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April 2007
Volume 53, Number 10
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE
Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July
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SECTION OFFICERS
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Chivukula
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Katherine Duncan (kb2zoo “AT” hotmail.com)
Seth
Jakel (sgjakel “AT” comcast.net)
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 Russell
Pepe (201) 669-7599, rpepe “AT” att.net.
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IEEE North Jersey
Section Activities
April
2007
Apr. 4 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell
Pepe at rpepe “AT” att.net.
Apr. 10 – “An Integrated Platform
for an Adaptive Workflow System:
Combining Knowledge-Based and Data-Driven Approaches”
by Dr. Tong Sun, North Jersey SMC Society Chapter, 6:00 PM (light refreshments
at 5:45 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Dr. Mike Liechenstein, (973)
471-0721, (m.liechenstein “AT” ieee.org).
Apr. 11 – “Engineers Meet:
Contract Engineering aka job shopping - An Alternate Form of Employment”
- NJ PACE & GOLD, 6:30 – 9:00 PM, Clifton Memorial Library, 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ. Paul
Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954
(rftax “AT” verizon.net).
Apr. 12 – “Electronic Conducting States in Nano- and
Mesoscale Molecular Devices” by Dr. Nikolai Zhitenev, North Jersey LEOS Chapter,
5:00 PM (light refreshments at 4:45 PM), New Jersey Institute of Technology
(NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ.
Professor H. Grebel, (973) 596-3538, grebel “AT” njit.edu.
Apr. 18 – “The Toxins & Infections Connection”
by Professor Joel H. Levitt, NJ/NY/LI EMBS Chapters, 7:15 PM, A.R.E. of New
York, 241 West 30th Street between 7th & 8th Aves., Manhattan, NY. Professor Joel H. Levitt (jlevitt “AT” pratt.edu),
(212) 479-7805.
Apr. 18 – “An Overview of Adaptive Antenna”
by Ray Lackey, NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 6:00 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.
Apr. 19 – “The Trend of Next Generation Wireless Mobile
Systems” by Dr. Qi Bi, NJ Communications & SP
Chapters, 7:00 PM (light refreshments at 6:45 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 Dr. Yun-Qing Shi (973) 596-3501.
Apr. 25 – “Global Stability
Analysis and Stabilization of Power Amplifiers”
by Professor Almudena Suarez, EDS/C&S & MTT-S/AP-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), Har Dayal
(973) 633-4618 (BAE Systems), or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
Apr. 27 – “Mission Critical Power Technical Series -
Generators Seminar”, NJ IAS/PES, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison NJ. Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 27-28
– “WOCC 2007-
16th Annual Wireless and Optical Communications Conference”, NJ
Section, Time TBA, Campus Center, NJIT, Newark, NJ. Kevin
Lu (732) 699-2333 or klu “AT” ieee.org.
Apr. 27-29
– “Spring 2007 Region 1
GOLD Conference”, FDU-Teaneck, NJ. Amit Patel a.j.patel “AT” ieee.org.
Upcoming Meetings
May 2 – “NJ Section Meeting”, 6:30 PM, “Executive Committee Meeting” - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Russell
Pepe at rpepe “AT” att.net.
May 6 – “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 25 – “Mission Critical Power
Technical Series - Paralleling Switchgear Seminar”
by Ron Hilbert, NJ IAS/PES, 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM, PSE&G Training Center, 234 Pierson Avenue, Edison NJ. Ronald
W. Quade, PE, (732) 205-2614 or rwquade “AT” ieee.org.
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2007 IEEE North
Jersey Fellow
Gary W. Elko
“for contributions to microphone array signal processing for
communication systems.”
Gary
W. Elko was born in 1955 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. He graduated from Cornell University with a
BSEE degree in 1977. He then followed
his interests in acoustics and signal processing and received an MS and PhD
from Penn State University in 1984. After
graduation, he joined the Acoustics Research Department at AT&T Bell
Laboratories where he worked on electroacoustic systems and signal processing
for hands-free audio communication and room acoustics. He is currently president of mh acoustic LLC,
a company he founded with former Bell Labs colleagues in Summit NJ. He has over 20 patents and applications and
has published more than 60 papers in refereed journals. He is a past associate editor of the IEEE
transactions on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing and is a Fellow of the
Acoustical Society of America.
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NJ Communications & SP Chapters:
The Trend of Next
Generation Wireless Mobile Systems
On
Thursday, April 19, 2007, the North Jersey Chapters of the IEEE Communications
Society and Signal Processing Society will host a presentation titled “The
Trend of Next Generation Wireless Mobile Systems” by Dr. Qi Bi.
About the Talk
With
the deployment of 3G high speed packet data wireless mobile systems worldwide,
the stage has been set to evolve 3G wireless systems to the next
generation. From this point forward, the
efforts are focused on the delivery of the broadband experience with integrated
and blended service. In this talk, we
shall share our view of where the industry is going and what wireless
experience an average user may expect to have in the near future. Our analysis will cover three major
industrial standards including CDMA, wCDMA and WiMAX.
About the
Speaker
Dr.
Bi received his MS from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and PhD from Pennsylvania
State University. After teaching at Utah
State University as an assistant professor for one year, he joined Bell
Laboratories in 1988 and became a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in
1995. Two years later, he was promoted
to Technical Manager.
Dr.
Bi is a recognized expert in wireless communications. He received Awards of Excellence from the
Advanced Technology Lab of AT&T in 1996 and 1997, and Bell Labs President’s
Gold Awards in 2000 and 2002. Under his
leadership, his team was recognized in innovations and was awarded the Bell
Labs Innovation Team Award in 2003 by the Bell Labs Research. In 2004, he received the Speaker of the Year
Award from the IEEE New Jersey Coast Section.
Based
on his pioneering contributions in wireless communications, he broke ground in
2003 to become the first Chinese from the People’s Republic of China
to receive the prestigious Bell Laboratories Fellow Award. In 2004, he was recognized by the Chinese
Institute of Engineers and was awarded the Asian American Engineer of the Year
Award during Engineers Week in the United
States.
Dr.
Bi is also dedicated to international and social activities. From 1998 to 1999, he served as the technical
chair for the Wireless Mobile ATM Conference.
From 1999 to 2000, he organized the first and the second CDMA
conferences at Lucent Technologies. From
2000 to 2002, he served as the technical chair for IEEE Globecom’s wireless
program. In 2003, he served as the
technical chair for the IEEE Wireless Communications and Network
Conference. Currently, he serves as the
chair and organizer for the Wireless and Optical Communications Conference.
Dr.
Bi has published extensively in many technical journals and conferences and has
served as editors in many technical publications. He was often invited as a keynote speaker in
many international conferences and has filed more than 60 US
patents. He was also the New
York
chapter president of the Alumni Association of the Chiao Tung University
from 2002 to 2006. He has been listed in
Who’s Who since 2003.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend
Time: 6:00 PM, Thursday, April 19, 2007. Refreshments will be offered at 5:45 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 Dr. Yun-Qing Shi (973) 596-3501. Also check http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/comm.html for the latest updates.
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NJ Consultants' Network:
Web Marketing for the
Independent Professional
On
Thursday, May 24, 2007, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ is pleased
to present ” Web
Marketing for the Independent Professional”, by Mike Moran.
About the Talk
It's
not easy being a consultant. You must
keep your clients happy. You have to
keep up with your field of expertise.
You must collect your bills. Who
has the time or money for marketing?
Few successful consultants make it without
some kind of marketing. In the old days,
it was a good resume and who you knew, but today, you need a Web site--a good
Web site. And you need to know how to
get attention for your Web site. It may
seem overwhelming or beyond your budget, but it doesn't have to be.
The
good news about Web marketing is that it doesn't have to break your bank. Free or low-cost hosting of blogs, Web sites,
podcasts and videos give you ways to get your marketing message out. Search marketing takes some time, but not
much money. Find out how to create a Web
site that conveys the image you want and delivers the message prospective
clients need to hear. Learn how Web
marketing can set you apart among the sea of consultants looking for
engagements.
About the
Speaker
Mike
Moran is an IBM Distinguished Engineer who has worked on the Web since its
inception, including eight years at ibm.com where he most recently was Manager
of Web User Experience. Mike is
currently a Product Manager for OmniFind, IBM's enterprise search product, and
is an expert in search marketing--co-author of the best-selling book Search
Engine Marketing, Inc., columnist for Revenue magazine and WebProNews. His new book on Internet marketing, Do It
Wrong Quickly, will be available in September.
Mike can be reached at his Web site (mikemoran.com), which is also home
to his Biznology newsletter and blog.
Consultants'
Network Member Presentation
During
the second half of the meeting, Jim Boyd, Chairperson of the IEEE Consultants'
Network of Northern NJ will be presenting a brief overview of his consulting
practice.
Since
founding XL Research Inc. in 1978, Jim Boyd (www.picconsult.com)
has been designing microcontroller-based products for consumer and industrial
applications. Jim has background in
analog, digital and power design and has focused his consulting practice on
PIC-based applications since becoming an Authorized Consultant for Microchip
Technologies in 1998. He is also a
Certified HiTech C Consultant and former Consulting Editor for Electronic Design
magazine. (Contact: 973-584-0329, j.boyd
“AT” ieee.org).
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, May 24, 2007.
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 & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters:
Global
Stability Analysis and Stabilization of Power Amplifiers
On
April 25, 2007, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, Circuits and Systems
Chapters together with MTT/S/AP-S and the New Jersey Institute of Technology
will host a talk on “Global Stability Analysis and Stabilization of Power
Amplifiers." The speaker will be
Professor Almudena Suarez.
About the Talk
Power
amplifiers often exhibit instabilities giving rise to frequency division by two
or oscillations at incommensurate frequencies.
These phenomena, observed from a certain level of input power, cannot be
detected through a small-signal stability analysis of the circuit. Instead, a large-signal stability analysis
must be performed. Other behaviors, like
hysteresis and chaotic solutions, can also be obtained when the input power is
varied. The qualitative changes in the
output-power spectrum are due to bifurcations or qualitative stability changes
in the circuit solution or in the number of solutions when the parameter is
varied. The talk introduces the local
and global stability concepts and the analysis techniques, based on harmonic
balance. The first objective is to allow
a good comprehension of the different phenomena. The second objective is to provide practical
simulation tools for an efficient prediction and elimination of the undesired
behavior. Different approaches for the
local-stability analysis of nonlinear regimes will be presented, with emphasis
on the pole-zero identification. Then,
techniques will be shown for the detection of the most common types of
bifurcations in power amplifiers. The
final goal will be the stabilization of the circuit and the design corrections
in order to suppress the undesired phenomena will also be presented.
For
illustration, the simulation tools will be applied to two different switching
amplifiers developed at California Institute of Technology. These amplifiers have remarkably high
efficiency, but in intermediate input-power range they exhibited different
undesired phenomena. The first amplifier
is a Class-E/F amplifier, which showed oscillations, hysteresis and chaos. The second amplifier is a Class-E amplifier,
which showed jumps in the power transfer curve and sideband noise
amplification. After the application of
the different techniques, the two amplifiers were globally stabilized for all
the expected operating values of the amplifier bias voltage and input
power. This was achieved with negligible
degradation of the amplifier performance, in terms of output power and drain
efficiency. The stable behavior obtained
in simulation was experimentally confirmed.
About the Speaker
Almudena Suarez is a
Professor at the University of Cantabria Communications Engineering Department
and is a MTT-S Distinguished Lecturer.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Wednesday, April 25,
2007. 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), Har Dayal (973) 633-4618 (BAE Systems),
or Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (dmisra “AT” njit.edu).
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NJ/NY/LI
EMBS Chapters:
The
Toxins & Infections Connection
On
Wednesday
April 18, 2007,
the North
Jersey/New
York/Long
Island
Chapters of the EMBS (Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society) will present
a lecture on “The Toxins & Infections Connection”, part of the “Conquering
Anxiety, Depression, & Fatigue Without Drugs“ series. The speaker will be Professor Joel H. Levitt.
About the Talk
Mercury,
lead, copper, and Candida type yeast can have serious physical and mental
consequences. What’s the truth about
dental amalgam? What is the latest
research on Aluminum and Alzheimers?
About the
Speaker
Professor Levitt holds four
degrees from Columbia University and has been a member of
the faculty of Pratt Institute for over 25 years. He is the Chairman of our local EMBS
chapter.(The New York, Long Island, North Jersey Chapter of
the Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society of the IEEE). He has taught Electrical Engineering,
Physics, and Computer Programming (BASIC, FORTRAN, C, C++, JAVA at Pratt. He is the author of "Small Signal
Analysis- By Computer, By Inspection" Haywood Press 1983, which may have
been the first electronics text to fully integrate a presentation of
electronics fundamentals with an introduction to computer programming. He is also the director of the Anxiety &
Hypoglycemia Relief Institute (www.tranquil.info).
He has lectured at Rockefeller University and elsewhere for EMBS on
topics including
·
“Anxiety and Sugar Metabolism - What's the Connection?” Dec. 23, 2003
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"Going from C++ to Java" Jan. 25, 2001
·
"Going from C to C++" Nov. 30, 2000
·
"Introduction to Computer Programming in C" Feb. 15, 1996
·
"Domestic Violence and Sugar Metabolism-What's the
Connection?" May 25, 1995
·
"Fighting Anxiety, Depression, and Fatigue Without Drugs" Jan. 20, 1994
·
"Panic Attacks and Sugar Metabolism-What's the Connection?" Oct. 17 1990
·
“Hypoglycemia & the two Paradoxes” Dec. 26, 2006
Free to IEEE Members: The general public pays admission but arrangements have been made
for FREE ADMISSION for IEEE members and their guests. Members and their guests must be
pre-registered by midnight on April 17. Those who
attended either of the two December 2006 EMBS meetings may also come free &
bring their guests, but they must pre-register with date of Dec. attendance
& current guest names.
Cost for non-IEEE
attendees: This is a joint meeting
between EMBS (non-profit, meetings usually free) and a for-profit (Anxiety
& Hypoglycmia Relief Institute) organization. Non-IEEE attendees will be charged their
regular fees (not by IEEE write/call for details). Family members of paying attendees always
free, doctors, nurses, teachers always free.
Time: Seating at 7:15 PM, Lecture at 7:30 PM, Wednesday April 18, 2007.
Place: A.R.E. of New York, 241 West 30th Street between 7th & 8th Aves.,
Manhattan. Use security code #102 to enter.
Information/Reservations: Professor Joel H. Levitt (jlevitt “AT”
pratt.edu), (212) 479-7805.
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NJ LEOS Chapter:
Electronic
Conducting States in Nano- and Mesoscale Molecular Devices
On
April
12, 2007,
the IEEE NJ Lasers And Electro-Optics Chapter together with the Electronic Imaging Center
at NJIT will host a talk on “Electronic Conducting States in Nano- and
Mesoscale Molecular Devices." The
speaker will be Professor Nikolai Zhitenev.
About the Talk
Organic
materials can offer new electronic functionality not available in the inorganic
devices. However, the integration of
organics within nanoscale electronic circuitry poses new challenges for
material physics, chemistry and nanofabrication. I will discuss different approaches to
engineer useful electronic properties in small molecular devices. In the first case, the electronic
functionality is to be provided by the backbones of short molecules. We have developed a set of fabrication and
characterization techniques allowing us to build devices with self-assembled
monolayers from nearly single-molecule size up to ~300 nm on a side. In the second approach, we build devices with
monolayers of macromolecules. The
electronic properties are determined by the composition, the chemical
conversions and electric-field-induced chemical reactions of the side groups.
About the Speaker
Nikolai Zhitenev received
the MSc degree in physics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, and the PhD degree in
condensed matter physics from the Institute of Solid State Physics, Russia, in 1991. From 1993-1995, he visited at the Max-Planck
Institute for Solid State Physics, Stuttgart, Germany as Alexander von Humboldt
research fellow. From 1995-1998, he worked
at MIT, Cambridge, MA. Since 1998, he has been at Bell Labs. His research is centered on electronic
properties of novel materials in nanoscale devices.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 5:00 PM, Thursday, April 12, 2007. Free pizza will be available starting at 4:45 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of
Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu.
Information: Professor H. Grebel, (973) 596-3538, grebel
“AT” njit.edu.
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NJ MTT-S/AP-S Chapter:
An
Overview of Adaptive Antenna
On
April
18, 2007,
the IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S will host a talk on Adaptive Antenna. The speaker will be Raymond Lackey.
About the Talk
Antenna
is an essential part of any Communication and RADAR system. A short tutorial on how adaptive systems
space time, frequency and polarization work and what considerations are to be
taken in their design and implementation.
Their impact will be evaluated in the present uses and the directions
will also be presented for the future systems.
About the
Speaker
Ray Lackey is presently
working at BAE Systems in Green Lawn, NY in the Antenna systems, Identification
and Surveillance Department. He has over
30 years of experience in the modeling, design of adaptive systems antennas and
other related microwave systems. He has
published many papers and has received many patents on antenna and related
systems.
All Welcome!
You
do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 6:00 PM, Thursday, April 12, 2007. Free buffet dinner will be available starting
at 5:30 PM.
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 PACE & GOLD
Chapters:
Engineers Meet: Contract Engineering, aka job shopping - An
Alternate Form of Employment
On
Wednesday,
April 11, 2007,
the North Jersey Section Professional Activities Committee and Graduates of the
Last Decade will meet to discuss contracting engineering and the job
market. Bob Glynn and Paul Lorenzen will
be our guest speakers from a local contract firm.
They
will present their views about contract work and the job market, and be
available to answer questions from the audience. An informative article about Contract
Engineering can be found at http://www.aea.org/pdf/Contract_Engineering_07.pdf.
About
the Meeting
One
of our most successful meetings is being repeated. This meeting will bring you face to face with
a representative from one of the local contract firms. Attendees will have an opportunity to discuss
contract engineering, the relationship between the contract firm, client
company and the contract engineer.
Topics
include: the current state of the employment market for engineers, resource
tools for advertising, your availability, dealing with job shops - do's and
don'ts. Networking - it is a contact
sport, accepting positions far from home.
Why this is something everyone should consider. How sending jobs offshore and importing
foreign workers under the H-1B and L1 legislation have affected the business.
This
meeting is NOT a job fair. Resumes can
be e-mailed at a later date, but will not be necessary for the meeting.
You
are encouraged to attend and bring your spouse and associates.
This
is especially of interest to students, recent graduates and those looking to
increase job opportunities.
About
the Speakers
Bob
Glynn and Paul Lorenzen of HEPCO will be our guest speakers. They are involved in all aspects of the
Company with particular focus on client marketing.
HEPCO
is a thirty-one year old company, headquartered in Rutherford,
New
Jersey
and currently serving clients in twenty-two states, with the balance of their
work being done in the Connecticut
to Virginia
area. Their strategic hiring focus is
across the entire spectrum of the engineering disciplines. This includes the major disciplines such as
civil, electrical, environmental, and mechanical as well as subsets of these
disciplines such as administrators, estimators, designers, facilities,
inspectors, planners, reliability, safety, schedulers, stress analysts, and
structural engineers. HEPCO provides
their clients with both direct hires and consultants, who will work on a
specific client project as HEPCO employees until that project is completed
All
Welcome!
Members
and students from other professional societies and engineering disciplines are
always welcome. We now include members
from IEEE, ASME and AEA. For more
information about these groups see:
www.aea.org
www.ieeeusa.org
http://web.njit.edu/~ieeenj/
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/1/
Time: 6:30
to 9:00 PM, Wednesday,
April 11, 2007. Refreshments will be served.
Place: Clifton
Memorial Library, 292
Piaget Ave,
Clifton,
NJ,
(973) 772-5500.
Information: Paul
Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-0803
(rftax “AT” verizon.net).
CARE is the
Congressional Advocacy Recruitment Effort. CARE is a
voluntary network of IEEE members who are interested in public policy. To help go to www.ieeeusa.org/policy/care/
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NJ SMC
Society:
An
Integrated Platform for an Adaptive Workflow System: Combining Knowledge-Based and Data-Driven
Approaches
On
Tuesday,
April 10, 2007,
the NJ Systems, Man & Cybernetics (SMC) Chapter will be hosting a seminar at
NJIT on the topic noted above. Dr. Tong
Sun, a Principal Scientist at Xerox Innovation Group, will be the presenter.
About
the Talk
Today’s
business processes (or workflows) are characterized by global, dynamic,
uncertain and error-prone environments. In order to compete in such contexts,
enterprises need to effectively stay adaptable to environmental and internal
changes, constantly reconsider and optimize business processes, and rapidly
develop new services and products to support evolving business. Domain knowledge modeling provides an
invaluable means to capture and represent the business conditions from prior
experiences and inherent expertise.
However, the knowledge-based approaches are dependent on very
time-consuming knowledge acquisition and modeling processes, and maintaining
the knowledge model itself to keep up with the rapid changing environment is
very challenging. On the other hand,
data driven approaches automatically acquire new knowledge patterns from
historical log data through data mining and machine learning techniques. Such automatically derived knowledge then can
be used to refine and augment the domain knowledge, to intelligently enable
workflow automation, and to improve the quality and efficiency of the
process. But most of the existing
data-driven approaches do not take any “legacy” (pre-existing) domain knowledge
into account, which inherently reduce their efficiency in discovering
meaningful knowledge. Therefore, the
integration of domain knowledge and data-driven approaches not only leverages
the strength of each methodology, but also enables an enterprise to adapt to
changing conditions throughout the entire workflow lifecycle: workflow
modeling, analysis, deployment, automation, and transformation. In this talk, Dr. Sun will discuss the
research work in developing such an integrated platform for an adaptive
workflow system that supports Xerox pre-sale/post-sale services, workflow
solutions, and products in digital production printing environment.
About
the Speaker
Dr.
Tong Sun is a Principal Scientist of Document Workflows & Services Lab at
Xerox Innovation Group, Webster,
New
York. Since joining Xerox in 1995, she has not only
worked on innovative research and advanced prototype development, but also
successfully transferred several research technologies into Xerox
products. Her research interests include
semantic web technology, ontology modeling, operational intelligence, workflow
modeling and management, machine learning, and data mining. She has published 16 scientific papers in
prestigious conferences and journals and has 10 US
patents pending. She has also served as
Industry Track Chair, Special Session Chair, Guest Journal Editor, and Program
Committee Member in various conferences.
She holds a Bachelor and Master degree in Electrical Engineering from
Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China,
as well as a PhD in Computer Engineering from the University
of Rhode
Island.
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 10, 2007.
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center
(Intersection between Warren
& Summit Streets),
Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/University/Directions.html.
Information/RSVP: Dr.
Mike Liechenstein, (973) 471-0721, (m.liechenstein “AT” ieee.org). Please RSVP and check the electronic
newsletter for any changes.
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Spring 2007 Region 1 GOLD Conference April 27-29
at FDU-Teaneck, NJ
Attention
all members, the upcoming regional student paper conference this year will be
held locally in the North Jersey Section.
It is planned for the weekend of April 27-29 at Fairleigh Dickinson
University in Teaneck, NJ. This year's
Region 1 GOLD conference will be held jointly with the student conference at
the same location.
There
will be parallel programs of activities, introduction to GOLD, GOLD affinity
group leadership training, a variety of seminars on different topics, a career
fair, resume workshops and social events.
The
committee is still seeking corporate sponsors and career fair participants,
booths are still available, see the website below for contact information.
The
details of the program, registration, and pricing for the GOLD conference can
be found online at the Region 1 GOLD website linked from here http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/gold
Don't
miss this opportunity to participate in a Regional event, locally right here in
North
Jersey. Register now!
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