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April 2006
Volume 52, Number 10
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Chair....................................................... Har
Dayal
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Vice-Chair-1................................ Bhanu
Chivukula
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“AT” computer.org (732) 718-3818
Vice-Chair-2............................................. Kirit Dixit
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Treasurer................................. Dr. Sanghoon
Shin
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Members-at-Large:
Pete
Donegan (doneganp “AT” ieee.org)
Amit
Patel (a.j.patel “AT” ieee.org)
The North Jersey
Section Executive Committee usually meets the first Wednesday (except holidays
and December) of each month at 7:00 PM. Meetings are open to all members. For information on meeting agenda contact
Secretary Seth
Jakel (973) 731-1902, Sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.
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IEEE North Jersey Section
Activities
April
2006
Apr. 3 – “Adaptive Pre-Distorters for Linearization of
High Power Amplifiers in OFDM Wireless Communications”
by Professor Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at
6:15 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973)
492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Never (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga
Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Apr. 5 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Seth
Jakel at sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.
Apr. 11 – “Motion Planning and Formation Control of
Autonomous Mobile Robots” by Dr. Yi Guo, NJ SMC Society, 7:00 PM (light
refreshments at 6:45 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Mike Liechenstein (973) 471-0721
(m.liechenstein “AT” ieee.org).
Apr. 19 – “Electromagnetics and Semiconductor Device
Simulations” by Dr. Ramesh K. Agarwal, EDS/C&S
Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973)
596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Apr. 19 – “Energy Conservation Series - Introduction to the
US Green Building Council and the Leed Family of Rating Programs”
by Nick Stecky, NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 6:30 PM, Eaton Electrical, 690 Rahway Ave,
Union, NJ. Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 21 – “Lighting Seminar”
by John Hyfantis, PE, NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 8:30 AM – 3:00 PM, PSE&G
Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison, NJ. Ronald W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or
RWQuade “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 24 – “XML Schema”
by Frank Middleton, NJ Computer Chapter, 7:00 PM, Public Meeting Room, Morris
County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973) 285-6930. Seth Jakel – home (973) 731-1902, cell (973)
820-1865, or office (908) 740-4683 (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net), Howard Leach
(973) 540-1283 (hhleach “AT” aol.com).
Apr. 27 – “Embedded Linux”
by Frank Middleton, NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM, Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60 S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Robert
Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Apr. 27 – “Microwave Applications
of Metamaterial Structures” by Dr. Tatsuo Itoh, NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapter,
7:00 PM (buffet at 6:30 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Tiernan
Hall Room 104, Newark, NJ. Dr. Edip
Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599, kdixit "AT" ieee.org,
or Har Dayal (973) 633-4618, har.dayal "AT" baesystems.com.
Apr. 27 – “The Digital
StudyHall: An E-Learning System for
Improving Basic Education in Third World Countries”
by Randy Wang, NJ Communications Chapter, 6:15 PM (buffet at 6:00 PM), New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670
(nirwan.ansari "AT" njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html
for the latest updates..
Upcoming Meetings
May 3 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive
Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Seth Jakel at sgjakel “AT” comcast.net.
May 3 – “Machine Learning for Bioinformatic Data Mining”
by Dr. S.Y. Kung, NJ SP Chapter, 4:45PM (pizza at 4:30 PM), New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT”
njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan “AT” mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong
Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT” stevens-tech.edu).
May 4 – “Fort Monmouth Annual Information Technology
Forum & Expo 2006 - IPv6 - Enabling Net-Centric Warfare”
- AFCEA Fort Monmouth Chapter Professional Development Seminar and the North
American IPv6 Task Force, 8:00AM through 4:30 PM, Fort Monmouth Officers
Club/Gibbs Hall. Industry - Mike Dazio,
mdazio “AT” datatekcorp.com, (732) 667-1080 ext.116, Government - Kwai-Fung
Chan, Kwai.Chan “AT” us.army.mil, (732) 532-3592.
May 7 – “NJ Section Awards
Reception” - 3:00 to 6:00 PM at the Birchwood Manor, 111 North Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. Anne
Giedlinski (973) 377-3175.
May 10 – “Dielectric-Charging Model of RF MEMS Capacitive
Switches” by Dr. James C. M. Hwang, NJ MTT-S/AP-S
Chapter, 5:00 PM, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr.
Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599, kdixit "AT" ieee.org,
or Har Dayal (973) 633-4618, har.dayal "AT" baesystems.com.
May 10 – “Biomedical Circuits and Systems Dedicated to
Remote Sensing and Neurostimulation” by Dr. Mohamad Sawan,
NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra "AT" njit.edu).
May 19 – “Montclair High School Robotics Teams'
Presentation”, 8:00 PM (coffee and desert at 7:30 PM), Union Congregational Church, 176 Cooper Ave, Montclair, NJ. Pete Donegan
(973) 783-7998, doneganp "AT" ieee.org.
Sep. 20 – “Wireless Sensor Networks”
by Dr. Martin Haenggi, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM),
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207
(RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Oct. 17 – “Chip-Package Co-Design of RF Microsystems”
by Professor P.R. Mukund, NJ EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM),
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207
(RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Nov. 8 – “Theory and Applications
of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation” by Dr. Lucille A.
Giannuzzi, EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Dec. 18-21
– “9th
International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2006)”,
see http://www.citconference.org
and http://www.cs.unt.edu/~smohanty/CIT2006.
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2006 IEEE North Jersey Fellow
Tin
Kam Ho
“for
contributions to pattern recognition methodology and tools.”
Tin Kam Ho is a Distinguished Member of
Technical Staff in the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Research Center of
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies. She
pursues basic and applied research in pattern recognition, data mining, and
complex system modeling and simulation.
Dr. Ho has pioneered technologies on
multiple classifier systems, random decision forests, and the analysis of
classification data complexity. These
have become essential parts of the core methodology in pattern
recognition. Her Mirage tool for
interactive pattern discovery has been widely welcomed by scientists and
engineers, especially those working with the Virtual Observatory. Dr. Ho's innovations on multi-lingual symbol
recognition and context-driven document analysis were recognized with an ICDAR
Young Scientist Award in 1999. Recently
she has led major efforts on simulation and monitoring of complex optical
transmission systems, for which she shared a Central Bell Labs' Teamwork Award
and a Bell Labs President's Gold Award.
Dr. Ho is Editor-in-chief of Pattern
Recognition Letters, the official journal of the International Association for
Pattern Recognition. She has edited
several other journals including IEEE Transactions on PAMI, and is a Program
Co-Chair of the upcoming 18th International Conference on Pattern
Recognition. Dr. Ho is an elected Fellow
of the IAPR, and has received 7 US patents on classification, image analysis,
and wireless services.
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NJ
Communications Chapter:
The Digital StudyHall: An E-Learning System for Improving Basic
Education in Third World Countries
On Thursday, April 27, 2006, the North Jersey
Chapter of the IEEE Communications Society will host a presentation titled “The
Digital StudyHall: An E-Learning System
for Improving Basic Education in Third World Countries” by Randy Wang.
About the Talk
Good
primary education is one of the most crucial factors in combating extreme
poverty. In this project, computer
scientists and education experts collaborate to build a distance learning
system that seeks to offer resource-starved schools in villages and urban slums
of India human and content resources comparable to that received by
middle-class students in cities. To
avoid retracing the missteps of earlier "wire-the-schools" projects,
we follow two important principles: (1)
cost realism, essential if we are to scale the system up to a significant number
of schools and students; and (2) building systems that solve end-to-end
education problems, beyond just providing connectivity, so the twin pillars of
technology and pedagogy must develop side by side.
Our
Digital StudyHall system is based on a unique approach leveraging the postal
system, DVDs, robotically operated DVD publishers, long-distance ham radio
transceivers, and short-range TV transmitters with radio controllers. We combine these components into a
general-purpose and transparent communication system, providing pervasive,
high-bandwidth, and low-cost connectivity.
On top of this, we layer a web repository, called the "learning
eBay" to enable a wide variety of digital education "workflows,"
such as lecture capture and replay, remote monitoring, student project
collection and feedback, connecting learners and teaching staff across time and
space, including volunteers from overseas.
The system consists of a network of hubs and spokes, where the "hubs"
are typically distributed in urban centers of excellence, which
"radiate" contextually meaningful and coherent content and
methodology into village and slum schools in their vicinity, which form the
"spokes." An important goal of the system is to enable customized
any-to-any communication and effective group learning, which may provide an
ultimate solution to the scalability problem of the education system.
The
pedagogy practiced in the system is based on the theory of "Tutored Video
Instruction," where remote expertise is projected into a classroom,
mediated by a local less well trained teacher.
This approach goes way beyond passive TV watching; it requires the local
teachers to perform a variety of activities to proactively engage their
students while alternately playing and pausing the pre-recorded videos. In a sense, the video and the local teacher
form a "team:" the video provides a framework, an agenda, and a
content and methodology model; while the local teacher supplies the crucial
interactive components. In addition to
helping the students, the process provides excellent training to the less
skilled local teachers. Unlike
conventional training workshops that last only for a short period of time and
can be too abstract, the kind of training a local teacher receives from the
supplied videos is ongoing, continuous, and highly specific.
A
live deployment of a prototype has been in use by students starting in July of
2005. In the space of about five months,
a database in the Lucknow headquarters has accumulated about 60GB of
content. This includes more than 150
high-quality MPEG4 recordings of lessons staged by the best teachers at the
headquarters school in front of an audience of girls from neighboring slums and
based on the U.P. state board textbooks. The remainder includes Hindi science
courseware, digital stories, and recordings of drama performances, all of which
are produced by students and staff at the headquarters school. As the high-quality content is quickly and
cheaply generated, it is being continuously pushed out to two test village
schools and an "in-house" slum school. At the time of this writing, we are beginning
to set up a second hub in Calcutta and a third in Pune. Preliminary results appear promising, and the
system seems to be playing an effective but subtle role of blurring class
differences in a highly stratified society.
We hope to eventually scale up the system to cover a far greater number
of villages and children, contributing toward the Millennium Development Goal
of universal primary education.
About the Speaker
Randy Wang is joining Microsoft
Research India, where he plans to devote full time to continue work on the
Digital StudyHall project. Randy started
this project when he was an assistant professor in computer science at
Princeton University; before he and Princeton mutually decided they had had
enough of each other.
All Welcome!
You do
not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Bring your friends and network during the free pre-meeting buffet starting
at 6 PM.
Time: 6:15 PM, Thursday, April 27,
2006. Pre-meeting buffet starting at
6:00 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973)
596-3670 (nirwan.ansari “AT” njit.edu) or check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
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NJ Computer Chapter:
XML Schema
On Monday, April
24th, 2006, the IEEE North Jersey Section Computer Chapter will host a
presentation entitled “XML Schema” by Frank Middleton.
About the Talk
XML is the lingua
franca of today's computing milieu.
However, XML isn't a language of itself, but merely a syntax. The semantics of the message need to be
described, and one way to do this is to use a meta-language such as W3C's XML
Schema, a highly complex artifact designed by committee. This talk will unravel the mysteries of XML
Schema, explain why it should be used, and how a useful subset can actually
make it easy to publish your XML semantics and create/manage XML, with
real-world examples.
About the
Speaker
Frank Middleton is the
President and Founder of Apogee Communications Technologies, Inc., an
established IT consulting services provider based in New Jersey that
specializes in reducing costs and improving productivity and security in small
to midsize companies by leveraging best of breed technologies, such as LAMP,
and process management through Model Driven Architecture. Current focus is on XML and XML Schema
technology and creation of a tool to generate XML Schemas from XML documents
and manage the results. OASIS has
ratified the OpenDoc XML based document format – now you need a way to access
that XML! For more information, visit http://www.apogeect.com and also subscribe to his
newsletter by sending an email with subject "subscribe" to
news-request@apogeect. com. Frank has
many years of experience in IT at various companies including Deloitte,
Citibank and others, and holds a Masters in Computer Science from the Courant
Institute of Mathematics, NYU, and has been a member of IEEE, IEEE/CS and the
ACM for longer than he wants to remember.
He can be reached at (973) 796-2754 or by email at f.middleton “AT”
apogeect.com.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend. Bring your friends and network during the
free pre-meeting buffet starting at 6 PM.
Time: 7:00 PM, Monday, April 24, 2006. Pre-meeting buffet starting at 6:00 PM.
Place: Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30
E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ, (973)
285-6930.
Information:
Seth Jakel – home (973) 731-1902, cell (973)
820-1865, or office (908) 740-4683 (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net), Howard Leach
(973) 540-1283 (hhleach “AT” aol.com).
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NJ
Consultants' Network:
Embedded Linux
On Thursday, April
27th, 2006, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is pleased to present ”Embedded
Linux”, by Frank Middleton of Apogee Communications Technologies, Inc.
About the Talk
Linux has become a
popular and robust platform for hosting embedded applications on a variety of
hardware. Such hardware has become very inexpensive and makes it practical to
use a general purpose O/S for many uses. One such hardware/software platform is
the Gumstix, a $200 box with serial and USB ports, using the Strong ARM
processor. The talk will cover experiences with this device,
and the GNU tool chain used to develop applications for it using a
cross-platform development kit that itself runs on Linux, in this case an AMD
based laptop running Fedora that will also be used to give the presentation.
About the
Speaker
Frank Middleton is
the President and Founder of Apogee Communications Technologies, Inc., an
established IT consulting services provider based in New Jersey that
specializes in reducing costs and improving productivity and security in small
to midsize companies by leveraging best of breed technologies, such as
Linux/Apache/MYSQL/Perl (LAMP). For more
information, visit http://www.apogeect.com and also subscribe
to his newsletter by sending an email with subject "subscribe" to
news-request@apogeect.com. Frank has
many years of experience in IT at various companies including J&J,
Deloitte, Citibank and others, and holds a Masters in Computer Science from the
Courant Institute of Mathematics, NYU, and has been a member of IEEE, IEEE/CS
and the ACM for longer than he wants to remember. He can be reached at (973) 796-2754 or by
email at f.middleton “AT” apogeect.com.
After the Talk
Members are invited
to share their experiences with the group.
Come prepared to share, in 30 seconds and, if you dare, for 3-5 minutes,
what your business is all about. Why
companies hire you. This month - Pat
Banker.
Pat Banker spent 23
years designing firmware and managing engineering projects for various
companies in NJ and NY before founding Banker Coté in 1995 with her “partner in
all things”, Art Coté. Since then they
have had the good fortune to assist many clients in meeting their technical and
business goals. Specializing in embedded
firmware development for 8/16 bit DSPs and microcontrollers, the company's
technical portfolio includes signal processing, real time control, user
interfaces, and data communications in many forms. Pat is passionate about producing high
quality code - well organized, cleanly structured, thoroughly tested, and fully
documented. She holds BSEE and MSEE
Degrees from Rutgers and Stevens Tech.
Pat is a Senior Member of CNNNJ and has served as both Secretary and
Chair in prior years. Contact at (201)
307-9212 or pbanker “AT” bankercote.com.
About the
Consultants’ Network
Founded
in 1992, the IEEE Consultants Network of Northern NJ encourages and promotes
the use of independent technical consultants by business and industry.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome. No registration needed. Free admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, April 27, 2006.
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products, 60
S. Jefferson Rd, Whippany, NJ. (Entrance at rear of building)
Information:
For directions and up-to-date meeting status,
call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To
download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
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NJ
EDS/C&S Chapters:
Adaptive Pre-Distorters
for Linearization of High Power Amplifiers in OFDM Wireless Communications
On April 3, 2006,
the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together
with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Adaptive
Pre-Distorters for Linearization of High Power Amplifiers in OFDM Wireless
Communications." The speaker will
be Professor Rui J. P. de Figueiredo.
About the Talk
Orthogonal
Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) has several desirable attributes which
makes it a prime candidate for a number of emerging wireless communication
standards. However, one of the major
problems posed by OFDM is its high Peak-to-Average-Power Ratio (PAPR), which
seriously limits the power efficiency of the High Power Amplifier (HPA) because
of the nonlinear distortion resulting from high PAPR. The present paper provides a new mixed
computational/analytical approach for adaptive compensation of this nonlinear
distortion for cases in which the HPA is a Traveling Wave Tube Amplifier (TWTA)
and Solid State Power Amplifier (SSPA).
TWTAs are used in wireless communication systems when high transmission
power is required as in the case of the digital satellite channel, and SSPAs
are generally used in mobile communication systems. Compared to previous pre-distorter techniques
based on LUT (Look-Up Table) or adaptive schemes, our approach relies on the
analytical inversion of the Saleh’s TWTA model and Rapp’s SSPA model in
combination with a nonlinear parameter estimation algorithm. This leads to a sparse and yet accurate
representation of the pre-distorter, with the capability of tracking
efficiently any rapidly time-varying behavior of the HPA. Computer simulations results illustrate and
validate the approach presented.
About the
Speaker
Professor Rui J. P. de Figueiredo, BS and MS
(Electrical Engineering), M.I.T., and PhD (Applied Mathematics), Harvard
University, is Research Professor (Above Scale) of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Prior to joining UCI in 1990, Dr. de
Figueiredo served as Professor of Electrical Engineering and Mathematical
Sciences at Rice University, Houston, Texas (1965-90). Professor de Figueiredo has won numerous
honors for his fundamental contributions to the theory and applications of
nonlinear signal/image processing and communications, and for his role as an
educator and as a leader in his field and in his profession. These honors include: election to the UN-sponsored International
Informatization Academy (2003),
the 1999 IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society Golden Jubilee Medal,
the 2000 IEEE Tri-Millennium Medal, the 2003 Gh. Asachi Medal from
the Technical University of Iasi (TUI), Romania, from which he also received
the title of Honorary
Professor (2003), the IEEE Fellow
Award (1976), the 1994 IEEE CAS Technical Achievement Award,
the 2000 IEEE Neural Networks Transactions Best Paper Award, the 2003 IEEE Circuits
and Systems Transactions Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, the 2002 IEEE CAS
Society M. E. Van Valkenburg Society Award, the 1988 NCR Educator-of-the-Year Award,
his election to President of IEEE CAS Society in 1998, and, last bit not least, his selection by IEEE to be one
of its fifty leaders, among its nearly 350,000 members, to present the IEEE
vision of the new century in the book ENGINEERING TOMORROW: Today’s Technology Experts
Envision the Next Century, Janie Fouke, Editor, IEEE Press, 2000.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Monday, April 3, 2006. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions
are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr.
Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542
(NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Electromagnetics and
Semiconductor Device Simulations
On April 19, 2006, the
IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together with
the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Electromagnetics
and Semiconductor Device Simulations."
The speaker will be Dr. Ramesh K. Agarwal.
About the Talk
In recent years,
there has been considerable thrust toward the development of finite-difference
time-domain (FDTD) and finite-volume time-domain (FVTD) methods for the
numerical solution of Maxwell equations for electromagnetic scattering from
complex three-dimensional objects.
Maxwell equations are written in conservation form and solved on a
three-dimensional grid both inside and outside the scattering body. Higher-order spatial and temporal
discretization are generally employed to obtain accurate solutions efficiently
especially for large scattering bodies.
An important aspect of the calculations is the formulation and
implementation of the boundary conditions – both the radiation boundary
condition (RBC) and the material interface boundary conditions in discretized
form. Recent developments in boundary
conditions formulations and implementations will be reviewed and critically
examined. Three-dimensional examples
including complete aircraft configurations will be presented to demonstrate the
power of the FVTD approach.
About the
Speaker
Professor Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William
Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Research and
Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield
Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for
Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he was the Program
Director and McDonnell Douglas Science and Engineering Fellow at McDonnell
Douglas Research Laboratory (MDRL) in St. Louis. Dr. Agarwal obtained his PhD from Stanford
University in 1975. Since then, he has
worked in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational
Magneto-hydrodynamics and Electromagnetics, and Semiconductor Device Simulation.
Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow of eight societies -
American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American
Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS),
Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), Society of Automotive Engineers
(SAE), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has served as a distinguished lecturer of
AIAA (1996-1999), ASME (1994-1997), and IEEE (1994-2006). He has received many honors and awards for
his research contributions including the ASME 2001 Fluids Engineering Award and
AIAA 2002 Sustained Achievement Award.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, April 19, 2006. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973)
596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Biomedical
Circuits and Systems Dedicated to Remote Sensing and Neurostimulation
On
May 10, 2006, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk
on “Biomedical Circuits and Systems Dedicated to Remote Sensing and
Neurostimulation." The speaker will
be Dr. Mohamad Sawan.
About the Talk
This
talk will cover techniques and methods employed to build biomedical circuits
and microsystems dedicated to implement advanced implantable and wirelessly
controlled smart medical devices (SMDs) such as sensors and
microstimulateurs. A global view of
typical micro-devices with a focus on efficient inductive power transfer
technique as well as high data rate bidirectional communication will be
given. Several types of integrated
low-power data modulators/ demodulators will be discussed. In addition, case studies related to
peripheral and cortical neural systems will be reported. Selective electrical stimulator to restore
bladder functions will be presented, and multichannel intracortical monitor and
stimulator will be elaborated. Finally,
special attention will be paid to low-power management and corresponding
circuit techniques of such typical SMD.
About the Speaker
Mohamad Sawan received his
BSc in Electrical Engineering from Université Laval (1984), and his MSc (1986)
and PhD (1990), both in Electrical Engineering, from Université de
Sherbrooke. He then completed
postdoctoral training at Montréal's McGill University in 1991, and in that same
year, joined École Polytechnique de Montréal, where he is currently a Professor
of Microelectronics.
Dr. Sawan's scientific
interests focus on the design and testing of mixed-signal (analog, digital and
RF) circuits and systems; digital and analog signal processing; and the
modelling, design, integration, assembly and validation of advanced wirelessly
powered and controlled monitoring and measurement techniques. These topics are oriented toward biomedical
implantable devices and telecommunications applications. Dr. Sawan is holder of the Canada Research
Chair in Smart Medical Devices.
He heads the Microsystems
Strategic Alliance of Québec - ReSMiQ and is founder of the Eastern Canada
Chapter of the IEEE-Solid State Circuits Society. He also founded the International IEEE-NEWCAS
conference, co-founded the International Functional Electrical Stimulation
Society, and founded the Polystim neurotechnologies laboratory at Ecole
Polytechnique. He is the editor of
Springer Mixed-signal Letters, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Circuits and
Systems (CAS) Society, Chair of the IEEE Biomedical CAS (BioCAS) Technical
Committee, and member of the Biotechnology Council representing the IEEE-CAS
Society.
He has published more than
350 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings, and has been
awarded seven patents. He received the
Barbara Turnbull Award for spinal cord research, the Medal of Merit from the
Lebanese President (2005), and the J.-A.
Bombardier Award from the Association Francophone pour le savoir
(ACFAS). Dr. Sawan is a Fellow of the
Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the IEEE.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, May 10, 2006. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr.
Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542
(NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Wireless Sensor Networks
On September 20,
2006, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters
together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on
“Wireless Sensor Networks: A New
Paradigm for Ubiquitous Sensing and Information Processing." The speaker will be Dr. Martin Haenggi.
About the Talk
Due to the advances
in wireless communications and electronics in recent years, the development of
networks of low-cost, low-power, and multifunctional sensors has received
increasing attention. These sensors
gather and process data, and communicate with each other over a wireless
channel. Various hardware platforms have
already been designed to test the many ideas spawned by the research community
and to implement applications in many fields of science and technology. This presentation gives a general
introduction to sensor networks. We will
discuss their properties, emphasizing the differences to other types of
wireless networks, including WLANs and ad hoc networks. An overview of existing hardware solutions
for sensor networks will be given, and we will conclude by discussing future
directions and developments.
About the
Speaker
Martin Haenggi received the Dipl. Ing.
(M.Sc.) degree in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH) in 1995. In 1995, he
joined the Signal and Information Processing Laboratory at ETH as a Teaching
and Research Assistant. Between 1996 and
1998, he continued his studies and earned the Dipl. NDS ETH (post-diploma)
degree in information technology. In
1999, he completed his PhD thesis on the analysis, design, and optimization of
cellular neural networks. After a
postdoctoral year at the Electronics Research Laboratory at the University of
California in Berkeley, he joined the faculty of the electrical engineering
department at the University of Notre Dame as an assistant professor in January
2001. He is a senior member of the IEEE,
a professional member of the ACM and the ASEE (American Society for Engineering
Education), and a reviewer for numerous international journals and
conferences. Recently he joined the
Editorial Board of the Elsevier Journal of Ad Hoc Networks. For both his MSc and his PhD theses, he was
awarded the ETH medal, and he received an NSF CAREER award in 2005. His scientific interests include networking,
wireless communications, and dynamical systems, with an emphasis on ad hoc and
sensor networks. His publications
include 3 book chapters, 21 journal publications, and 36 conference papers.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, September 20, 2006. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr.
Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT),
or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Chip-Package Co-Design of
RF Microsystems
On October 17,
2006, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters
together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on
“Chip-Package Co-Design of RF Microsystems." The speaker will be Professor P.R. Mukund.
About the Talk
The design of systems
that contain both RF circuitry and digital circuitry, either in a single
integrated circuit or a single package, poses challenges that are difficult to
overcome with traditional design tools.
For an efficient design methodology, it is imperative that an early
design component be incorporated into the design cycle. Further, the chip and the package have to be
designed concurrently. In this talk, a
chip package co-design methodology and a resultant software tool will be
presented. This research was sponsored
by the National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Corporation. In addition, related topics of built-in self
test and self calibration of RF I.C.s will also be discussed.
About the
Speaker
Professor P.R. Mukund is the Director of the
RF, Analog and Mixed-signal Laboratory (RAMLAB) at R.I.T. In this capacity, he is the principal
investigator of five research projects, sponsored by both industry and
government agencies. He is currently
supervising the research of five PhD students, whose work is based on close
interaction with companies such as LSI Logic, Freescale Semiconductors,
National Semiconductors and Kawasaki LSI.
Dr. Mukund has a BSEE, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from
the University of Tennessee and has seven years of industrial experience, in
addition to seventeen years of academic experience. He has co-edited IEEE Computer, chaired
several IEEE international conferences and is currently on the Steering
Committee of the IEEE International SoC Conference. He has published in the area of analog and RF
integrated circuit design, in refereed forums.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Tuesday, October 17, 2006. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr.
Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542
(NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ EDS/C&S Chapters:
Theory and Applications of
SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation
On November 8, 2006,
the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems Chapters together
with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on “Theory and
Applications of SEM/FIB DualBeam Instrumentation." The speaker will be Dr. Lucille A. Giannuzzi.
About the Talk
The basic concepts
of ion-solid interactions and focused ion beam (FIB) instrumentation and theory
will be presented. Examples of basic FIB
milling and the uses of gases for chemical vapor deposition and gas enhanced
etching will be given. The first uses of
FIB in the semiconductor industry for device modification and circuit repair
have extending into many applications, materials research, and industrial
markets. The applications of FIB and
DualBeam usage on multiple material systems in numerous industries have been
realized, and examples of FIB milling for many material systems will be
shown. Uses of the DualBeam platform for
nanotechnology applications will be described, showing that the utilization of
such a tool is limited only by one’s imagination. FIB milling techniques for specimen
preparation for scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron
microscopy (TEM), and other analytical tools will be presented. In particular, the ex-situ lift-out and
in-situ lift-out TEM techniques will be presented in detail, and the
applications of these specimen preparation methods for many TEM and Scanning
TEM techniques will be emphasized. The
concepts and advantages of a dual platform FIB and scanning electron microscope
(SEM) will be discussed. In particular,
the development of the combined FIB/SEM DualBeam instrumentation as a nano-lab
and a 3D characterization tool which including microstructure, elemental
composition, and crystallographic information will be given. Examples of using the DualBeam as a 30 keV
scanning transmission electron microscope will also be presented.
About the
Speaker
Lucille A. Giannuzzi received her BE and MS
Degrees from SUNY Stony Brook, and her PhD Degree from The Pennsylvania State
University. She spent ten years at the
University of Central Florida where she was the recipient of an NSF Career
Award. As Professor of Mechanical
Materials & Aerospace Engineering, her primary research interests included
ion/solid interactions and the microstructural evaluation of materials using
focused ion beams and transmission electron microscopy. She has been with FEI Company as a field
product marketing engineer for FIB/DualBeam systems for the past three years. She is on the editorial board of the journal,
Microscopy and Microanalysis and participates as an instructor in the Lehigh
Microscopy School. She is active in the
local and national chapters of AVS, MSA and MAS. She has been a local affiliate speaker for
both MSA and the MAS and is co-editor of a book entitled, “Introduction to
Focused Ion Beams.”
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, November 8, 2006. Free buffet will be starting at 6:15 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room
202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions
are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr.
Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542
(NJIT), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapter:
Microwave Applications of
Metamaterial Structures
On April 27, 2006,
the IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S will host a talk on “Microwave Applications of
Metamaterial Structures." The
speakers will be Dr. Tatsuo Itoh.
About the Talk
Metamaterials are
artificial or man-made structures that have properties not found in naturally
existing materials. The most unusual metamaterials
are the Left-Handed ones, also called Double Negative or Negative Refractive
Index materials, which are characterized by simultaneously negative
permittivity and permeability. Many
interesting EM propagation phenomena result from the negativeness of the
constitutive parameters. For instance, the phase and the group velocities are
anti-parallel in a Left-Handed substance.
Fundamental theoretical research as well as research on possible
revolutionary applications for microwave and RF circuits is underway at various
organizations. Although the technology
is still in its infancy, novel practical developments have already been
proposed. The talk will contain a brief
historical account, fundamental concepts, adaptation to microwave environment
and emerging applications for antennas, passive components and active circuits
with unique features at microwave frequencies.
About the Speaker
Tatsuo Itoh
received a PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Illinois, Urbana in 1969. He worked at
University of Illinois, SRI, University of Kentucky, AEG Telefunken in Germany
and The University of Texas at Austin.
In January 1991, he joined the UCLA as Professor of Electrical
Engineering and holder of the TRW Endowed Chair in Microwave and Millimeter
Wave Electronics. He has visiting
appointment with University of Leeds, UK.
Dr. Itoh is a Fellow of the IEEE, served as the Editor of IEEE
Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques for 1983-1985, was President of
the MTT Society in 1990 and was a founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Microwave
and Guided Wave Letters from 1991 through 1994.
He was elected as an Honorary Life Member of MTT Society in 1994. He was the Chairman of Commission D of the
URSI for 1993-1996. He received a number
of awards including Shida Award from Ministry of Post and Telecommunications,
Japan and Japan Microwave Prize, IEEE Third Millennium Medal and IEEE MTT
Distinguished Educator Award. He is a
member of National Academy of Engineering. He is currently Distinguished
Microwave Lecturer for IEEE MTT Society on Microwave Applications of
Metamaterial Structures. He has over
1000 publications and generated 65 Ph.D’s in the area of microwave and
millimeter-waves, computational electromagnetics, antennas, microwave photonics.EBG
and Negative Index Materials.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday,
April 27, 2006. Free buffet will be
starting at 6:30
PM
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Tiernan Hall Room 104, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Dr.
Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Kirit Dixit (201) 669-7599,
kdixit “AT” ieee.org, or Har Dayal (973) 633-4618, har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com.
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NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapter:
Dielectric-Charging Model
of RF MEMS Capacitive Switches
On May 10, 2006, the
IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S will host a talk on “Dielectric-Charging Model of RF
MEMS Capacitive Switches." The
speaker will be Dr. James C. M. Hwang.
About the Talk
Commercialization
of MEMS devices has been hindered by factors such as packaging and reliability. In particular, the lifetime of
electrostatically actuated RF MEMS capacitive switches is currently limited by
dielectric-charging effects. To date,
dielectric-charging effects in RF MEMS devices have been studied by different
research groups with a general charge model proposed. However, there has been no effort to
experimentally extract the model parameters or to accurately model the charge
in the dielectric and its impact on actuation voltage. Under DARPA’s Harsh Environment, Robust
Micromechanical Technology (HERMIT) Program and by using a special test
structure and setup, we directly measured charging and discharging transient
currents in state-of-the-art RF MEMS capacitive switches and constructed a
simple charge model. The model can predict
charging effects on the operation of the switches under control waveforms of
different voltages, duty factors, and frequencies. By comparing with experimental data, it was
found that the model correctly predicts that the device lifetime is dependent
on voltage and duty factor, but not on frequency. Therefore, for RF MEMS capacitive switches
that fail mainly by dielectric charging, the present model can be used to
design control waveforms that can either prolong lifetime or accelerate
failure. Accelerated life testing is
important for MEMS devices because they are relatively slow. The present model can correctly predicts the
effects of different acceleration factors thus validating accelerated life
testing. This will allow the dielectric
and other material and process parameters of RF MEMS capacitive switches be
optimized relatively quickly.
About the Speaker
James C. M. Hwang
is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Compound
Semiconductor Technology Laboratory at Lehigh University. He graduated from National Taiwan University
with a BS degree in Physics in 1970, and subsequently earned his MS (1973) and
PhD (1976) degrees in Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell University. After twelve years of industrial experience
working at IBM, AT&T, GE, and GAIN, he joined the Lehigh University faculty
in 1988. In 2002, Professor Hwang helped
establish the $40 million Center for Optical Technologies at Lehigh University
and served as its interim director for six months. He has been a visiting professor at Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore and at Shanghai Jiaotong University in
China. He has been a consultant for the
U.S. Government and many electronic companies in the areas of RF/microwave
devices and integrated circuits.
Professor Hwang co-founded GAIN and QED; the latter became a public
company (IQEP). He has published
approximately 200 technical papers and has been granted four U.S. patents. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronic Engineers.
All Welcome!
You do not have to
be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 5:00
PM, Wednesday, May 10,
2006.
Place:
New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information:
Dr. Edip Niver
(973) 596-3542 (NJIT), Kirit
Dixit
(201) 669-7599, kdixit “AT” ieee.org, or Har Dayal (973) 633-4618, har.dayal
“AT” baesystems.com.
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NJ PES/IAS
Chapters:
Energy
Conservation Series - Introduction to the US Green Building Council and the
Leed Family of Rating Programs
On
April 19, 2006, as part of an ongoing series of free seminars on the topic of
energy conservation, the PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor an evening
discussion on the Introduction to the US Green Building Council and the LEED
family of rating programs by Nick Stecky.
About
the Meeting
This
seminar will be an introduction to the US Green Building Council and the LEED
family of rating programs including for new construction, core and shell,
commercial interiors and existing buildings.
This will be an overview of what is a green building, how buildings can
qualify for "green points" within the LEED Programs and what the
benefits of going green are for all stakeholders including the owner, the
occupants, the design team and the construction team. The program will be tailored for the IEEE
profession, highlighting where IEEE skills can aid a Green Building in
achieving LEED points.
About
the Speaker
The
presenter will be Nick Stecky, President of NJS Assoc, LLC.
Nick
Stecky is President of his own firm, NJS Assoc, LLC providing consulting
services for energy efficient and high performance Green Buildings. He has a BS in engineering from NJIT and a MS
in Systems from FDU. He is a Certified
Energy Manager, a LEED Accredited professional and a Six Sigma Green Belt. He has been president of the NJ Chapters of
ASHRAE and the AEE and a Board Member of the NJ Chapter of the USGBC. He is a frequent lecturer, seminar provider
and author on high performance facilities.
He is the author of the Green Building and Indoor Air Quality sections
of the CEM Training Manual and one of the instructors for the CEM Program. Professional experience includes General
Electric, Unilever, Kraft Foods, and Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.
Time: 6:30
PM, Wednesday, April 19, 2006. A
pre-meeting buffet will be available starting at 6:00 PM.
Place: Eaton
Electrical, 690 Rahway Ave, Union, NJ.
Directions: Route 82 Morris
Avenue from either Springfield or Union to Rahway
Ave.
Information: Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
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NJ Signal
Processing Chapter:
Machine Learning for Bioinformatic Data Mining
On
May
3, 2006, the
IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society along with NJIT will host a
seminar on " Machine
Learning for Bioinformatic Data Mining."
The speaker will be Dr. S.Y. Kung.
About
the Talk
Genomic
bioinformatics represents a natural convergence of life science and information
science. The DNA sequencing and
expression profiling represent two main modalities of genomic information
sources. The genome is not just a
collection of genes working in isolation, but it encompasses global and highly
coordinated control of information to carry out a range of cellular
functions. Therefore, it is imperative
to conduct a genome-wide exploration.
Note that genome-wide analysis via pure DNA sequencing is
computationally prohibitive. In
contrast, expression of several thousands of genes can be measured
simultaneously by DNA microarrays, thus permitting discovery of clusters of
correlated genes. It is obvious that
microarray data analysis will play a vital role in the future genome-wide
bioinformatic study.
It
is crucial not only to know how to cluster data but also to find appropriate
way of looking at the genomic data. In
other words, extraction of relevant features is critical for cluster discovery. We shall present a comprehensive set of
coherence models to better capture the biological relevant features of
genes. In addition, we adopt as the
classification architecture several existing neural networks, e.g. SVM or
decision-based neural network (DBNN).
Our fusion model is built upon the classic mixture-of-experts (MOE)
architecture: (1) a local expert is assigned to cover each modality; (2) a
gating agent is then adopted to fuse the local scores to reach a Bayesian
optimal decision. Based on the standard
yeast database, the proposed machine learning/fusion system yields satisfactory
performance in predicting several well-studied yeast gene groups e.g. ribosomal
and molecular activity genes.
With
massive amount of data having to be analyzed, genomic study will become
inevitably dependent on advanced machine learning techniques. On the other hand, any computationally based
genomic prediction remains untrustworthy until a careful and laborious
biological verification is performed. This
points to an increasingly symbiotic relationship between the machine learning
and genomic technologies.
About
the Speaker
Professor
S.Y. Kung received his PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
University in 1977. He was an Associate
Engineer of Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale, 1974, and a Professor of Electrical
Engineering-Systems of the University of Southern California, (1977-1987). Since 1987, he has been a Professor of
Electrical Engineering at the Princeton University. He held a Visiting Professorship at the
Stanford University (1984), and a Visiting Professorship at the Delft
University of Technology (1984), a Toshiba Chair Professorship at the Waseda
University, Japan (1984), an Honorary Professorship at the Central China
University of Science and Technology (1994), and a Distinguished Chair
Professorship at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (2001-2003). His research interests include VLSI array
processors, system modelling and identification, neural networks, wireless
communication, sensor array processing, multimedia signal processing,
bioinformatic data mining, and biometric authentication.
Professor
Kung is a Fellow of IEEE since 1988. He
served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society (1989-1991). He was a founding
member of several Technical Committees (TC’s) of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society, including VLSI Signal Processing TC (1984), Neural Networks for Signal
Processing TC (1991) and Multimedia Signal Processing TC (1998), and was
appointed as the first Associate Editor in VLSI Area (1984) and later the first
Associate Editor in Neural Network (1991) for the IEEE Transactions on Signal
Processing. He presently serves on
Technical Committees on Multimedia Signal Processing. Since 1990, he has been the Editor-In-Chief
of the Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems.
Professor
Kung has co-authored more than 400 technical publications and numerous
textbooks including "VLSI and Modern Signal Processing," with Russian
translation, Prentice-Hall (1985), "VLSI Array Processors", with
Russian and Chinese translations, Prentice-Hall (1988); "Digital Neural
Networks'', Prentice-Hall (1993); "Principal Component Neural Networks'',
John-Wiley (1996); and "Biometric Authentication: A Machine Learning and Neural Network
Approach'', Prentice-Hall (2005).
Professor Kung was a recipient of IEEE Signal Processing Society's
Technical Achievement Award for his contributions on "parallel processing
and neural network algorithms for signal processing" (1992); a
Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Signal Processing Society (1994); a recipient of
IEEE Signal Processing Society's Best Paper Award for his publication on
principal component neural networks (1996); and a recipient of the IEEE Third
Millennium Medal (2000).
Time: 4:45
PM (refreshments and pizza available at 4:30 PM), Wednesday, May 3, 2006.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information: Dr.
Yun Shi (973) 596-3501 (shi “AT” njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (tan
“AT” mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (hman “AT”
stevens-tech.edu).
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NJ SMC
Society:
Motion
Planning and Formation Control of Autonomous Mobile Robots
On
Tuesday, April 11, 2006, the NJ Systems, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Chapter will
host a talk on “Motion Planning and Formation Control of Autonomous Mobile
Robots.” The speaker will be Dr. Yi Guo.
About
the Talk
Broad
applications of autonomous mobile robots in areas such as surface mining, space
exploration, cleanup tasks, and national security call for efficient motion
planning strategies. Challenging
problems include path planning and trajectory generation, collision avoidance,
motion constraints, multi-robot coordination, and performance evaluation. The first part of the talk presents a global
motion planning algorithm combining D* search with analytic trajectory
generation for non-holonomic robots. The
global trajectory is composed of regional feasible trajectories which satisfy
the dynamics of the robot’s non-holonomic motion. Dynamic collision avoidance criteria are
derived that enable the robot to maneuver among moving obstacles and generate
physically feasible trajectories in real time.
The discussion also examines a multi-robot motion coordination scheme,
as well as the formation control of a group of robots following a time-varying
reference trajectory. The presentation
concludes with the demonstration of a leader-following experiment of a group of
All Terrain Vehicles (ATRV) Mini mobile robots.
About
the Speaker
Dr.
Yi Guo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Previously, Dr. Guo was a visiting Assistant Professor in the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida and was
also appointed as a Research Fellow in the Computer Science and Mathematics
Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Following her PhD Degree, Dr. Guo worked in the area of robotics and
automation for seven years. She is the
author of over thirty journal and conference articles. Her work has been supported by the Oak Ridge
National Laboratory and the National Science Foundation. She currently serves as the Meeting Finance
Chair of the IEEE Society of Robotics and Automation. Dr. Guo, a Senior Member of the IEEE, is also
a member of the Program Committee and the Local Arrangement Co-Chair of the
2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
All
Welcome!
You
need not be a member of IEEE to attend, and there is no charge for
admission. Light refreshments will be
served starting at 6:45 PM.
Time: 7:00
PM (light refreshments at 6:45 PM), Tuesday, April 11, 2006.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information/RSPV: Dr.
Mike Liechenstein, (973) 471-0721, (m.liechenstein “AT” ieee.org).
Please RSVP
prior to the presentation since space is limited, as well as for getting
instructions for accessing the secured parking deck at NJIT. Also check electronic newsletter for any
possible changes in room, etc
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New Public Announcements - Mailing for North
Jersey Section!
A
new North Jersey Section non-IEEE members mailing list for public announcements
has been created. The purpose of this
mailing list is to disseminate to the North New Jersey section information
pertinent to their professional and technical enhancement. It also provides information about IEEE
membership services, benefits, social events, networking opportunities,
technical and professional meetings, and contests. All events are open for the benefit of the
membership and potential new membership.
Basic mailing list commands for subscribing and unsubscribing to the
mailing list are initiated by email:
TO: listserv@listserv.ieee.org
JOIN
BODY: subscribe northjerseypublic
firstname lastname
LEAVE
BODY: signoff northjerseypublic
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Notice to NJ Section Engineers
Paul
Ward, a member of the NJ Section IEEE USA and Co-chair of its PACE committee, is
looking for (a donation of) electronic test equipment that can be used for
teaching electronics and electricity to students with learning disabilities
(LD) at the Craig Upper School in Lincoln Park, NJ. This school is a private institution that
receives its operating funds from either the parents of the students or some
governmental subsidy.
The
Craig Upper School is a school dedicated to teaching LD students at the high
school level, preparing them to continue on to college or to enter the work
force. It teaches a full curriculum,
i.e., English, History, Mathematics, Science, and special courses directed at
LD students. The staff is limited to
approximately fifteen (15) including office, nurse, and guidance with the
student population that ranges in the upper fifties (50) which is expected to
grow. This ratio of student-to-staff
helps to keep class size small and manageable, a class rarely exceeds seven
(7).
Paul
is trying to accumulate a couple of oscilloscopes, multimeters (analog or
digital), oscillators, and function generators, so that a Basic EE course could
be put together for a technical course and added to the present academic
curriculum. The course would help the
student to connect what he or she learned in Mathematics and Science into a practical
experience.
The
equipment does not have to be in perfect condition, just safe and usable.
If
you can donate such equipment, please send it to the following address:
Craig
Upper School
Attn: Paul Ward
200
Comely Road
Lincoln
Park, NJ 07035
Alternatively,
contact Paul Ward at (973) 790-1625 or PWard1130 “AT” aol.com. He will pick it up if needed.
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North Jersey Section Seeks Committee Chairs
and Volunteers
The
NNJ IEEE Section ExCom is seeking new volunteers to help conduct business at
the section level for the benefit of its membership in the North Jersey section
and surrounding areas. There are a
variety of volunteer positions open and available. They range from long-term to short-term,
technical to non-technical, leadership or just participatory. All activities have varying levels of time
commitment. For Chapter Chairs, you must
be a member of the corresponding IEEE Society.
If
you would like to become involved with volunteering in some of these efforts or
positions or just become more informed about what is happening at the NNJ IEEE
Section, please contact the persons listed below for additional information and
questions. You can even attend the
section business meeting held the first Wednesday of every month to find out
more and other volunteer activities that require some help.
Some
of the positions currently open and available are:
·
Engineering in Medicine
& Biology Chair/Vice-Chair. Contact Har Dayal (har.dayal “AT”
baesystems.com).
·
Solid State Circuits
Chair/Vice-Chair. Contact Har Dayal (har.dayal “AT”
baesystems.com).
·
Historian Committee seeks help collecting IEEE
historical information and specifically IEEE North Jersey Section History. Contact Al Stolpen (a.stolpen “AT” ieee.org)
Additionally,
if interested volunteers would like to get more general information about other
activities in our section, visit the North Jersey Section website for
newsletter information http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
or contact Har Dayal, har.dayal “AT” baesystems.com.
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The
IEEE North Jersey Section has been helping fellow engineering professionals for
the last fifty
years. The Education Committee has
successfully conducted software and engineering training courses over the last
few decades. The Committee is committed
to professional development of the members and the instructors for the courses
are very qualified and experienced in their respective fields. Classes are arranged on weekday evenings or
on Saturdays provided at least fifteen candidates are available. Completion certificates are issued by IEEE
Headquarters with CEU credits for the number of training hours.
Due to the slow growth of
the economy and several other factors, registration for these courses has
diminished over the last few years. I
would urge members to send their feedback regarding what courses they would be
interested in, the format, location, and day/time, etc., by email to
b.chivukula “AT” computer.org.
Regards,
Bhanu
Chivukula
Chair,
Education Committee
Vice
Chair, IEEE North Jersey Section
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Conference
Rooms Needed!
The North Jersey Section
(Education Committee) is looking for conference room facilities to hold their
training seminars. The seminars are
being held on one weeknight from 6:30 PM
to 9:00 PM. In return for providing the conference
facility for free, the organization can get free registration up to three
members in the course/seminar. Please
contact Bhanu
Chivukula,
Education Committee Chair, at b.chivukula “AT” computer.org for suggestions or
discussions, if interested.
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IEEE
Virtual Museum
At
the beginning of this year, a new exhibit on nanotechnology opened at IEEE’s
award-winning pre-university educational site (http://www.ieee.org/museum). In addition, the IEEE History Center is pleased
to note that excerpts from exhibits in the IEEE Virtual Museum will be used by
the Migrant department of the San Antonio Independent School District as part
of a program that serves the educational needs of 760 children of migrant
workers. Teachers, bringing laptops,
visit the homes of student enrolled in the program. These teachers will be provided with CDs
containing excerpts from the IEEE Virtual Museum exhibits.
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IEEE-USA in Action:
Talent,
Techniques, Advanced Tools Key to Future Engineering Success, Says IEEE Fellow
and Former NSF Official
Washington
(9 March 2006) - “In anticipating the future, we must recognize that
civilization is on the brink of a new industrial world order,” IEEE Fellow Dr.
Joseph Bordogna said during his keynote address at the IEEE-USA Leadership
Workshop in St. Louis on 4 March.
“Success
will not be garnered by those who simply make commodities faster and cheaper
than the competition. They will be those
who develop talent, techniques and tools so advanced that competitive
capability can be continually robust.”
Bordogna
is a former deputy director (1999-2005) and chief operating officer of the
National Science Foundation, and served as IEEE president in 1998. His address, “Round, Flat or Spiky, the World
Turns on an Axis,” provided his vision on how engineers can contribute to
future innovation in a world undergoing swift and constant technological
transformation.
“Engineers
will have to be effective collaborators, innovators, risk takers, and
communicators, working across shifting boundaries, and embracing diversity,”
Bordogna said. “They will need to know
the human and social dimensions of technology.
Our social and economic progress depends upon it. All of you carry the excitement and the
responsibility to make it happen.”
Bordogna,
now the Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Engineering at the University of
Pennsylvania, added that “creative transformation” -- the process of converting
energy to momentum -- is the flip side of “creative destruction”:
“That
process -- energy to momentum -- which engineers certainly embrace, speaks
directly to the excitement and inspiration of integrative 21st century science
and engineering innovation at the frontier.
Propelled by advances in genomics, materials, computer-communications,
and advances in cognition, mathematics and social science, our profession is on
the verge of new, exhilarating frontiers.”
To
read the entire Bordogna address, go to
http://www.ieeeusa.org/calendar/conferences/2006workshop/Presentations/Bordogna-keynote.pdf
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NEWS from IEEE-USA:
IEEE-USA
President Encourages Bipartisan Efforts to Pass Innovation Legislation
Washington
(14 February 2006) - IEEE-USA President Ralph W. Wyndrum Jr. encourages
bipartisan cooperation on legislation promoting U.S. competitiveness and
innovation in a letter sent to House and Senate leaders today.
Recent
efforts to enhance U.S. innovation include President Bush’s “American
Competitiveness Initiative”; the Senate’s bipartisan “Protecting America’s
Competitive Edge” package; Sens. John Ensign’s (R-Nev.) and Joseph Lieberman’s
(D-Conn.) “National Innovation Act”; and House Democrats’ “Innovation Agenda.”
House Republicans are also expected to introduce comprehensive innovation and
competitiveness legislation this week.
Each
of these initiatives are designed to spur America’s global economic
competitiveness by enhancing science, engineering and technology research and
development, boosting math and science education, and providing incentives for
technological innovation.
“We
strongly encourage Congress to capitalize on the momentum and exceptional
bipartisan consensus on this important issue,” Wyndrum wrote. “For the good of country, we urge leaders in
both parties of the House and Senate to work together, and with the
administration, to pass legislation during this session of Congress to preserve
America’s competitive edge in the global arena.”
The
letter is available at http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/policy/2006/021406.pdf
Contact: Chris McManes
IEEE-USA Senior Public
Relations Coordinator
Phone: (202) 530-8356
E-Mail: c.mcmanes@ieee.org
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IEEE-USA President Outlines Training
Needed to Succeed in Our Careers
"Long
gone are the days when it was enough just to work hard and become the go-to
person for your technical specialty," says IEEE-USA President Ralph W.
Wyndrum, Jr. In his March President's
column, Dr. Wyndrum posits: "Now, it is crucial for professionals who want
to advance their careers to pair their technical skills with 'soft skills' –-
intelligence on how to communicate with and lead other coworkers." For
examples of IEEE/IEEE-USA continuing education offerings that will help
engineers succeed in today's global economy, read the entire column on
"Making Ourselves More Marketable" at: http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/2296/82910.
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IEEE-USA President Stresses Ways to
Enhance U.S. Competitiveness on NPR Talk Show
As
a featured guest on National Public Radio's "Science Friday" on 24
Feb., IEEE-USA President Ralph W. Wyndrum, Jr. emphasized the need to support
more qualified math and science teachers as one way to ensure U.S.
competitiveness in high technology. Dr.
Wyndrum cited the IEEE Teacher in Service Program as an example of how
engineers are teaming with teachers to give them a "firsthand look at
engineering" in the classroom. To
hear the complete NPR interview with the IEEE-USA President and two other
guests, go to http://boldfish.ieee.org:80/u/2298/82910.
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NJ Power Engineering Society/Industry Applications
Society
Lighting
Seminar
The
PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a technical seminar covering lighting
sources, systems, and performance. The
session will be held on Friday, April 21, 2006, at the PSE&G Training
Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison, NJ.
Topics
· Efficient Lighting Practices
· The Nature of Light
· Determining Lighting Levels
· Comparison of Lamps
(incandescent, fluorescent, metal halide, sodium and LED)
· Ballast Performance and
Rating
· Commercial office fixtures,
Low Bay and High Bay Luminaires
· Lighting Controls
(occupancy, daylighting, dimming)
· Lighting Maintenance
· Lighting Surveys
About the Instructor
The instructor will be John Hyfantis, PE.
Mr. Hyfantis’ first career path was in the electronic
engineering field, 1961 to 1975. Employed by the Southern New England Telephone
Co, US Army Electronics Command, Electronic Associates, RCA-Astro Electronics,
Dow Jones and Co and Intec, Inc. With
Johnson and Johnson ESDP, power distribution engineering was added to the
career path.
Mr. Hyfantis is President of Energistics, LLC, since 1978.
Energistics provides engineering consulting services to commercial, industrial
and institutional clients in the Mid-Atlantic region. Engineering services
include HVAC equipment replacement and upgrade analysis; process and space
conditioning VF drive design and installation; building management system
design; building commissioning; compressed air system analysis; lighting system
analysis; and power allocation surveys. Energistics also provides workshops,
covering the topics of motors, motor controls, lighting, energy reduction and
power quality.
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The registration fee for this seminar prior to April 7th
will be $150 for non-IEEE members, $100 for IEEE Members, $75 for GOLD
Graduates (last 1-10 years) and $25 for students with valid ID. The fee will be
waived for IEEE Life Member Grades with verification at the seminar. Registrations after April 7th must include an
additional late fee of $25. The seminar
fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts.
Non-members joining IEEE within 30 days of the seminar will be rebated
50% of the IEEE registration charge.
If desired, IEEE Continuing Education Units will be offered
for this course - a small fee of $15 will be required for processing. A total of .6 CEUs will be offered. Please indicate if desired below.
Registration: Lighting Seminar 4/21/2006
Register via US mail to: Ronald W. Quade, P.E.
Eaton Electrical
379 Thornall St, 8th Floor
Edison, NJ 08837
Name____________________________________________________________________________________
Address__________________________________________________________________________________
Phone__________________ Email____________________________________________________________
IEEE
#_________________ Student @________________ Non IEEE_____ Life Member______
Continuing Education Units: Yes $15 No
If CEUs are chosen, please
include a $15 processing fee
Payment Enclosed
$_______________ Add $25 late registration after April 7, 2006
Make checks
payable to North Jersey Section IEEE
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AFCEA Newsletter
FORT
MONMOUTH CHAPTER
Fort
Monmouth Annual Information Technology Forum & Expo 2006
IPv6 - Enabling Net-Centric Warfare
www.FortMonmouthITC.com
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Call For Papers
9th
International Conference on Information Technology (CIT 2006)
Bhubaneswar,
India, December
18-21, 2006
http://www.citconference.org
http://www.cs.unt.edu/~smohanty/CIT2006/
co-sponsored
by
CIT
(Conference on Information Technology) is a premier international forum for
high quality research in the areas of Information Technology. CIT2006 is being jointly organized by the
Orissa Information Technology Society (http://www.oits.org) and the Institute of Technical Education and Research, Bhubaneswar, India (http://www.iterindia.com).
Researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry
are invited to present their research findings on various topics of IT and its
Applications. Four types of submissions
are solicited: regular papers, short papers, poster papers and tutorials.
Conference Tracks: CIT encourages submissions in
all the areas of information technology.
However, the papers in the following 6 tracks will be primary focus of
this year conference (CIT2006). The
submissions in each track could be on any of the topics listed, but are not
limited to them.
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology: Novel applications in Bioinformatics, Data Mining and Statistical
Modeling of biological data, Visualization of Biological Processes and Data,
Management, Migration and Integration of Biological Databases, Biological
Database search/indexing.
Communication Networks and Protocols: Broadband Multimedia Communications, Wireless Ad hoc/Sensor Networks,
Network Security, Wireless and Mobile Communications, Emerging IT Networks.
Language Processing: Character recognition, text to speech conversion, speech synthesis,
Signal and Image Processing.
Security, Content Protection, and Digital Rights Management: Watermarking, Steganography, Cryptography, Biometrics, Digital
Libraries.
Databases, Information Warehousing and Data Mining: Intelligent Databases, Query and Constraint-based Data Mining, Mining Spatial
and Temporal Data, Mining of Data Streams, Feature Extraction, Collaborative
filtering/personalization, Cost-based Decision making, Visual Data Mining,
Privacy Sensitive Data Mining.
Application Specific Software and Hardware Systems: Embedded Information Systems, Hardware/Software/Firmware issues,
Nano-technology and Applications, Quantum Information Processing.
Paper Submission: Online submissions of original and unpublished papers are
encouraged. Three types of papers of
papers will be considered: regular papers (6-pages), short papers (4-pages),
poster papers (2-pages). Regular papers
will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (by
Springer-Verlag). Short/poster papers
and 1-page tutorial-abstracts will be printed by Tata-McGraw-Hill (TMH). All submitted papers will undergo
DOUBLE-BLIND-REVIEW by a strong team of reviewers and program committee members
consisting of leading researchers around the globe. Authors of papers need to prevent identity
disclosure in many ways: (1) not list names and affiliations of authors, (2)
not say "my work" or "our work" in the text while citing
self references, and (3) not write acknowledgments such a way that identity of
authors are implied. Author information
should ONLY be included in the submission form.
Best Paper Awards: Three awards will be conferred with due recommendations from the program
committee from the papers presented in the conference. Each award will carry cash prize and
citations. Amiya K. Pujari Award is
provided for the Best Paper of the conference.
Narayan Misra Award is given to the best paper from Orissa. One student best paper award will be awarded
from the papers with students as the leading authors.
Fellowships: The Steering Committee will award
limited number of fellowships to students based on need and merit, to partially
cover expenses of attendees from India.
Applications must be submitted before the fellowship application
deadline using the conference website.
Important Deadlines
Papers/tutorials
submission: June 15, 2006
Notifications
of review status: August 15, 2006
Camera
ready papers or tutorial-abstracts: September 15, 2006
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IEEE AWARDS RECEPTION
North Jersey
Section
May 7, 2006
Birchwood Manor, Whippany NJ
A time to relax, unwind and enjoy --
A time to pay tribute to our new Fellows --
A time to honor our Award Winners --
YES it's time for the Annual Section
Reception
The
Annual Section IEEE Awards Reception will be held at the Birchwood Manor, 111
North Jefferson Road,
Whippany again this year. The affair is
scheduled for Sunday,
May 7, 2006 from 3 to 6
PM. Tickets are $35.00
each. Spouses and guests are
welcome. We are limited to 90
attendees, so please make your reservations early.
Reservations are required by April 27, 2006. Complete the reservation form and return it
with your payment. If you would like
tickets mailed back to you, please enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope. Otherwise, your tickets will be held at the
door for you. If any additional
information is required concerning the reception, contact Anne Giedlinski at
(973) 377-3175.
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Use
this form for Reception reservations. ENCLOSE A SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED ENVELOPE
to receive tickets in advance.
Reservations are required by April 27, 2006. Mail reservation
request to:
Anne
Giedlinski
299 Brooklake Road
Florham
Park, NJ 07932
Enclosed
is __________ for ____ ticket(s) at $35.00 each (make check payable to North Jersey Section IEEE) for:
NAME:
___________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS: _______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Yes, please send me directions to the Birchwood Manor
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