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The Monitor Pub l i s hed by The
New Yor k Sec t i on of
The Ins t i t ut e of
E l e c t r i c a l and
E l e c t r oni c s Engineer s
Inside this issue:
Calendar of Events 2
New York Section
Elections 4
November Lectures
& Seminars 5 & 6
High Potential
Student Award 7
World ATM
Congress 2013 9
IEEE Spectrum
Webinar 10
Volume 60, No. 9 November 2012
Chair’s Message By Balvinder Blah, Chair New York Section
Our region and our members have experienced unprecedented damage as a result of Hurricane Sandy, which has been a historical weather event. To add to that, less than a week after, we were faced with a nor’easter that brought more rain and snow. NY Section’s thoughts are with the members that have suffered losses due to these events.
As you already know this weather event has also postponed our section elections to December 12, 2012 at 2pm. I urge all of you to attend this meeting and vote for the candidates you want to see leading the section in 2013. This postponement of the election due to the storm has already generated interest for alternative plans for the 2014 elections and we are starting to investigate the details of electronic voting.
As we approach the end of this year, I would like to point out that we still have some very interesting seminars coming up in December and would urge you to look at our event calendar for details. While we are wrapping up this year, we have already started the preparation for our 2013 Awards Dinner Dance which will have a new venue at The New Yorker Hotel.
Sincerely,
Balvinder Blah
Chair, New York Section
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Calendar of Events
November 2012
November 7th
IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
Ensemble Approaches in Learning
By Prof. Xin Yao, University of Birmingham, U.K.
Lecture 6:00pm
Room LL 309, Leon Lowenstein Building 311
Fordham University
New York, NY
November 8th
IEEE North Jersey Section and Tektronix seminars
Fundamentals of Mixed Domain Analysis: Testing Your Wireless Design
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
8:00 am Registration and Breakfast
Debugging Your Digital Design Fast and Efficiently
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
1:00 pm Registration and Lunch
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center
Each Seminar requires an advance payment of $10, or $15 for both.
Unemployed IEEE Members, Students and Professors can attend either
Seminar for $5, or both for $7.50.
For more information about these meetings and lectures,
please visit:
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_york/
November 14th
IEEE New York Section EXCOM Meeting
12:30 pm
Con Edison - 4 Irving Place, New York, NY
NO WALK-INS for security reasons
RSVP: [email protected]
November 28th
IEEE Tappan Zee Subsection Meeting
IBM Watson Jeopardy! Deep Question & Answer Technology Review
By David Shepler - Program Manager, IBM Smarter Research Institute
6:30 pm Refreshments 7:00 Meeting
NYU-Poly Westchester Graduate Center
Hawthorne, NY
November 28th
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Meeting
Radiation Cataract as a Model for Low-Dose Radiation Exposure
By Dr. Norman Kleiman
7:00pm Lecture
The offices of theVisualMD - 174 Hudson Street, 6th Floor
December 2012
December 1st
IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium
City College of New York
Grove School of Engineering
Steinman Hall
140th Street and Convent Ave
New York, NY 10031
December 12th
IEEE New York Section Election Meeting
2:00 pm
Con Edison - 4 Irving Place, New York, NY
NO WALK-INS for security reasons
December 13th
Instrumentation and Measurement Society Meeting
Instrumentation seminar and tutorial on the LabVIEW platform
Courant Institute of NYU
To register for this event, contact: Steve Giavasis at
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New York Section Officers Chair
BALVINDER BLAH
Vice Chair, Chapter Operations
DR. SHU-PING CHANG
Vice Chair, Section Activities
KAI CHEN
Treasurer
MICHAEL HAROUTUNIAN
Secretary
WILSON MILIAN
Senior Past Chair
DAVID K. HORN
Junior Past Chair
DARLENE E. RIVERA
Consultant’s Network
MARTIN IZAAK
GOLD Affinity Group (Graduates of the Last Decade)
KONAL KUMAR
Broadcast Technology
William C. Miller
Computer
Sofia Georgiadis
Communication
Konal Kumar
Computational Intelligence
Dr. A. Ravishankar Rao
Technology Management
David M. Weiss
Engineering in Medicine & Biology
Matthew R. Irwin
Instrument & Measurement
Steven Giavasis
Power Engineering & Industry Applications
Arnold Wong
Society Chapter Chairs
Affinity Groups Life Members Affinity Group
RALPH MAZZATTO
Women in Engineering Affinity Group
JEAN M. REDMOND
Activity Chapter Chairs
Vehicular Technology
Patrick McGettigan (co-chair)
Mark Woodward
SSCS/EDS
Harish Krishnaswamy
IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics
Dr. Ping-Tsai Chung
Awards and Recognition
Wilson Milian
Operations & Procedures
William N. Coyne
Career Guidance
Stanley Karoly
Conference Coordinator
Charles P. Rubenstein
Historian
Melvin I. Olken
Membership Development
Neil L. Weisenfeld
Professional Activities (PACE)
Robert M. Pellegrino
Publications
Darlene E. Rivera
Managing Editor - The IEEE Monitor
Alison Rubin
Publicity / Public Relations
Ken Vought
Education
Leon Nock
Society Liaison & Chapter Organization
David K. Horn
Special Events
Ralph Tapino
David K. Horn
William Perlman
Student Activities
Kim K. Smith
METSAC
Darlene E. Rivera
Tappan Zee Subsection
Robert M. Pellegrino
Long Range Planning
William Perlman
Webmaster
Harold Ruchelman
Metropolitan Sections Activities
Michael A. Miller
In accordance with its Operations and Procedures Manual, the IEEE New York (NY) Section is advising all IEEE NY Section members that the election for officers and certain working activity committee chair positions for calendar year 2013 has been postponed to December 12, 2012 at 2:00PM at the Con Edison Building, 4 Irving Place, New York NY 10003. RSVP is required for security reasons.
RSVP by December 5, 2012 to [email protected], for membership verification. The Executive Committee (EXECOM) of the IEEE NY Section slate of candidates for the elected positions to the NY Section’s EXECOM for calendar year 2013. Section Chair: Shu-Ping Chang or Balvinder Deonarine Section Vice Chair – Chapter Operations: Kai Chen or Neil Weisenfeld Section Vice Chair – Section Activities: Arnold Wong or Marty Izaak Section Treasurer: Wilson Milan or Bill Montgomery Section Secretary: Kim Smith Chapter Organization Committee Chair: Balvinder Deonarine or Stan Karoly Historian Committee Chair: None Long Range Planning Committee Chair: William Montgomery or Matt Lester Operations & Procedures Committee Chair: William Coyne Publications Committee Chair: Jean Redmond Webmaster Committee Chair: Harold Ruchelman or Jithendra Yogarasa All members in “good standing” (good standing refers to active members who have paid their IEEE dues for calendar year 2012) other than Student or Affiliated Members of the NY Section are eligible to cast a vote for the candidates for office.
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2013 New York Section Executive Committee (EXCOM) Elections
IBM / IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge
THE IBM/IEEE SMARTER PLANET CHALLENGE:
STUDENT PROJECTS CHANGING THE WORLD COMPETITION
IBM and IEEE are in search of creative team-based student projects that can help students at any level learn about
applying engineering, science and other disciplines to solve real world problems. It's a great opportunity to put your
engineering skills to use… and earn cash prizes too! Awards will be announced on December 15, 2012.
To find out more about this exciting opportunity, visit:
www.ieee.org/go/smarter_planet_challenge or email [email protected].
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Presented by IEEE TZ Subsection
IBM Watson Jeopardy! Deep QA Technology Review
By David Shepler
IBM Smarter Energy Research Institute, Program Manager
IBM Research
Yorktown Heights, NY
914-784-5227
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
(Refreshments at 6:30 p.m.)
Location:
Room 23 (second floor, on the right)
NYU-Poly Westchester Graduate Center
40 Saw Mill River Road (map)
Hawthorne, New York 10532
BIOGRAPHY
David Shepler received a B.S. in Political Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1992, a Master’s in Public
Management from the University of Maryland in 1994, and a Master’s in Policy Analysis from the RAND Graduate
School in 2004.
After ten years as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, David joined IBM in 2004 as a consultant in the public
sector strategy and change practice, serving state and federal clients seeking to transform their service operations.
In 2009 David became the program manager for IBM’s Jeopardy Challenge. David is now Chief of Operations for
the Watson Research Team’s effort to adapt the Watson technology into the healthcare field. David lives in his net
zero energy home in New Paltz, New York.
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November Lectures and Seminars
The NY Section of the IEEE PES and the IAS NY Chapter and the LMAG are presenting a lecture titled:
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): Physics, Safety, Hardware, and Power Requirements by Christopher M. Collins, PhD. Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Refreshments 5:00pm Lecture 5:30pm Con Edison - The Edison Room, 19th Floor, 4 Irving Place
This program will be awarded IEEE Continuing Education Units
Abstract: In the past few decades MRI has become an indispensable diagnostic tool in medicine, with systems now present in every major hospital
in the developed world. MRI allows for visualization of soft tissues throughout the human body without the hazards associated with ionizing radia-tion, but requires strong magnetic fields in the DC, audio frequency, and radiofrequency regimes. These fields all interact with the human body in ways required to accomplish imaging, but also in ways that can result in distortions of the images and, potentially, biophysical effects. Finally, the generation of these fields requires highly specialized hardware with significant power and active cooling. Here all these aspects of MRI will be presented from an engineering perspective.
About the speaker: Christopher M. Collins, PhD ([email protected]) is a Professor of Radiology at NYU’s School of Medicine. His expertise is in
the development, validation, and application of numerical simulation tools to ensure safety and efficacy in the rapidly-evolving field of MRI. He earned his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from The University of Pennsylvania before serving on the Faculty of Penn State’s School of Medicine in Hershey, PA for over 10 years. His research is funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health. He has authored over 55 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals and held a variety of offices related to safety and engineering in the MRI community.
Registration: To register, please e-mail Arnold Wong at [email protected]. For security reasons, no walk-ins will be allowed.
The NY Chapter of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society is presenting a lecture titled:
Radiation Cataract as a Model for Low-Dose Radiation Exposure by Dr. Norman Kleiman
Wednesday, November 28, 2012 Lecture 7:00pm
The Offices of theVisualMD - 174 Hudson Street, 6th Floor
Abstract: Radiation-induced cataract can be utilized as a model system to estimate exposure, determine the genetic and individual basis for risk
from terrestrial and space radiation and gain a better mechanistic understanding of radiation-induced DNA damage, repair and cell cycle control. Current research is directed towards understanding mechanisms whereby exposure to low doses of low-LET radiation, or high energy space radiation, causes pathology in occupationally or accidentally exposed humans or in various genetically defined animal models. In exposed human populations, we estimate relative risk of lens damage following occupational exposure, for example during interventional medical procedures or in the "Liquidator" cohort as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. These kinds of investigations help provide the scientific basis that help guide development of appropriate risk and human exposure guidelines. The unique morphology of the lens and the ease of non-invasive observation of its radiation response facilitate clinical, molecular and mechanistic investigations of radiation-induced damage more readily than in other tissue systems. Findings from such studies are likely to have important implications for radiosensitive subsets of the human population and aid in determining future national terrestrial and space radiation risk policies.
About the speaker: Dr. Norman J. Kleiman, Ph.D. is the Director of the Eye Radiation and Environmental Research Laboratory (ERERL) in the
Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. His research encompasses three overlapping areas at the intersection of public health, radiation research and ophthalmology, often using the eye as a model system to study the effects of environmental exposures, and ionizing radiation in particular, on human health. These studies provide an opportunity to study how radiation or other environmental stresses cause DNA damage, misrepair and mutagenesis and how individual genetic determinants influence risk. Such investigations help in formulating appropriate risk policies and aid in development of human exposure guidelines and have important therapeutic implications for radio- and/or chemo-sensitive subsets of the human population. In particular, Dr. Kleiman is an internationally recognized expert regarding ionizing radiation effects on the eye and, in particular, radiation cataract. Dr. Kleiman serves on subcommittees of the National Council on Radiation Protection (NCRP) and the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) and is a Technical Cooperation Expert for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He receives research funding from the National Institutes of Health, NASA and the Department of Energy and serves as an Associate Editor for Current Molecular Medicine. He is also the Board President of Fight for Sight, a noted
eye research foundation and the U.S. Director of the Ukrainian-American Chernobyl Ocular Study (UACOS).
Registration: To register, please e-mail Matt Irwin at [email protected].
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IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium
Saturday, December 1, 2012
City College of New York
Signal processing plays a broad role in the development of medical devices and in the analysis of physiological signals. This public
symposium provides a forum for the presentation of research and development in signal processing (broadly defined, i.e. including
image processing, 3D reconstruction, etc.) in medicine and biology. The symposium is sponsored by IEEE-USA, the City College of
New York (CCNY), and the Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly).
We invite engineers, scientists, practitioners, and students to submit papers or abstracts for presentation at the symposium, or to
attend the symposium. Prospective presenters may submit either (1) an original manuscript for peer review to be considered for
publication in IEEE Xplore, or (2) an abstract, to be presented at the symposium, that may describe preliminary results, etc. The
technical program will be posted on this site before the symposium. The symposium will be held on the CCNY campus.
Download the call for papers: SPMB12 (pdf file)
Plenary speakers:
Jelena Kovacevic (Carnegie Mellon University) Problems in Bioimaging: Opportunities for Signal Processing
Jonathan Viventi (Polytechnic Institute of New York University) High-Resolution Brain Machine Interfaces using Flexible Silicon Electronics
Location:
Grove School of Engineering
Steinman Hall
140th Street and Convent Ave
New York, NY 10031
IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine & Biology Symposium
High Potential Student Award 2012
In the spring of 2013, at the annual awards dinner, the Pre-University initiative will be awarding the 2nd annual High
Potential Student Award to a talented high school junior. The purpose of this award is to encourage local students to
pursue engineering in their future undergraduate studies and to integrate the IEEE into the high school community.
Last year, Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Staten Island Technical and Townsend Harris participated by nominating a worthy
student who then had to write an engineering related essay which was judged by a panel of esteemed IEEE members.
The winner was Samuel Duchovni of the Bronx Science. In addition to a monetary award, the student received a plaque
and tickets to the annual awards dinner dance.
This year, we will be doubling the number of schools involved and the winner will also receive a mentor during his senior
year to help guide and encourage the winner towards a career in engineering. The results will be announced
in January 2013.
For additional information, please contact Pre-University Chair, Zhao Feng (Jeff) Mah at [email protected].
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IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Hosts Seminar on the Analysis of Functional Brain Connectivity
By Ravi Rai, IEEE NY Section Computational Intelligence Chair
On September 17, 2012, members of the Computational Intelligence Society and students at Fordham University met
to hear a seminar by Dr. Bharat Biswal. Dr. Biswal is an Associate Professor at New Jersey Medical School,
Newark, NJ. His interests span functional imaging, clinical imaging, pre-surgical mapping of tumor patients, statistical
data analysis and statistical consulting for medical imaging and databases.
Dr. Biswal spoke about the differences between the fields of genomics and functional neuroimaging. The core
challenge in neuroimaging remains the development of common paradigms for interrogating the myriad functional
systems in the brain without the constraints of a priori hypotheses. Resting-state functional MRI (R-fMRI) constitutes a
candidate approach capable of addressing this challenge. Imaging the brain during rest reveals large-amplitude
spontaneous low-frequency (<0.1 Hz) fluctuations in the fMRI signal that are temporally correlated across
functionally related areas. Referred to as functional connectivity, these correlations yield detailed maps of complex
neural systems, collectively constituting an individual’s “functional connectome.” Reproducibility across datasets and
individuals suggests the functional connectome has a common architecture, yet each individual’s functional
connectome exhibits unique features, with stable, meaningful interindividual differences in connectivity patterns and
strengths. Comprehensive mapping of the functional connectome, and its subsequent exploitation to discern genetic
influences and brain–behavior relationships, will require multicenter collaborative datasets.
Dr. Biswal orchestrated the gathering R-fMRI data from 1,414 volunteers collected independently at 35 international
centers. There were several questions from the audience about the logistics of such a large effort.
Dr. Biswal demonstrated a universal architecture of positive and negative functional connections, as well as consistent
loci of inter-individual variability. Age and sex emerged as significant determinants. These results demonstrate that
independent R-fMRI datasets can be aggregated and shared. High throughput R-fMRI can provide quantitative
phenotypes for molecular genetic studies and biomarkers of developmental and pathological processes in the brain.
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Registration is now open for the World ATM Congress 2013. This conference will take place
February 12-14, 2013 in Madrid, Spain. The World ATM Congress combines a large-scale exhibition,
world-class conference, and social events providing premier networking opportunities and the chance to find out
the latest trends and developments in air traffic control. World ATM Congress is an event organized for the
industry, by the industry. Operated by CANSO in association with ATCA, it is backed by the world's leading
air navigation service providers and industry suppliers.
To register, please visit www.worldatmcongress.org/Register
The fourth Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2013), sponsored by the IEEE Power & Energy Society
(PES), will be held February 24-27, 2013, at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park in the District of Columbia.
The Conference will be a forum for the participants to discuss state-of-the-art innovations in smart grid technologies. The
Conference will feature plenary sessions, panels, technical papers and tutorials by international experts on smart grid
applications. Early Registration Deadline: January 15, 2013.
IMPORTANT LINKS:
ISGT 2012 Website Archive
IEEE Power & Energy Society
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IEEE Spectrum Webinar Series
Smarter Product Development Needs Effective Systems Engineering:
Get Greater Visibility Across your Systems Engineering Data
DATE: November 29, 2012
TIME: 2:00 PM (Duration: 1 hour)
DESCRIPTION: For product engineering companies, the prevalence of software is increasingly driving how they define products and
conduct product development. More to the point, it changes the very nature of the product lifecycle, the delineation of product
engineering organizations and disciplines, and the roles of people.
As products evolve to become increasingly smart, so must the approach to managing the product development lifecycle. All
stakeholders in the product lifecycle must have access to a systems level view that places their activity and the data, artifacts, design
assumptions, project priorities, and specifications in the overall context of the product. Systems engineering demands a total
awareness through the lifecycle that transcends application and traditional product lifecycle management views.
This webinar will discuss how:
-The business issues involved with limits and constraints to software and product lifecycles hinder practice of effective systems
engineering in an age of Smart Products;
-Design and development of smarter products requires a systems level view throughout the lifecycle;
-The Internet provides a good model for how related assets, data, and artifacts of the product lifecycle could be navigated and
access in a logical manner to provide the big picture that is essential to systems engineering;
-IBM Rational offerings leverage a linked lifecycle data approach to help provide the visibility that supports effective systems
engineering
PRESENTER: Tony Baer, Senior Analyst, Ovum
Tony Baer leads Ovum's research on the systems & software lifecycle. Working in concert with other members of Ovum, Tony's
research covers the full lifecycle from design and development to deployment and management.
MODERATOR: Douglas McCormick, IEEE Spectrum “Tech Talk” contributor Douglas McCormick is a New York City-based freelance
writer and communications consultant specializing in technology and life science. He has been editor or editorial director of such
publications as PM360, Bio Techniques, Pharmaceutical Technology, and Nature Biotechnology. He was founder of Physician
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REGISTRATION: To register, visit: http://spectrum.ieee.org/webinar/2155225.
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New York Section PES/IAS.LM Joint Meeting
On October 17, 2012 the New York Section PES/IAS.LM held a joint meeting on TIA COMPLIANT DATA CENTER DESIGN AND BEST PRACTICES.
By Gerald Gardrvits, IEEE Life Member, NY Section
I don’t eat sleep and breathe data centers so for me this meeting provided an introduction to data center design practices. When data centers are mentioned, I have an abstract notion of a gallery of tall black cabinets with computers inside a room. This is the place where I envision computers process an incredible number of 1s and 0s to convey or handle meaningful data or information. My other perception of data centers is the spot where the chaos resides when a social network or business site goes down. Electrically speaking, I view the operations as mainly low voltage equipment with bundles of wires connecting the cabinets. This meeting was an opportunity to listen to a presentation on the data center design standard ANSI/TIA-942-A. The speaker, Valerie Maguire, an electrical engineer, is a skilled and knowledgeable presenter that kept me hooked on the topic. She touched upon a variety of topics effortlessly covering the history of the standard and key ANSI/TIA-942-A specification sections. After she clarified the strong resemblance of her company’s name to another global entity, the meeting began with a background overview. Her presentation provided a balance between technical specification information and audience-friendly explanatory comments. A brief origin of the standard was explained along with a history of the development to the current state of the standard. The ANSI/TIA-942-A standard outlines the requirements for data center and telecommunications infrastructure elements. Want to know about redundancy and resiliency? That’s covered in the section on Data Center Tier Guidance. This, plus a variety of other topics from data center elements, design layouts and topologies, environmental considerations and cabling guidelines were included. She walked the audience through a useful explanation of data center setups and teased out how specifications ANSI/TIA-942-A standard guides the professional. It made for a quick flowing attention grabbing presentation. It was an informative event explaining the data center standard in an easily understood manner. It reaffirmed my belief to the merits of attending meetings unrelated to my main technical areas of interests.
Valerie Maguire
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