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Volume 51, Number 9
Publication No:
USPS 580-500
“The IEEE
Newsletter” (North Jersey Section), is published monthly except June and July
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Chairman................................................ Har
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Vice-Chairman-1......................... Bhanu Chivakula
b.chivakula “AT” computer.org (732) 718-3818
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Members-at-Large:
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Dr.
Richard Snyder (r.snyder “AT” ieee.org)
The
March
2005
Mar. 2 –
“NJ
Section Meeting”,
Mar. 8 – “North Jersey Spring 2005 Student
Presentation Contest” - NJ Student Activities Committee, starting with
dinner at
Mar. 9 – “Dielectrics
for Nanoscale CMOS Devices” – EDS/C&S Chapters,
Mar. 9 – “Engineers
Meet: An Exciting Discussion and They
Don’t Want To Leave” - NJ PACE
& GOLD,
Mar. 10 – “Mapping
the Internet and Internets” - NJ Communications Chapter, 6:15 PM
(refreshments 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.
Mar. 15 – “Fault
Detection and Diagnosis in Large Internet Services” - NJ SMC Society,
Mar. 22 – “Architectural Techniques for
Interoperability and Coexistence” - NJ Computer Chapter, 7:00 PM (pre-meeting
buffet at 6:00 PM), Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover
Ave, Whippany, NJ. Seth
Jakel (973) 731-1902, (
Mar. 30 – “Large-Signal Operation of
Microwave AlGaN/GaN Field-Effect Transistors (HFET’s)” – EDS/C&S, &
MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207
(RS Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
Mar. 30 – “Digital Planar
Holography - New Technology for Optical Devices” – EDS & LEOS Chapters,
5:00 PM (buffet at 4:45 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Prof. H. Grebel,
(973) 596-3538, grebel “AT” njit.edu.
Mar. 31 – “Robust Methods for Deformable Shape
Inference and Tracking” - NJ Signal Processing Chapter,
Mar. 31 – “Online
Business Development and Management - If you build it, they will come. BULL!” - NJ Consultants' Network,
Upcoming Meetings
Apr. 6 –
“NJ
Section Meeting”,
Apr. 14 – “Design and Performance of
Microwave and Millimeter-Wave High Efficiency Power Amplifiers” –
EDS/C&S, & MTT-S/AP-S Chapters, 7:00 PM (buffet at 6:15 PM), NJIT, 202
ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard
Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
Apr. 22-23 – “The
Fourteenth Wireless and Optical Communications Conference” -
Apr. 28 – “Performance
through Resource Management” - NJ Consultants' Network,
Apr. 29 & May 20 – “Motor And Motor Controls Seminar” -
NJ IAS/PES Chapters,
May 1 – “NJ Section
Awards Reception” -
May 12 – “Spring
2005 Packaging Symposium” – time TBA, Lucent Technologies, Bell
Laboratories,
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About the Talk
Hal Burch and Bill
Cheswick started the Internet Mapping Project in the summer of 1998 to try to
collect long-term, consistent topological information about the
"center" of the Internet. They
have recorded the output of hundreds of thousands of traceroutes daily, and
have accumulated a database of Internet paths.
In 2000, they spun off
from Bell Labs to a company named Lumeta to explore corporate and government
intranets. In addition to the traceroute
techniques, they use packet spoofing and SNMP queries to detect potential leaks
in perimeter defenses. They now have
more than 70 clients with large intranets, and can provide some summary information
about the state of intranets today.
About the Speaker
Ches has been out and
about in the Internet security field since the late 1980s. He is known for his early work in firewalls
and proxies at Bell Labs, and for the book he has co-authored with Steve
Bellovin and now Avi Rubin.
In summer 2000 Ches
helped spin off the Internet cartography work he did at Bell Labs with Hal
Burch into a startup, Lumeta Corporation, which explores the extent and
perimeter hosts of corporate and government intranets.
He sent his first packets
out on the Internet from a Sun workstation at NJIT, where he managed the
academic computing department in the computer center.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend. Bring your
friends.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
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.
On
About the Talk
Ensuring long useful
lives for hardware and software systems with the inevitable expansions,
upgrades, and previously unconsidered interconnections to other systems is an
architectural function. The results can
be positive, resulting in long, low-cost system life, or negative, leading to a
system with significant limitations.
Often neglected are the
architectural techniques and concepts, both in terms of what behaviors are
specified, and in terms of what areas are left open. The impact of these areas on the longevity of
the system life cycle is often not well appreciated.
We will examine how
successful architectures have achieved longevity without major incompatible
changes. In the end analysis, success
for architecture is measured by its ability to assimilate changes in mission,
implementation, interconnection, and scope without the need for incompatible
changes. Put succinctly, 20 years into
an architecture’s life, success is measured by the ability of systems
implemented on day one to interoperate unchanged with systems implemented on
day 20369.
About the Speaker
Mr. Gezelter is a
Contributing Editor for the Computer Security Handbook. He has worked with the Internet and its
predecessor, the Arpanet, for much of his career. His experience with the Internet, combined
with his extensive experience on security related issues in financial and other
areas, resulted in his invitation to author the Internet Security chapter of
the Third Edition of The Computer Security Handbook (John Wiley and Sons, Fall
1995) and three Internet-related chapters in the Fourth Edition (John Wiley and
Sons, Spring 2002).
He has an extensive
background in the design, implementation, and utilization of computer
systems. His clientele has spanned the
full range of computing activities, from governmental administrative systems to
real-time defense and process-control environments. His work has spanned the industry, from
mainframes to embedded micro-controllers.
Mr. Gezelter’s work has
included the internals and utilization of a wide range of architectures and
platforms, work with a variety of operating systems, and work in
networking. Since 1985, he has presented
over 125 public sessions and seminars at conferences and symposia spanning the
range from one-hour conference presentations to full day seminars. He has been an invited speaker at many
symposia and a featured speaker at meetings sponsored by several professional
societies. He has published over 25
articles in a variety of publications and has served as a Contributing Editor
for several of these.
A sampling of his
presentations can be found at http://www.rlgsc.com/ presentations.html, and a
selection of his recent articles and columns can be found at
http://www.rlgsc.com/publications.html.
Since 1978, Mr. Gezelter
has been in private practice emphasizing operating systems, networks, and
security. His particular focus has been
the use of architectures to improve leverage and efficiency while reducing
complexity and its attendant hazards.
Mr. Gezelter received his
BA and MS degrees in Computer Science from
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
Time:
Place: Public Meeting Room,
Information: Seth Jakel (973) 731
1902,
On
About the Talk
Whoever told you that if
you build a website you'll have a constant traffic flow and you'll generate
sales or leads 24 hours a day, 7 days a week lied!
Internet traffic flow and
sales requires a careful understanding of how to influence prospects and draw
them away from competitive sites, convert your visitors into purchasing clients
and entice them into repeat business.
Generating leads and
calls for consultants are no different from generating product sales. The ways and means are identical because
people are people, buyers are people, clients are people and no matter what
needs to be generated, the generator has a vested interest in producing more of
it.
About the Speaker
Mr. Richard A. Feldman represents Special Graphics,
an agency known for its work in direct mail, consumer product packaging, trade
show display, and publicity. A
consultant in his own right, Mr. Feldman draws on his current success in online
business development for one of his clients, USHC®, an online consumer product
marketer, to illustrate how to harness the power of the pay-per-click world and
use the internet as a powerful leads and sales generator. Additional information can be found by
visiting the agency’s website at www.specialgraphics.com.
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome.
No registration needed. Free
admission.
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.
Time:
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products,
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.
On
About the Talk
Rapid and effective
product development requires the right combination and balance of engineering
talent, project planning and a well thought out development process. However, for organizations that need to share
resources across multiple projects and product lines, implementing a resource
planning and management process can provide surprising benefits in gaining the
competitive edge. This talk will cover
five basic process areas (i.e., requirements management, requirements
development, supplier management, project planning and validation) to improve
product development effectiveness which free up engineering resources and
increase the productivity of the organization.
These five topics will be presented to show why they are important to
both clients and consultants.
About the Speaker
Donald A. Borcherding is the founder of NexSummit
LLC. He has a BSEE from the
All Welcome!
Everyone welcome.
No registration needed. Free admission.
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.
Time:
Place: Aeroflex/KDI-Integrated Products,
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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About the Talk
In this talk Dr. Misra
will discuss the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS)
forecast that complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor device with gate length
of sub-10 nm will be fabricated by 2016.
To achieve this objective both low-k and high-k dielectric materials
will be integrated into standard CMOS technologies. Stringent power requirements in the chips
dictate replacement of silicon dioxide as it has already reached the direct
tunneling regime. At present, advanced
gate stacks with high-k dielectrics, therefore, are of intensive research
interests. Many different high-k
materials have been explored to replace the silicon dioxide as gate
dielectrics. In this talk some of the
on-going research work on charge trapping in high-k dielectrics such as HfO2
and HfSixOy will be reviewed.
About the Speaker
Dr. Durga Misra received
his MS and PhD degrees both in Electrical Engineering from
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
On
About the Talk
Recent developments in
wide bandgap semiconductor devices provide the opportunity to design and fabricate
microwave transistors that demonstrate performance previously available only
from microwave tubes. The most promising
electronic device for RF power applications is an HFET fabricated using the
AlGaN/GaN heterojunction. These devices
can sustain bias voltages significantly in excess of what can be applied to
standard semiconductor devices, and AlGaN/GaN HFET’s have demonstrated RF
output power density on the order of 10-12 W/mm of gate periphery when biased
at Vds=40v, and over 30 W/mm when biased at Vds=120v. The AlGaN/GaN HFET’s should produce useful
performance well into the mm-wave region, and potentially as high as 100
GHz. However, the high voltage operation
of these devices introduces a variety of physical effects that currently limit
RF performance, linearity, and device reliability. Also, an IMPATT-mode operation of these
devices has been discovered under high voltage operation, and this mode has
implications for practical utilization of these devices. This presentation will focus upon the RF
large-signal operation of these devices, with an emphasis upon the physical
effects associated with various charge trapping, surface, and space-charge
phenomena that affect the RF performance of these devices. Engineering approaches to controlling these
performance limiting effects will be discussed.
About the Speaker
Robert J. Trew received
the PhD degree from the
Dr. Trew has seven
patents.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS
Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
On
About the Talk
Device technologies
covered include Si BJT, MESFET, HBT, PHEMT, InP, MHEMT, and Wide Bandgap (SiC,
GaN). Content includes principles of
operation, structures, characteristics, and state of the art benchmarks. Power amplifiers utilizing these device
technologies covering L-band through W-band are described including state of
the art benchmarks.
About the Speaker
James J. Komiak received
a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from
Dr. Komiak is an
Engineering Fellow in the Microwave Electronics Group at BAE Systems. His current activities are in MMIC, module,
and sub-system design for EW, communication, and radar system
applications. Principally known for work
in power, Dr. Komiak has designed over 100 MMICs achieving state of the art
results. Prior to consolidation at
Sanders and the subsequent sale to BAE Systems, Dr. Komiak was with the
Lockheed Martin/Martin Marietta/General Electric Electronics Laboratory.
Dr. Komiak has been
active with MTT-S and the IMS TPC with MTT-5/SC-19 High Power Amplifier
Components. He was with the IEEE GaAs IC
Symposium TPC and ExCom and was Symposium Chairman in 2000. He is also active as an Accreditation Board
for Engineering & Technology IEEE-sponsored University Electrical
Engineering Program Evaluator. He has 65
publications and 6 patents relating to circuit theory, GaAs MMIC devices and
technology, high power amplifiers, solid-state apertures, and RF/microwave
design. Dr. Komiak received the 2001 BAE
Systems Silver Chairman’s Award for Innovation for "Blue Force Locator and
Monitor", the 1993 Martin Marietta Jefferson Cup Award for
"Outstanding Technical Leadership in Development and Demonstration of High
Power and High Efficiency MMIC Amplifiers and T/R Modules for Phased Array
Radar", and his work is represented in the MTT Symposium MMIC Historical
Exhibit as "World's First Octave Band MMIC with Power Output in Excess of
10 Watts (1989)".
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
Information: Dr. Richard Snyder (973)
492-1207 (RS Microwave) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542 (NJIT).
On
About the Talk
Digital Planar Holography
(DPH) has arrived due to a progress in microlithography, planar waveguide
fabrication, and theoretical modeling. Computer
generated holograms can be written by microlithography means on a surface of a
planar waveguide. DPH is a powerful
passive light processor conveniently placed on a chip, and it combines
flexibility of digital holograms with superposition property of volume (thick)
holograms, and the handiness of microlithography mass production. Planar digital hologram can be used to
connect multiple optical devices in lightwave
integrated circuits. If combined with
active elements on the same chip, it may perform both analog and logical
operations. A test vehicle of DPH is a
multiplexer/demultiplexer with discrete dispersion. It was proposed and developed to avoid signal
distortions inherent in multiplexers/demultiplexers
with continuous dispersion. Microphotographs
and parameters of the devices will be demonstrated. The DPH technology is very promising for
manufacturing lightwave integrated circuits as well
as for a number of other applications including material analysis,
ultra-compact spectroscopy devices on a single chip, etc. Key words: digital planar hologram, light
integrated circuit, photonic bandgap quasi-crystal,
planar multiplexer/demultiplexer,
spectrometer-on-chip.
About the Speaker
Vladimir Yankov received his PhD in Physics in 1977 from the Moscow
Institute of Physics and Technology,
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a
member of the IEEE to attend.
Time:
Place: New
Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Information: Prof. H. Grebel,
(973) 596-3538, grebel “AT” njit.edu.
An Exciting Discussion and They Don’t
Want To Leave
On
About the Meeting
Our February PACE meeting with representatives from the American
Engineering Alliance (www.aeaworld.org/) sparked much interest and introduced
the subject of a professional, member-driven organization, uniting engineers of
all disciplines. Representatives from
the American Engineering Alliance will be with us to answer the question “What
can a united organization do for us?”
The consideration of uniting all engineering disciplines in one
professional organization is a subject of paramount importance. Do our members want to get involved and
support such a project?
Our March meeting will continue along these lines and address the
purpose of our meetings, subjects for future meetings, direction of the
committee, objectives, plans, action, membership participation and most
importantly – our involvement.
Things don’t just happen, people make things happen and it is up to us
to take part in the process.
The meeting discussion will be moderated by PACE Chair Richard F. Tax
and Co-Chair Paul Ward.
All
Welcome!
This event is especially of interest to all engineers, students, recent
graduates and those looking for a career and support for their profession.
You are encouraged to attend and invite your associates.
Members and students from all professional societies and engineering
disciplines are welcome.
We now have attendees from IEEE, ASME, NSPE, ASCE and AEA. For information about these groups see:
www.asme.org/sections/northjersey
Time:
Place:
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625 (PWard1130 “AT” aol.com) or Richard F. Tax,
(201) 664-6954 (rtax “AT” bellatlantic.net).
This is the last call for
interested students to partake in the spring 2005 IEEE North Jersey Student
Presentation Contest. The registration
has been open since the beginning of the year and if you have not registered
yet, do it now!
The contest is open to both
graduate and undergraduate students with cash prizes of $100/$75/$50 for
first/second/third place winners in both categories. Check out the student activities website at
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac for links to possible topics, links to
last year's winners and a link to the abstract submission and registration form which MUST be filled out if participating in
the contest.
Time:
Dinner at
Place: FDU,
Room M105,
Information:
On
About the Talk
In this talk, Dr. Zhou will introduce the
work at Siemens Corporate Research in the areas of robust and database-guided
approaches to object/shape inference and tracking, with applications to medical
image analysis and computer aided diagnosis support.
The
current research efforts span the fields of computer vision, pattern
recognition, information retrieval, and machine learning. In particular, Dr. Zhou will discuss in detail
a framework for robust shape inference and tracking, exploiting annotated databases,
heteroscedastic uncertainties or noise from measurement, system dynamics, and a
subspace shape model. The framework is
applied for tracking in echocardiograms where the motion estimation errors are
heteroscedastic in nature, each heart has a distinct shape, and the relative
motions of epicardial and endocardial borders reveal crucial diagnostic
features. The proposed method
significantly outperforms the existing shape-space-constrained tracking
algorithms, with very robust performance even on the most challenging cases.
About the Speaker
Xiang “Sean” Zhou received his PhD degree in
electrical engineering from the
Since
2002, he has been with Siemens Corporate Research in
Dr. Zhou was the recipient of eight
scholarships and awards from
Time: 1:00 PM
(refreshments and pizza available at
Place: New Jersey
Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
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 (
On
About the Talk
While
users only see a website of Internet services, such as Google.com and eBay.com,
the information system behind the scene is a large, dynamic and distributed
system and could consist of thousands of components. Each of these components is already complex
enough, and the dynamic interaction between them introduces another significant
level of complexity. Further, Internet
services are expected to run 24x7x365 and maintain over 99.9% up-time. This complexity, combined with the extreme
up-time requirement, sets up a major system management challenge. Detection and diagnosis of faults in such a
system are formidable tasks. Recently
many laboratories have started research programs to attack the problem of
complexity management, such as IBM's autonomic computing initiative. In this talk, Dr. Jiang will discuss recent
progress in this emerging area and share some results in applying machine
learning in fault detection and diagnosis.
About the Speaker
Dr. Geoff
(Guofei) Jiang is a research staff member of NEC Laboratories America at
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
Time:
7:00 PM (light refreshments at
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT),
Room 202,
Information/RSVP: 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.
The IEEE North Jersey
Section is seeking a Chairperson for the Engineering Management Society. Don't worry-there's not that much to do, and
seasoned help is available, along with some new committee members to assist. Anyone interested is heartily encouraged to
jump in! Chances are, that any
leadership and project planning responsibility you have at work will pale in
comparison to the opportunities that await around IEEE.
If you are interested,
please contact North Jersey Section Chair Har Dayal at har.dayal
“AT” baesystems.com or (973) 633-4618.
The SLTW for spring 2005 was held by the IEEE North
Jersey Section Student Activities Committee on
Early this year, Congress
will begin debating legislation that could profoundly effect American
engineering professionals.
We Need IEEE Members to
Come to
IEEE engineers face an
unprecedented challenge, and an equal opportunity, this year. Done right, pending legislation could
strengthen
Among the many important
issues that Congress will debate this year the most important for engineers
include proposals to:
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Expand the country’s temporary work visa
program. Although it will target
low-skill workers, this proposal could substantially increase the number of
temporary visas available for foreign professionals.
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Partially privatize Social Security and
strengthen the nation’s defined pension system.
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Change the processing of visas international
students need to study in the
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Make it easier for foreign engineers and
scientists to become permanent residents of the
IEEE-USA will be working
aggressively to protect the interests of IEEE members, but we can’t do it
alone. We need help from individual IEEE
members who are concerned about the future of their profession.
On the afternoon of
All IEEE members in
Regions 1 – 6 are encouraged to participate, including students and retired
engineers. No experience is
necessary. All you need is a willingness
to try to make the country better.
IEEE-USA will provide you with background on pending legislation and
tips on holding successful meetings with members of Congress. IEEE-USA held a very successful similar event
last year. Only two of the participants
had ever met a lawmaker before, yet all were able to successful communicate
personal concerns and practical recommendations to their legislators.
More information on the
2005 IEEE-USA Careers Fly-In, including how to register, can be found here:
www.ieeeusa.org/policy/Careerflyin.
Limited support for a few IEEE members from key legislative districts
will also be available.
Questions? Contact Vin O’Neil or Russ Harrison at (202)
785-0017 or e-mail Russ at r.t.harrison “AT” ieee.org.
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.chivakula “AT” computer.org.
Regards,
Bhanu Chivukula
Chair, Education
Committee
Vice Chair, IEEE North
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
Washington (9 February 2005)
-- IEEE-USA filed an amicus curiae brief on 24 January in support of reverse
engineering for interoperability in the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth
Circuit in the case of Blizzard Entertainment v. Internet Gateway (No.
04-3654).
IEEE-USA's
"friend-of-the-court" brief seeks reversal of a September 2004
Federal District Court decision in favor of Blizzard, a computer game
company. The Court basically ruled that
by opening the shrink wrap of a software package, or clicking on a button
during installation, the end user gives up fair use rights, including reverse
engineering, granted under Section 107 of the Copyright Act.
Reverse engineering is a
common and recognized practice, particularly in computer software, and is
extremely important to technological advancement. IEEE-USA defines reverse engineering as the
discovery by engineering techniques of the underlying ideas and principles that
govern how a machine, computer program or other technological device works.
"Ultimately, the
greatest benefits from reverse engineering are reaped by the public at
large," IEEE-USA's brief said.
"The positive exploitation of ideas expressed in copyrighted works
? over the past two decades is readily apparent: advanced, competitive computer
software industries have fueled the explosive and enlightening development of
the Internet as well as many technology-based modern products."
According to IEEE-USA, by
exploiting shrink-wrap and click-wrap agreements, software publishers have
attempted to use state-based contract law to trump fair-use rights granted
under federal law. The organization
believes that such agreements pose a danger to "the nation's intellectual
property system" and will chill innovation.
"A careful balance must
be struck between copyright incentives for authors to create works of
authorship and the right of the public to benefit from technical means to
reproduce and distribute those works," IEEE-USA Intellectual Property
Committee Vice Chair Andrew Greenberg said.
According to IEEE-USA's
brief, a provider of dual-use technology (capable of both infringing and
non-infringing use, such as a VCR or a file-sharing system) should not be
liable for the infringements of users unless the provider has actively induced
the user to infringe.
"File-sharing
technology serves as the basis for the Internet and should be unrestricted to
produce future revolutionary digital products," Greenberg said. "On the other hand, copyright owners
must not be left to the mercy of those who set out to knowingly and
intentionally induce third parties to infringe."
The case in question,
"Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios v. Grokster," involves a lawsuit brought
by entertainment companies against Grokster and StreamCast Networks, two
companies that offer peer-to-peer file-sharing software. The suit claimed that operators of
file-sharing systems should be held responsible when their users copy music,
movies and other protected works without permission.
At issue is whether and when
restrictions can be placed on file-sharing technologies with both
non-infringing and infringing uses.
In August 2004, the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that peer-to-peer networks are not liable for copyright
infringement because, like the VCRs in the 21-year-old Sony Betamax Supreme
Court ruling, they can be used for legitimate "non-infringing"
purposes.
On
Birchwood Manor,
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,
Reservations are required by
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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 20, 2005. Mail reservation request to:
Anne
Giedlinski
Enclosed is __________ for ____ ticket(s) at $35.00 each (make check payable to North Jersey Section IEEE) for:
NAME: ___________________________________________________________________
ADDRESS: _______________________________________________________________
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Yes, please send me directions to the Birchwood Manor
Motor And Motor Controls Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a two-part seminar
covering Motor and Motor Controls. The
sessions will be held on two Fridays, April 29 and May 20 at the
The seminar will cover the design and application,
protection and control of three-phase motors.
Topics
Day
1
Ä Operating conditions, insulation, voltage unbalance
Ä Three phase motor theory
Ä Protection (fuses, breakers, MCP, overloads)
Ä NEMA Premium Efficiency motors
Day
2
Ä Speed control, harmonics, inverter-grade motors
Ä Testing, maintenance and repair
About the Instructor
The instructor will be
Mr. Hyfantis is past President and Chairman of the Board of
Trustees of the Energy Expo Inc. He is
also a charter member and twice past president of the New Jersey Association of
Energy Engineers.
His educational credits are a BS degree in Electrical
Engineering from
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The registration fee for this two-part seminar prior to
April 15th will be $175 for non-IEEE members, $125 for IEEE Members,
$100 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 received after April 15th 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 1.2 CEUs will be offered. Please indicate if desired below..
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Registration:
Motor Seminar
Register via
US mail to: Ronald W. Quade,
PE
Eaton
Electrical
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