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October 2003 Newsletter
North Jersey Section Activities
NJ MTT/AP and VTS Chapter: New Developments in High Spectral-Efficiency Multiple-Antenna Wireless
IEEE-USA President's Column Jim V. Leonard, P.E., IEEE-USA President
NJ Signal Processing Chapter: Document Image Watermarking and Data Hiding
Consortium for Computing Sciences in College 19th annual conference
NJ Computer Chapter: XML and Business Process Management
Proposed
Slate of Officers for the 2004 IEEE North Jersey Section
NJ Section PACE: Engineers Meet: Current Activities: NJ Legislative Action, Seminar Reviews
NJ Consultants' Network: The Art of Cold-Calling - What You Need to Know
NJ Signal Processing Chapter: Secret Key and Steganalysis Capacity Estimation in Digital Data Hiding
500,000
US IT Jobs Projected to Move Overseas by Year-end 2004; IEEE-USA
Sees Continued Loss in US Economic Competitiveness, National Security
NJ PES/IAS: Power Systems Grounding Technical Seminar
Registration: Power Systems Ground Technical Seminar
10/24/2003
IEEE North Jersey Section Seminar - OBJECT-ORIENTED C#
DESIGN & PROGRAMMING
REGISTRATION: OBJECT-ORIENTED C# DESIGN & PROGRAMMING
October
2003
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IEEE North
October 2003
Oct.
1 - "NJ Section Executive Committee Meeting" -
Oct. 2 - "2003 MTT/AP Symposium and Mini-Show" -
MTT-S/AP-S Chapter,
Oct. 7 - "The Evolution of Radar Transmit-Receive (T-R)
Modules as Related to Defense & Commercial Applications" - EDS,
C&S, MTT/AP Chapters,
Oct.
7 - "Tutorial/Seminar: Perceptual
Coding of Audio & The Science of Audio in 2003" - NJ Signal Processing
Chapter, Tutorial
Oct.
8 - "Engineers Meet: Current Activities: NJ Legislative Action, Seminar
Reviews" - NJ PACE,
Oct. 14 - "Remote Supervisory Control of the Human-in-the-Loop
System by Using Petri Nets and Java" - NJ Control Systems Society.
Oct. 15 - "
Oct. 16 - "Nanotechnology and Nanofluidics in Biology" - MEMS/Nanotechnology Journal Club at Bell Labs/NJNC, 7:30 PM (NJNC tour at 6:30 PM), Lucent Technologies, 600 Mountain Avenue, Murray Hill, NJ. Register at http://www.njnano.org/about/invite_101603.shtml . For additional information, contact Warren Lai (908) 582-6140 (mailto:warren.lai@lucent.com).
Oct.
17-18 - "Consortium for Computing Sciences in College - Eastern Region -
Nineteenth Annual Conference" -
Oct. 23 - "New Developments in High Spectral-Efficiency
Multiple-Antenna Wireless" - MTT/S/AP-S and VTS Chapters,
Oct. 23 - "The Art of Cold-Calling - What You Need to
Know" - NJ Consultants' Network,
Oct.
23 - "New Developments in High Spectral-Efficiency Multiple-Antenna
Wireless" - NJ VTS Chapter,
Oct. 24 - "Power Systems Grounding Technical Seminar" - Sponsored by the NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, JCP&L, 300 Madison Avenue, Punchbowl Room, Morristown, NJ. Contact Ronald W. Quade at (212) 833-0268 or mailto:RonaldWQuade@eaton.com.
Oct.
27 - "Secret Key and Steganalysis Capacity
Estimation in Digital Data Hiding" - NJ Signal Processing Chapter,
Oct. 29 - "XML and Business Process Management" - NJ Computer Chapter, 7:00 PM, Public Meeting Room, Morris County Library, 30 E. Hanover Ave, Whippany, NJ. Seth Jakel (973) 731-1902, mailto:sgjakel@comcast.net or Vivek Shaiva (908) 229-6125, mailto:vshaiva@computer.org.
Oct. 30 - " Effect of Node Noncooperation
and Mobility on
Upcoming
Meetings
Nov.
4-" Document Image Watermarking and Data Hiding"
- NJ Signal Processing Chapter,
Nov.
5 - "NJ Section Executive Committee Meeting" -
Nov. 18-Jan. 20 - "Object-Oriented C# Design & Programming" - North Jersey Section, Tuesday Evenings, 8 sessions, 6:30-9:00 PM, Wessley Inns & Suites, 265 Route 3 East, Clifton, NJ. Bhanu Chivakula (mailto:b.chivakula@computer.org).
Jan.
5-8 - "2004 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference -
Consumer Networking: Closing the Digital Divide" -
Members
and Non-Members Welcome
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New Developments in High Spectral-Efficiency
Multiple-Antenna Wireless
The IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S and VTS
Chapters will host a talk
About the
Talk
Multiple-antenna wireless - also called MIMO
(multiple-input, multiple output) can provide order-of-magnitude
improvements in throughput with no extra expenditure of power or spectral
bandwidth. MIMO was originally conceived
as a point-to-point scheme where, in a rich scattering environment, the
throughput increases linearly with the minimum of the number of transmit or
receive antennas. Recent theoretical and practical developments in MIMO obviate
the former need for equipping mobiles with multiple-element receive arrays.
Instead a base station that is equipped with a multiple-element transmit array
sends multiple messages, simultaneously and selectively, to multiple autonomous
mobiles, where each mobile has only a single antenna. The scheme realizes the same proportional
throughput improvements that are enjoyed by point-to-point MIMO.
About the
Speaker
Thomas L. Marzetta
received the Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology in 1978. His dissertation
extended the three-way equivalence of autocorrelation sequences, minimum-phase prediction
error filters, and reflection coefficient sequences to the two-dimensional
case. He worked for Schlumberger-Doll
Research from 1978 to 1987 to modernize geophysical signal processing for
petroleum exploration. From 1987 to 1995 he headed a group that improved
automatic target recognition, radar signal processing, and video motion detection at Nichols
Research Corporation under contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense, NASA,
and Schlumberger. Since 1995 he has been with Bell Laboratories (formerly
AT&T, now Lucent Technologies), currently in the Mathematical Sciences
Research Center where he heads the Mathematics of Communications Research
Department. He specializes in multiple
antenna wireless with particular emphasis on techniques for realizing extremely
high throughputs with large numbers of antennas.
Dr. Marzetta is a
member of the Sensor Array and Multichannel Technical
Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He has served as associate
editor for two IEEE journals, and as guest editors for the IEEE Transactions on
Signal Processing Special Issue on Signal Processing Techniques for Space-Time
Coded Transmissions (Oct. 2002), and the
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory Special Issue on Space-Time
Transmission, Reception, Coding and Signal Design (Oct. 2003). He was the
recipient of the 1981 ASSP Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing
Society. He was elected a Fellow of the
IEEE in January 2003.
Time:
Place:
Lucent Technologies,
Information:
Stephen Wilkowski, (973) 386-6487 (swilkowski@lucent.com), Kirit Dixit, (201) 400-2313 (mailto:kdixit@rfsales.com), or Art
Greenberg (973) 386-6673 (mailto:ahg1@lucent.com).
Remote Supervisory Control of the
Human-in-the-Loop System by Using Petri Nets and Java
At the
About the
Talk
For Internet-based remote control systems,
certain human operations may violate desired safety requirements and result in
catastrophic failure. For such human-in-the-loop systems, this work proposes a
systematic approach to developing supervisory agents which guarantee that
remote manual operations meet safety specifications. By applying the mutual
exclusion concept, the Petri net approach is used to model, design, and verify
a supervisory system which prevents human errors. Then, Java technology is
adopted to implement the supervisor as an intelligent agent for on-line
supervision of the remote control system. To demonstrate the feasibility and
practicability of the developed supervisory approach, we apply it to a rapid
thermal processor (RTP) controlled over the Internet.
About the
Speaker
Jin-Shyan Lee
received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering in 1997 from National Taiwan
University of Science and Technology,
Time:
Place:
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Information:
Professor Timothy Chang (973) 596-3519 or mailto:changtn@njit.edu.
Jim V. Leonard, P.E., IEEE-USA President
IEEE-USA, created 30 years ago to promote the
career and public-policy interests of the IEEE's US members, is an
organizational unit of the IEEE. I'd like to highlight some of our professional
activities on behalf of the IEEE's 235,000
Volunteer leaders serving on the IEEE-USA
Board of Directors and committees work closely with IEEE-USA staff to represent
what we feel are the best interests of our
IEEE-USA's position statements are passed by our
Board of Directors and serve as the basis for our lobbying and public-relations
efforts. IEEE-USA also acts as an
adviser to Congress. For example, we led
a technological and legislative briefing on nanotechnology for congressional
staffers on Capitol Hill in June. Our
volunteers visit
Last year we submitted an amicus curiae brief
before the Supreme Court that served as the basis of its ruling in a landmark
patent rights case. This year we filed
another brief before the high court in support of reverse engineering.
IEEE-USA promotes engineering awareness and
public understanding by actively participating in National Engineers Week each
February. Next year we will spearhead
IEEE's role as lead society, and will increase Future City Competition
participation by sponsoring three additional teams' trips to
In the career-enhancement area, we'll soon
present the findings of our latest salary survey. With our most respondents ever, we believe
the data is the best collected and analyzed.
It serves as the basis of the new IEEE-USA Salary Database. We're also offer online leadership courses
for the first time. For more
information, visit our careers page at http://www.ieeeusa.org/careers/.
As a sign of support for our nation's
military, the IEEE-USA Operating Committee will meet in October in
The depth of IEEE-USA activities cannot be
summarized in this short space, so I recommend you visit our homepage at
http://www.ieeeusa.org/. I also
encourage you to vote in the upcoming IEEE elections. The ballots include some very capable
candidates for IEEE-USA offices of President-Elect and Member-at-Large.
Document Image Watermarking and Data Hiding
On
About the
Talk
Over recent years, a variety of watermarking
and data hiding techniques have been developed for digital gray scale or color
images. These techniques typically
change the gray level values or colors of a selected group of pixels by a small
amount without causing visually noticeable artifacts. Most of these techniques,
however, cannot be directly applied to document images that are binary or
having a very small number of pixel values. Arbitrarily changing pixel values
causes very noticeable artifacts. Hence, a different class of embedding
techniques must be developed. Such techniques would have wide applications as
documents remain as the primary form of written communication in our society,
and they are exchanged and circulated in large volume in our daily operations. Potential applications include copy control
and prevention, ownership assertion, authentication, fingerprinting or traitor
tracing, steganography, media bridging, and smart
documents, to name a few. The variety of
documents include bank checks, financial instruments, legal documents,
passports, driver licenses, birth certificates, digital books, engineering
maps, architectural drawings, road maps, etc.
In this talk, we will first present an
overview of recent developments in document image watermarking and data hiding
techniques. The performance measures of
image quality, data hiding capacity, and robustness to printing, scanning, and
photocopying will be discussed. Secondly,
a boundary-based watermarking and data hiding scheme we developed will be
presented. The boundary-based method can be shown to have good image quality
and high data hiding capacity. An
important application of image watermarking is authentication. We will present
a technique for document image authentication using our boundary-based
method. We will also discuss the use of
boundary-based data hiding technique for covet communications in document
images, and present steganalytic techniques as a
counter measure to catch secret communications among criminals or enemies.
About the
Speaker
Edward K. Wong received his BE degree from
the State University of New York at Stony Brook, his ScM
degree from
Time:
Place:
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Information: Dr. Yun Shi (973)
596-3501 (mailto:shi@njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo
Tan (201) 692-2347 (mailto:tan@mailbox.fdu.edu),
Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (mailto:hman@stevens-tech.edu).
MEMS/Nanotechnology
Journal Club Meeting at
Seminar - "Nanotechnology and Nanofluidics in Biology" and optional NJNC tour
About the
Meeting
Lucent Technologies
"Nanotechnology and Nanofluidics
in Biology"
Dr. Robert H. Austin,
http://feynman.princeton.edu/~austin/
Agenda
Optional pay-your-own dinner (Web reservation
below)
Journal Club Meeting (Web reservation below)
Lucent Technologies
Proposals on improving future meeting format
You are invited to stay and suggest
improvements on future meetings
Registration
Lucent Technologies
http://www.njnano.org/contact/index.shtml
Chen's Restaurant
908-665-1992
http://www.njnano.org/contact/index.shtml
Meeting
Hosts:
This MEMS/Nanotechnology Journal Club is organized by Susanne Arney (Lucent Bell Labs & NJNC), Ronald Besser (Stevens Institute of Technology), Warren Lai (Lucent Bell Labs & NJNC) and William Trimmer (MEMS Journal Club & Belle Mead, Inc.).
For this meeting, send questions to: mailto:warren.lai@lucent.com 908-582-6140
About NJNC:
The
New Jersey Nanotechnology Consortium (NJNC) is an industry-academia-government
consortium founded by Lucent Technologies and the State of
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
attend, but you must register.
Bring your friends.
Time:
Register at http://www.njnano.org/about/invite_101603.shtml
Place:
Lucent Technologies,
http://www.njnano.org/contact/index.shtml
Information:
Dr. Warren Lai (908) 582-6140 (mailto:warren.lai@lucent.com).
Register at http://www.njnano.org/about/invite_101603.shtml
Consortium for
Computing Sciences in College
19th annual conference
The (CCSC) Consortium for Computing Sciences
in College (http://www.ccsc.org)'s East
Region is hosting its 19th annual conference at
In addition to peer reviewed presentations,
speakers include Dianne Martin from GWU on "Using Awareness, Analysis, and
Action to Activate the Ethics Radar," Jeff Popyack
and Nira Herrmann from Drexel on "The Good, the
Bad, and the Ugly: High-Tech Academic
Fraud", Dan
McCracken onhis NSF supported "Human-Computer Interacton in the Classroom", and Ernest McDuffy - Lead NSF CS Program Director on "Funding Opportunities
at the NSF."
The Early Registration deadline is October
3rd. We need you to register and attend
the motivating presentations, sponsor student programming teams and posters,
interact with other participants, act as a session chair, and judge student
posters and the top faculty papers/presentations. Let us know how you can help make the
conference a success.
See http://www.csam.montclair.edu/~CompSci/ccsce2003
for registration, schedule, and other details.
XML and Business Process Management
On
About the
Talk
During the height of the dot-com boom, the
hype was that "XML is going to save the world!" However, this hasn't happened. One problem is that XML is only a language
and, just like the English language, the same meaning can be conveyed in many
different ways. Until each interchange
uses a specific format agreed upon by all participating parties, the
implementation of XML will be difficult.
One way to overcome this difficulty is for organizations to use specific
sets of standards for the implementation of XML in a given business or
industry, an approach that has led to some great successes. Currently, there
are a number of standards in place for using XML in Business Process
Management, and there is the potential for the development of additional
standards.
For companies looking to implement Business
Process Management solutions for their business processes, XML can be used in
three areas: intra-company
communications, inter-company communications, and Business Process
Definition. These three areas have
different maturity levels and considerations involved in using XML, and this
talk will provide in-depth coverage of these areas, their maturity levels with
respect to using XML, and the factors that need to be taken into consideration
when using XML for Business Process Management.
The successful use of XML for Business Process Management is vital to
the business-to-business community, and our speaker will provide coverage of
this and other issues in what will be an enlightening presentation.
About the
Speaker
Arthur J. Hedge III
is President of Castle Ventures. He focuses
on helping companies reduce costs and operate more effectively by improving
their business processes. Mr. Hedge has
over 20 years of consulting expertise, focused on large-scale application
development. He is also a member of the
AIIM Document Management standards committee.
Mr. Hedge is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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, mailto:sgjakel@comcast.net
or Vivek Shaiva (908)
229-6125, mailto:vshaiva@computer.org.
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
Proposed Slate of
Officers for the 2004 IEEE North
Below is the list of proposed officers for the
2004 IEEE North Jersey Section as presented by the IEEE North Jersey Section
Nominating Committee. If a North Jersey Section IEEE
member in good standing would like to run for an office, please contact Keith Saracinello at k.saracinello@ieee.org or (908) 791-4067 for
details.
Chair: Dr. Durga Misra
1st Vice-Chair: Har Dayal
2nd Vice-Chair: Bhanu Chivakula
Treasurer:
Dr. Edward Byrne
Secretary: Dr. Sanghoon Shin
Members-at-Large:
Dr. Nirwan Ansari
Naz Simonelli
Dr. Richard Snyder
Engineers Meet: Current Activities: NJ
Legislative Action, Seminar Reviews
On Wednesday, October 8, the North Jersey Section Professional
Activities Committee will meet to discuss Legislative Action involving the Off-
Shoring of NJ State jobs, Roll Back H-1B Numbers, a Washington
The NJ State Senate and the Assembly will consider
A2425. Our discussion will involve PACE
legislative activities for September.
You do not have to be unemployed to attend. All jobs are being threatened. You are
encouraged to attend and bring your spouse and associates.
About
the Meeting:
This meeting provides an opportunity to meet and discuss
action items relating to the unemployment situation. High on the IEEE-USA list of subjects is
unemployment and the displacement of American citizens by sending jobs offshore
and importing foreign workers under the H-1B and L1 legislation.
This year one IEEE-USA goal is to roll the H-1B number back
to 65,000 from 195,000. And, please do
not confuse this as an "immigration" issue. This is all about money
and wage busting.
Reports: Marcus Muncy will report about a seminar he attended at the
Leadership Institute's Legislative Project Management School Arlington , VA.
Survival in a Competitive Environment: Five Section Members were sent to the Jersey
Coast Section's PACE seminar "Survival in a Competitive
Environment." A critique will be
provided by those attending. This should
help with some interesting information.
Funding was covered by the North Jersey Section.
Our PACE meeting is open to discuss professional
needs. PACE provides the opportunity to
meet, address, discuss and perhaps improve the professional aspects of the
engineering profession. We should take
advantage of the opportunity to have a place and time to meet. Invite your associates to join us. Bring engineers and students from the other
engineering disciplines.
According to IEEE-USA leaders "Employment Assistance
and Career Development are important" and they request your help. More on these projects can be found at http://www.ieeeusa.org
All
Welcome!
Time:
Place:
Information: Paul Ward, (973) 790-1625.
PWard1130@aol.com, Richard F. Tax, (201) 664-6954, rtax@bellatlantic.net.
Tutorial/Seminar: Perceptual Coding of Audio & The Science of Audio in 2003
On October 7, 2003 , the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society
Chapter will host a tutorial on "Perceptual Coding of Audio" along
with a seminar on "The Science of Audio in 2003." The speaker will be Distinguished Lecturer
James D. (JJ) Johnston of Microsoft.
About
the Talk
Perceptual
Coding of Audio, A tutorial
"Perceptual Coding of
Audio - A Tutorial" is a 3 hour tutorial on the methods behind perceptual
audio coding. Perceptual audio coding is the method used in
MP3, MPEG-2 AAC, computer audio distribution, movie audio codecs,
DVD movie audio, and digital audio radio methods to reduce the bit rate of a
PCM audio signal to something that the channel, storage methods, and/or media
can support.
Perceptual audio coding is the use of
knowledge of the destination (the human auditory system) in order to discard
irrelevant parts of a digital audio signal.
Most such coders also support substantial redundancy (source modeling) for
additional coding gain.
The talk will cover basic coding methods,
basics of the human auditory system relevant to coding, perceptual masking
models, rate loops, noiseless compression methods, and stereo and multichannel coding at a tutorial level. The talk will be
in 3 parts, with a break approximately once per hour, followed by a question
and answer session while space is and discussion are available.
The Science
of Audio in 2003, A Seminar
This talk is a low-level talk on the state of
audio capture and reproduction at present.
Some basics of acoustics, the human auditory system, and transmission
and coding methods will be mentioned in order to show where we stand in terms
of audio reproduction, and in what way we may move to improve the audio experience. Multichannel audio,
stereo audio, and the ability of the auditory system to pick up cues from an
acoustic space or the audio reproduction chain will be the main topics covered.
About the
Speaker
James D. Johnston is currently employed at
Microsoft Corporation. He is retired
from AT&T Labs - Research, quartered at
Time: Tutorial
Place:
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Information: Dr. Yun Shi (973)
596-3501 (mailto:shi@njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo
Tan (201) 692-2347 (mailto:tan@mailbox.fdu.edu),
Dr. Hong Man (201) 216-5038 (mailto:hman@stevens-tech.edu).
The Art of Cold-Calling - What You Need to
Know
The October 23rd meeting of the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ will feature Dr. Aron Kain, who will present and discuss "The Art of Cold-Calling-What You Need To Know." Dr. Kain will provide insights and practical how-to's for every consultant's nightmare: trying to win business, without having an "in" with the potential client.
About the
Talk
In building a consulting practice, we all face the daunting task of drumming up business from people and corporations with whom we have had no previous contact. If we come off as salespeople, we don't get past the front door, but if we manage to get past the "gatekeeper," then what do we do? Many fledgling consulting businesses die on the vine because the principals are afraid to tackle this non-trivial task. What to do?
Dr. Kain will provide insight into the cold calling process, expectations of the client as well as what the consultant should be looking for. Some practical examples will be used to illustrate the point.
But: be warned!!! There is no magic bullet-the tools and insights will be provided - the consultant must do the work!
About the
Speaker
Dr. Aron Kain has over 18 years hands-on in-depth experience in numerous engineering disciplines from RF/ Microwave/wireless to superconducting electronics, to MEMS design, to robotics and thin/thick film process development. In the corporate world he has risen from member of technical staff to Director of Engineering as well as Director of Advanced Technology. He started his successful consulting business BHTechnology two years ago and has such esteemed clients as TRW, BAE Systems, Medtronic, and Leviton Voice and Data to name a few. His company, at www.bhtechnologyllc.com, provides engineering design and prototyping services, as well as engineering management and technology due diligence services to the financial industries.
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!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE or of the Consultants' Network to attend. Admission is free.
Time:
Place: MCE/KDI Triangle,
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status, call Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at http://www.TechnologyOnTap.org. To download a map to KDI, go to: http://www.mcekdi-integrated.com/directions.htm.
Secret Key and Steganalysis
Capacity Estimation in Digital Data Hiding
On
About the
Talk
One application of digital data hiding is
covert communications. Here, a secret message is embedded into a host message
using a secret key such that its very existence is concealed. This type of embedding goes by the name of
"steganography." Steganalysis
is the process of discovering the presence of secret messages in digital media.
This talk consists of two parts: (a) a
technique to estimate the secret key used in data embedding and (b) definition
of a new capacity metric that measures the maximum number of secret message
symbols that can be hidden such that discovering its existence is
"hard." The secret key estimation algorithm and its analyses employ
ideas from abrupt jump detection in stochastic processes. When applied to image steganography,
issues such as statistical non-stationarity must be
dealt with. We present few ideas to
circumvent some of these problems. A
software demo will also be given to demonstrate these techniques. Traditional embedding capacity metrics are
information theory based. We first argue
why these metrics are not suitable for steganography
and then provide a new mathematical framework for capacity estimation that
incorporates both stego embedding and steganalysis.
About the
Speaker
Dr. Chandramouli is
currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE at Stevens Institute
of Technology. His research includes low
power wireless networking and security, steganography
and steganalysis, and low power VLSI with support
from the National Science Foundation, Air Force Research Laboratory,
All Welcome!
Time:
Place:
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Information: Dr. Yun Shi (973)
596-3501 (shi@njit.edu), Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2347 (mailto:tan@mailbox.fdu.edu), Dr. Hong Man
(201) 216-5038 (mailto:hman@stevens-tech.edu).
500,000 US IT Jobs Projected
to Move Overseas by Year-end 2004; IEEE-USA
Sees Continued Loss in US Economic
Competitiveness, National Security
WASHINGTON (21 July 2003) - One-half million
jobs, or 10 percent of the US information technology (IT) professionals
currently working in IT services firms, will be displaced in the next 18 months
as their jobs move overseas, according to Gartner, Inc., the Stamford,
Conn.-based research firm. The Gartner
projection, in a 15 July research note by Diane Morello,
would bring total IT job losses to one million, when added to the 500,000 IT
professionals estimated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to have lost their
jobs in the
In addition, Gartner urged business
executives not to "trivialize" the impact of offshore outsourcing on
their businesses and employees, stating that executives should pay attention to
the loss of future talent and intellectual assets, as well as the potential
negative impact of outsourcing on organizational performance.
Commenting on the projection of US IT job
losses, IEEE-USA President-Elect John Steadman said: "In the rush to cut
costs through offshore outsourcing and increased use of guest workers,
companies are undermining the
Dr. Steadman, who will become IEEE-USA's
president in 2004, added: "The emphasis on outsourcing to cut costs may
help boost quarterly earnings, but it is also putting our nation's long-term
economic competitiveness and national security at risk as we give up our
technology edge for short-term profits."
IEEE-USA leaders are also concerned about
increased industry reliance on non-immigrant high-tech guest workers resulting
in more offshore outsourcing.
According to IEEE-USA R&D Policy
Committee chair Ron Hira, "Many high-tech guest
workers are brought here specifically to facilitate offshore outsourcing
arrangements." Dr. Hira added: "Other guest workers are taking the
acquired knowledge of
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The Evolution of Radar Transmit-Receive (T-R)
Modules as Related to Defense & Commercial Applications
On
About the
Talk
During the past several years much effort has
gone in to developing advance Airborne Radar Systems. Solid-state Microwave devices and circuits
have been designed and optimized for active arrays. This effort has been done to improve the
performance and life time reliability of systems. Supporting technology programs have been
established to compliment system programs. This presentation discusses the
accomplishments of these technology programs.
Active phased array antennas utilize
individually packaged Transmit-Receive (T-R) modules which provide both
transmitter and receiver functions on half wavelength centers. Such modules may contain from 2 to 9 individual
GaAs circuits which provides the following functions:
* Transmit amplifier
* Phase Shifter
* Variable attenuator
* T/R switch
* Low noise amplifier
The presentation begins by explaining the
requirements for conventional radar systems and explains the needs/benefits of
active arrays. The airborne fire control radar is highlighted. Technology programs which have funded
industry/university teams are reviewed (MTSSMS, RF-WSI, MIMIC, HDMP,
MAFET). The focus of
each program are addressed. Some
of the areas include:
* CAD for GaAs
power and low noise devices
* Circuit architecture - number of
circuits/chips
* Interconnect technology - wire bonds -
batch techniques (LTCC, MHDI, MEMS)
* Thermal considerations
After discussing the evolution of an X-band
T-R Module with a detailed discussion of the present state of the art, the
emphasis shifts to present research trends and future applications. A number of recent programs have addressed
fabricating multiple T-R modules in a single package are described. The "brick" versus "tile"
configurations are compared. It is pointed out that previous and present
efforts are achieving the tools required for today's wireless and for
millimeter wave applications. Much present industry and university effort is in
the packaging area where MHDI, LTCC, and MEMS are not only being used for
3D-interconnects but also are being used to achieve high performance
components.
About the
Speaker
Larry Whicker obtained BS and MS degrees in
Electrical Engineering at the
From 1964-1970 Dr. Whicker was Manager of
Microwave Physics at the Westinghouse Aerospace Division in
In December 1995 Dr. Whicker retired from
industry. Since then he has been serving
as President of LRW Associates.
Activities include consulting to DOD laboratories, acting as
Administrator for the IEEE - MTT Society's Technical Committees, and assisting
in the organization and management of the IEEE MTT and RFIC Symposiums. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the
Dr. Whicker has over 100 technical
Publications in Ferrite Control Components and in Active Array Technology. He is Editor of two Books on Ferrite Control
Components. In 2000 he contributed a
Chapter to a Book entitled "Analysis and Design Consideration for
Monolithic Circuit Transmit-Receive (T-R) Modules. (Edited by K.C. Gupta and
P.S. Hall).
Dr. Whicker professional activities include
serving as President of the MTT-Society, Chairing the IEEE TAB Periodicals
Committee, IEEE TAB Meetings Committee, and serving as General Chair of the
1980 MTT-Symposium. He was made a Fellow
of the IEEE in 1980. He received the
IEEE Centennial Medal. In 1990 he received the "Aviation Week"
LAURELS Award for RF-Wafer Scale Integration.
He became a Life-Fellow of the IEEE in 2000.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to
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Time:
Place:
New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202,
Information:
Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207 (RS Microwave), Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (mailto:dmisra@njit.edu) or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542
(NJIT).
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Power Systems Grounding Technical Seminar
The PES and IAS Chapters will sponsor a
one-day seminar covering Power Systems Grounding. The session will be held on Friday, October
24th at JCP&L,
About the
Seminar
The instructor will be David Shipp, P.E.,
Product Line Manager and Principal Engineer for Cutler-Hammer Engineering
Services and Systems Division. Dave has over
31 years of experience, is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the Society of
Petroleum Engineers. He has published
several papers for IEEE and EC&M Magazines.
Dave is an active member of several of the IEEE working groups that
publish the IEEE Color Book Series. Dave
has recently published many papers on the topic of electrical submersible pumps
for the Society of Petroleum Engineers as well.
Power System grounding is the most
misunderstood aspect of power system design.
This technical seminar will cover the characteristics of different power
system grounding techniques, industry practices, NEC requirements, Ground Fault
Protection and Detection, special generator grounding requirements, switchgear
ground fault testing requirements, Electronic Grounding, Ground mats, etc.
The key points to be covered are:
1. Characteristics of Different Power System
Grounding Techniques
2. Types of System Grounding
3. NEMA/Arcing Ground Faults
4. NEC Article 250 -- Grounding
5. NEC Article 230-95 -- Ground Fault Protection
6. Performance Testing -- (Switchgear GFP)
7. Electronic Grounding
8. System Ground Fault Protection
Modifications
9. Ground Mats/Bonding
The registration fee for this seminar prior
to October 10th will be $150 (non-IEEE members), $100 (IEEE Members), and $50
(students with valid ID). The fee will be waived for IEEE Life Member Grades
with verification at the seminar.
Registrations after October 10th 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.
Time:
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM, Friday, October 24, 2003.
Place:
JCP&L, 300 Madison Avenue, Punchbowl Room, Morristown, NJ.
Directions:
Route 287 to Route 124 Exit in Morristown. Follow signs toward Madison, JCP&L is
about 1.5 miles on the left side.
Information:
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OBJECT-ORIENTED
C# DESIGN & PROGRAMMING
Tuesday
Evenings,
(11/18,
11/25, 12/2, 12/9, 12/16, 1/6, 1/13, 1/20) from
ABSTRACT
Microsoft
has created .NET as its path to future software development. .NET is a complete
package of capabilities on top of MS Windows. .NET supports Visual basic, C++
and Java, but clearly C# is its language of choice for Windows and Internet
usage, and will be its best-supported language. C# is an Object-Oriented
language of course. It is more powerful
than VB but still allows simple programs to be created in the VB drag-and-drop
tradition. It is simpler than C++ but
still allows efficient programs with more obvious code. This course covers MS Visual .NET development
and uses C# as the O-O programming language to exercise it. The course begins
with the environment and motivation for .NET and the mechanics of the C#
language. It covers the Common Language
Runtime into which all languages compile and use of the Visual .NET development
suite. It then describes C#'s ways to declare classes and use objects of those
classes. C# is described in detail, including the sizeable libraries that
support it, and the ability to create screen images (for console or internet).
Special
facilities for creating Windows, or internet, programs are treated. A
downloadable command line compiler can be used,
however the elegant visual .NET development suite is much more powerful.
Finally several C# software engineering capabilities to enhance development
efficiency and reliability are covered.
Design is covered using UML. The
course has a practical, "how-to-do-it" approach.
TARGET AUDIENCE
This is not
a course in how to program computers. It is intended to extend the capabilities
of those who are already programmers so a familiarity with foundation
programming concepts will be very helpful.
But O-O programming is still programming so the course will cover
concepts, implementation and practical aspects of using C#.
COURSE TOPICS
1. What is
the programming environment today: What
is C#, why did Microsoft create it and where do they expect it to go.
2. C#
classes and object instantiation: Fields and constructor and other methods,
visibility, how classes encapsulate the real world and its characteristics.
3.
Characteristics of code within methods:
names, data types, operators and keywords, expressions and statements,
control mechanisms for branching and looping, how everything is a class, value and
reference types, boxing.
4. Mechanics
of program creation: compilers, emulators, jit,
formatting, layout, debugging, and testing, documentation and comments, O-O
design, UML, development tools.
5. Anatomy
of a console C# program: main, elementary input and output, static members.
6. Inheritance
and derived classes: use of library
classes, some special classes such as string, namespaces and using, other
object interaction.
7. Deeper
into classes and objects: delegates,
properties, overloading methods, Interfaces, for each, containers and enumerators.
8. The
concept of Windows programs: events and handlers, use of the mouse, the large Forms
library, commonality between console and internet, examples of windows
programs.
9.
Engineering issues, garbage collection, unmanaged code, attributes, finalize,
threads, ref and out, file I/O, efficiency and real-time.
10. Other
actors in the game: XML, COM+, SOAP,
Class size
will be limited to a maximum of 25 with a minimum of 15. Early registration is recommended. Phone reservations will NOT be accepted.
Reservations accepted after
Class size
will be limited to a maximum of 25.
Early registration is recommended.
WHERE: Wessley Inns &
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WHEN: 8 Sessions, Tuesdays on
Time:
COST: With textbook or notes: IEEE (&
affiliate) members $325; Non-IEEE members $425.
CONTACT: Bhanu Chivakula - email b.chivakula@computer.org.
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