the “Switched-on Bach” fame experimented with new (mostly analog) techniques for synthesizing mu-sic. The advent of digital technology added an extra dimension to the art of synthesizing. For most of us that was the extent of our knowledge about electronics in music. Dr. Hoffman intro-duced us to another realm in which electronic technology is fused with the art of composit ion to create an entirely new kind of music.

Dr. Hoffman began her presentation by talking about various nuances of music synthesis: real-t ime analysis and simultaneous re-synthesis and cross- and granular synthesis; each of which pro-duces an effect hitherto never generated using tradit ional instruments. The introduction served as an appetizer of the presentation. But the main en-trée would be a deeper insight into the use of computers in the creation of music, now a humon-gous field that has been steadily developing for several decades. Application of technology in mu-sic (or any other art form), however, has always been embraced with caution.

Consider music recorded on a tape. Before the invention of the tape recorder, music always meant l ive music that included the sound emanat-ing from mechanical devices such as music boxes. Sure, music could be recorded but only on gramophone records. Once the master disc was cut there was no f lexibi l ity – the recordings could not be edited or mixed on the f ly. In other words, gramophone record technology could not be used in creating “new” music. Tape recorders, even with their rudimentary designs opened up novel possibil it ies for the composers. They could play recorded tapes at normal, slower or faster

speeds, cut, splice, and edit the tapes, rerecord, and, if desired, play them together with l ive per-formance as background or to produce echo ef-fects. Pierre Schaeffer was one of the founders of the pioneering wave of “tape music” that invaded the experimental music circle in Paris of the 1940s. Dr. Hoffman noted that even Schaeffer had a cautionary view of the fusion of technology and

music. In 1970, when mainframe computing was commonplace and three decades after the birth of tape music, Schaeffer warned about the “false confidence” the computer might insti l l in the minds of young musicians. Paul Berg, an expert in digital signal processing (DSP) and a well re-garded programmer of computers that could cre-ate music, in 1996 wrote of the “promise of brute strength” that he saw being implemented in hard-ware that nonetheless realized the musical con-cepts of the 1960s. Berg strongly believed that technology only created enormous possibil it ies for art ists. At the end, however, i t wil l always be the people, not the computers, who WILL innovate.

The evolution of computer-assisted music be-gan in the era of the mainframe machines. It then found more manageable support — both in terms of technology and funding — in minicomputers (remember those PDP-series computers3 de-signed by Digital Equipment Corporation?). The development of digital signal processing gave an added boost. Today the prevalence of relatively inexpensive personal computers with incredibly fast processors and gigabytes of RAM space

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From l. to r. Sukumar Alampur, present PES/IAS chair, Elizabeth Hoffman, John Michelson, junior past PES/IAS chair and Arnold Wong, PES/IAS program chair. Photograph by Amitava Dutta-Roy


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Vehicular Technology Society & Communications Society

CCTV in Motion Forum

May 7, 2008, 6:00 to 8:00 PM First Floor Conference Room, NYCT Building 130 Livingston Street, Brooklyn NY 11201

Join the NY Chapter of the Vehicular Technology Society at a forum on Closed Circuit Televisions Installations on Railcars, featuring:

Sam Alibrahim from Booz Allen Hamilton Light Rail Wireless CCTV aboard Maryland Transportation Authority

Doug Dreisbach from PATH & Jim Dietz from LTK Engineering Services CCTV implementation at PATH

The forum is free and open to all IEEE members as well as non-members. Please note Advance registration is required for admission. Registration closes at noon, May 5, register by email with: Kevin Coughlin: [email protected]

For further information contact Ms. Sana Mushtaq at 718-422-9922 or by e-mail at [email protected].

IEEE-NY VTS Chapter: Kevin Coughlin, Chair Sana Mushtaq, Vice Chair Larry Scarcia, Treasurer Matt Lester, Secretary


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IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH – IT WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE by Joan Ramirez

W hen my grandmother came to America from Russia, a lack of English made her insecure and afraid. She worked in

a dress factory and through the kindness of a fr iend, started to study her adopted language. Before long, she was helping others to express themselves in writ ing.

While her lack of formal education kept her in the factory, she met another immigrant who courted and married her. Fanny Cooper used her improved English skil ls to help educate ten chil-dren. Unlike my grandmother, there are many professionals who have degrees, but their inabil-i ty to express themselves clearly and concisely in written and verbal communication prevents up-ward job mobil i ty.

I feel so strongly about these vital ski l ls that I ’ve gone back to school to obtain my second Masters to teach ESL to adults. In the interim I would l ike to share my knowledge with members of the Engineering community to enhance their writ ing and presentation skil ls. Now, a few things to keep in mind:

• Think in English – not your native language –

when you write on the job • Always draft and revise • Show your work to a colleague before submit-

t ing to the boss

Don’t forget to practice, practice, and practice— to develop your writ ing style.

While we're on the subject of putt ing your best foot forward, give some thought to sprucing up your verbal presentation skil ls. Think about the fol lowing possibi l it ies as you go through your business day:

• What happens if I 'm asked to give a talk to

the media? • What happens if I 'm asked to speak at a tech-

nical conference? • What happens if I 'm asked to give a speech

to my colleagues on a t imely topic

A wise man once said, "You rarely get a second chance to make a f irst good impression." Stay tuned for helpful hints on the above.

Joan Ramirez has 20 years of corporate experience in the communications industry as an ESL trainer, award-winning annual report wri ter, and publ ished photojour-nal ist . For private or group lessons, she can be reached at wri terj r1044@gmail .com.

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make their impact on music making indisputable — be it in academia, popular music, classical mu-sic, or experimental avant-garde — and also amongst so-called ‘trained’ and untrained musi-cians whose tradit ionally different categories now overlap each other.

Dr. Hoffman emphasized the distinction be-tween synthesized music and computer generated music. The former is usually created by human mind and played by inanimate devices (e.g., elec-tronic keyboard instruments coupled to speakers) whereas the latter is composed with the help of machines and may be played either by humans or electronic devices. Machine-made composit ions may be l ive or f ixed, that is, sculpted in advance to the last detail. Or, it may allow real-t ime input so that its parts can be altered each t ime it is in-voked.

Step-by-step procedures or algorithms form the basis of music making by computers. Inter-faces and structural design of algorithms are im-portant attr ibutes in computer-assisted music, and the best computer program interfaces are rela-t ively transparent, al lowing creative art ists to move forward with their composit ions without l im-it ing or heavily shaping their creative ideas. Algo-rithms are complex and much high-level research is being done both in universit ies and industrial laboratories. But even at the present stage of evo-lution of algorithms an aspiring composer need not be an expert in computer languages. Fortu-nately, commercial ly available software (e.g., Si-belius, Finale, and Score) can help the budding music makers.

Some computer music software attempt, often successfully, to do things that humans are not ca-pable of doing; at least, such software may try to imitate human interactions. As one would expect, art i f icial intel l igence (AI) plays a big role in the research into computer-assisted music. The f ields of research include both the art and science of programming a computer to respond to its own creation, moment by moment, by evaluating hu-man-like input (this is known as ‘machine l isten-ing’); for instance, a computer might function as an improvisatory partner in a l ive performance and provide feedbacks to the source. Artif icial in-tel l igence can also create situations where a com-puter is instructed to independently perform fanci-ful tasks by fol lowing ingenious algorithms. One aspect of recent research on computer-assisted music involves creation of Genetic Algorithms (also known as evolutionary algorithms) that can

optimize the computing processes to closely ap-proximate the desired scores.

Computer-assisted music took its roots in European concert music as early as the 1950s and 1960s. In the USA, the most signif icant at-tempts to create computer music were made by Lejaren Hil ler and Leonard Issacson at the Uni-versity of I l l inois. They used the massive ILLIAC to compose the I l l iac Suite (1957). The machine did the computations in conformity with the rules created by Hil ler. The result ing music was then played by a string quartet. Similar to the I l l iac ex-periment, most computer-assisted composit ions of today involve fol lowing programmed procedures that are either too complex or too process-intensive to achieve without the assistance of a computer. In addit ion, many of the processes uti l-ize statist ical data. Two important paradigms in computer assisted composit ion are: 1) top-down, and 2) the bottom-up. The former indicates an environment where a large musical structure is envisioned in advance and then is broken down into smaller sections that can be more easily com-posed. The latter approach, on the other hand, results in accumulation of smaller creative compo-sit ion processes that f inally yield an as yet un-known larger musical structure. The design of software for composit ion of music frequently em-phasizes one or the other of these approaches.

Typical instructions given to a computer dur-ing a composit ion fal l into two broad categories: machine instructions that fol low exact determinis-t ic rules and others that calculate the computa-tional sequences dictated by the probabil it ies of certain simple events (naturally, speaking in terms of musical attr ibutes!) occurring during a process itself. Probabil i t ies or tendencies of reappear-ances of distinct patterns help in modeling com-plex situations. When the number of variables is large--which is usually the situation in music com-posit ion--probabil ist ic models comprising one or more variables each with its own probabil ity of occurrence f igures do not work as well. I t would be l ike trying to forecast every conceivable situa-tion in an environment comprising of many part i-cles each one of which has its own probabil ity of occurrence and each of them inf luences the prob-able movements of other part icles. (Imagine mod-eling of stock market f luctuations with t ime that result from simultaneous variat ions of numerous factors.) In such complex environments one must resort to the theories of stochastic processes that

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Tappan Zee Subsection Getting Connected & Staying Connected

Presents

The War of the Currents – Who Really Won? Joseph Cunningham

IEEE Engineering Historian [email protected]

O ur Speaker, Joseph Cunningham has researched and written extensively on the history and development of electric power. His f irst work, “The Theory and Operation of Alternat-ing Current” in 1969, led to a scholarship from St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights,

New York, from which he received a B.S. in Physics in 1974. He has authored books and articles for the general market on various aspects of the history of electric power in rai lways and transit systems. His most recent manuscript is a general interest work on the 125 years of ut i l i ty electric service in New York City. Over the past two years, he has conducted a series of seven presenta-t ions on that topic for the Science, Industry & Business Library of the New York Public Library. He has taught classes in the rai lway electrif ication and has been a consultant to publishers; he presently does so for the New York Transit Museum.

Frequently termed “The War of the Currents,” the competit ion between electrical inven-tors/entrepreneurs of the 1890 period aligned proponents of localized direct current generation (such as Thomas Edison) against those who favored the large-scale alternating current genera-tion and transmission systems (as was proposed by George Westinghouse.) In that scenario, to-tal victory went to Westinghouse after adoption of the Tesla Polyphase AC system for the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair and the hydroelectric stat ion at Niagara Falls. Reality, however, was far more complex. In this presentation, we wil l describe some of the issues and events, including the works of other inventors. Cunningham wil l describe some of the systems adopted and problems with alternating current that ensured the survival of direct current distr ibution in cit ies and also in special ized applications such as railways and elevators. That survival ult imately produced High Voltage Direct Current transmission systems to improve the efficiency, capacity, and rel iabil ity of modern electrical networks, an outcome that was predicted by Nikola Tesla in the last years of his l ife.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

(Refreshments at 6:30 PM)

ALL ARE INVITED

This event has been approved for 0.1 Cont inuing Education Units (CEU) through the IEEE. The processing fee for recording the CEU is $15 payable by check made out to IEEE NY Section at the t ime of the event. Signing up for CEU credi ts pr ior to the lecture is encouraged, but not required. To sign up or for further information, contact Henry Bertoni at [email protected]. You wi l l also receive a CEU Program Evaluation form to f i l l out during the event. Note that appl icat ion fee and evaluation form need to be completed and handed in at the end of the event. Other-wise, we can not process your CEU appl icat ion.

Location: Polytechnic Universi ty, Westchester Campus, 40 Saw Mil l River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532 For detai ls & direct ions see IEEE Tappan Zee Subsection websi te ht tp: / /www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_york/ tz/

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yield aggregate models. Stochastic models are useful in music compositions because unpredict-able, emergent and chaotic data often are integral and contributory elements of many sounds. For example, theories of stochastic processes must be applied in creating a model of the attack por-t ion of a viol in note that is always accompanied by statist ical noise that is always present but not predictable. Rules based on probabilist ic or sto-chastic theories are meant to replicate natural processes and also to create completely new processes by mixing those available in nature.

Finally, Dr. Hoffman let us hear examples of music that she created herself. For her short com-posit ions she used MAX, a computer programming environment written by Mil ler Puckette in the mid-1980s. The program is named after Max Matthews who was one of the early researchers at Bell Labs, in Murray Hil l, NJ. who became interested in computer music while working on digital voice compression in the 1960s.

The programs Dr. Hoffman used for her dem-onstrat ion are able to create short stretches of melodies that may be shaped (for example) in terms of pitches and rhythms. Long sequences of musical scores could evolve from those short stretches, examining the probabil ity of their occur-rence, using the theories behind Markov chains famil iar to researchers in communications theory.

Music software is also able to generate t im-bral effects such as beating of frequencies, by mixing signals in a controlled fashion, for exam-ple, a 100Hz signal with another of 101Hz. The t imbre of the result ing sound can be very intr igu-ing as well as expressive. In the realm of pitch or rhythm, small “perturbations” that may not be de-tectable in a second or two, can accumulate over t ime, whether it is for a period of 20 seconds or several minutes, and produce powerful secondary effects that often can be used for creative pur-poses. Instead of using sine waveforms, periodic pulses of sound are also used to result in imagi-native audio effects. It may sound strange to elec-tr ical engineers, but the faster the rate of pulses of sound, the higher the perceived pitch. We actu-ally heard the sounds and saw the graphic repre-sentations when the pulse rate was changed by mil l iseconds and the pitch of a computer ’s virtual instrument went up by that wee bit. I t is remark-able that one can achieve such precision in mu-sic. I wish we had enough time to hear more of the demonstrations!

The presentation was very much interactive. Many interesting questions were raised by the

enthusiastic audience. Issues that were raised included those about whether computer created patterns could ever approach the best human aes-thetic results, whether Fourier analysis was sti l l the predominant paradigm used to implement digi-tal synthesis, and whether playback patterns by the computer could then be saved and fed into a real synthesizer, with an actual keyboard.

Responding to the question of aesthetics Dr. Hoffman said that aesthetics and reaction to com-puter-assisted music are contingent upon various factors such as the l istening environment. In her experience, she has found that total darkness of the hall, “ is very conducive to an intense focus on sound itself and its textural and spatial part iculari-t ies. It st imulates l istener ’s imagination quite viv-idly. In such an atmosphere people tend to hear a lot more detail, and experience the phenomenon of l istening, quite differently than what they feel in a tradit ional concert sett ing.” Art ist ically sensit ive speaker placement and speaker choice, sensi-t ively done l ive diffusion, and the sheer acoustics of the space, also have a huge impact on how ‘electro-acoustic’ music comes across, even to a special ized audience.

There are shortcomings to l istening to com-puter-music such as the fact that the sound is heard through speakers. This often disheartens l isteners who look forward to watching the actions that produce the sound, or to hearing the ampli-tude range or f idelity of l ive sound. Notes: 1This report is based on draft notes provided by Dr. Hoffman and the author ’s own research.

2Amitava Dutta-Roy, on behal f of the LM Group, ex-tends his thanks to ConEd and PES (especial ly to Ar-nold Wong for his invaluable logist ic support)) for pro-viding space and refreshments. He also thanks Dr. Gadi Kaplan, LM for many valuable suggestions for th is review.

3Real-Time Interactive Digi tal Signal Processing: A View of Computer Music, Cort Lippe (Universi ty of Buf-falo), CMJ, June 13, 1998.

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WIE and the NY Chapter for Broadcast Technology present

CLOSED CAPTIONING OF TV BROADCAST ATSC STANDARD

2ND LECTURE IN SERIES OF 2 WARNER W. JOHNSTON

Wednesday May 14, 2008

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm

C losed Captioning is the method used in North America since the late 70's to br ing to benef i ts of the televis ion sound track to the deaf community. Where did i t come from? How does i t work? What are i ts l imi ts? Ini t ial ly Closed Captioning was developed for analog televis ion transmission. How-

ever, the advent of Advanced Digi tal Televis ion required the development of a new standard known as Ad-vanced Closed Captioning. What are i ts improvements? The standards that document Closed Captioning, for which ABC, CEA and PBS shared a technical Emmy in 2005, wi l l be explained. The differences imple-mented for Advanced Closed Captioning and how i t bui lds on Closed Captioning wi l l be discussed. The technology wil l be presented in two parts, with the f i rst lecture concentrat ing on Closed Capt ioning as documented in CEA-608-D for the NTSC standard analog televis ion transmission. The second lecture wi l l deal wi th Advanced Closed Captioning for the ATSC standard on digi tal t ransmission. Note that concepts embodied in Advanced Closed Captioning are based on those in Closed Captioning, so that a grasp of the material in f i rst lecture is needed to ful ly appreciate the second lecture.

W arner W. Johnston - Manager Televis ion Network Transmission, ABC Televis ion - received his BA degree from Shimer Col lege (now associated wi th the I l l inois Inst i tute of Technology - I IT) in 1973. He studied Electr ical Engineering at I IT and has done graduate studies at New York Univer-

si ty, Polytechnic Universi ty and George Washington Universi ty. Currently he repre-sents ABC Television at the ANSI-accredited Consumer Electronics Associat ion Stan-dards Development Organization, for the development of standards in the Consumer Electronics areas. He chairs several working groups wi thin this SDO including those on Component Analog Televis ion Interfaces, Regional Rating Tables, Document Main-tenance and both Analog and Digi tal Closed Capt ioning. Warner chaired the CEA committee, which in 2005 shared a technical Emmy for Stan-dards Development of Closed Capt ioning wi th ABC and PBS. He has worked with ATIS T1, SMPTE, SCTE - al l ANSI accredi ted SDOs, and with ATSC S8 and S13 on the de-velopment of A53, A65 and the A90 series of standards. Previously he was with RKO General (WGMS - Washington DC, WXLO - New York City, chief WAXY- Fort Lauder-

dale) 1972-73, and wi th Automatic Electr ic Labs 1973-1974. COST: This talk is free to the publ ic. IEEE Members, Students and Non-Members are welcome. For CEU credi ts, a fee of $15 per lecture is payable prior to the lecture.

RSVP Required: By EOB May 12, to [email protected]

LOCATION: MTA Bui lding 2 Broadway @ Bowling Green, New York, c losest trains: 4 & 5, other nearby trains: 1, W, J & Z. No walk-ins allowed for security reasons!




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Tappan Zee Subsection Getting Connected & Staying Connected

Presents

Green Technology and Service Dr. Jen Yao Chung

IEEE Fellow IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights, New York

[email protected]

O ur Speaker, Jen-Yao, Chung received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of I l l inois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the senior manager for Engi-neering & Technology Services Innovation, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, responsi-

ble for identifying and creating emerging solutions. Before that, he was Chief Technology Officer for IBM Global Electronics Industry. Dr. Chung is the co-founder and co-chair of the IEEE techni-cal committee on Electronic Commerce. He has served as general chair and program chair for many international conferences. He has authored or co-authored over 150 technical papers in published journals or conference proceedings. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a senior member of ACM.

Cl imate change, r ising energy costs and resource constraints are increasing becoming global issues for government and business. These global issues are driving new trends in the develop-ment of Green Technologies. Renewable energy sources, advanced water management, eff icient resource recycling, waste reduction, and intel l igent ut i l i ty networks are gaining strong interests and supports from both the public and private sectors. One of the key init iatives is the applica-t ion of Green Technology to supply chain management. The objective of this green application is to reduce the carbon emission of company operations. In this talk, we wil l discuss the new wave of green technology and the emerging services for green assessment, diagnosis and consult ing, tools and modeling, manufacturing process, and re-design.

Tuesday, June17, 2008 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

(Refreshments at 6:30 PM)

ALL ARE INVITED

This event has been approved for 0.1 Cont inuing Education Units (CEU) through the IEEE. The processing fee for recording the CEU is $15 payable by check made out to IEEE NY Section at the t ime of the event. Signing up for CEU credi ts pr ior to the lecture is encouraged, but not required. To sign up or for further information, contact Henry Bertoni at [email protected]. You wi l l also receive a CEU Program Evaluation form to f i l l out during the event. Note that appl icat ion fee and evaluation form need to be completed and handed in at the end of the event. Other-wise, we can not process your CEU appl icat ion.

Location: Polytechnic Universi ty, Westchester Campus, 40 Saw Mil l River Road, Hawthorne, NY 10532 For detai ls & direct ions see IEEE Tappan Zee Subsection websi te ht tp: / /www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_york/ tz/




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In this second of two reports by Pedro Perez-Cabezas, the engineering mentor for the Future City competit ion at the Michelangelo Middle-School 144 in the Bronx, another of the future cit-ies presented at the competit ion is discussed.

FUTURE CITY COMPETITION (PART 2) By Pedro Perez-Cabezas

“Rainbow City is where you can reach for your goals and dreams and find love and wisdom.” Rainbow City is a young city which provides its cit izens with a lot of opportunity and freedom. Rainbow City is often called the City of Sarang which means “love” in Korean. It is located in eastern Asia near the Pacif ic Ocean. The econ-omy is based on high tech industries. The city re-

l ies on two sources for its energy; we have solar power and fusion power. Residents also take pride in conserving the water resources, and the city government has enacted a number of ordi-nances to encourage cit izens to recycle water when possible. Almost seventy-f ive percent of

residents participate in a recycling program that uses waste water from homes to irr igate lawns and gardens. Industries are also encouraged to reuse waste water for a variety of industrial uses. Rainbow City residents also pride themselves on being punctual and have developed a transporta-t ion network that enables people to be on t ime, wherever they are going. Most residents take ad-vantage of our subway and bus systems. As a result, roads and highways are never congested. We also have an air taxi network. The air taxis are similar to buses in the air. Communication clubs have been developed that provide people with a way to express their opinions or obtain in-formation on topics l ike education, community ac-t ivit ies and other topics of special interest. Citi-zens of Rainbow City enjoy a wide variety of edu-cational opportunit ies. Museums, nature centers and zoos extend the learning experiences offered in our public schools and universit ies. As a result of our universal free public education, the city also has a very high employment level. Many of the residents are employed in high tech industries that have made Rainbow City such an excellent place to l ive. With so much employment, educa-tion and recreational opportunit ies, i t ’s no wonder Rainbow City is a city people love.

The official winners list 1st Place – Maroga, Islip Middle School, Islip, NY $5000 annual student scholarships 2nd Place – Wincing Days, Phillipa Schuyler IS 383, Brooklyn, NY $2000 annual student scholarships 3rd Place – Viltis, Stephen A. Halsey JHS 157, Rego Park, NY $1000 annual student scholarships 4th Place – Dome City, Michelanglo MS 144, Bronx, NY 5th Place – Great Neck South, Great Neck Middle School, Great Neck, NY

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