AWARD   RECIPIENT  

2009  WIE  Affinity  Group  of  the  Year   NJCoast  WIE  Affinity  Group  

Region  1  Award   John  Palframan  

SecHon  Award   Dr.  Wei  Su  

Friend  of  IEEE   Net-­‐Scale  Technologies    

Outstanding  Volunteer   Dr.  Paula  Muller  

Best  Speaker   Dr.  Jonathan  Gardner  

CommunicaHons  Chapter  Award   Dr.  Elizabeth  Suet  Tse  

EC/CV/TA&P  Chapter  Award   Frank  Laslo  

Aerospace  &  electronic  Systems  Chapter  Award  

Russell  Frazer  Luis  A  Riesco  

Volunteers being honored tonight include:

7:00 Dinner 7:45 Keynote: Keith Cambron, President & CEO of AT&T Labs (see over)

8:15 Congratulations to our new IEEE Fellows:

Dr.  Robert    Doverspike  

AT&T  Labs  Research  

For  contribu9ons  to  architectures,  modeling,  and  op9miza9on  of  telecommunica9on  networks  

Dr.  Stan  Lumish   For  leadership  in  the  development  and  implementa9on  of  commercial  terrestrial  lightwave  systems  

Dr.  Wei  Su   US  Army   For  leadership  in  military  communica9ons  and  electronic  warfare  technology  

Dr.  David  Neilson  

Bell  Labs     For  contribu9ons  to  op9cal  switching  technologies  for  telecommunica9on  networks  

Special thanks to our honored guests: Habib  Ahson  (IEEE  Princeton  Sec9on  Treasurer)  Holly  Cyrus  (WIE  CommiOee)  Professor Wieslaw  Bury  (Princeton  Chair)  Kirit  Dixit  (Metsac  Chair)  Pete  Eckstein  (Region  1  Director  Elect  )  Dr.  John  Kosinski  (2009  Key  Note  Speaker)  Dr.  Amruthur  Narasimhan  (Past  Sec9on  Chair)  

Amit  Patel  (North  Jersey  Chair),  Dr.Charles  Rubenstein  (Region  1  Director)  Dr.  John  Vig  (IEEE  Past  President)  Dr.  Ralph  Wyndrum  (IEEE-­‐USA  Past  President)  Professor Durga Misra (Southern  Area  Chair)  Darlene  Rivera  (WIE  Region  1  Coordinator)  David  Weiss  (Past  NY  Chair)  

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Keynote Speaker Keith Cambron President & CEO of AT&T Labs, Inc. As president and CEO of AT&T Labs, Inc., Keith Cambron is responsible for technical and operational activities in the labs and oversees all

research and development, with special focus on transferring the knowledge and technology gained through research into services that support AT&T operations and business.

Before coming to AT&T in 2005 when the company merged with SBC, Keith served as the President & CEO of SBC Laboratories, Inc., a role that enabled him to bridge the innovation in the labs to bottom-line results for SBC companies.

Keith has an engineering background in telecommunications networks, technology and design, and experience ranging from circuit board and software design to the implementation of large public networks. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). His article, "The Next Generation Network and Why We'll Never See It," published in the October 2006 Issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine, was one of the top 10 downloads among the 10 Communications Society (ComSoc) publications in the months after publication. He received the 2007 IEEE ComSoc CQR Chairman's Award for sustained contributions in the field of network reliability, technology introduction, and leadership in the research and development of telecommunications systems.

Keith has a B.S.E.E. from the University of Missouri and an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. Keith is a retired Commander in the United States Naval Reserve.

The New S Curve for Global Networks

The S curve has been used for years as a model for technology adoption. But in our emerging global economy there are three different S curves that will determine the dominant networks. They are Scope, Scale and Science. Scope is the range of technologies and services the network must provide. Network providers need a broad range of network, hosting and application technology to compete. Scale has always mattered, but even more with the burgeoning growth in IP traffic. Without scale, the economic model for a network is not sustainable. Science is the key to differentiation. There are no longer any fully integrated suppliers that serve all the needs of global customers. Network providers must build their own technology to differentiate, optimize and manage across services and technologies, on a global basis.

The New Jersey Coast Section is proud to report that despite industries leaving the area the section had the best total retention in the region at 86%!

Special Recognition of Section Leadership New IEEE Fellow Dr. Wei Su

received his M.E. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from The City University of New York, USA in 1992. Since 1991, he has worked with U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and U.S. Army Communication-Electronics Research Development and Engineering Center (CERDEC) in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, USA. He has served as a senior engineer and technical manager in developing military communications and electronic warfare systems. His research interest includes automatic modulation classification, wireless sensor network, cognitive radios, signal and image processing, modeling and simulation, adaptive control and automation, and frequency control and timing with 25 patents/pending patents, and over 160 publications including book chapters, IEEE journals and proceedings. Dr. Su has served at many multi-national defense technical panels and committees for software defined radios, sensor networks, and communications electronic warfare. He has served as Vice Chairman of IEEE NJ Coast Section, Chairman of IEEE NJ Coast Consultant Network Chapter, Chairman of IEEE NJ Coast EMC/VT/AP Chapter, Vice Chairman of IEEE NJ Coast Communications Chapter, and Chairman of Association of Old Crows Susquehanna Chapter Scholarship Committee. Dr. Su is a recipient of many awards and honors including 2004 U.S. Army Superior Civilian Service Award and Medal, 2004 and 2007 Association of Old Crows (AOC) R&D Awards, 2007 IEEE Region I Award, 2005 U.S. Army R&D Achievement Award, U.S. Army Material Command Top 10 Employee Nomination, 2002 Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award, 2001 and 2002 U.S. Army Performance Achievement Awards, 1988 China’s National Significant R&D Achievement Award, AOC Technology Hall of Fame, and U.S. Army CERDEC Inventor’s Wall of Honor.

New IEEE Fellow Dr. Robert Doverspike Robert Doverspike received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado and Masters and Ph.D. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He began with Bell Labs in 1979 and, upon divestiture of the Bell System, went to Bellcore (now Telcordia). In 1997 he returned to AT&T Labs (Research)

Dr. Wei Su received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the M.S. degree in systems engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 1983 and 1987, respectively. He

where he is now Executive Director of Network Evolution Research. Dr. Doverspike has made extensive contributions to the field of optimization of multi-layered transmission and switching networks and pioneered the concept of packet transport in metro and long distance networks. He also pioneered work in spearheading the deployment of new architectures for transport and IP networks, network restoration, and integrated network management of IP-over-optical-layer networks. He has over 1000 citations to his books and articles (Google scholar, as of March 2010) over diverse areas such as Telecommunications, Optical Networking, Mathematical Programming, IEEE Communications Society, Operations Research, Applied Probability, and Network Management. Dr. Doverspike holds many professional leadership positions and awards, such as INFORMS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, member of Optical Society of America (OSA), co-founder of the INFORMS Technical Section on Telecommunications, member of OFC subcommittee, editor of Elsevier eREF Optical Networks series, member of steering committee of Design of Reliable Communications Networks (DRCN), and associate editor of the Journal of Heuristics.

New IEEE Fellow Dr. Stan Lumish

Dr. Stan Lumish brings superior practical expertise in the optical communications and technology management fields to TFBSO. As the team’s Director for Science, Technology and Communications Infrastructure Development, he will lead the Task Force’s efforts in these areas.

Prior to joining the TFBSO Dr. Lumish has over 25 years of experience of leadership in the fields of optical networking and optical technology development. His contributions have significantly accelerated the broad-based introduction of optical networks, which have become essential for the widespread use of broadband communications and the Internet. Dr. Lumish has the BE, MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering. He has held numerous management and executive positions at Bell Laboratories, where he received the prestigious Bell Labs Fellow award. In 2000 he joined JDS Uniphase, where he held numerous executive positions, last serving as their Chief Technology Officer.

Dr. Lumish is a member of the OSA, Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Sigma Xi. In 2010 Dr. Lumish received the IEEE Fellow award for his contributions to the commercialization of terrestrial optical fiber communications systems.

New IEEE Fellow Dr. David Neilson

Dr. David Neilson is Technical Manager at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent of the Efficient Network Technology Group.

He joined Bell Laboratories in 1998, Holmdel, NJ, where he worked on MEMS based crossconnects, wavelength selective switches, equalizers, and dispersion compensators. He is currently a Technical Manager leading a group conducting research of highly integrated InP based optoelectronic components and subsystems and with responsibility for optoelectronic device growth and fabrication facility. His research interests also include role of optical interconnects and switching for high capacity optical switches and routers and the energy consumption of networks.

Prior to joining Bell Labs he was a Visiting Scientist at NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ, researching optical interconnects for high-performance computing from 1996 to 1998. From 1993 to 1996, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Heriot-Watt University, working on systems and devices for free space optical interconnects and switching.

He received the B.Sc. (Hons) degree in physics from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1990 and the Ph.D. degree in physics for work on optical nonlinearities in InGaAs Quantum well devices from Heriot-Watt University in 1993.He has over 130 publications and 21 issued patents in the field of optical interconnects , switching and optoelectronic devices. Dr. Neilson is a Fellow of IEEE and a Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA).

2009 WIE Affinity Award

The mission of IEEE WIE is to inspire, engage, encourage, and empower IEEE women worldwide.

The award will be presented by Holly Cyrus and Darlene Rivara

Holly Cyrus is currently a project manager for the Airport Safety Technology R & D Sub-Team, AJP-6311, at the FAA William J. Hughes Technical Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey. She performs research and development of Visual Guidance equipment and Pavement Marking Materials.

The NJ Coast WEI chapter was chartered in June last year and with no previous experience with WEI, has been honored with the WIE International Affinity Group for the Year 2009.

Activities have included:

 IEEE 125 anniversary T-Shirts for the students honored at the NJ Coast Banquet.

 High School Tour for 75 students at Fort Monmouth, NJ held in the Tactical Networks Branch

 Participation in Region 1 WIE Professional Development Seminar 2009

 On Going Shadowing Program for Neptune High School (AP students spend 2 hours with local companies on a rotating basis: Blackhawk Engineering, CACI, Netscale, and Fort Monmouth). This is an ongoing project and NJ Coast WIE will be reaching out to other high schools in the area.

 Engineering Career Days impacting more than 200 students, were held at Neptune High School, NJ And Asbury Park High School (handouts, presentations by a diverse group of more than 14 engineers) This is an ongoing project and will be reaching out to other high schools in the area.

She has been in Toastmasters for ten years and is a Toastmasters Gold with an Advanced Leader status. She has also been in IEEE for ten years and is a IEEE Southern New Jersey Chair, Region 2 East Area Chair, and WIE Committee Member Holly is representing Irena Atov, Chair of the WIE Affinity Groups.

Outstanding Volunteer Dr. Paula Muller

Paula Muller helped found the NJ Coast chapter of Women in Engineering and is now its chair. Paula is Vice President of Net-Scale Technologies, Inc. She has extensive experience with scientific research and with product development in the areas of signal processing in medical fields and for audio coding, data

security, and web applications.

Before joining Net-Scale, Paula was Director of Platform Development for Security Software Solutions at AuthentiDate Corporation.

Earlier Paula held positions as senior engineer with iBiquity Digital Corporation and with Sirius Satellite Radio, where she conducted research on Perceptual Audio Compression, and contributed to the development of the software that now processes the audio coding in the Sirius|XM studios and satellite radio receivers.

Paula's has over 10 years of experience in the medical field. She obtained her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering at Rutgers University in 1999. She is a member of IEEE and NJHIMSS.

Friend of IEEE Net-Scale Technologies

Net-Scale has provided assistance for IEEE talks and encourages their employees to participate and support IEEE. Members of Net-Scale have participated as speakers. IEEE activities include WIE's collaboration with Neptune's High School Shadow Program (For 2 semesters Net-Scale sponsored students' visits to Net-Scale to work and learn from the company).

Founded in 2002 by former AT&T and Bell Labs Scientists, Net-Scale helps its clients optimize technology through vendor neutral consulting and leading edge custom software components that improve and integrate commercial products, open source software, and existing infrastructure.

Clients include large international telecommunications carriers, federal government agencies, and high-tech startup companies. Net-Scale regularly partners with leading universities and research institutions to integrate the latest scientific advancements into their products. Areas of specialization include wireless and mobility, data synchronization, video, unified communications, database integration, scalable web interfaces, data security, and machine learning.

Best Speaker Dr. Jonathan Gardner Dr. Jonathan Gardner is the Chief of the Observational Cosmology Laboratory and the Deputy Senior Project Scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard

Space Flight Center. He leads a group that studies the Universe as a whole, from its dramatic beginnings in the Big Bang, to the mysterious dark energy that will determine its future. The James Webb Space Telescope is the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope which will look backwards in time to find the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, to trace their evolution into galaxies like our own Milky Way, and to connect the formation of stars and planets with our own Solar system.

Region 1 Award John Palframan John Palframan is currently a research scientist for the Avaya Resource Center for Software Technology in Avaya Labs where he utilizes diverse approaches to help improving R&D software development competencies leveraging his 25+ years of experience as a software engineer, as a manager of R&D and support teams,

and as a research scientist. John's recent interest and contributions are in the area improving productivity of large and medium scale software projects through software engineering research, conducting project audits and assessments, leading comprehensive architecture reviews, conducting annual symposiums and seminars that include many international locations spanning 16 time zones and help publish state of Software at his company with specific recommendations to improve software productivity and processes for use especially by the senior executives of Avaya as well as by all members of software development community within the company. John assumed role of Project Manager within NJ Coast Section for the first ever “IEEE Industry Day” conducted in collaboration with sections of Southern Area within Region 1. John reached out to volunteers and industry leaders across many locations and worked tirelessly with others for a successful execution. In a very short time John has earned the respect across many sections within Region 1 for his easy style and for his disciplined approach to planning and execution. John is receiving the Region 1 award for his sustained contributions and for 'Managerial Leadership in Software Engineering.

John also helped organize this year’s successful Entrepreneur's Day at Monmouth University.

PACE Program Invitees: Congratulations to our high school guests:

Toshiba  Regional  Winners:  Manalapan  High  School  Bharathi  Srinivas  (teacher),  Michael  Horsfield,  Melanie  Parikh,    

llana  Porter,  Parag  Srivastava    Regional  Science  Fair    Winner  demo:    High  Technology  High  School                                                      James    Ting  Asbury  Park  High  School  Science  Projects:                                                    Toni    Gahn  (teacher)  Christopher  Johnson,  ChrisHe  Olivier  –  Biology  Project  

The 18th annual Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision Awards Program recently announced its 2010 Regional Winners, honoring students who have developed ideas for beneficial future technologies. Sponsored by Toshiba and administered by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the ExploraVision program is the world's largest K --12 science and technology competition. This year, the program received 4,550 team entries representing the participation of 13,947 students from across the US and Canada. Winning ideas in this year's ExploraVision competition include a host of potential future breakthroughs that could help make the world a better, safer and more productive place. Ideas ranged from exciting medical treatments for Alzheimer's and blindness to innovative food and energy production technologies, as well as enhancements in transportation safety, recycling, first-aid and more. Projects reflected in-depth research in scientific fields ranging from nanotechnology to gene research, agriculture, robotics and others. At the Regional judging level, a panel of 58 judges--including science educators, scientists and engineers--evaluates the written entries and chooses the regional winners. The sophomore students recognized today from Manalapan High School are winners of Region2. Their coach and teacher for the team is Mrs. Bharathi Srinivas. A volunteer from NJ Coast Section provided support via reviews of student's design. Their submission is briefly described below.

Seeing into the Future The Seeing into the Future robotic eye creates a needed cure for wet macular degeneration. Since wet AMD patients lack function of the retinal nerves, the new technology implants electrodes into the visual center of the brain instead of the nerves of the retina; a camera in the prosthetic eye transmits information to a video processing microchip in the implant.

Left to right: Tamura Taylor (Toshiba), Michael Horsfield, Melanie Parikh, Ilana Porter, Parag Srivastava, Bharathi Srinivas (Coach), Teresa Morales (Science and Engineering Supervisor)

PACE Pre-University Science & Engineering Education Initiative

Toshiba  Regional  Winners:  Manalapan  High  School  Bharathi  Srinivas  (teacher),  Theresa  Morales  (program  director),  Michael  Horsfield,    

Melanie  Parikh,  llana  Porter,  Parag  Srivastava    Regional  Science  Fair    Winner  demo:    High  Technology  High  School                                                      James    Ting  Asbury  Park  High  School  Science  Projects:                                                    Toni    Gahn  (teacher),  Christopher  Johnson,  ChrisHe  Olivier  –  Biology  Project  

The 18th annual Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association ExploraVision Awards Program recently announced its 2010 Regional Winners, honoring students who have developed ideas for beneficial future technologies. Sponsored by Toshiba and administered by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), the ExploraVision program is the world's largest K --12 science and technology competition. This year, the program received 4,550 team entries representing the participation of 13,947 students from across the US and Canada. Winning ideas in this year's ExploraVision competition include a host of potential future breakthroughs that could help make the world a better, safer and more productive place. Ideas ranged from exciting medical treatments for Alzheimer's and blindness to innovative food and energy production technologies, as well as enhancements in transportation safety, recycling, first-aid and more. Projects reflected in-depth research in scientific fields ranging from nanotechnology to gene research, agriculture, robotics and others. At the Regional judging level, a panel of 58 judges--including science educators, scientists and engineers--evaluates the written entries and chooses the regional winners. The sophomore students recognized today from Manalapan High School are winners of Region2. Their coach and teacher for the team is Mrs. Bharathi Srinivas. A volunteer from NJ Coast Section provided support via reviews of student's design. Their submission is briefly described below.

Seeing into the Future The Seeing into the Future robotic eye creates a needed cure for wet macular degeneration. Since wet AMD patients lack function of the retinal nerves, the new technology implants electrodes into the visual center of the brain instead of the nerves of the retina; a camera in the prosthetic eye transmits information to a video processing microchip in the implant.

Left to right: Tamura Taylor (Toshiba), Michael Horsfield, Melanie Parikh, Ilana Porter, Parag Srivastava, Bharathi Srinivas (Coach), Teresa Morales (Science and Engineering Supervisor)