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Advancing Technology for Humanity November 2011, Vol. 59, No. 11 Advancing Technology for Humanity November 2011, Vol. 59, No. 11 New York City’s Marathon covering 26 miles of roads through its five boroughs stands as a test of physical endurance and sheer determination independent of race, creed or color. The picture of the start of the November 7, 2011 race was taken from a TV broadcast To skip more photographs of the 2011 Marathon click here Some 47,000 people enrolled in the New York City’s 41st annual race making it still the most famous Marathon in the world The invincible lot! You give us the inspiration for facing challenges Catch her! New York City Marathon 2011 We, at the New York Section of the IEEE congratulate all who ran the race. You helped our city to continue as unique on this planet! “The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly” – Michael Faraday IEEE New York Monitor November, 2011 Editor: Amitava Dutta-Roy, PhD, Life Fellow CONTENTS Cover page: New York City Marathon, November 5, 2011 Calendar of technical events in and around the NY Section (posted separately, please see the anchor page) A few words from the editor Section activities Election of Section officers for 2012 Election of officers of LMAG for 2012 See the results Election of officers of PES/IAS for 2012 See the results Election of officers of EDS/SSCS for 2012 See the results Activities Leon Knock on continuing education at New York Section. In this article he explains the offerings of In this Section you will find abridged reports of the the continuing education program at the Section activities of chapters and affinity groups within and how to enroll in them. the New York Section Read more Read the article IEEE - USA Book announcement Feature article Growing up with the Internet Age: Part V by John Unexpected magnetism discovered in gold nano- LeGates, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. structures turns the noble metal even more at- Mr. LeGates continues with his journey within the tractive. Dr. Simon Trudel, Univ. of Calgary, Alber- labyrinth of networking and business politics. ta, Canada explains this new phenomenon. Nan- structures of gold may soon have interesting ap- plications in science and engineering. Read the article Read the article Nobel prizes in 2011 Read about the Nobel medals and the list of the laureates in 2011 Read more Notables in science and technology we lost in recent months Click here to access the section Review of Motorola Bluetooth Roadster 505 Tidbits Contributors: We would like to thank Leon Nock of the IEEE NY Section, John Legates of Harvard University, Dr. Simon Trudel of University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and William Coyne, chair of the bylaws committee at the New York Section for their time and effort to contribute articles and news items to the Monitor. We also thank Nobel.org and World Gold Council for the permission to reproduce the photographs that appears on their Web sites. A few words from the editor The glorious autumn days are over and we are now on our path to the wintry days again. But I suppose this has some hidden benefits. Most of us dread to go outside and that gives us more time to get some work done. I may change my tune if the long-range forecasters and the Old Farmers Almanac prove to be right. They are expecting a terrible winter in 2012. Be prepared!! We offer you a lot to read and ponder in this issue of the Monitor. We have had an excel- lent presentation by Ms. Yuri Estrada who represented the non-profit Engineers without Border (EWB-USA). I imagine that the idea of founding EWB came from the work of Doc- tors without Borders that do marvelous work in many parts of the world, especially in disaster areas such as Haiti, Turkey and Guatemala. I always wanted to know if the engi- neers could do similar work in giving a hand to other fellow human beings who find them in less fortunate situations. I admit that it is not easy for engineers to suddenly arrive at a disaster- stricken place and jump headlong into a project. In such situations engineers and doctors are viewed from totally different angles. The doctors usually arrive in a disaster area ready with their medical kits and immediately try to alleviate pain of the victims. The needs for non-local engineers are not the same as that for doctors. Even then we can do a lot for our communities and the world. EWB is a starting place. We should seriously look into the idea, what we as engineers can do. The IEEE has already set its motto as “advancing technology for humanity.” You will find that the anchor page of this issue has changed. I would invite your opinions on this change. With every issue we try to embellish the pages of the Monitor. It has been a gradual transformation of the publication since January, 2011 when yours truly started to post it online. Thank you for your sup- port. In this issue we have an article on magnetism in nanoparticles of gold. This property of the noble metal is new to many engineers. I am sure that before long we will find novel applications. We have also included a section on 2011 Nobel prizes. You will notice that most the prize winners are from this country. The ceremonies around the award of the prizes will start on December 5 in Stockholm and continue until December 9 in Oslo. Under the heading Tidbits we have cited a gizmo the link of which was sent by Bill Coyne, chair of the bylaws committee. If you find anything that might interest our colleagues please send the item, article or link to us. We will be happy to post all interesting items. Dissemination of information is our task. Hope you will enjoy reading the Monitor! Section activities Election of the 2012 Section officers The annual election of the 2012 officers for the IEEE New York Section was held on November 15, 2011. The positions and the names of the elected officers are given below. Section Chair: Balvinder Denarine (née Blah) Section vice chair for chapter operations: Shu-Ping Chang Section vice chair for section activities: Kai Chen Section Treasurer: Michael Haroutunian Section Treasurer: Wilson Milian Chapter organization committee chair: Darlene Rivera Historian: Mel Olken Long-range planning committee chair: William Perlman Special events committee chair: Ralph Tapino By-laws committee chair: William Coyne Publications committee chair: Darlene Rivera Webmaster committee chair: Harold Ruchelman The 2012 chair of the New York section Ms. Balvinder Deonarine obtained the degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from City College of New York and an MBA from Fordham University. She also has a Project Management Certification and cur- rently is a manager at Consolidated Edison Company of NY. She has been volunteering at IEEE over ten years. Her volunteer positions have included: student activities chair in the society as well as the NY Section; NY Section secretary; NY Section treasurer; NY Section vice chair; and Industry Application So- ciety Chapter Awards Chair. In her acceptance speech chair-elect Ms. Deonarine reflected on her association with the New York Sec- tion and emphasized that she will make every effort to foster an atmosphere replete with mutual re- spect, credibility and congeniality. She envisions that, with collaboration and goodwill, of all members the Section will be a happy and active forum to achieve the noble goals of the IEEE. More elections at the New York Section Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG) The election of the 2012 officers of the LAMG was also held immediately following that of the 2012 Section officers. The following were elected. Chair: Ralph Mazzatto Vice chair: Amitava Dutta-Roy Member-at-large: Roland Plottel Treasurer: Ralph Tapino Secretary: Michael A. Miller Program chair: Lewis Terman The joint PES/IAS chapter The election of 2012 officers of the joint PES/IAS chapters was also held following that the LMAG. The newly elected officers are: Chair: Arnold Wong Vice Chair: Paul Sartori Treasurer: Sharene Williams Secretary : Sukumar Alampur Senior Member-at-Large: Thomas Villani Junior Member-at-Large: Thomas Li EDS/SSCS joint chapter We were informed by the EDS/SSCS Joint Chapter at the New York Section that the following 2012 offic- ers were elected. Chair: Harish Krishnaswamy (http://www.ee.columbia.edu/fac-bios/Krishnaswamy/faculty.html) EDS Vice-chair: Ioannis Kymissis (http://kymissis.columbia.edu/john-kymissis) SSCS Vice-chair: Mingoo Seok (http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~mgseok/team.html) Treasurer: Peter Kinget (http://www.ee.columbia.edu/~kinget) The Monitor congratulates all elected officers and pledges to give support during their tenures Chapter and affinity group activities PES/IAS joint chapters and the Life Members Affinity Group On October 23 the group sponsored a presentation on “Moore’s Law, Metcalfe’s Law and Murphy’s Law – Success and Failure with New Technology” by Simon Maddison. Drawing from his 40 plus years’ expe- rience working for many large and small companies in the field of telecommunications, Maddison learned that all moons must be in alignment before a new technology can become universally popular and financially successful. Hitting the magic point on the ‘hockey-stick’ curve is the dream of every hi-tech entrepreneur. But how does this happen, and what are the factors that result in an explosive success? Invariably a number of things has to come together at the right time. Maddison described the three laws that often apply to the success of any new technology (Gordon) Moore’s law - transistor density in IC chips doubles every 18 months while cost of a chip remains constant (Robert) Metcalfe’s law – the value (usefulness) of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users (Robert) Murphy’s law - if anything can go wrong, it will Mr.
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