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Spotlight onFemaleEngineers 15
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Elie Track:Rethinking the Computer
moving beyond present limitations
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De Marca Is 2013President-ElectI E E E F E L L O W J. Roberto Boissonde Marca has been elected IEEE’s
2013 president-elect. He beginsserving as IEEE president on1 January 2014.
De Marca received 23 229 votes.The runner-up, Fellow Tariq S. Dur-rani, garnered 22 194. The results
were made official when the Teller’sCommittee report was accepted by the IEEE Board of Directors at theBoard Series, held in New Brunswick,N.J., on 11 and 12 November.
De Marca has been a faculty member at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro since 1978. Hisleadership positions there includeassociate academic vice president.He served twice as a scientific con-sultant to AT&T Bell Laboratories.
De Marca was scientific directorof the Brazilian National ResearchCouncil and served on the advi-sory committee of Finep, the larg-est Brazilian f unding agency forR&D. De Marca was founding presi-dent of the Brazilian Telecommuni-cations Society and is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciencesand National Academy of Engi-neering. He has received the IEEECommunications Society’s Don-ald W. McLellan Award, its HaroldSobol Award, and the IEEE Commu-nications Society/Korea Informa-
tion and Communications Society Globalization Award.
He has served IEEE in severalcapacities, including vice president,Technical Activ ities, in 2008; presi-dent of the Communications Society in 2000 and 2001; Division III direc-tor in 2004 and 2005; IEEE secretary in 2006; and chair of the Humanitar-ian Technology Challenge Commit-tee from 2008 to 2010. He was alsochair of the Future Directions Com-mittee in 2010 and 2012.
Two Vie for 2014President-ElectT H E I E E E Board of Directorshas nominated IEEE Fellow TarS. Durran i and Senior MemberHoward E. Michel as candidates
for 2014 IEEE president-elect. Thtwo men are set to face off in t hannual election later this year. T
win ner wil l serve as 2015 IEEEpresident. Dur rani ra n for 2013IEEE president-elect and lost toFellow J. Roberto Boisson de Ma
Durrani is a research profes-sor in the electronic a nd elec-trical engineering department athe University of Strathclyde, inGlasgow. He joined the universias a lectu rer in 1976 and headedelectronic and electrical engineing depart ment from 1990 to 19He was deputy principal of the
university f rom 2000 to 2006.He is a Fellow of the United Kdom’s Royal Academy of Engineeing, the Royal Society of Edinburand the Institution of Engineerinand Technology. In 2003 he wasawarded the Order of the BritishEmpire by Queen Elizabeth II “foservices to electronics research ahigher education.”
In 2010 and 2011 Durrani wasvice president, IEEE Educationa Activities, and in 2003 and 2004he was vice chair of technicalactivities for Region 8. He servedpresident of the IEEE EngineerinManagement Society in 2006 an2007 and president of the IEEE Snal Processing Society in 1994 an1995. He was also Region 8 direc
N E W S
De Marca
Durrani
Michel
Historical events provided by the IEEE History Center. IEEE events indicated in red.
March1 1960: The Haloid
Xerox Co. (n ow Xerox Cor p.) shipsits Model 914, the
first commercialphotocopy machine.
2–3egion 10 meeting inChiang Mai, Thailand.
7 1926: The first
ransatlantic
telephone call is placed,between Londonand New York City.
16 1789: Birthdatef eorg Simon
Ohm, the physicist whodiscovered a directproportion betweenthe voltage appliedacross a conductor andthe resultant electriccurrent—a relationship
known a s Ohm’s Law.
24 1959: NobelLaureate and
physicist CharlesH. Townes [top] receivesa patent for the maser, a
precursor to the laser.
Apri 1 1972: Intel
introduces the008, the first 8-bit
microprocessor.
6–7Region5 meetingn Denver.
5–7egion 3 meeting in
Jacksonville, Fla.
19–21Region8 meetingn Madrid.
20–21Region2 meeting inorgantown, W.Va.
26–28Region7 meetingn Toronto.
27 1880: FrancisD. Clarke and
.G. Foster receivea patent for the first
lectric hearing aid.
May 10 1958: Birthdate of
Ellen L.Ochoa ,n electrical engineer
who in 1991 bec ame
the first Hispanicfemale astronaut.
16 1960: TheodoreHarold “Ted”
Maiman demonstratesthe first functioning
laser at HughesResearch Laboratories,in Culver City, Calif.
18 1845: The first
lectromagnetic
telegraph line in France,between Paris andRouen, goes into service.
23 1922: Birthdateof physicist
Esther M. Conwell,the first woman to
receive the IEEE EdisonMedal, in 1997.
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TOP (TOWNES): APPHOTO; LEFT (XEROX): XEROX CORP.; MIDDLE (PATENT): U.S. PATENT ANDTRADEMARK OFFICE;RIGHT (MAIMAN): HUGHES RESEARCH LABORATORIES
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tor of the IEEE CommunicationsSociety from 2009 to 2011.
Michel is an associate professorof electrical a nd computer engi-neering at the University of Mass-
achusetts, in North Dartmouth. Hisresearch interests include artificialneural networks and distr ibuted-intelligence sensor networks. Michelis an embedded-instrumentationand system-architecture consultantto the U.S. Navy.
He retired from the U.S. Air Forcein 1994 as an engineering manager.
During his 18-year Air Force career,he was a pilot and a research engi-neer, helping to launch seven satel-lites and directing launch-base testsinvolving booster, satellite, andrange hardware. He also helpeddevelop engineering processesfor mission-critical Defense
Department computer systems.Michel was also vice president,IEEE Member and Geographic
Activities, in 2011 and 2012, andRegion 1 director in 2008 and 2009.He was the 2010 chair of the IEEEPublic Visibility Committee. He was also on the IEEE-USA Board of Directors in 2008 and 2009.
Election bal lots for president-elect and other IEEE positionsare scheduled to be mailed out on15 August.
IEEE Assembly
Elects Five BoardMembersT H E I E E E A S S E M B L Y in Novem-ber elected five officers to theIEEE Board of Directors. Four of the new members, who begantheir one-year terms on 1 January,
are Marko Delimar, secretary; JohnT. Barr, treasurer; Ralph M. Ford,vice president, Member and Geo-graphic Activities; and GianlucaSetti, vice president, PublicationServices and Products. The fifth,Michael R. Lightner, was electedto serve a second year as vice
president, Educational Activities.
IEEE Medalof Honor Goesto JacobsI E E E L I F E F E L LO W Irwin M.Jacobs, cofounder in 1985 of Qualcomm, is the recipient of this
yea r’s IE EE Me dal of Honor. He was recogn ized for “leadersh ipand fundamental contributionsto digital communications and
wi reless tech nology.”
A sem iconducto r compan y in San Diego, Qualcommdesigns, manufactures, a nd mar-kets digital wi reless telecom-munications products andservices global ly. As CEO in the1990s he oversaw the developmentof Qualcomm’s code divisionmultiple access for cellphones,
wi reless base stations, and chiThe company’s CDMA technol was adopt ed as one of t he standards for 3G wireless networks
Jacobs retired from Qualcomin 2009. He is currently chai r of
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a nonprofit scientific researorganization in La Jolla, Calif.
He is scheduled to receive thMedal of Honor, which is spon-sored by the IEEE Foundation, o29 June in San Diego at the annuIEEE Honors Ceremony.
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ber Elie Track, cochair of the groupalong with IEEE Fellow Tom Conte,
vice president of the IEEE ComputerSociety. Created last year, the groupis sponsored by the IEEE FutureDirections Committee, the organi-zation’s R&D arm.
As Bichlien Hoang, senior pro-gram director for IEEE Future Direc-tions, puts it, the working group
will “start with a small number of activities, such as developing a Webportal and organizing workshops toengage participants, as well as creat-ing a community for them and find-
ing ways for the community to groThe group plans to launch a webs
to provide data, list upcoming woshops and conferences, and prova forum for discussion, commentand other input from IEEE memb
Once those first steps are takthe group will apply for fundingfrom the IEEE New InitiativesCommittee, Hoang says.
“Revamping computing is nosomething that any organizatiocompany can undertake by itselTrack says. “IEEE has societies acouncils engaged in almost ever
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H E U S E O F H I G H - P E R F O R M A N C E computers has exploded.The complex systems play a role in all sorts of tasks these days,
including trading stocks, forecasting the weather, and breaking codes.But people who work with t he powerful machines a re encoun-
tering roadblocks. In addition to the physical limitation of how much information you can store on each chip, IC developers are hamperedby power-dissipation concerns. The data centers that run the computersrequire a tremendous amount of energy—enough sometimes to power asmall city. Where to situate the centers and how to power them are sticky issues. And, as a lways, there is the chal lenge of improving computers’ per-formance while mak ing them more energy-efficient.
Figuring it all out is more than just a single computer manufacturer act-ing alone can handle. That’s why IEEE’s newest working group, RebootingComputing, has set its sights on improving all aspects of high-performancecomputing—a “soup-to-nuts approach,” according to IEEE Senior Mem-
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The Futureof Computing New Rebooting Computing Working Groupwill tackle technological challenges
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aspect of computing, so our orga-nization is the natural place to takeon these tasks.” Track is also presi-dent of the IEEE Council on Super-conductivity and a senior partnerwith Hy pres, a superconductingelectronics firm. (For a profile of Track, see p. 14).
“The goal is to completely rethink computing, from devices to circuitsto architecture and software,” hedeclares. “IEEE will be the catalystto spawn new thinking.”
W H A T ’ S I N A N A M E ?
First, a name—and function—hadto be chosen. The group started off calling itself the High-Efficiency Computing Working Group, andlimited itself to addressing how to reduce large computers’ powerconsumption. It changed its nameafter learning of IEEE Li fe Fellow Peter Denning’s Rebooting Com-
puting project, sponsored by theU.S. National Science Foundation.Denning, who heads the com-
puter science department at theNaval Postgraduate School, inMonterey, Calif., is tack ling issuesstemming from the decline of computer science education inthe United States. His effort isbased on his Great Principles of Computing project, which identi-fied the scientific theories of com-puting and applied them in aninnovative curriculum.
Progress in computing hasclosely tracked IC improve-ments that follow Moore’s Law, inwhi ch t he nu mber of transistor son a chip doubles roughly every 18 months so that performanceincreases exponentially. Theax iom held for roughly 50 years,but because of limitations in justhow small components can bemade, that ki nd of improvementis now leveling off, at least as faras computer clock frequency isconcerned, Track says.
“There was a ti me when youcould go from 500 megahertz to1 gigahertz readily enough, butnowadays clocks are leveling off at around 2 or 3 GHz,” he says.
Individual transistors can bepushed to run f aster, but doing sofor the millions found on a typicalmicroprocessor would generateunsustai nable amounts of heat.
“It’s become clear that al lkinds of computers, includingsupercomputers, are not going toadvance at nearly the rates they have in t he past,” Track says. “Butmore computing power is needed,and we need to find ways to gobeyond the existing limitations.”
P O W E R I N T H E C L O U D
Some say the answer is in cloudcomputing, but the servers runningthose services are going to have toperform faster. To do so, they willneed a tremendous amount of power.
Companies with large com-puting centers, like Google, are
finding that because their cloud-computer servers consume somuch power, they need to locatethem where they can have water-cooling systems, Track says. “Sofar they have been able to man-age this but at a great cost.” Socomputer companies are lookingat both making the servers moreenergy-efficient and improvingtheir cooling systems.
The goal, to be reached in stages,is to achieve exasca le computersthat perform as many operationsper second as 50 mill ion laptops.To this end, enha ncements being
investigated include significantly increasing parallel processors inmulticore architectures, as well asmaking fundamental advances inprocessor and memory technology,interconnects, system architecture,and software upgrades.
There’s no dearth of ideas forimprovements, but each tends tobe limited to only one aspect of computing. Coming to an agree-ment on what to focus on is t herole the Rebooting Computing
Working Group has accepted.“It’s time to rethin k the entire
approach to computation,” saysConte. “We have been using thesame models for computationsince the inception of comput-ing. We’ve tweaked and optimizedevery level of the stack, but to meettoday’s challenges, everything hasto be on the table. This will requirea serious, cross-discipline conver-sation among domain experts.”
A T Y E A R ’ S E N D
The working group is organizinga workshop to be held from 11 to13 December in Washington, D.C.Leaders have been invited fromGoogle, IBM, Intel, and others inindustry, as well as representatives
from government research agenciesand academic labs. Their task: tohelp define the challenges and makerecommendations for meeting them.
“We all have the same goals butdifferent ways of achieving them,”Track says. “The fundamentalidea is that it cannot be a narrow improvement in just one aspect; ithas to be improvement across theboard. The total can be more thanthe sum of its parts.”
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DI D Y O U K N O W thatthe person widely rec-ognized as the firstcomputer programmer was a wo man ?
Ada L ovel ace was kno wn f orher work on Charles Babbage’searly mechanical general-purposecomputer, the Analytical Engine.Her notes on it include what isnow recognized as the first com-puter algorithm.
And another woman , Gra ceHopper, developed t he conceptof a compiler in the late 1940sand early 1950s while working atRemington R and, which becamepart of Sperry Ra nd Corp. in 1955.
Despite their technical achieve-ments through the years, how-ever, women represent only about10 percent of engineers in the workplace—a fig ure that has held
steady for years.IEEE Women in Engineering is
working hard to increase t hat per-centage and bring greater publicawareness of women’s contribu-tions. It now has 1400 members,one third of them men.
Gearing up to celebrate its20th anniversar y in 2014, WIEhas been especially active. Last
year it established a scholarship,launched a public visibility cam-paign, developed an app for tablets
that spotlights t he work of femaleengineers who are IEEE mem-bers, posted videos of its activi-ties on IEEE.tv, and partnered withGoogle to hold an outreach event.Be on the lookout for more WIEactivities this year.
“These efforts support WIE’s coremission of recognizing outstand-ing achievements and providing avibrant, engaged community for women in IEEE,” says Nita Patel,chair of the 2013 IEEE WIE Commit-tee. “WIE has taken a leap in the past
year to help promote the achieve-ments of women across IEEE.”
G R E A T E R V I S I B I L I T Y
To spotlight the work of femaleengineers, WIE in September rolledout a visibility campaign, with thecatchphrase “I Change the World.I Am an Eng ineer.” The campaignfeatures online chats wit h promi-nent WIE members as well as post-ers highlighting successful femaleengineers who are IEEE members.The posters were hung at engineer-ing schools as well as in preuniver-sity classrooms.
In September and October, thgroup held weekly online chats with v iewers of the live v ideostreaming website UStream, maof whom were students. IEEE Felow Karen Panetta and SeniorMember Ramalath a Marimuthuspoke about what it’s like to be aengineer and answered viewersquestions in real time.
Other speakers included IEEESenior Member Maria Cristina DiTavares, professor of electrical ancomputer engineering at the Uni-versity of Campinas, in Brazil, anIEEE Member Teresa Schofield, anelectronics engineer and chair of
IEEE United Kingdom and Repubof Ireland Section WIE affinity gr
Each chat drew almost 100 pticipants and added 29 000 new
“likes” to W IE’s Facebook page, which promoted t he online chatand included links to the videos
And WIE has been spreadingthe word about female engineeraccomplishments through the “Change the World. I Am an Engineer” app, launched in January.
Available for Android and Apple
Shining a Spotlighton Female EngineersIEEE Women in Engineering aims to raise awareness, close gender gap B Y A N I A M O N A C O
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tablets, the app features profilesof more than 80 women (someare pictured above). Each profileincludes a biography, informationabout the engineer’s career, and aphoto. An e-book version, featuringinteractive PDFs, is also available.
P A R T N E R I N G W I T H G O O G L E
To build support for women inscience, technology, engineer-ing, and mathematics (STEM)fields, WIE partnered with Googleto hold an event on 23 and 24January at the company’s head-quarters in Mountain View, Calif.Enhancing the Sustainability
of Women in Technology ” drew about 200 attendees, many of them women working in the field.Speakers included several femaleGoogle employees, who covereda variety of technical topics suchas fault-tolerant computing, dataanalysis, and Google’s cloud com-puting applications.
Panetta, the event’s programcochair, is the mastermind behindNerd Girls, a program at Tufts Uni-versity, in Medford, Mass., that seeks
to dispel the stereotype of geeky engineers. Panetta is a professor of electrical engineering at the uni-versity and former chair of the IEEE WIE Committee, which functions asthe organization’s board of directors.
Marimuthu, the event’s cochairand 2011 and 2012 chair of the
WIE Committee, d iscus sed theimportance of applying innovativeresearch to solve real-world prob-lems. Marimuthu is no stranger tosuch work. When she’s not busy heading the depart ment of infor-mation technology at KumaraguruCollege of Technology, in Coim-batore, India, she works on devel-
oping early screening systems todetect autism and ot her disordersin children.
Miche Baker-Harvey, a softwareengineer at Google, laid out thesecrets to landing a dream job. Shecovered interviewing sk ills, résumé writi ng, and leadership traits.
Other presentations focused onbeing a role model, the difficultiesof balancing personal life with work,and how IEEE student branchescan organize Student Professional
Awareness Conferences. Theseconferences address a technicaltopic and bring in IEEE membersand other experts to provide careeradvice and discuss the benefits of IEEE membership.
S C H O L A R S H I P
WIE has teamed up with TechSearchInternational, a licensing and con-sulting firm in Austin, Texas, tooffer an annual US $2500 schol-arship to a female college engi-neering student. Establishedin November, the IEEE FrancesB. Hugle Engineering Scholar-ship was developed with Tech-
Search’s founder Jan Vardaman.Hugle, a pioneer in the inventionof tape-automated bonding, usedin the manufacture of ICs, held 16electronics patents.
WIE pla ns to award t he scholar-ship this year to a female IEEE stu-dent member in her third year of undergraduate study at an accred-ited university or college in theUnited States. If you’re interestedin donating to the scholarship fund,visit http://www.ieee.org/donate
and select the Frances B. HugleMemorial Fund.
As WIE prepares for its 20th anversary, upcoming activities inclulaunching a WIE channel on IEEEtv, organizing webinars with IEEEEducational Activities, holding mlive chats on UStream, and redesing the WIE website to make it mouser-friendly. The IEEE.tv chan-nel will show videos of WIE members and events. The webinars, tobe available in the IEEE eLearninLibrary, will feature WIE membediscussing their areas of expertis
“I look forward to continuing toengage our members in industry,
provide resources for our membein academia, and inspire studentto go into engineering,” Patel says
“I am so happy to be a part of this world-changing organization of mand women focused on technologfor the benefit of humanity.”
For more information, contact wom
ieee.org. To join IEEE WIE, visit http
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If robots ever replace surgeons,it will probably be very far inthe future. It’s not just a matterof robots performing surgicalprocedures autonomously.Nontechnical issues are also of concern, such as whether surgeons
will accept being replaced by robots, and figuring out who isresponsible if an autonomoussurgical robot fails during aprocedure or does a poor job.
—lorisfichera
H E L P I N G H A N D S
Robots are not intended to replacesurgeons—they will assist astools. It will still be the surgeon’sresponsibility for any robot failure.Surgeons will never be replaced,though their hands might be.
—andyJ
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Technology for autonomousrobotic surgery may be available
in the near future, but publicacceptance is another story.
Other than the roboticsurgeon that attached LukeSkywal ker’s prosthetic hand inthe movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back , many science fictionand horror movies, such as The Terminator , have cast robots ina very bad light. This image isnow embedded in the publicpsyche. I would not like a robot
wit h its to ol rack of saws, k nives,
and drills alone with me in an
operating room. —Rus
K E E P H U M A N S I N T H E L O O P
Robot surgeons will operate only under a surgeon’s supervision for very long time to come, even whethey’re able to perform surgery autonomously. Complications canarise beyond the robot’s ability to cope, and people feel moreconfident with a human in theloop. Commercial aircraft havebeen capable of autonomousflight for many years now, but noairlines fly without pilots.
A more l ikel y scenario isthat one surgeon will monitormultiple robots operatingsimultaneously, ready to stepin if complications arise, withphysicians on call in casemultiple problems occur.
—Peter Thomso
A C C E P T N O S U B S T I T U T E
Robot surgeons are a possibility,but they will take time to developHowever, I don’t think machines will completely replace surgeonseven if they do perform better.Legal issues will keep the surgeonin the room to take responsibility
if anything goes wrong.—Sudaraka Mallawaarachch
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R E S P O N S E S T O D E C E M B E R ’ S Q U E S T I O N
Will Robots Replace Surgeons?
More robots are popping up in operating rooms around the world.The da Vinci Surgical System robot is now used in four out of fiveprostatectomies in the United States, with more than 1800 of the
machines installed at some 1400 hospitals worldwide. In August, theU.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared a robot-assisted system forminimally invasive treatment of coronary artery disease.
Although today’s robots are st ill controlled by surgeon s, someresearchers say that might not be so in t he future. Bioengineers atDuke University, in Durham, N.C., have a n autonomous robot that ca nperform simple surgery, such as taking a s ample of a cyst, on its own.Other researchers have wondered whether fully autonomous robots canperform more complicated tasks.
Do you think robots will one day replace surgeons for certainprocedures? Would you trust a robot over a surgeon?
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the IEEE International Conference
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right-hand rule. Starting as a nobservation of the ex ponen-
tial growt h of the number of transistors on ICs, it has beenapplied to many other aspectsof our electrotechnical art, andtoday is a guiding pri nciple andmetric for the digital IC industry.Thus, futu rists have used Moore’sLaw as a basic arg ument for thecoming of the singularity, thesmarter-than-human intelligencemade possible by technology,and with good reason.
Our community is no longerdefined by the physical bordersof our homes or work spaces.Family, friends, colleagues, andmentors can be reached at amoment’s notice through modesof communication largely intheir infancy just a generationago. What f urther improvementscan we expect in the next 10 to15 years?
Despite the fact that technol-ogy can unite the farthest reachesof our world, some 2 billion people,approximately a quarter of the
world’s population, have noaccess to any of it. Educat ion,health ca re, reliable power, andclean water are but a few itemson a regrettably long list of needsstill largely unmet.
As a global leader within ourprofessional community, IEEE isuniquely positioned to facilitatefulfillment of those needs. Atany given moment, thousands of
you—my fellow IEEE members—are working on projects to benefitfamilies, communities, and ulti-mately, humanity. Sometimes yourefforts spread across IEEE sections;often, they reach other nationsand continents. Technology, and adesire to help improve the lives of
others, brings us together.Likewise, we have thousands of
IEEE members working tirelessly within government, academia,and the global business commu-nity to build engineering capac-ity within regions and nations.
Their efforts in the classroom, theboardroom, and the civic arenaare helping to nurture and shapethe next generation of engineeringprofessionals and leaders.
Which brings us to an apparentquandary: how to choose amongthe many ways to enrich the livesof others while confronting thereality of finite resources. Whatis the proper allocation of money,time, and expertise to effortsthat will improve the lives of acommunity of thousands or toefforts that wil l improve the avail-ability and quality of engineeringeducation for students throughouta nation?
You ca n argue— wit h equalpassion and reason—that eitherendeavor is the “right” place todedicate personnel, funding,and focus. Or we can engage inboth endeavors.
Right now, IEEE’s members arebusy doing both—a nd more. Wehave the capacity to attack prob-lems from many perspectives andare doing so. The “right” allocationof time, funding, and knowledge isa choice I leave to each of you.
Your desire to help others may lead you to work on a telemedi-
cine project that brings a remotevillage in Peru into closer contact with a large hospital in a Peruvia ncity. It may lead you to meet withdecision makers in a nation’slegislative body. It may lead youto foster interest in engineeringamong tomorrow’s possible tech-nologists in a local classroom. Orit may lead you to develop a simplebut elegant method of purifyingcontaminated groundwater. Allof these paths are equally noble,
equally impactful, equally imptant—and equally yours to cho
In recent years, I have been tunate to meet many of you whhave already chosen a path andare actively advancing technolto benefit humanity. I commen
you for your actions. Your workgrassroots technology projects Afr ica, Haiti, India, Peru, Thailaand other places has made a tremendous difference. Likewise,initiatives you have implementto maximize engineering eduction in your region or nation hafostered countless opportunitifor future technologists.
I ask the following of my fellow IEEE members not cur-rently involved in such activitieConsider helping your commu
with projects that are within yoprofessional endeavors. Considthe papers you have authored, conferences you have attendedand the advances you have madin your chosen field, and see if knowledge you gained from anthem can help your community
Finally, consider the increain connectivity of our modern
world and ask yoursel f if you cdo even more. I believe it is posible to do more, and I urge yoto do so.
If you are uncertain how totake part in initiatives that benefit our profession and the community, reach out to a fellow IEmember or volunteer already
engaged in such activit ies. You wil l be pleased you did; those whom your ef forts assi st wi ll beven more pleased.
I welcome your thoughtsand questions. E-mail me [email protected].
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pit of information creates an
endless need for computers with greater storage, higherperformance, and more
energy-efficient systems. Computingcan generate so much heat that serv-ers must be positioned near water forcooling. And the power they requireis beginning to exceed the capabili-ties of local power plants. So, is ittime to rethink the computer?
IEEE Senior Member Elie Track thinks so. He is president of the IEEECouncil on Superconductivity andcochair of the IEEE Rebooting Com-puting Working Group [see “TheFuture of Computing,” p. 6]. A seniorpartner at Hypres, a superconduct-ing electronics company in Elmsford,N.Y., Track chairs the group withIEEE Fellow Tom Conte, a professorof computer systems and softwareat Georgia Tech.
IEEE began its Rebooting Com-puting initiative last year to rethink the design and function of comput-ers, hoping to attain greater perfor-mance on less energy. The workinggroup members have a broad rangeof expertise, including computerarchitecture, multicore approaches,and high speed devices.
They will meet once a month by phone and through a website. The
group plans to hold a meeting withthought leaders in December follow-ing the IEEE International ElectronDevices Meeting in Washington,D.C., to finalize the redesign recom-mendations they will sha re withthe community.
The idea is for the experts toweigh in on the pros and cons—anddispel concerns— about their par-ticular a renas. “We’re envisioning aninterdisciplinary exchange acrossthe board, so experts who usually
work in thei r own silos can now work together,” Track says.
His expertise is in supercon-ductivity. Superconductive ICsutilize the i ntrinsic properties of superconductors, which includezero electrical resistance. Thatmeans “lightning fast speed” canbe achieved, according to Track.
So far, superconductor ICshave been able to reach 10timesthe speed of semiconductors, withpotential for 100 times the speed,Track estimates. The technology hasbeen applied in wideband satellitecommunications and other wirelesstransceiver applications.
“The need for cooling the super-conducting ICs to cryogenic tem-peratures is greeted with fear andhesitation,” he says. “The RebootingComputing group is the first steptoward changing these att itudes.The reality is that cr yocoolers arevery reliable today, and failuresoften result from electronic ratherthan mechanical components.”
Superconductivity i s a neces-sary component to realize theinitiative’s goals, because comput-ing at lower temperatures will savemore energy t han it takes to coolthe systems, Track says.
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With the except ion of a two-yearteaching sabbatical, Track hasspent his 25-year career at Hypres,focusing on the R&D of supercon-ducting microelectronics in com-munication applications. In the1990s he applied the technology tohelp develop a self-contai ned pri-mary voltage standard, to cali-brate devices such as voltmeters,as well as secondary standards.
Superconductivity is indispens-able to realizing a primary voltage
standard—essentially definingthe volt by international agree-
ment—whereby the unit of voltageis derived from the fundamentalunits of frequency, the electroncharge, and Planck’s constant. Therelationship among these units isrealized physically by a supercon-ducting integrated circuit. Track isnow applying superconductivity toimprove the speed and capacity of transceivers for wireless communi-cations and to improve the imagequality at lower fields in magneticresonance imaging.
Currently, wireless signalstravel the airways as modulatedanalog signals. Communicationssystems reduce the signal to a lowerfrequency for digitization, whichcauses a data loss. Track is workingon a method for near-instantaneousdigitization that produces superiorsignal fidelity. The key to realizingthe digitization at wide bandwidthis a superconducting analog-to-digital converter uniquely capableof producing very high linearity anddynamic range at high frequencies.
Superconductivity has experi-enced ebbs and flows of interest overthe years. Now, Track says, high-performance and energy-efficiency needs are driving a revival. But thehigh amount of energy that it takes
to bring circuits to super-cooled,superconducting levels makescomputers built entirely of super-conductors impractical. “It’s not asolution in itself but must work intandem with other solutions such asmulticore processing,” he says. “Wemust take a holistic look at the wholecomputing system.”
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Track, born in Lebanon, gradu-ated from the American University
Elie Track:Rethinking theComputerA superconductivity expert tackles the challenge B Y S U S A N K A R L I N
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of Beirut in 1979 with a bachelordegree in physics. He was drawnapplied physics after taking a li king to the electronics used in phics experiments. He went on toearn a master’s degree and a Ph.in physics from Yale University in 1982 and 1988, with a focus on
applied physics.He joined Hypres as a staff sctist and eventually worked his wup to CEO, a position he held unt2000. When the company, with hblessing, brought in a new CEO ttake the firm in a more commercdirection, he became a consultanand partner, exploring new appltions for Hypres’s technology.
Throughout his professional lhe has kept in touch with studencommunities, which has honed hability to explain his work in lay-man’s terms, an invaluable skill describing his research to techni
and nontechnical audiences.Since 1999, Track has been amember of the Yale Science andEngineering Association (includa stint from 2007 to 2010 as president), raising awareness of Yale’engineering program and raisinfunds for academic engineeringscholarships.
From 2003 to 2005, he indulga desire to teach by becoming a iting physics professor at FairfieUniversity, in Connecticut, whehe developed a course in wirelescommunications for non-sciencmajors. And he helped mentormechanical engineering studenat the University of North Caroliat Charlotte, where he served asadjunct professor of physics from2008 to 2011.
A G E N E R A T I O N A W A Y
For now, the working g roup plato apply its redesign recommendations to enhance t he perfor-mance and energy efficiency olarge systems. “The tempera-tures requi red by superconducing electronics make them mosuited to large systems, such asservers and data centers, thanfor handheld or small consume
products,” Track says. “The performance of large systems wouthen enable ordinary gadgets tbe more powerfu l and efficienby their connectivity through tcloud, as in cloud computing.”
Af ter that, f undamenta linnovations in compact, portabefficient cryocoolers are neededto create portable products usinsuperconductors—a chal lenge fthe next generation of engineers
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Now she’s looking into teachingbeekeeping courses.
“Patent examining is a high-stress job. It’s all about produc-tion,” she says. “It’s very calmingin the bee yard. Bees respond topheromones. They know when
you’re excited, so you have to center
yourself. They’re such hard workers,they make you feel like you shouldbe doing more.” —Susan Karlin
Sudeendra Koushik ■ Crafting Cartoons
B Y DA Y , IEEE Member SudeendraKoushik creates products and ser-vices as the director of innovationfor HCL Technologies in Bangalore,India. By night, his creations take a
more visceral form.Koushik spends most eveningsperfecting his ca r-tooning skills so thathis drawings can beexhibited at the IndianInstitute of Cartoonistsgallery, in Bangalore. A member of the IIC, hespecializes in cartoonsabout technology, man-agement, engineering,and Indian currentaffairs. He posts his work at KoushikCartoons.blogspot.com.
“Cartooning helpsme innovate becauseboth sides of my brainare engaged,” he says. “A cartoonist sees various aspects of asituation. That ability helps me seedifferent solutions to an engineeringproblem. It increases the left-rightbrain connection, because you’re writing a joke with one part of yourbrain and drawing it with a nother.”
Koushik began drawing whenhe was 7 years old, at a time whecareer as a professional artist waless culturally acceptable. He haan affi nity for science and mathhe decided to study electrical enneering at the University of MysThere, he drew cartoons for the
university newspaper and designposters for campus events. Aftergraduating, he worked full timeas an electrical engineer and patime as an advertising illustra-tor. “I was drawn to the efficiencof advertising cartoons,” he says
“Messages had to be short but convey a lot without much dialogue
As Koush ik’s engineeringduties increased, he abandonedhis advertising gig a nd, later, hiscartooning. But he never stoppethink ing about it. When his wortook him to Singapore and theNetherlands, he noted the local
cartooning styles.“I returned to India with a moglobal sense of humohe says. He resumedhobby, frequently ading European toucheto the backgrounds ohis cartoons.
Today Koushik draws about four tima week. Aboutsix months ago, hebegan drawing on atablet computer, usinPaint.net, Corel, andPhotoshop. It takesabout four hours forhim to craft a cartooand a solo show at thIIC gallery requires
50 professional-quality cartoon“I hope having a show will giv
me the momentum to approachnewspapers and magazines withmy work,” he says. —
Jessica du Maine■ Buzzing Buddies
I E E E S E N I O R M E M B E R
Jessica du Maine is in awe of herbuzzing part ners. “Bees are justamazing,” she says. “They livein a matriarchal society, they’reengineers, the workers are female,and the only purpose of the maledrones is to mate with the queen.”
How does someoneget into beekeeping?For du Maine, it was aneed to occupy herself after her youngest childleft for college last year.
“The year before that,I thought, what am Igoing to do with myself when I’m not raisingkids?” she recalls. Sheconsidered raising goats
but learned they neededmilking twice a day.Bees, on the other hand,
“produce food, and youdon’t have to babysitthem,” she says.
Du Maine, who lived in Mis-souri at the t ime, started attend-ing meetings and taking classes atthe Eastern Missouri BeekeepersAssociation. “Turned out there was awhole urban beekeeping thing goingon in St. Louis,” she says.
She bought a starter kit thatincluded hives [a snow-covered hiveis pictured above], a smoker to calmthe bees, a suit to protect herself, anda honey extractor. She got her firstbees soon after, when an associationmember brought her some starterhives (including 10000 bees and onequeen) from a bee farm in Louisiana.
During the colder months inMissouri, du Maine fed her bees asyrup of boiled-down sugar water—a weekly 2-hour task. When honey production started, she checked onher bees monthly. “It’s like ta kingthe roof off a house,” she says. “Youdon’t want to bother the bees too
much. The best time isin the morning, after theforager bees [with sting-ers] leave to gather nec-tar. The only time I gotstung was when I wentinto the beehive late inthe day without wearingproper equipment.”
Harvesting, extract-ing, and filtering thehoney took a few hours,
she says. “Working withthe bees was scary atfirst,” she adds, “but itfelt like a partnership. Ikept them fed, and they returned the favor.”
In August, she became a pat-ent examiner with the U.S. Patentand Trademark Office in Alexan-dria. Before leaving Missouri, shedonated her hives—which shecouldn’t take with her—to a St. Louisbeekeeping program for teens.
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P A R T - T I M E P A S S I O N S
P A S S I O N
Beekeeping
O C C U P A T I O NPatent examiner
H O M E T O W N
Alexand ria, Va.
P A S S I O N
Cartooning
O C C U P A T I O N
Innovationdirector
H O M E T O W N
Bangalore, India
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■ Fritz J. FriedlaenderIEEE MAGNETICS SOCIETY PRESIDENT
Member Grade : LIFE FELLOW
Age: 87; Died: 3 OCTOBER
Fritz Josef Friedlaender was afounding member of the IEEE MagneticsSociety, serving asits president in 1977and 1978.
For 45 years, Friedlaender was aprofessor of electrical and computerengineering at Purdue University,in West Lafayette, Ind. A renownedexpert in the field of magnetism, hisresearch focused on the engineeringapplications of magnetic domains,and he made significant contribu-
tions to high-speed data storage. Heretired in 2000 as professor emeritus.In addition to the Magnetics
Society, Friedlaender was also amember of the IEEE Computer, Edu-cation, and Power & Energy societies.
He earned bachelor’s anddoctoral degrees from the Carn-egie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1951and 1955.
■ Irving S. ReedCOMMUNICATIONS PIONEER
Member Grade : LIFE FELLOW
Age: 88; Died: 1 SEPTEMBER
Irving S. Reed, amathematician andengineer, was best
known for inventingalong with GustaveSolomon a class of algebraic error-
correcting and error-detectingcodes, known as Reed-Solomoncodes. And he and David E. Mullerdeveloped the Reed-Muller codes, afamily of l inear error-correctingcodes used in communications.
From 1951 to 1960, Reed workedat MIT’s Lincoln Laboratories,in Lexington, Mass., where hisresearch focused on computer pro-gramming languages and the theory and analysis of radar systems.
In 1960, he left Lincoln Labo-ratories to join Rand Corp., anonprofit research facility in SantaMonica, Calif., partly funded by theU.S. government. Three years laterhe became a professor of computerscience and electrical engineering atthe University of Southern Cali-fornia, in Los Angeles. Reed was afounding member of the university’sCommunication Sciences Institute
and its Signal and Image ProcessingInstitute. He retired in 1993.
Reed received several IEEEawards for his technical contribu-tions, including the 1989 RichardS. Hamming Medal and the IEEEInformation Theory Society’s 1998Golden Jubilee Award for Tech-
nological Innovation. He shared wit h Solomon the 1995 IEEEMasaru Ibuka Consumer Elec-tronics Award for “contributionsto basic error-correcting codes,specifically the Reed-Solomoncodes, which have led to t he com-paction of data and made possiblea generation of consumer compactoptical disk products.”
Reed earned his bachelor’s,master’s, and doctoral degrees, al l inmathematics, from Caltech.
■ Erwin TomashCOMPUTER INDUSTRY PIONEER
Member Grad e: LIFE SENIOR MEMBER
Age: 91; Died: 17 DECEMBER
Erwin Tomash wascofounder of Dataproducts Corp., which became oneof the world’s largestmanufacturers of high-speed printers.
After serv ing as a radar speciaist in the U.S. Army Signal Corpsduring World War II, Tomashbecame a junior electrical enginat Engineering Research Associaa computing firm, in Arlington, V
In 1962 he cofounded andbecame CEO of Dataproducts, in
Los Angeles. Through the next twdecades, the company developeddot-matrix a nd more advanced dtal printers. Tomash stepped dowas CEO in 1971 and retired in 198chairman of the board.
In 1979, he cofounded theCharles Babbage Institute inMinneapolis at the University ofMinnesota. The research cen-ter specializes in the history of information technology, digitalcomputing, computer program-ming, software, and networking
Tomash received the IEEEComputer Society’s 1987 Compu
Entrepreneur Award in recogni-tion of his early pioneering workHe was a member of the CompuSociety and the IEEE Society onSocial I mplications of Technolo
He received a bachelor’s degrin electrical engineering i n 1943from the University of Minnesotthen earned a master’s degree inengineering in 1950 from the Unversity of Maryland, in College P
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2013 Election CountdownA look at the open positions and deadlines
E L E C T I O N
H E R E I S T H E I E E E TellersCommittee’s tally of votes fromvalid ballots counted in the 2012annual election and approvedin November by the IEEE Boardof Directors:
IEEE President-Elect, 2013
J.Roberto B.de Marca 23 229
Tariq S. Durrani 22 194
IEEE Division
Delegate-Elect/
Director-Elect, 2013
Division I
Ellen J. Yoffa 1508
Alf red E. Dun lop 1009
Rakesh Kumar 842
Division III
Harvey A. Freeman 3305
Byeong Gi Lee 3176
Division V Susan K. (Kat hy) Land 3456
James D. Isaak 2861
Division VII
Wanda K. Reder 2848
Noel N. Shulz 1657
Division IX
Marina Ruggieri 2347
Jae Hong Lee 1189
Jerry C. Carroll 917
IEEE RegionDelegate-Elect/
Director-Elect, 2013–2014
Region 2
Timothy P. Kurzweg 1568Gerard J. Christman 1293
Emilio M. Salgueiro 624
Region 4
Robert C. Parro 1013Bernard T. Sander Jr. 1007
Hamid Vakilzadian 561
Region 6
Thomas M. Coughlin 3408
Paul J. Kostek 2096
Region 8
Cos tas M. S tas opou los 55 43
Saurabh Sinha 4846
Region 10
Ramakrishna Kappagantu 4064
Kukjin Chun 3121Nim K. Cheung 2634
IEEE Standards Association
Board of Governors
Member-at-Large, 2013–2014
Philip C. Wennblom 779
Wael Wil lia m Diab 679
IEEE Standards Association
Board of Governors
Member-at-Large, 2013–2014
Paul J. Hearty 727
Robert S. Oshana 690
IEEE Technical Activities
Vice Pre sident–Elect, 2013Jacek M. Zurada 14 942
Vinc enzo Pi uri 12 995
IEEE-USA President-Elect, 2013
Gary L. Blank 13 454
Clarence L. (Lee) Stogner 8424
IEEE-USA Member-at-Large,
2013–2014
Kristi J. Brooks 16 506
Ron T. Ogan 5427
The Annual Election Results Are In
O N 1 M A Y , the IEEE Board of Directors is scheduled to announcethe names of all candidates to beplaced on this year’s ballot. Theballot wil l include candidatesfor IEEE president-elect, who arenominated by the board, as wellas nominees for delegate-elect/director-elect opening s, submit-ted by their respective divisionand region nominating commit-tees. The ca ndidates for 2013 IEEEpresident-elect have already beenannounced [see p. 4].
The ballot also includesnominees for president-elect andmembers-at-large of t he IEEEStandards Association board of governors; vice president–elect,IEEE Technical Activities; andpresident-elect and member-at-large, IEEE-USA. The IEEE Boardof Directors is also responsible forplacing proposed constitutionalamendments on the ballot.
IEEE members who have notbeen nominated but want to run foroffice must submit their intention topetition to the IEEE Board of Direc-tors. It must be received at the IEEEOperations Center, in Piscataway,N.J., by 15 April. Petitions must beaccompanied by the necessary number of valid voting members’signatures, and the petitioner mustmeet other requirements as well.
For more information aboutthe petition process or the annual
election, visit http://www.ieee.org/elections or contact [email protected].
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Chosen by all voting membersIEEE president-elect
Chosen by members of all
technical divisionsIEEE Technical Activities vicepresident–elect
Chosen by members of the
respective technical divisions
IEEE Division IIdelegate-elect/director-elect
IEEE Division IV delegate-elect/director-elect
IEEE Division VIdelegate-elect/director-elect
IEEE Division VIIIdelegate-elect/director-elect
IEEE Division X delegate-elect/director-elect
Chosen by members of therespective regions
IEEE Region 1delegate-elect/director-elect
IEEE Region 3delegate-elect/director-elect
IEEE Region 5delegate-elect/director-elect
IEEE Region 7
delegate-elect/director-electIEEE Region 9delegate-elect/director-elect
Chosen by members in Regions 1–6
IEEE-USA president-elect
IEEE-USA member-at-large
Chosen by members of the
IEEE Standards Association
IEEE Standards Associationpresident-elect
IEEE Standards Association board of governors members-at-large
D E AD L IN E S A T A G L AN C
15 MarchDeadline for organizational units tsubmit slates of candidates to the IBoard of Directors for inclusion on
annual election ballot15 April
Deadline for submitting intention petition for an office on the annualelection ballot
1 May IEEE Board of Directors submits tovoting membership a list of nominfor IEEE president-elect; delegate-elect/director-elect, as applicable;and other positions to be electedby voting members for the comingterm. The board also announces whethe r it inten ds to put for ward aconstitutional amendments.
14 JunePetition signatures nominating an
individual for placement on the annelection ballot must be received bynoon EDT USA/16:00 UTC.
15 AugustIEEE annual election ballots aresent to all voting members on recoas of 30 June. Voters can also beginaccessing their ballots electronica
1 OctoberBallots must be received by noon CUSA/17:00 UTC.
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Ramachandra Achar
Scott T. ActonRobert C. Aitken
Stephen B. Alexander
Jeffrey AndrewsHiroyuki Arai
Carter M. ArmstrongRolf A schenbrenner
Gaetano Assanto
Farrokh AyaziRalph H. Baer
Salvo BaglioR. Jacob Baker
Alexa nder A. Baland in
Peter M. BalmaAndrew R . Barron
John E. BarthSanjoy K. Baruah
Khosrow Behbehani
Amine Bermak Robert E. Berry
Jacek BlazewiczVincent Blondel
Enrico Luigi Bocchieri
Wolfgang M. BoeschMaurice Borgeaud
Rodney BrooksMartin Buehler
David R. BullRamón Cáceres
Vince D. Calhoun
Om-Prakash N. CallaJan Camenisch
Charles Forrest CampbellGail A. Carpenter
Robert Henry Caverly Kwok Kee ChanMansun Chan
Yao-Wen ChangRaja ChatilaKwok Tong ChauFrançois ChaumetteKuo-Ning Chiang
Jeffrey R. ChildressTzi-Dar ChiuehPeter Sienpin Chow
Andrz ej Cichock iDavid S. CochranGérard Denis CohenJonathan H. ConnellMarco CorsiMax H.M. CostaPaul W. CoteusDavid R.S. CummingMihai DatcuSuman Datta
Antonio De MaioLouis A. Dessaint
Suhas N. Diggavi Yujie J. DingBranislav V. DjokiMatthew B. Dwyer
Ahmed MostafaElantably
Ayman M. El-Refa ie Yonina C. Elda r Ali E madiTakatomo EnokiJohan H.R. EnslinDavid EsseniRene-Jean Essiambre
Introducing
the 2013FellowsThe Institute congratulates these 297 IEEE senior members from around the world who were named IEEE Fellows for 2013.They join an elite group of nearly 6900 IEEE Fellows,
who have contributed to the advancement or application of engineering,science, and technology.
A C H I E V E M E N T SSung-Ju LeeLuke F. LesterJuerg LeutholdPaul Leonard LewinGuifang LiLi Erran Li
Yanda LiShunlin Liang
Mark LiaoDaniel LiberzonJames P. Libous
Ying-Da r LinTamas LinderMikko H. LipastiMichal LipsonMarco LiserreEugene Litvinov Chih-Wen Liu
Yan-Fei LiuJinhu LuKai-Kuang Ma
Yi MaGerald Q. MaguireRavi V. MahajanJean MahseredjianDanilo MandicMadhav V. MaratheRadu MarculescuIgor L. Markov Paul W. MarshallSeán Cian Ó MathúnaCarlos Mazure
Wil liam Robert McCow n Alexa nder McEachernGaudenzio MeneghessoHelen Mei-Ling MengDean MensaSubhasish MitraMauro Mongiardo
Kip Morison Art hur S. MorrisPaul MuraltSreenivasa S. Murthy Matt W. MutkaBrad A. MyersChristopher J. MyersMichael R. NeumanZaiping Nie
Ali M. Ni knejadCun-Zheng NingMasaaki NiwaMasaya NotomiChikaodinaka NwankpaEiji Oki
Bikash C. PalJohn W. PalmourDaniel PalomarConstantinos B. Papadias
Antonia PapandreouFrank Chongwoo Park Jong-Keun Park Steven D. Pekarek Marcello PelilloSerge PelissouDavid J. PerreaultBeatrice
Pesquet-Popescu
B. Fardanesh Aaron Fenster
Elena FerrariJeffrey Foerster
Giles M. Foody
Paolo E. GambaErwin C. Gangl
David Garlan Ala n D. George
Saeed S. Ghassemzadeh
Gerard GhibaudoGeorgios Ginis
Dimitris GizopoulosFred Glover
Lalit Goel
Kenneth GoodsonClément Gosselin
Leonid Grcev Marshall Greenspan
Marco GuglielmiChristine Guillemot
Ruyan Guo
Hani Hagras Alexa nder M. Haimov ich
Jung HanKenneth A. Hansen
Yang Hao
Jayant R. HaritsaJames Hayward Harlow
Sailing He Aki ra Hiros e
Håkan Hjalmarsson
James C. HoeDonald G. Holmes
Anders Host-Madsen
Michael S. HsiaoDan M. IonelSushil JajodiaUlrich Jakobus
Xiaohu a JiaKarl H. JohanssonRolf JohanssonLeo JoskowiczTadeusz Kaczorek Swarn Singh KalsiLina J. KaramJoel S. KarpNei Kato
André KaupTetsuya KawanishiJeffrey O. Kephart
Yann H. KerrPeter B. Key Kazuro KikuchiNicholas G. Kingsbury Masaru KitsuregawaGeoffrey Stephen
Klempner
Gerhard Klimeck Kevin W. Kobayashi
Wei-Hu KohJoseph A. Konstan
Yoram KorenKenneth K reutz-DelgadoGerhard KriegerKannan M. KrishnanKadaba R.
LakshmikumarRiccardo LanariCarl E. LandwehrDavid C. Larbalestier
Christia n Y. Pichot
John W. Pierre
Kameshwar Poolla
Peter J. Pupalaikis
Sanjay Raman
Steven K. Reinhardt
Kate A. Remley
Michel Renovell
John RobertsonJon Rokne
Alton D. Romig
Richard C. Rose
Caroline Anne Ross
Lucio Rossi
Mark E. Russell
Matthew N.O. Sadiku
Corsi Sandro
Sudeep Sarkar
Takuro Sato
Ton van der Steen
Randhir Thakur
Thomas N. Theis
Zhi Tian
Leon M. TolbertMichail K. Tsatsanis
Haruhiko Tsuchiya
Gene Tsudik
Antonia Maria Tulino
Matthew A. Turk
Jerzy Tyszer
Kenji Uchino
Ramasamy Uthurusa
Guy A.E. Vandenbosc
Ingrid Verbauwhede
John P. Verboncoeur
Pramod Viswanath
Harish Viswanathan
Wei-Yen “Wayne” Wan
Wen-Hann Wang Xi-Zhao Wang
Yuan Wang
Karl F. Warnick
James L. Wayman
Tsachy Weissman
David James Wethera
Philip Charles Woodl
Dapeng Oliver Wu
Feng Wu
Tzong-Lin Wu
Jing Xiao
Dehong Xu
Jie Yang
Peide Ye
Eric M. YeatmanB. Yegnanarayana
Wen-Yan Yin
Chen-Hua D. Yu
Tak Shing Peter Yum
Ramin Zabih
Ephraim Zehavi
Qing Zhao
Zhi-Hua Zhou
Glenn Zorpette
Geoffrey G. Zweig
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Each year many i neligible candi-dates are nominated. Before sub-
mitting a nomination, make suto check eligibility requiremenon the N&A Committee websiteat http://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/nominations.
The positions for which the NCommittee makes recommenda-tions represent the uppermost go
ernance levels in IEEE. Volunteer with relevant prior experience inlower-level IEEE committees andunits are recommended by the comittee more often than volunteer without such experience. For exaple, candidates for the Awards Bohave a greater likelihood of beingrecommended if they have a lreadserved on an awards committee oa society, section, or region or onanother IEEE board.
Individuals recommended forpresident-elect and corporate offipositions are more likely to be recommended if they possess a stron
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