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Women Entrepreneurs in the News 1 The IEEE New York Section Executive Committee (2012) Section Officers Section chair: Balvinder Blah, Con Edison Co. Section vice chair (Chapter operations): Shu-Ping Chang, PhD: IBM Thomas J. Watson Center Section vice chair (Section activities): Kai T. Chen, NYC Transit Section treasurer: Michael Haroutunian, NYC Transit Section secretary: Wilson Milian, NYC Transit Past Section chairs: Darlene Rivera, McKissack & McKissack David Horn: McKissack & McKissack ________________________________________________ Society chapter chairs Broadcast Technology: William C. Miller, Mitag Media Technology,LLC Computational Intelligence: Alevoor Ravishankar Rao, PhD, IBM Computer: Sofia K. Georgiadis, NYC Transit Communications: Konal Kumar, NYC Transit Technology Management: David M. Weiss, Systra Consulting, Inc. Engineering in Medicine and Biology: Matthew R. Irwin, Visual MD.com Instrument and Measurement: Steven Giavasis, Polytechnic Institute Power and Energy / Industrial Applications: Arnold Wong, Consolidated Edison Vehicular Technology: Patrick McGettigan, LTK & Associates, and Mark Woodward, CH2M Hill Solid State Circuits/Electron Devices: Harish Krishnaswamy, Columbia University Affinity Group Chairs Graduates of the last decade (GOLD): Michael Haroutunian, NYC Transtit Life Members: Ralph Mazzatto, Independent consultant Women in Engineering (WIE): Jean Redmond, Johnson Controls, Inc. Consultants Network: Martin Izzak, Urban Engineers Section Committee chairs Awards & Recognition: Wilson M. Milian, NYC Transit Operations & Procedures: William N.Coyne, Independent consultant Career Guidance: Stanley Karoly, NYC Transit Chapter Organization/Society Liaison: Darlene E. Rivera, McKissack & McKissack Conference Coordinator: Charles Rubenstein, PhD, Pratt Institute Education: Leon Nock, Independent consultant Historian: Mel I. Olken, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Power & Energy Magazine Long Range Planning: William Perlman, Independent consultant Members-at-Large: Peter Mauzey, Independent consultant and Paul Sartori, Con Edison Co. Membership Development: Neil Weisenfeld, Con Edison Co. Metro. Engineering Society Council: Michael Miller, Independent consultant Metro. Section Activities Council: Darlene E. Rivera, McKissack & McKissack Professional Activities: Robert M. Pellegrino, Independent consultant Publications: Darlene E. Rivera, McKissack & McKissack Publicity/Public Relations: Ken Vought, RT&T Consultants Special Events: Ralph Tapino, Independent consultant Student Activities: Kim K. Smith, NYC College of Technology Tappan Zee Sub-Section: Robert M. Pellegrino, Independent consultant Webmaster: Harold Ruchelman, Independent consultant 2 I E E E New York Section Monitor March, 2012, vol. 60, No. 3 Editor: Amitava Dutta-Roy, PhD, Life Fellow CONTENTS A few words from the editor Quotation of the Month Einstein and day The Giants on whose Shoulders we stand today Birthdays in March A Message from the New York Section Chair Business Media Network as a Professional Marketing Tool LinkedIn: 10-point tips from a Consultant on Maximization of its Benefits Marty Izaak, LSM That’s what the IEEE Fellows do First in the Series by 2012 IEEE Fellow James Warnock (New York Section) Energy Control Center of ConEd Celebrates 50 years after its commission News report submitted by Mel I. Olken, LF Historian of the New York Section IEEE – Your Track to Success PowerPoint Presentation given at ECE Dept, University of Maine, Orono, ME Dr. Ron Brown, LSM, Chair IEEE Maine Section Welcome to a space ride Presentation by Private Citizen Astronaut Dr. Gregory Olsen, LF Selected slides from his presentation Links to his presentations given at the New York Section and at NYIT See the anchor page Review Solid-state hard drives Samsung Dr. Amitava Dutta-Roy, Editor Tidbits and Newsworthy How to choose your passwords Thomas Friedman of New York Times interviews Bill Gates Tech Incubator for Women Selects First Graduating Class of Female-Founded Companies 3 Contributors: NY Monitor thanks Marty Izaak, a member of the New York Section, Dr. James Warnock of IBM and a 2012 Fellow, Mel I Olken, Life Fellow, editor-in-chief of Power & Energy Magazine and historian of the New York Section, Dr. Ron Brown, LSM and the chair of the Maine Section, Astronaut Dr. Gregory Olsen and his colleagues Jennifer Romano and Ivan Lam of GHO, and Bill Coyne for their direct and indirect contributions to this month’s edition of the Monitor. A few words from your editor he word March is thought to have been derived from the word Martius which in the ancient Roman language meant the God of War (Mars). Romans started their calendar year with Mars as T the first month of the year. Then in 1752 we adopted the Gregorian calendar and our year now starts on January 1. There are many characterizations of March such as “When March comes in like a lion it goes out like a lamb.” This year March came to New York area as a lamb but it seems that it will go out nudging us a little more but not as fiercely as a chase by a lion. The early onset of spring might be harmful from an ecological point of view but it certainly has helped the activities of our Section. Our activities were started by student members who attended the IEEE Region 1 Student Conference. Many student groups from our area won competitions that were set at that Conference. Our congratulations go to all those participating students for their excellent team spirits. Please see the March message from our Section chair for her report on the student activities. At our Award Dinner Dance ceremony in February last we requested the newly minted IEEE Fellows if they could write about their work in a language that our heterogeneous readership can understand. We thought that it will also be good for the younger members to know what the IEEE Fellows are up to. One day some of those young students will also become Fellows and we should encourage them in this. We are happy that Dr. James Warnock, a 2012 Fellow took up the challenge and submitted the first essay of our series that we earnestly hope that other Fellows will follow. Dr. Ronald Brown, LSM and the Chair of the IEEE Maine Section is no stranger to us. In April 2011 he wrote a very interesting article in the Monitor. He has again made us happy with his second article underlining the advantage of engineering students joining the IEEE. Dr. Brown is passionate about engineering education and the IEEE’s role in it. His presentation can be seen by clicking on the appropriate tab on the anchor page. The presentation was first given at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Maine, Orono, ME. We hope that in future we will be able to count on further cooperation from Dr. Brown. Dr. Gregory H. Olsen, LF was the speaker at our monthly joint PES/IAS/LMAG meeting on January 24 last. He is the world’s third private citizen to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) on board the Soyuz space ship. In response to our request Dr. Olsen has given his permission to include some slides from his presentation in this issue of the Monitor. They can be seen by clicking on the thumbnail images on our anchor page. His presentation at New York Institute of Technology can also be seen on YouTube. The URL is given under Dr. Olsen’s item below. 4 Albert Einstein German-Swiss-American Physicist Developed the Theory of General Relativity on which so many of our technical innovations depend March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955 “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” “A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving...” 5 The house at 112 Mercer Street, Princeton, NJ where Albert Einstein lived for many years. Now it is used as a private residence. 6 = 7 Fascinating facts from Einstein’s life . Amitava Dutta-Roy, Editor he day of Einstein’s birth could be written as 3.14. These are the first three digits of “pi” that enter in many engineering, scientific and mathematical calculations. For this reason March 14 is T declared as the global “Pi” day. For all important dates in Einstein’s life please visit: http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/Astro-Physics/albertEinstein.html Did you know though Einstein’s general theory of relativity brought fame to his name the Nobel prize was not for his work on that theory? The Nobel Prize citation was "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" (Nobel.org). The original paper on photo electricity “On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light year” was published by Einstein in 1905 when he was only 26 years old! In recent years, some theoretical physicists postulated the existence of neutrinos that traveled at a speed higher than the velocity of light, the core idea behind Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Some experiments under Project Opera were conducted by the Albert Einstein for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern, Switzerland that showed that indeed there were particles capable of traveling at speed higher than c. Later, it was discovered that parts of the technical setup of Project Opera were flawed. Last month scientists at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Switzerland under the guidance of Dr. Carlo Rubbia, also a Nobel Laureate, conducted new experiments. These experiments — under the project name of Icarus* — showed that Albert Einstein was always right. Nothing in our universe travels faster than light, i.e., 299792458meters (or 186,282miles) per second. For these experiments neutrinos were fired from Geneva, Switzerland, the seat of CERN to the detectors located 729.03km (or 453miles) away in Italy.
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