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November 2001 Newsletter
North Jersey Section Activities
NJ EMS Chapter: Project Management: High-Impact Techniques for Any Effort
NJ Signal Processing Chapter: 3-D Subband Video Coding Techniques
NJ Signal Processing Chapter: Robustness Issue in Multimedia Watermarking
Professional Skills Development Workshop Call for Participants
NJ MTT/AP and VTS Chapter: Fourth Generation Cellular Systems and Smart Antennas
NJ EDS, C&S Chapters: Micro Devices
NJ EMS Chapter: Project Management for Telecommunications Services
NY Computer & Communications Society Chapters: Seminar: Building A High Volume Scalable Web Site
NJ Consultants' Network: Consultants' Network Planning Meeting & Workshop
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November 2001
Nov. 7-"NJ Section Executive Committee Meeting" - 7:00 PM, ITT, 100 Kingsland Rd, Clifton, NJ. Wayne Owens at (201) 767-3400 ext. 226 or mailto:wowens@crestron.com.
Nov. 8-"Micro Devices" - EDS/C&S Chapters, 7:00 PM, NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Richard Snyder (973) 492-1207, Dr. Durga Misra (973) 596-5739 (mailto:dmisra@njit.edu), or Dr. Edip Niver (973) 596-3542.
Nov. 8-"3G WCDMA Mobile Terminal Chipset Development: Market, Business, and Design" - NJ Communications Chapter, 5:00 PM (refreshments at 4:45 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (mailto:nirwan.ansari@njit.edu). Please check http://www-ec.njit. edu/~ieeenj for the latest updates.
Nov. 14-"3-D Subband Video Coding Techniques"-NJ Signal Processing Chapter, 5:00-6:00 PM (refreshments at 4:45 PM), NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Dr. Yun-Qing Shi (973) 596-3501 or Dr. Alfredo Tan (201) 692-2324 mailto:tan@mailbox.fdu.edu.
Nov. 15-"Project Management for Telecommunications Services"-NJ EMS, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, NJIT, 202 ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Wayne Owens at (201) 767-3400 Ext. 226 or mailto:wowens@crestron.com.
Nov. 15-"Fourth Generation Cellular Systems and Smart Antennas"-MTT/S/AP-S and VTS Chapters, 7:00 PM (refreshments at 6:00 PM), Lucent Technologies, Room wh-4A-323, Whippany, NJ. Stephen Wilkowski, 973-386-6487 (Lucent Technologies), Art Greenberg 973-386-6673, Kirit Dixit, (201) 400-2313 (RF Electronics), Willie Schmidt (973) 492-0371.
Nov. 15-"Seminar: Building A High Volume Scalable Web Site" - NY Computer & Communications Society Chapters, 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM, Consolidated Edison, Management Dining Room (19th Floor), 4 Irving Place, New York, NY. Yuan Yao (mailto:Yuan.Yao@equant.com) or http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/chptrs/nyc/.
Nov. 17-"Professional Skills Development Workshop" - 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM, Stevens Institute of Technology, main auditorium of the Burchard Building, Hoboken, NJ. Pre-registration required at http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac. Amit Patel at mailto:a.j.patel@ieee.org.
Upcoming Meetings
Dec. 5-"Robustness Issue in Multimedia Watermarking" -NJ Signal Processing Chapter, 3:00-4:00 PM (refreshments at 2:45 PM), Stevens Institute of Technology, Edwin A. Stevens Hall (EAS), Room 222, Hoboken, NJ. Professor Hong Man, 201-216-5038, mailto:hman@stevens-tech.edu.
Dec. 6-"Consultants' Network Planning Meeting & Workshop" - NJ Consultants' Network, 7:30 PM, KDI Triangle, 60 S. Jefferson Road, Whippany, NJ. Robert Walker (973) 728-0344 or www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Dec. 7-"Electric Power Cable Seminar" - NJ IAS/PES Chapters, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM, GPU Energy, 300 Madison Ave, Morristown, NJ. R. Vittal Rebbapragada (609) 720-3209 or via e-mail at (mailto:rebbapragada@ieee.org.
Dec. 13-"Project Management: High-Impact Techniques for Any Effort" - NJ EMS, 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Crestron Electronics, Training Room 2, Rockleigh, NJ. Wayne Owens at (201) 767-3400 Ext. 226 or mailto:wowens@crestron.com.
Dec. 20-22-"Fourth International Conference on Information Technology - CIT 2001" - IEEE NJ Section, Gopalpur-on-Sea, India. For more information please contact mailto:skmohapatra@lucent.com or see www.nist.edu/cit2001.
Jan. 27-31-"Power Engineering Society 2002 Winter Meeting" - New York Hilton (6th Avenue at 53rd Street), NY, NY. For more information see http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/power/subpages/meetings-folder/wm2002/wm2002page.html.
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Project Management: High-Impact Techniques for Any Effort
On December 13, 2001, the IEEE North Jersey Section Engineering Management Chapter will host an electronic presentation on "Project Management: High-Impact Techniques for Any Effort" by Cinda Voegtli. The IEEE Electronic Distinguished Lecturers Program prepared this presentation.
About the Talk
The focus of this presentation is on the process of project management. Techniques which lead to successful projects. Methods which have failed. How is a marketing concept transformed into a finished product? What steps a long the way will produce a higher probability of success? These questions and more will be addressed.
About the Speaker
Cinda Voegtli, BSEE, is President and CEO of ProjectConnections.com, a web-based service providing online resources and support for project managers worldwide. She has 20 years experience in hardware and software development, engineering and project management, and product development process improvement. Her experience spans a wide variety of industries such as data and telecommunications systems, medical devices, robotics and computer systems, software and information systems, and virtual reality and game products.
Cinda has held director-level and senior management positions at high-technology companies in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Silicon Valley. She has managed projects in start-up, high-growth, and established large corporate environments. Since 1992 she has provided corporate high-technology clients with product development and project management expertise, led related workshops in the US and abroad, and presented at project and engineering management conferences.
Cinda served as President of the IEEE Engineering Management Society for two years and as Chairman of the Silicon Valley EMS chapter for two years, and also held the positions of EMS Chapter Coordinator, VP Member Relations, and Executive VP. She served as guest editor of the winter '96 and winter '99 issues of IEEE Engineering Management Review focused on project management. She writes the Project Tips column in Today's Engineer magazine, published by IEEE-USA.
Her other IEEE responsibilities include leader of the IEEE Leadership Development Program working group, and member of the editorial board of THE INSTITUTE. She previously served on the IEEE Electronic Services Steering Committee and the Section/Chapter Support Committee.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend. Bring your friends.
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Thursday, December 13, 2001.
Place: Crestron Electronics, Training Room 2, Rockleigh, NJ. Directions are available at
http://www.crestron.com/ contact/directions.html
Information: Wayne Owens, (201) 767-3400 x226 (mailto:wowens@ieee.org).
3-D Subband Video Coding Techniques
On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society Chapter will host a presentation on "3-D Subband Video Coding Techniques." The speaker will be Professor Hong Man.
About the Talk
Subband (or wavelet) coding technology has been widely adopted in still image compression standards and commercial software products. The advantages of subband coding over conventional discrete cosine transform (DCT) based coding techniques in image compression have been well recognized. However this type of technique has not been able to enjoy a similar success in video coding applications. Several remarkable subband video coding algorithms have been proposed during the last decade, yet they still haven't attracted enough attention. In this talk, we intend to make an argument that subband video coding is in deed a viable approach in many applications. We will first review some of the existing subband video coding techniques, including both 2-D and 3-D approaches. We will then introduce various subband implementations which can be based on DCT, lapped transforms (LT) as well as wavelet filter banks. Following these we will present some latest developments in 3-D subband video coding. The compression performance, computation efficiency, and channel error resilience of our new coding techniques will be examined.
About the Speaker
Hong Man is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology. He received his BS degree from Soochow University (China) in 1988, the MSEE degree from Gonzaga University in 1994, and the PhD degree from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999, all in Electrical Engineering. He had worked as a research assistant in the Center for Signal and Image Processing at Georgia Tech. His research interests include image and video compression, source/channel/ network coding, multi-media communications and networking, subband/wavelet data transformation, image analysis.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be an IEEE member to attend. Light refreshments will be served at 4:45 PM.
Time: 5:00 - 6:00 PM, Wednesday, November 14, 2001.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center,
Newark, NJ. Directions available at www.njit.edu
Information: Dr. Yun-Qing Shi, (973) 596-3501, mailto:shi@njit.edu
(NJIT) or Dr. Alfredo Tan, (201) 692-2347, mailto:tan@mailbox.fdu.edu
(Fairleigh Dickinson University).
On Wednesday, December 5, 2001, the IEEE North Jersey Section Signal Processing Society Chapter will host a presentation on "Robustness Issue in Multimedia Watermarking." The speaker will be Dr. Yun Q. Shi of the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
About the Talk
Information hiding in multimedia has drawn extensive attention recently because of its potential wide applications ranging from copyright protection to anonymous communications. One of challenges encountered is the robustness of embedded data.
In the first part of the talk, we present a transform-domain-based data hiding algorithm. It embeds data in the DC and low-frequency AC DCT coefficients, or the DWT coefficients in the LL and other subbands according to their visual significance. We model information hiding as a digital communication problem. We study the image data hiding capacity and apply some techniques developed in the communication theory to data hiding such as error correction coding (BCH channel code vs. repetition code), soft-decision vs. hard-decision decoding, and a novel 2-D interleaving technique. With the proposed algorithm, we hide a string of 32 characters (equivalent to 192 information bits, excluding redundant bits used in error correction coding) in a gray image of 256x256x8 bits. It has been demonstrated that the hidden information is perceptually transparent (44 dB in PSNR). The algorithm can successfully resist common signal processing procedures. With respect to the StirMark testing functions, it is shown that our approach can recover the embedded characters with no error under the jitter attack, aspect ratio variation, scaling change, small angle rotation, small amount cropping, and JPEG compression with quality factor as low as 10. But as a transform-domain-based technique, it fails in large angle rotation and the randomisation-and-bending attack.
The second part of the talk focuses on the robustness of hidden information against geometric distortion. Several newly developed major approaches are introduced and commented. Future research is discussed.
About the Speaker
Dr. Yun Qing Shi obtained his BS, MS degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, and his MS. and Ph.D. degree from University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, respectively. He joined ECE, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ in 1987. He has been the Chairman of the Signal Processing Chapter of IEEE North Jersey Section since 1996, an editorial board member of International Journal of Image and Graphics since 1999, a member of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society's Technical Committee of Multimedia Systems and Applications as well as Technical Committee of Visual Signal Processing and Communications since 2001. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing from 1994 to 1996, a guest editor of a special issue on Image Sequence Processing for International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology (published in 1998), one of the contributing authors in the field of Signal and Image Processing for the CRC Press Comprehensive Dictionary of Electrical Engineering (published in 1998). He is an author/co-author of 100 journal and conference proceeding papers, and a co-author of a book on Image and Video Compression for Multimedia Engineering (published in 1999). He was a senior fellow in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore from 1998-1999.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be an IEEE member to attend. Light refreshments will be served at 2:45 PM.
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 PM, Wednesday, November 14, 2001.
Place: Stevens Institute of Technology, Edwin A. Stevens Hall (EAS), Room
222, Hoboken, NJ. School map:
http://www.stevens-tech.edu/eci/about/map.html.
Directions: http://www.stevens-tech.edu/tours/directions.html.
Information: Professor Hong Man, 201-216-5038, mailto:hman@stevens-tech.edu.
This notice is to inform all interested students/GOLD of the upcoming Professional Skills Development Workshop. This annual workshop will be held on Saturday, November 17th, 2001 at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ in the Burchard Auditorium from 9:30AM to about 4:00PM.
If you don't already know, this workshop is to provide students an opportunity to get professional skills education that is not available in an academic environment. Comparable to last year's workshop, the agenda will include topics emphasizing softer skills that engineers need to succeed in t oday's working world. Previous topics included career planning and management, overcoming fears, and public communication skills.
The Fall '01 program will include new professional topics and new speakers from industry/academia. This year's topics include:
* "Life Management Skills for Success"
* "The Basics of Monte Carlo Simulation: A Tutorial"
* "Employment: What to Do When the Pink Slip Hits"
* "Diversity, Culture, and Technical Project Management"
* "21st Century Job Search: Preparing to Enter the Global IT Workforce"
Remember, this workshop is open to all interested engineering students and GOLD members that want to learn such professional skills and have an edge before they go to work or at their current jobs. Invite your fellow engineering friends and spread the word.
So what do you have to do? PRE-REGISTER! Attendance to the event is completely FREE. You MUST pre-register to reserve a seat at the event, to reserve a copy of the FREE workshop proceedings (this is a copy of all the speaker's presentations and related materials) and to reserve a seat for a FREE lunch. If you do NOT pre-register we can not guarantee any of the above. The registration form can be found on the North Jersey IEEE Section SAC website:
http://ewh.ieee.org/r1/north_jersey/sac
Also, directions, agenda, location, maps, speaker biography and detailed abstracts can be found there or email the organizer Amit Patel mailto:a.j.patel@ieee.org for more information or to join the SAC mailing list.
The IEEE NJ Section MTT/S/AP-S and VTS Chapters will host a talk November 15, 2001 on "Fourth Generation Cellular Systems and Smart Antennas". The speaker will be Dr. Jack H. Winters.
About the Talk
In this talk we discuss the evolution to high-speed data mobile wireless systems, with data rates in excess of 10 Mbps. We describe the extension of wireless local area networks using 802.11b and 802.11a, and cellular systems (WCDMA), to provide high-speed ubiquitous access. Smart antennas are then described and shown as a key technology to provide the needed enhancements of range extension, interference suppression, and capacity increase.
About the Speaker
Dr. Jack H. Winters is Division Manager of the Wireless Systems Research Department at AT&T Labs Research. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Communications and the Vehicular Technology Societies, Area Editor for Transmission Systems for the IEEE Transactions on Communications, Technical Program Chair for the Fall 2001 Vehicular Technology Conference, and New Jersey Inventor of the Year for 2001. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio State University in 1981, and has been at AT&T in the research area since then. His research interests include signal processing techniques, such as smart antennas, for increasing the capacity and performance of wireless local area networks and cellular systems.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be an IEEE member to attend.
Pre-Register!
Pre-registration is strongly suggested. Please email swilkowski@lucent.com or kdixit@rfsales.com with full name (first and last), affiliation, and citizenship so that a guest badge is ready.
Time: :00 PM, Thursday, November 15, 2001. Free dinner will be available at 6:00 PM.
Place: Lucent Technologies, Room wh-4A-323, Whippany, NJ.
Information: Stephen Wilkowski (973) 386-6487 (Lucent Technologies), Art Greenberg (973) 386-6673, Kirit Dixit, (201) 400-2313 (RF Electronics), Willie Schmidt (973) 492-0371.
On November 8th, the IEEE North Jersey Chapter of the Communications Society along with NJIT will host a presentation on "3G WCDMA Mobile Terminal Chipset Development: Market, Business, and Design". The speaker will be Dr. Robert C. Qiu.
About the Talk
On October 1, 2001 NTT DoCoMo rolled out the first 3G WCDMA commercial services in Japan. These phones provide packet communication with a maximum downlink 384 kbps and 64 kbps data communications services. M-stage video and M-stage music distribution services will be rolled out in Spring 2002. DoCoMo forecasts 150,000 3G phones in the first year to next March and expects six millions subscribers by March 2004. Soon Europe and China will follow. China is going to have 3G trials starting in the end of 2001. WCDMA phones are expected to account for 80% of 3G phones in the global market.
There are a lot of challenges in front of the world. Thomas Edison famously remarked that "invention is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration". For third-generation wireless technology known as 3G, much of the needed inspiration is there. But many engineers will have to do a serious amount of sweating before data start zipping through the air at high speeds for mobile phone users around the globe. This was the case for IS-95. One of the big challenges for 3G WCDMA services is the availability of mobile terminals and especially chipsets. This talk will present the related topics like 3G market, business, and chipset development of 3G WCDMA mobile terminals. Critical issues like power consumption will be highlighted. The style of this presentation will be suitable for professionals to understand the underlying 3G issues and for technical community to understand the technical challenges in the engineering design. Design of 3G chipsets is far from perfect. Sharing this knowledge is the primary goal of the talk.
About the Speaker
Dr. Robert C. Qiu is currently the founder, Chief Scientist and President, Wiscom Technologies Inc. (www.wiscomtech. com), Clark, New Jersey, USA. From 5/2000-1/2001, Dr. Qiu was Founder-CEO & President. He holds 15+ US patents pending in WCDMA, and authors 35+ technical papers, 20+ internal technical memorandums, and 15 paper contributions to ITU 3GPP standard body. He delivered 5 keynote speeches in technical conferences and developed 4 courses for doctoral students in universities and professionals in Bell Labs. From 1995 to 1997, Dr. Qiu was a research scientist in GTE Laboratories, Waltham, MA. As one of the leading GTE experts, Dr. Qiu was involved in Bell Laboratories' first CDMA trial, in Austin, Texas. From 1997-2000, Dr. Qiu was with the Wireless Technology Laboratory, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, where he was one of the global pioneers in WCDMA, working on ARIB/UMTS/3GPP WCDMA prototype and commercial system development. In 2001 his technical proposal for using Long Range Prediction (LRP) in HSDPA was written into 3GPP final Technical Report (TR) and received support from companies like NTT DoCoMo.
Dr. Qiu is a member of Sigma Xi and IEEE, IEEE Radio Communications Committee. He received his MS from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), and PhD in EE specialized on Wireless Communications from Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NYC. He was an adjunct professor of Polytechnic University.
All Welcome!
You don't have to be an IEEE member to attend. Light refreshments will be served at 4:45 PM.
Time: 5:00 PM, Thursday, November 8, 2001 (refreshments start at 4:45 PM).
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark, NJ. Directions are available at www.njit.edu.
Information:
Dr. Nirwan Ansari (973) 596-3670 (mailto:nirwan.ansari@njit.edu)
Please check http://www-ec.njit.edu/ ~ieeenj for the latest updates.
Topics of interest:
* Introduction to Java Programming (including RMI, Network Programming, Multi-threading etc)
* Advanced Java Programming (JavaBeans, EJB, J2EE etc.)
* XML, HTML, XHTML, DHTML programming and development
* Visual Basic Programming with Access or SQL Server
* Advanced Visual Basic with ASP, COM, DCOM etc.
* Oracle Database Programming
* Database Administration (Oracle, SQL Server)
The Education Committee is open to comments or suggestions. Resumes should be sent to Bhanu Chivakula at mailto:b.chivakula@computer.org. Please contact the undersigned for further information:
* Dr. Fred Chichester, Chair Education Committee, Voice mail (973) 744-3065
Bhanu Chivakula, Co-Chair Education Committee, email: mailto:b.chivakula@computer.org.
On November 8, 2001, the IEEE NJ Section Electron Devices, and Circuits and Systems Chapters together with the New Jersey Institute of Technology will host a talk on "Micro Devices". The speaker will be William Trimmer.
About the Talk
Man has been developing tools and devices on the size scale of his hands for millennia. Cooperative efforts have also made substantially larger mechanical systems such as cranes, ships, and even canals and roads possible. Strangely enough, small scale structures have not historically been put to the same good advantage. Recent tools and fabrication techniques are changing this.
A few of the numerous opportunities include genetic engineering, micro-surgery, drug delivery, the science and engineering of small scale phenomena, pressure sensors, accelerometers, micro valves and fluid controllers, micro actuators, distributed intelligence, communications and many others.
This talk will provide an overview of the history, recent developments, and the potential for the future of the field of micromechanics and MEMS. The capabilities of different technologies and promising applications will be examined. The audience is encouraged to ask questions about their areas of interest.
About the Speaker
William Trimmer is one of the original researchers in the field of micro mechanics. He organized and was Editor of the IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems for six years, and started and was Editor of the Micromechanics Section in the Sensors and Actuators Journal. He organized and co-chaired the first workshop in the international series of Microelectromechanical Systems Workshops, and he published the IEEE book Micromechanics and MEMS. He has co-developed a micro optical fiber switch, a shape memory alloy actuator, an inch worm motor, a genetic engineering tool, and a sacrificial technique for making micro devices.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 PM, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2001. Free buffet will be
starting at 6:00 PM.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/.
Information: Dr. 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).
On November 15, 2001, the IEEE North Jersey Section Engineering Management Chapter will host a presentation on "Project Management for Telecommunications Services" by Dr. Mostafa Hashem Sherif.
About the Talk
The discipline of Project Management has been dealing mostly with industrial projects in construction, aerospace and defense. In the last decade, many different industries including software engineering have applied project management techniques to meet the triple constraints of cost, quality and schedule. However, very few textbooks or courses on project management have addressed the special needs of project managers in service organizations.
The focus of this talk is on telecommunication services. First, we give examples to show how the approach to project management differs in this situation from that of equipment manufacturing or software development. We then show how these differences affect the context in which project management is applied in the areas of scope management, quality management and risk management.
About the Speaker
Mostafa Hashem Sherif is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Laboratories. He received his B.Sc. in Electronics and Communications and M. Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt in 1972 and 1975 respectively, and PhD in Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1980. In 1996, he obtained his Masters of Science in the Management of Technology from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ.
Dr. Sherif is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of Sigma XI, a Certified Project Management from the Project Management Institute, a member of the Awards and Recognition working committee of the AT&T Project Management Council and a member of the evaluation committee for the Commission on Science and Technology, State of New Jersey, reviewing pre-proposals for the R&D Excellence Program. Since 1993, he has been a standards editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine. In 2000, he was appointed to the board of the IEEE Press as the representative of the IEEE Communications Society.
He is a recognized international expert on standards for packetized voice and digital signal processing in transmission equipment. He was a major contributor to the following key ITU recommendations: 1) ADPCM G.726/G.727 which are used in many telecommunications network applications, 2) G.764/G.765 which are the benchmark for voice packetization and compression in telecommunications network equipment, 3) G.511 for testing facsimile processing network equipment and 4) G.720 which is the standard method for testing voice coders with data signals. He has also been the main contributor to Committee T1 reports on voice packetization and echo cancellation. He is currently one of AT&T participants at the ATM Forum. He was awarded the AT&T Labs Standards Award by the President of AT&T Labs in 1998. This year, he was invited as a speaker at the ITU Megacom-2004 symposium in April 2001 to advise the study group 16 on its future work plan.
He is a founding member of the series of conference on International Conference on the Management of Technology sponsored by the International Association for the Management of Technology. He was invited on several occasions by the National Science Foundation to participate in its activities on innovation and technology management. He is also a founding member of the IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications and was the co-general chair of the 2000 Symposium. He has been the guest editor for Speech Communications (June 1993) and the IEEE Communications Magazine (September 1997 and April 2001).
He is the author of the best seller Protocols for Secure Electronic Commerce, CRC Press, 2000, now in its second printing. The French version was published by Eyrolles, France under the title La Monnaie électronique and is co-authored with Professor A. Sehrouchni.
All Welcome!
You do not have to be a member of the IEEE to attend.
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM, Thursday, November 15, 2001.
Place: New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Room 202, ECE Center, Newark,
NJ. Directions are available at http://www.njit.edu/.
Information: Wayne Owens, (201) 767-3400 x226 (mailto:wowens@ieee.org)
Seminar: Building A High Volume Scalable Web Site
On November 15th, the New York Chapter of The IEEE Computer and Communications Society is sponsoring a full-day seminar on "Building A
High Volume Scalable Web Site."
About the Seminar
More and more organizations are taking e-business into their own hands by building and operating their own web server infrastructure. In today's fast moving world, a successful web site can experience explosive traffic growths. The success of a web site can quickly be lost by a system that cannot meet the capacity required to meet their user's traffic volume. Stories of web sites that have failed are in the press almost every week. The ability to scale a high volume (traffic) web site infrastructure is a major requirement to be successful. To help computer and communication's professionals meet this challenge, The New York Chapter of The IEEE Computer and Communications Society is sponsoring a full-day seminar on Building A High Volume Scalable Web Site.
About the Speaker
We have invited leading experts to identify the requirements and solutions that allow a web site to be rapidly scaled to meet the volume growth. Dr. Willy Chiu, IBM Vice-President of Software Division's High Volume Web Sites, will be our keynote speaker. He will discuss the challenges of building and scaling a high volume web site. There will also be speakers from major web site hardware and software infrastructure vendors. At the conclusion of this seminar the attendees will have an understanding of the key technical issues surrounding the building of a High Volume Scalable Web Site.
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM, Thursday, November 15, 2001.
Place: Consolidated Edison, Management Dining Room (19th Floor), 4 Irving Place, New York, NY.
Information: Yuan Yao (mailto:Yuan.Yao@equant.com). For more detailed seminar information, check http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/chptrs/nyc/.
On Thursday, December 6, 2001, the IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ (CNNNJ) will conduct its annual Planning Meeting and Workshop.
About the Meeting
The November/December meeting of the IEEE Consultants' Network is a strategic planning meeting for IEEE Consultants' Network members and consultants who are considering membership in the Consultants' Network.
The main purpose of the meeting will be to discuss ideas and expectations for the various Network functions in the upcoming year and also announce the results of the annual election of officers.
The major functions performed by the IEEE Consultants' Network that will be discussed are:
* Monthly General Meetings - Suggested feature topics will be discussed.
* Member Networking -Member presentations and alternate general meeting formats that improve networking.
* Group Marketing & Image Building - CNNNJ Website, Trifold and postcard mailing, CNNNJ's free consultant referral service, and alternate publicity methods.
Following the workshop session, holiday refreshments and snacks will be served, compliments of the IEEE Consultants' Network.
About the Consultants' Network
The IEEE Consultants' Network of Northern NJ was founded in 1992 to encourage and promote 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. Networking after the meeting is encouraged. There is no charge for admission.
Time: 7:30 PM, Thursday, December 6, 2001.
Place: KDI Triangle, 60 S. Jefferson Road, Whippany, NJ.
Information: For directions and up-to-date meeting status, call Robert
Walker (973) 728-0344 or visit our website at
www.TechnologyOnTap.org.
Completed ballots should be mailed to the North Jersey Section Secretary as follows:
Wayne Owens
IEEE North Jersey Section Secretary
554 Gilbert Ave
Pearl River, NY 10965-3320
The ballot MUST be filled out completely with members name, membership number, and signature. The ballots are invalid without this information. Xerox copies of the ballot are acceptable as long as they are filled out completely. Ballots received after November 30, 2001, will not be counted.
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Chairperson: (choose one)
___ Nirwan Ansari
___ (write-in)__________________________
Vice Chairman-1: (choose one)
___ Rodney Cole
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Vice Chairman-2: (choose one)
___ Milton Korn
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Treasurer: (choose one)
___ Durga Misra
___ (write-in)__________________________
Secretary: (choose one)
___ Wayne Owens
___ (write-in)__________________________
Members-At-Large: (choose three)
___ Bhanu Chivakula
___ Naz Simonelli
___ Richard Snyder
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Member Name__________________ Member No. ______________
Signature _________________________ Date ______________
A One-Day IEEE Seminar
Presented by the North Jersey Section IAS and PES Chapters
December 7, 2001
9:00 AM to 3:00 PM
The PES & IAS Chapters will sponsor a daytime seminar on the design, operations, testing, electric characteristics and failure modes of medium and low voltage electric power cables. Topics to be covered in the session include:
1) Conductor Physical and Electrical Properties - Copper & Aluminum materials
2) Insulation Systems - Low Voltage & High Voltage Cables
3) Cable Shielding - Tapes, Wires & Other Options
4) Jacket Materials
5) Cable Standards & Specifications
6) Cable Characteristics - Resistance, Inductance, Capacitance, Stress
Distributions
7) Ampacity Calculations - Dielectric Loss, Conductor Loss & Shield Loss
The seminar leader is Lawrence Kelly who has an extensive career in the wire and cable industry. His background includes cable manufacturing, research and engineering assignments. He served as Director of Engineering Development at Okonite Cable. He is past Chairman of the IEEE Insulated Conductor Committee (ICC) and a voting member on the National Electric Code (NEC). He has also taught Cable Engineering Courses at UCLA and the University of Wisconsin.
Subject matter covering cable splices & terminations will be presented by Mr. Patrick Lyons. Mr. Lyons graduated with BSEE & MSEE Degrees from Purdue University, majoring in Power Engineering. He has worked in Application Engineering and Product Management at Raychem Corporation, and is currently the Regional Sales Manager for Tyco Electronics Energy Division.
LOCATION:
GPU Energy, 300 Madison Avenue, Morristown NJ. Directions: Route 287 to Route 124 Exit in Morristown. Follow signs toward Madison, GPU is about 1.5 miles on the left side.
COST:
Registration fee for the seminar prior to November 15th is $150 (non-IEEE members), $100 (IEEE Members), and $25 (Students with valid ID).
Registrations received after November 15th must include a late fee of $25.00. The Seminar fee includes lunch and break refreshments.
INFORMATION:
R. V. Rebbapragada, Washington Group, International, 510 Carnegie Center,
Princeton, NJ 08540, phone 609-720-3209, e-mail r.rebbapragada@ieee.org.
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REGISTRATION - Electric Power Cables, December 7, 2001
Reserve your place by mailing a check payable to "IEEE North Jersey
Section" to:
Ken Oexle
11 Deerfield Road
Whippany, NJ 07981
Name____________________________________________________________
Address_________________________________________________________
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Phone______________ Email_____________________________
IEEE #________________ Student @___________________ Non IEEE____
Payment Enclosed $_______________
Add $25 late registration fee after November 15th
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