2015 November-December Digital Reflector

NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 1, 2015 VOL. LXIV, NO.3

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November - December Editorial, ‘Launching a Conference Worthy of the Hub of Innovation, by Ted Kochanski, Local Conferences Chair, Boston Section................................................................................................. Page 4 Entrepreneurs’ Network ………………………………………………………………………………………… Page 6 Robotics & Automation Society ……………………………………………………………………….……….. Page 7 Photonics Society …………………………………………………………………………………….………….. Page 8 Entrepreneurs’ Network …………………………………………………………………………..……………... Page 9 Call for Course Speakers and Organizers …………………………………………………..………………. Page 11 Reliability Society ………………………………………………………………………………..……………… Page 11 Women in Engineering, Aerospace & Electonic Systems, Education Societies ………………………… Page 13 Electromagnetic Compatibility Society ……………………………………………………………………….. Page 14 Life Members ………………………………………………………………………………………................... Page 15 Robotics & Automation Society ………………………………………………………………......…………… Page 15 Life Members ……………………………………………………………..…………………………………….. Page 16 Reliability, and Aerospace and Electronic Systems Societies …………………………...………………… Page 17 Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society ………………………………………………………..……………. Page 19 Women in Engineering …………………………………………………………………..…………………….. Page 19 2015 IEEE/MIT undergraduate research Technology Conference, Call for Participation ………………. Page 20 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Phased Array Systems & Technology, Call for Papers …...…. Page 21 Introduction to Embedded Android ……………………………………………………………………..…….. Page 22 Advanced Embedded Linux Optimization ………………………………………………………….………... Page 24 Practical RF PCB Design ………………………………………………………………..…………...……...... Page 26 Making You a Leader Fast Track …………………………………………………………………..…………. Page 27 Defining and Writing Business Requirements …………………………………………………..…………… Page 28 Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Device Drivers ………………………………..………… Page 29 Catching and Preventing More and More Important Defects Earlier ……………………………….…….. Page 32 Software Estimating ……………………………………………………………………………….....………… Page 33 IEEE IBM Watson Student Showcase ……………………………………………………………..…........... Page 35 2016 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Call for Papers …......... Page 36 Please take this short survey, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B8R2DYL

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IEEE Boston Section Online Courses: Verilog101:Verilog Foundations CLASS DESCRIPTION: Verilog is IEEE standard 1364. It is a Hardware Description Language that is the corner stone of much of the simulation world. Verilog Foundations is a comprehensive introduction to the IEEE 1364 (Verilog). The Verilog Foundations class has a slightly different approach to learning Verilog than other methods.

There is a lecture section for each main topic. This presents a basic foundation for the language. There are nearly 100 labs/examples giving comprehensive “how to” examples of most Verilog language constructs. There are working solutions for each lab. All the work can be done independently by the engineers, at their own computer, and at their own pace. Register at http://www.ieeeboston.org and click on course title System Verilog 101: Design Constructs CLASS DESCRIPTION: SytemVerilog is an extensive set of language constructs to the IEEE 1364-2001 standard. It’s meant to aid in the creation and verification of models. There are over 100 labs/ examples giving comprehensive “how to” examples of most SystemVerilog language constructs. There are working solutions for each lab and the students can use the lab database for developing their own models later. The class is also self paced. All the work can be done independently by the engineers, at their own computer, and at their own pace. There are self-grading quizzes for each chapter that allow the student to see if he/she is learning the material. The lab database you will be able to download and is yours to keep.

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Launching a Conference Worthy of the Hub of Innovation: The Boston Section of the IEEE must lead the way -- innovation is in our blood and our DNA

Ted Kochanski, Chair, Standing Committee on Local Conferences and New Initiatives

We have a responsibility to our peers, forbears and followers to fulfill the challenge, put forth by Governor John Winthrop, in 1630, on board the Arabella, “that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.” In 1819, William Tudor gave us the appellation “Athens of America.” A generation later in 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Atlantic Monthly, indelibly marked Boston as the “Hub” when he wrote that “StateHouse is the hub of the solar system.”

In 1903, people who firmly believed in the “City”, the “Athens” and the “Hub,” founded the predecessor of the IEEE Boston Section. Since then we have mostly been the IEEE’s “City on a Hill,” and since World War II, for much of the world’s students, we’ve been the Athens of science, and the Hub of technology. However, lately people mention Silicon Alley in NYC, and Austin Texas often before Boston. Innovation Hub Now is a proposed new event designed to showcase the entire local technical community on a global stage with key contributions from the Boston Section members.

I’ve been writing Reflector editorials since the mid 1990’s – often talking about innovation such as March 2012’s, “Tales of Some Innovations” about Charles Williams and his “Technology Greenhouse @ 109 Court Street. Since 2000, I’ve chaired the standing committee on Local Conferences [and new initiatives], whose mission is to develop conferences which are attractive to both attendees and sponsors and hence financially self-sustaining. During my tenure, dedicated volunteers with the invaluable support of our Office Staff have tried a number of projects. Most have attracted reasonable attendance including: “Toward Smarter Grids,” and “In-

novative Technologies for an Efficient and Reliable Electricity Supply.”

Two fully locally originated conferences can be considered on-going and successful: HST – “IEEE Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security,” held annually since 2002, http://www.ieee-hst.org/default.html, and TePRA – “IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications,“ held annually since 2007, http://www.ieeerobot-tepra.org/.

However, we have not created a NEREM / Electro – “Northeast Electronics Research & Engineering Meeting” [held from 1947 to 1976 and its successor ELECTRO]. In their heyday they welcomed over 20,000 attendees, over 500 companies exhibited -- Important papers were presented and new products and technologies introduced. Is it possible in this era of: Multi-B$ companies founded on an “Ap,” while fewer young professionals chose to become IEEE members; to initiate something of lasting value to the IEEE Boston Section and its members?

The IEEE Strategic Plan offers some guidance – in the following excerpts, or paraphrases [I encourage all to read this for your own edification http://www.ieee.org/about/ieee_strategic_plan.html ]: Mission: Foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. Vision: Be universally recognized for the contributions of technology. 2015 - 2020 Goals: help individuals from around the world to share, collaborate, network, Provide technically vital forums for the discussion, development, and dissemi-

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nation of authoritative knowledge, while focusing on emerging and disruptive technologies. Key initiatives: Provide more for younger professionals and entrepreneurs; ensure the vitality and relevance of conferences, increase value to our members; adapt to meet the demands of a changing environment, while managing the financial and sustainable health of IEEE. So how do we as the IEEE Boston Section address our need for something which is both fundamentally local, focuses on innovation and disruption and which can have a global impact for the betterment of humanity.

What we cannot and should not do is to compete with: “meet-ups,” offered by various groups promoting technology, innovation and entrepreneurship; corporate promotions; university symposia – All available on the digital calendars of any member who wishes to subscribe. What these lack is the imprimatur of the IEEE. Nor should we try to compete with the specialized IEEE Conferences developed by the various Technical Societies -- they lack the singular association with the Hub of Innovation.

While there are still clever people putting together future great companies in Waltham, Burlington, Lexington, etc. -- Rt-128 as America’s Technology Highway is old and tired. We don’t get the media attention of Silicon Valley, or even Austin Texas [e.g. South by Southwest]. Today, many of our innovators are localizing to the backyard of MIT in Cambridge, and increasingly in Boston’s Innovation District and other city locales.

We offer the world a unique “Science and Technological Ethos” -- the Hub of Innovation, led by our unparalleled concentration of higher education, featuring the great private and public research universities. These are complemented by government and private sector research laboratories, in the footsteps of the WWII Radiation Lab, along with Technology Greenhouses, following in the footsteps of Charles Williams @ the legendary 109 Court Street. Oh and let’s not forget, the future Bell and Watson in their future @ 16 Exeter Place, who are forging whole new chapters in the story of technology.

My modest suggestion follows -- along with a plea for you the Boston Section membership to help take this idea and make it into the next ELECTRO for the Boston Section.

Innovation Hub Now Conference and exhibition: • IEEE- quality conference / exhibition with International scope • Guided by the Boston Section Chapters • Contribution from the Boston Section members including student branch members • Autumn 2016? – the Hub -- Boston – MIT? • Compact and brief with both technical content and exciting technological demonstrations followed or accompanied by “social afterglow” • Blend of the old and the new o - a select group of the historic contributions – e.g.

IEEE Milestones o - the latest and the greatest -- Must be “unknown to people knowledgeable in the field” – must be from “Here” • “Bracket-style” selection process 1. Chapter each select 1 broad topic of interest – e.g. personal area networks 2. Boston Section members submit nominees – people, labs, companies, technologies, products 3. Selection Committee fills out the “Brackets” – the nominees to be voted in each category 4. Nominees are displayed with their abstracts on the IEEE Boston Website 5. IEEE Boston Membership votes on nominees – winnowing them down to the Final X Selectees invited to present 6. Selectees are formally invited and publicized to the world on the Boston section Website – they get to exhibit and present for free • Supporting papers and exhibits are recruited 1. Posters from student branches attend @ discount The Organizing process starts Now – Join -- After all – We are all part of the Hub of Innovation! [ Follow us @ ieeeboston.org under Innovation Hub Now.]

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Entrepreneurs’ Network – 6:30PM, Tuesday, 3 November

Founder Agreements and Solving Issues Among Founders Meeting Location – Constant Contact, 1601 Trapelo Road, 1st Floor, InnoLoft, Waltham, MA . PREMEETING DINNER at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, Waltham.

So you and your co-founding team want to start a company? Starting a company without carefully considering some important co-founder questions and issues can significantly undermine your company’s chances of success. What questions should you consider when dividing the initial equity? What do you need to do to ensure the company’s ownership of IP? How do you protect your company and your investors if a co-founder stops working or leaves the company?

To answer these questions, our panel will discuss start-up formalization using founder agreements.

These agreements define each team member’s roles and responsibilities as they will appear in legal filings. Equity ownership and vesting will be addressed as will the impact of unequal founder initial investment. Another essential aspect of technology start-ups is intellectual property (IP) ownership. Will some of the founders bring IP with them to the new venture? If so, IP ownership and licensing issues must be settled.

These are just a few of the issues our panel of experienced experts will address on November 3rd. You will also have the opportunity to ask your own questions and to network with others who, like yourself, will be start-up founders.

Speaker: Chris Stepanian, President and CEO, Windgap Medical, Inc. Chris Stepanian is a co-founder of Windgap Medical, Inc. www.windgapmedical.com and has served as President, CEO, and board-member since the Company’s founding. Windgap has developed and is commercializing its patent-pending wet/dry autoinjector platform and proprietary drug formulation to address major deficiencies in the epinephrine

autoinjector market, a $1.3 billion dollar opportunity.

He has also helped to raise $6.5 million in equity funding from angel, venture, and strategic sources. Windgap’s series A round of investment, just closed, is one of the largest angel/venture co-investment deals in the US this year. He is a long-time entrepreneur with more than 25 years of experience in operations, finance, strategy, and technology. He has experience in aerospace, automotive, contract-research, industrial materials, and healthcare industries. Previously he was a founding team member of Aspen Aerogels ( www.aerogel.com ) in Northborough, MA where he contributed to research, operations, and finance. He is a long-time organizer of the Head of the Charles Regatta® and a former board member of Community Rowing, Inc. He has engineering degrees from Rensselaer and Texas A&M along with an MBA from MIT’s Sloan Fellows program.

Speaker: Jack M. Swig, Attorney at Law and Council at Finance Mr. Swig’s background and experience span that of senior legal function, private merchant banking, corporate finance and venture capital in diverse roles including lending, bridge financing, and as a venture capital fund manager and in-house counsel in the medical diagnostics, devices and therapeutics sectors. He is well versed in the areas of business and strategic development and corporate alliance. He has, during several periods in his career, been deeply involved in crisis management and developed acumen in turnarounds, workouts and asset recovery with varying stages of private and public enterprises.

Prior to undertaking his specialty law and finance practice, he served for more than 12 years as Vice President of Corporate Development and General Counsel for Microfluidics International Corporation (formerly public – MFLU; acquired in 2012 by IDEX Corporation (NYSE: IEX), and its subsidiary, Microfluidics Corporation). Mr. Swig also served as the company’s Investor Relations Manager for almost 15 years, often working with market makers and analysts. Since 2011, Mr. Swig has served, part-time,

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as In-house Counsel, strategic planner, a capital and funding resource development and coordinator for a Biotech/Medical Device and Cleantech non-profit incubator (that he helped to create and develop). He Interacts with and advises the CEO, COO and Chairman with regard to a wide range of day to day, special project and strategic planning activities. His responsibilities include all legal agreements, technical and business evaluation, due diligence investigation of applicants, needs assessment for applicant companies, assisting portfolio companies with identifying financing prospects and presentations and collaborations.

Since mid-2008 Mr. Swig has been a sole practitioner in his legal and finance consulting practice working extensively with early stage companies on corporate development, financing, strategic partnerships and alliances, and a wide range of matters with clients from pharmaceutical R&D, Life Science Research Tools, Medical Devices, Healthcare, and Cleantech/ Energy Savings sectors. His legal work generally revolves around corporate and securities matters, confidentiality, material transfer and related agreements, Intellectual Property strategy and licensing.

Moderator: Greg Dawe, https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregdawe

Greg Dawe is ENET’s Vice Chair of Operations and has been working in the software industry for over 30 years, first as an engineer, and later, in management. For over 10 years, he held senior management positions in the computer network security industry including experience with RSA Security, Inc. Greg specializes in establishing and growing new organizations directly linked to improving company results. Meeting Location: Constant Contact, Inc., Reservoir Place, Main Building InnoLoft Great Room, 1st Floor, 1601 Trapelo Rd., Waltham, MA (Exit 28B, I-95/Route 128). Pre-meeting Dinner at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, Waltham, (Exit 27B, Route 128) Check for Updates at: Boston Entrepreneurs’ Network Website at http://www.boston-enet.org. Directions: http://www.constantcontact.com/about-constant-contact/office-location-waltham.jsp Reservations: ENET Constant Contact meetings are free to ENET members and $20 for non-members. No reservations are needed for the dinner.

To expedite sign-in for the meeting, we ask that everyone -- members as well as non-members -- pre-register for the meeting online. Pre-registration is available until midnight the day before the meeting. If you cannot pre-register, you are welcome to register at the door.

Robotics and Automation Society – 6:00PM, Tuesday, 10 November

Manipulation in Unstructured Settings Joseph Romano, Ph.D., Berkshire Grey, Inc.

object sets, fixtures/jigs, and safety cages. Advances in hardware (low-cost sensors, high-precision low-volume manufacturing) and software (algorithmic research in perception, control and planning) has renewed interest in applying robot manipulation to problems with far less structure. These modern efforts include things like Industrial tasks such as welding, painting, and part handling parts where the geometric or material propertransport were some of the first commercially suc- ties are not well known, or accomplishing tasks without cessful uses of robots. A significant contributor to that an a priori detailed model of the world. success has been the ability to tightly control the variability in these environments with things like limited The challenges that arise with automation in unstrucNominations for Chapter Officer Positions will also be accepted at this meeting! Contact chair@roboticsboston.org if you have questions about volunteering for the Chapter, or the upcoming election! Doors open: 6:00 P.M. Presentation: 6:30 P.M. Dinner: 8:00 P.M.

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tured settings are often surprising and unexpected.

For example, motion speed and accuracy of robotic manipulation systems outpaced human capabilities long ago, but robots still usually lag far behind on task-level throughput and reliability. The subtleties of human manipulation that allow us to complete everyday tasks are often poorly understood, and are challenging to translate into automated subroutines. Even the seemingly simple task of grasping and transporting an object remains a major research challenge when lacking detailed prior information about the object and environment properties to design around.

This presentation will give examples of robotic systems applied to industrial problems, and discuss interesting challenges that arise when assumptions about the world’s structure and reality no longer align. This will serve as a motivator for discussing various modern techniques making their way from academia to industry for handling unstructured settings.

Joe is a Research Scientist developing next-generation robotic platforms at Berkshire Grey Inc. in Waltham, Massachusetts. Prior to BG, Joe was part of the engineering team that brought Rethink Robotics Baxter Robot to life and part of the advanced research team at Kiva Systems (Amazon Robotics) where he designed the Amazon Picking Challenge academic contest . He

received his Masters/PhD from the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP laboratory focusing on algorithms for robotic tactile manipulation and virtual haptic rendering, and his BS at Johns Hopkins University working in surgical robotics. Joe’s interests span signal-processing, control, and planning strategies that allow robots to accomplish delicate sensor-aware manipulation tasks.

Meeting Location: iRobot, 8 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA 01730 Unhosted Dinner: Flatbread Company, 213 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 Have more questions? Want to share a drink with the speaker? Want to network with fellow engineers and professionals? Just want to chat about the current goings-on in Robotics, or technology in general? Join us for dinner, where you can talk about Robotics in a more casual setting!

General Information: This and other RAS meetings are open to the general public. For more information about the RAS Boston Chapter, contact Chapter Chair Ryan Pettigrew at chair@robotics-boston.org or visit http://www.robotics-boston.org/.

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Photonics Society – 6:30PM, Thursday, 12 November

Quantum Optomechanics and Quantum Heat Engines

Pierre Meystre - Department of Physics and College of Optical Sciences - University of Arizona

Quantum optomechanics offers considerable promise both in fundamental and in applied science, with the potential of gaining a deeper understanding of the quantum-classical transition, and also of developing sensors capable of probing extremely feeble forces, often with spatial resolution at atomic scales.

Its rapid development is the result of a convergence from two perspectives on the physical world. From the top down, ultra-sensitive micromechanical and nanomechanical detectors have become available utilizing the advanced materials and processing techniques of

the semiconductor industry and nanoscience. And from the bottom-up perspective, quantum optics and atomic physics have yielded an exquisite understanding of the mechanical aspects of light–matter interaction, including how quantum mechanics limits the ultimate sensitivity of measurements and how measurement backaction can be harnessed to control quantum states of mechanical systems.

After a tutorial general introduction, the talk will discuss selected recent advances, including the development of quantum heat engines and heat pumps that may help shed light on fundamental questions in stochastic and quantum thermodynamics.

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Pierre Meystre obtained his Physics Diploma and PhD from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Habilitation in Theoretical Physics from the University of Munich, Germany. He is a Regents Professor of Physics and Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona, and since 2013 serves as Lead Editor of Physical Review Letters. His research interests include theoretical quantum optics, atomic physics, ultracold science, and quantum optomechanics. He has published well over 300 refereed papers and is the author of the text “Elements of Quantum Optics”, together with Murray Sargent III, and of the monograph “Atom Optics.” He is a recipient of the Humboldt Foundation Research Prize for Senior US Scientists, the R.W. Wood Prize of the Optical Society of America, and the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Optical Society of America, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

(an MIT Lincoln Laboratory facility), Lexington, MA, 02420. The meeting is free and open to the public. All are welcome. Prior to the seminar there will be social time and networking from 6:30 – 7:00PM. Dinner will also be provided. The seminar will begin at 7:00PM. For more information contact Jade Wang, Boston IEEE Photonics Society Chapter chair at jpwang@ll.mit.edu, or visit the Boston IEEE Photonics Society website at www.bostonphotonics.org.

Directions to Forbes Rd Lincoln Laboratory: (from interstate I-95/Route 128. Take Exit 30B onto Marrett Rd in Lexington – Merge into left lane. Make the first Left onto Forbes Rd. Proceed straight through the small rotary and enter the parking lot. The entrance is on your right.

To assist us in planning this meeting, please preThis meeting begins at 6:30 PM Thursday, Novem- register at http://www.ieeeboston.org/Register/. ber 12th , 2015 and will be located 3 Forbes Road Entrepreneurs Network, Cambridge Meeting - 6:00PM, Tuesday, 17 November

Seed and Angel Financing

Meeting location – Microsoft Technology Center, One discussion on how to prepare a company for raising Cambridge Center (Kendall Square, next to Marriott angel capital or seed stage investment, the raise itself, and how to work with angel groups or seed investors Hotel), Cambridge, MA. after getting the investment.

Discover how Angel and Seed investors approach the problem of making a good investment. Go behind the Speaker: Michael Gladstone, Atlas scenes of the decision making to discover the process Venture, http://atlasventure-ls.com our panelist-investors use to choose and to invest in emerging and seed stage companies. Whether you Michael Gladstone is a principal at are planning to launch a company or you are planning Atlas Venture, where he focuses on the next level, a Seed or Angel investor could be the new company creation. Michael has funding source you are looking for. Maybe you’re not been involved in building several Atlas even sure what angel investment is? This panel will Venture-originated companies, includfocus on the nature of angel and seed investments in ing Spero Therapeutics, Padlock TherNew England technology based companies, and on apeutics, and Surface Oncology. He has also been how to obtain that initial angel or seed-stage invest- closely involved with Atlas’s immuno-oncology investment in your company. Two of the speakers will be ments CoStim Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Novarinvestors in early stage life science companies and tis) and Unum Therapeutics. the third speaker an investor in other early stage companies. The panelists will also offer candid views and Prior to joining Atlas in 2012, Michael was a senior asPlease take this short survey, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B8R2DYL

10 The Reflector, November - December 2015 sociate consultant at L.E.K. Consulting, where he focused on business development and corporate strategy for biopharma clients. Previously, Michael worked in the Viral Pathogenesis department of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center under Professor Norman Letvin. His research focused on elucidating the role of interleukin-21 in CD8+ T cell memory response to viral antigens.

Michael received an AB in biochemical sciences with highest honors from Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude and was awarded the Harvard College Scholarship.

Speaker: Carl Berke, Partner, Partners HealthCare, http://innovation.partners.org Carl is a Partner at Partners HealthCare Innovation Fund in Boston, investing in new biomedical technologies emerging from Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham & Womens Hospital. He is also currently a Founding Director of Mass Medical Angels LLC, a local investment group dedicated to seed stage investment in biomedical innovation. His career has spanned over 25 years in the practice and management of innovation to bring new technologies from lab to market. As a bench scientist and R&D director, he worked at Polaroid Corporation and Hygeia Sciences in the development of photographic and clinical products – he is an inventor on 6 US patents. He served as a Partner at Integral/ Analysis Group, a management consultancy focused on innovation and growth strategy. He has served on the boards of Quosa [literature management software], Kasalis [robotics], Annovation [novel anesthetics], Combinent [drug delivery], Sebacia [acne treatment], Infobionic [cardiac monitoring], QPID Health [bioinformatics], LifeImage [diagnostic image sharing], Syntimmune [autoimmune therapy], Argo Cardiovascular and the Sudanese Education Fund [philanthropy]. Carl holds an AB degree from Cornell University and received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an appointment as Lecturer in the Biomedical Enterprise Program in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

Moderator: Andrew Snyder, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Broad Institute, Cambridge Andrew Snyder, Ph.D. is a Research Scientist at the Broad Institute https://www.broadinstitute.org of MIT and Harvard. In his current role, he focuses on finding novel therapeutics for cardiovascular disease in collaboration with Bayer Healthcare. Prior to working at the Broad, Andy worked at Targanox, Inc, a biotech focused on discovering targeted therapeutics to offset the effects of reactive oxygen species. As part of the initial startup team, Andy was responsible for setting up the biology laboratory, co-developing the proteomics platform and conducting screening assays to identifying targets and inhibitors. Andy completed his post-doctoral training in cancer biology at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, PA and was a NRSA NIH/NCI individual award recipient. Andy holds a Ph.D. (Molecular and Cell Biology) and a M.S. degree (Environmental Molecular Biology) from the University of Maryland at Baltimore and a B.S. in microbiology from the University of Maryland at College Park. Andy began volunteering with ENET in 2014.

Co-Organizer: Robert Adelson, Esq., Partner, Engel & Schultz LLP Robert Adelson, business and tax attorney at the Boston law firm of Engel & Schultz LLP

www.ExecutiveEmploymentAttorney.com.

He is Chairman of IEEE Boston Entrepreneurs’ Network. Rob has been an attorney for over 30 years specialized in business, tax, stock options, employment, contracts, financings, trademarks and intellectual property. Rob began as an associate at major New York City law firms before returning home to Boston in 1985 where he has since been a partner in small and medium sized firms before joining his present firm in 2004. Rob represents entrepreneurs, start-ups and small companies, independent contractors and employees and executives. He has been named among

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Rob has been on the ENET Board since 2002 and Chairman since 2009. He holds degrees from Boston University, B.A., summa cum laude, Northwestern University (Chicago), J.D., Law Review, and New York University, LL.M. in Taxation.

Where: Microsoft Technology Center, One Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA. 02142 Phone: (781) 4876400 The One Cambridge Center GENERAL ENTRANCE is on Main Street, Cambridge, across from the Kendall Square Post Office. Exit Kendall Square T Station to Main Street. Once you exit the station, head down the Marriott side of Main Street going in the direction of Boston/the Longfellow Bridge. The

One Cambridge Center entrance is located next to the Boston Properties entrance. Enter through the glass revolving door and proceed to the Microsoft facilities on the second floor. Note: There is also a direct Microsoft entrance across from the rotary at the confluence of Main Street and Broadway. See also: http://www. microsoft.com/en-us/mtc/locations/boston_directions. aspx Note: There is also a direct Microsoft entrance across from the rotary at the confluence of Main Street and Broadway.Admission: General admission is $10. Free to ENET members. Free Pizza and soft drinks will be served. Advanced registration is requested For more information and updates, visit www.boston-enet.org

Call for Course Speakers/Organizers IEEE’s core purpose is to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. The IEEE Boston Section, its dedicated volunteers, and over 8,500 members are committed to fulfilling this core purpose to the local technology community through chapter meetings, conferences, continuing education short courses, and professional and educational activities.

If you have an expertise that you feel might be of interest to our members, please submit that to our online course proposal form on the section’s website (www. ieeeboston.org) and click on the course proposal link (direct course proposal form link is http://ieeeboston.org/course-proposals/. Alternatively, you may contact the IEEE Boston Section office at sec.boston@ieee.org or 781 245 5405.

Twice each year a committee of local IEEE volunteers meet to consider course topics for its continuing education program. This committee is comprised of practicing engineers in various technical disciplines. In an effort to expand these course topics for our members and the local technical community at large, the committee is publicizing this CALL FOR COURSE SPEAKERS AND ORGANIZERS.

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The Boston Section is one of the largest and most technically divers sections of the IEEE. We have over 20 active chapters and affinity groups.

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Honoraria can be considered for course lecturers Applications oriented, practical focused courses are best (all courses should help attendees expand their knowledge based and help them do their job better after completing a course Courses should be no more than 2 full days, or 18 hours for a multi-evening course Your course will be publicized to over 10,000 local engineers You will be providing a valuable service to your profession Previous lecturers include: Dr. Eli Brookner, Dr. Steven Best, Colin Brench, to name a few.

Reliability Society – 6:00PM, Wednesday, 18 November

S20.20-2014 Changes, Implications, and Test Methods Ted Dangelmayer, Dangelmayer Associates, LLC.

The worldwide industry standard for static control programs, ANSI/ESD S20.20 undergoes review every 5 years. This time, the changes were numerous and the review process took almost 7 years. The current version was released in 2014. Companies who are certified to S20.20 - 2007 have until 2016 to comply with the 2014 version. The document changes, both editorial and technical, and their implications for users, will be discussed in this talk. The changes will

expand the use of some test methods or require new test methods and possibly new test equipment. These test methods, implications and S20.20 limitations will be presented. Anyone involved with a static control program that is either compliant or certified to S20.20 will find important information in this presentation.

Please download and read S20.20 - 2014 prior to the meeting.

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12 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Free download at: http://www.esda.org/Documents.html#s2020 Topics that will be included 1. Scope 2. Foreword 3.

Tailoring Statement a.

Clarification: requirements vs. optional technical elements 4.

Material Qualification Plan 5.

Personnel grounding and Required walking test 6.

Allowable Field Requirements 7. Ionization 8.

Soldering irons 9.

Packaging used as work surfaces 10. Requirements to Test Wrist Strap Connection Point S20.20 New/Revised Test Methods 1.

Walking Test Required 2.

Measuring fields from small objects – electrostatic voltmeter 3.

Measuring voltages on isolated conductors – High impedance contacting voltmeter 4.

New Test Equipment That May be Necessary Ted Dangelmayer has held leadership positions such as Chairman of the Lucent Global ESD Leadership Team, President of the International ESD Association, Chairman of the ANSI/ESDA Standards Committee, and General Chairman of the EOS/ESD Symposium.

Under Ted’s leadership, Lucent Technologies ¬ North Andover, MA, was the first site in the USA to become S20.20 certified. At the time, the Lucent site had 2,000,000 square feet of floor space and 12,000 employees. The lead DNV auditor was quoted as saying “I’ve audited literally hundreds of ESD programs and, without a doubt, the Lucent program is the best I have ever seen. It’s a world class benchmark, and you can quote me on that!” He has published numerous magazine articles, technical papers and two books, ESD PROGRAM MANAGEMENT. Ted holds three patents, is NARTE Certified, and has successfully completed the ESD Association ANSI/ ESDA S20.20 Course for Program Managers and Consultants. He is currently President of the Northeast Chapter of the ESD Association and a member of the ESD Association International Council of Education

and 2003 Technical Program Committee.

This is a joint IEEE Reliability Chapter and NEESDA event. This meeting will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at M/A-COM, Hale Street Building, 110 Hale St, Lowell, MA. It will begin with personal networking at 5:30 PM. The presentation will follow at 6:00 PM. Refreshments, compliments of the Reliability Chapter, will be available. You do not need to belong to IEEE or ESDA to attend this event; however we welcome your consideration of IEEE and ESDA memberships as career enhancing technical affiliations. We request that you register to attend by Friday, November 13, so we can plan the refreshments.

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M/A-COM is located at 110 Hale St, Lowell, MA. Directions to M/A-COM, Hale Street Building: (from Interstate-95 / Route 128) 1. Get on Lowell Connector From I-95 north or southbound: -Take exit 32A-32B for US-3 N toward Lowell -Continue on US 3-N for 9.5 miles -Keep right at the fork to continue on Lowell Connector, follow signs for I-495 N/Lawrence From I-495 northbound/southbound: -Take exit 35C-B-A for Route 3/Lowell Connector -Continue on Exit 35C, follow signs for Lowell Connector and merge onto Lowell Connector From NH US-3 Southbound: -Take Exit 30A-30B-31 for I-495/MA-110 toward Marlboro/Lawrence/Chelmsford -Use the middle lane to continue toward Lowell Connector, keeping left at first fork -At second fork, keep right to continue on Exit 30A, follow signs for I-495 N/Lawrence -Keep right to continue on Exits 35B-35C, follow signs for Lowell Connector 2. Stay on Lowell Connector for ~2.5 miles Take exit 5B for Massachusetts 3A N/Thorndike St Merge onto Thorndike St and immediately get into left lane

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13 The Reflector, November - December 2015 After less than 0.1 miles, turn left at the traffic light Main entrance to MACOM Hale Street is 3rd right hand turn after crossing Lowell Line bridge. onto YMCA Drive (Align Credit Union is the 1st right hand turn after YMCA Drive turns into Hale Street crossing bridge).

3. MACOM parking lot is then less than 0.1 miles (Employee-only entrance to MACOM is 2nd right hand turn after crossing bridge.) on right hand side.

Women in Engineering, Aerospace & Electronic Systems, and Education Societies – 5:30PM, Wednesday, 18 November

Working Mom - Director By Day and Night Ellen Ferraro, Ph.D.

There are often periods of time when working moms - all working people feel conflicted by the role of caregiver and that of the career professional.

No matter the reasons for choosing to work while raising children - the challenge of the career, a way to stay connected to the “adult” you, the need or desire to contribute financially, or any combination of these and other reasons - it’s a path that can be challenging. Ellen Ferraro will share her role as an Engineering Director at Raytheon and the Family Director at home. Hear her journey and the paths she chose along the way.

Emirates. Its broad portfolio of weapons, sensors and integration systems supports its customer base across multiple mission areas including air and missile defense systems; missile defense radars; early warning radars; naval ship operating systems; command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) systems; air traffic management; and other advanced technologies. IDS provides affordable, integrated solutions to a broad international and domestic customer base, including the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Armed Forces and the Department of Homeland Security.

Since joining Raytheon Company in 1994, Ferraro has held the role of Director of Engineering Operations, Director for the Strategic Architecture Directorate and acting IDS Technical Director, Deputy Director for the System Validation Test and Analysis Directorate, Department Manager and Systems Engineering Integrated Product Team Lead. In addition, Ferraro has been involved in the analysis of scattering and propagation over the ocean. She has also investigated spread clutter mitigation techniques for enhanced small target detection as well as the use of expert system technology to aid in the counter-drug mission. Ferraro has authored and presented more than a dozen technical papers at conferences, universities and IEEE meetings around the world.

Dr. Ellen Ferraro is the Director of the Systems Architecture, Design and Integration Directorate (SADID) within the Integrated Defense Systems (IDS) Engineering organization. She was appointed to this role in October, 2010. The SADID organization has approximately 1200 people across the US who are responsible for all aspects of systems engineering including requirements definition, modeling and simulation efforts, system effectiveness and operational analysis and algorithm development.

Raytheon Company, with 2014 sales of $23 billion and 61,000 employees worldwide, is a technology and innovation leader specializing in defense, security and Ferraro received her PhD degree in Electrical and Comcivil markets throughout the world. puter Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Headquartered in Tewksbury, Mass., IDS has locations at Amherst in 1994 under a NASA Graduate Student in Washington, California, Utah, New Mexico, Virginia, Research Fellowship. While working in the Microwave Texas, Maryland, Rhode Island, Alabama, Australia, Remote Sensing Laboratory (MIRSL) at the University Canada, Germany, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab of Massachusetts, her graduate research included the Please take this short survey, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B8R2DYL

14 The Reflector, November - December 2015 development of an airborne radar altimeter for the in- New Engineer Award and the SWE 2007 Emerging vestigation of surface and volume scattering from the Leaders Award.

Greenland ice sheet.

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Ferraro is a member of the Institute of Electrical and org/m/36213. or Electronics Engineers (IEEE). She was previously a http://www.ieeeboston.org/Register/. member of the IEEE 2007 Radar Conference Committee and vice chair of the IEEE 2010 Phased Array Meeting Location: Tufts University, Conference. She is an active member of the Boston Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Center. For Garmin, Section of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) enter 40 Talbot Ave., Somerville; For Tom Tom enand is the recipient of the Mass High Tech “Women to ter, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford.

Watch in 2006” Award, the SWE 1999 Distinguished Electromagnetic Compatibility Society – Wednesday, 18 November

EMC/EMI challenges for new RF Technologies: UHF RFID Khaled ElMahgoub, Autoliv ASP Inc.,

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a technology which uses RF signals for automatic identification of objects. RFID is used for many applications in various areas such as electronic toll collection, asset identification, retail item management and many others.

In this presentation, a brief description about RFID technologies in today’s market will be provided. In addition, a detailed description of the EMC / EMI challenges for UHF RFID technology and its testing will be discussed.

Khaled ElMahgoub received B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electronics and electrical communications engineering from Cairo University. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Mississippi, USA. ElMahgoub is a research affiliate with the Auto-ID Labs at the MIT. Currently, he is a senior manager of Radar Validation and Verification at Autoliv, Lowell, MA, USA. Previously, he was working as Validation Engineering Manager at Trimble Navigation, testing and developing RFID and IoT systems and applications. Throughout his academic years, he coauthored over 35 technical journals and conference papers. He is a senior member of IEEE, member of ACES, ACM and Phi Kappa Phi honor society.

ElMahgoub is the recipient of ACES Early Career

Award, University of Mississippi scholarship for Ph.D. Degree and University of Mississippi graduate school summer assistantship. His current research interests includes RFID systems, channel coding, FDTD, antenna design, and numerical techniques for electromagnetics.

Meeting Details: The meeting of the EMC Society will be held on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at Bose Corp., 100 The Mountain Road, Framingham, MA. The technical presentation will commence at 7:00PM following a social hour at 6:00 PM with food provided.

DIRECTIONS TO BOSE CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS: The address is 100 The Mountain Road, Framingham, MA, 01701 From Mass Pike (I-90); Take Exit 12 (Route 9 West) toward Worcester. Keep left at the fork on the ramp and get on Route 9 West. At the first set of lights take a right onto California Ave. (sign reads “Framingham Technology Park”). Go straight, then over the railroad tracks, and through the next set of lights. The road curves around to a STOP sign at the foot of the mountain. Take a left onto the Mountain Road and follow it to the top of the mountain. The tall glass building before you is the Bose Corporate Center.

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15 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Life Members – 4:00PM, Wednesday, 18 November

Spies, Lies and Sunken Subs

Jim Isaak, Past President IEEE Computer Society, 2016 VP IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology, 2003-4 IEEE Board of Directors, and retired from the Industry.

In 1968 ,the Soviet K129 Submarine sunk in the Pacific Ocean, and the USS Scorpion sunk in the Atlantic Ocean. In 1974 the Glomar Explorer picked up some portions of the K129 as a top secret CIA project. In 2006, I discovered in my father’s estate materials a thank you letter (and medal) for his assistance in the success of the Glomar Explorer. So I started to research the events and stories surrounding these events. There are many books in print (see the web site http://is.gd/sunkensubs for a related syllabus and list of publications.) Is there a connection between these two sinking’s? Why is there a “Glomar Exception” to the Freedom of Information Act?, Why is the cause of the K129 sinking still “Top Secret” ? There are lots of intriguing questions that have been raised, and much insight into the cold war role of submarines that surfaces (or sinks). This is not a story with a definitive end, it is an exercise in critical thinking and window into the curious events of 1962-1980+.

For additional background, visit www.JimIsaak.com.

The meeting will be held at the Lincoln Lab Auditorium, 244 Wood Street., Lexington, MA at 4:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM. Registration is in the main lobby. Foreign national visitors to Lincoln Lab require visit requests.

Please pre-register by e-mail to reception@ll.mit.edu and indicate your citizenship. Please use the Wood Street Gate.

For directions go to http://www.ll.mit.edu/; for other information, contact Steve Teahan, Chairman, at (978)763-5136, or Steve.F.Teahan@raytheon.com.

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Robotics and Automation Society - 6:00PM, Tuesday, 8 December

December Social & Election Meeting Doors Open: 6:00 PM Start of Meeting: 6:15 PM Unhosted Dinner: 6:30PM

Positions in the Steering Committee are always available, if you would like to voice your opinions!

December Social Meeting: Come join us after the election for affordable fine dining and Robotics & Technology centered conversation.

Questions at dinner may include: What key technology gaps are holding Robotics back?

What innovation this year will lead to the biggest breakChapter Elections: Come cast your vote for potential Officers of the IEEE throughs in Robotics?

Robotics & Automation Society, Boston Chapter!

Are traditional servos inadequate for the needs of deCurrently up for re-election: veloping modern Robots?

Chair: Ryan Pettigrew Positions up for Election: What can Robotics do to help the United States Vice-Chair: Open Economy?

Secretary: Open Can Robotics help the United States be the manufacWebmaster: Open turing king again?

Emerald Rose 785 Boston Road Billerica, MA 01821

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16 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Will affordable, consumer CNC machines make manufacturing as an industry obsolete?

What were the biggest successes in Robotics recently, and what are the biggest flops and epic fails?

public. For more information about the RAS Boston Chapter, contact Chapter Chair Ryan Pettigrew at chair@robotics-boston.org or visit http://www.robotics-boston.org/.

To assist us in planning this meeting, please pre-regGeneral Information: This and other RAS meetings are open to the general ister at http://www.ieeeboston.org/Register/.

Life Members – 4:00PM, Wednesday, 9 December

Hide, Dig and Dash: Three Great Escapes During World War Two John Horrigan will present a lecture about three daring escapes during World War II. Two American contractors hide on an island in the Pacific that is invaded and occupied by the Japanese in a story tabbed “The Robinson Crusoes of Wake Island”. Three British servicemen escape to England from a German prisoner-of-war camp by way of a tunnel dug in deception and secrecy in “The Wooden Horse”. And finally, two German battleships, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, escape from their port in France and run the English Channel in broad daylight in “The Channel Dash”.

the New England Patriots Alumni and is also a historical researcher and lecturer.

“A Pegasus in a world full of one-trick ponies” – TV producer Steven Russo “A cross between Indiana Jones and Fox Mulder – without all of the drama” – Boston Phoenix “A time traveler driving without a license” – WBUR Public Radio For additional information, please visit his websites: www.usfolklore.com, www.foklorist.tv and www.ushistory.me.

The meeting will be held at the Lincoln Lab Auditorium, 244 Wood Street., Lexington, MA at 4:00 PM. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 PM. Registration is in the main lobby. Foreign national visitors to Lincoln Lab require visit requests.

Please pre-register by e-mail to reception@ll.mit. edu and indicate your citizenship. Please use the Wood Street Gate.

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This presentation by New England folklorist John Horrigan will contain riveting accounts of some clever diversions and evasions during the Second World War and will feature video vignettes from his seventime Boston/New England Emmy® Award-winning television program “The Folklorist”. “The Folklorist” has been nominated sixteen times for a Boston/New England Emmy® Award, won twelve Telly Awards, eight Communicator Awards and won the national Alliance of Community Media Award for best “Entertainment & Arts- Series”. Horrigan is a program manager at Analogic, in a division that manufactures medical devices. He moonlights as a professional hockey To assist us in planning this meeting, please presports announcer with the Boston Bruins Alumni and register at http://www.ieeeboston.org/Register/.

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17 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Reliability, and Aerospace & Electronic Systems Socities – 6:00 PM, Wednesday, 9 December

Reliability as Impacted by Breakthroughs in Phased-Arrays and Radars – An Update Dr. Eli Brookner, IEEE AESS Distinguished Lecture

Systems: Patriot to now have GaN active electronically scanned array (AESA) providing 360o coverage, a 2015 state-of-the-art system providing better performance and reliability; Shipborne S/X-band AMDR AESA radar system will provides 30 times the sensitivity and number of tracks as SPY-1D(V) and better reliability; JLENS aerostat radar system now deployed over Washington DC

synaptic transistors and/or memristors, remember the brain only weighs about 2-3 pounds and uses only ~20 W, we have a long way to go.

Low Cost, Low Power Extreme MMIC (Moore’s law at Microwave and mm-waves): 4 T/R modules on single chip at X-band costing ~$10 per T/R module ; Full 32-element 60 GHz Tx/Rx phased array on single chip; on-chip built-in-self-test (BIST); these will be used in the internet-of-things and in cell phones which by 2020 is expected to number 50 billion; All the RF circuitry for mm-wave automobile radars at 25 GHz and 77 GHz are being put on a single chip with some believing that such arrays and radars will soon cost just a few dollars. Materials: GaN 38% less costly than GaAs, 100 million hr MTBF, GaN can provide 5X to 10X the power of GaAs in same footprint, now some GaN power transistors less costly than their Si counterparts.

Digital Processing and Moore’s Law: Not dead yet; Slowed down but has much more to go; Expect increase in transistors density by about a factor of ~50 in the next 30 years and reduction in signal processing power consumption by factor of ~75; and then there is graphene which has potential for terahertz transistor clock speeds, manufacture on CMOS demonstrated, could allow Moore’s law to march forward using present day manufacturing techniques; there is also spintronics which could revolutionize the computer architecture away from the John von Neumann model, potential to replace hard drive with low cost, more reliable memory having no moving parts and faster access time for data; and then there is potential of doing computations the way the brain efficiently and amazingly does, going analog by perhaps using

COSMOS: DARPA revolutionary MMIC program: Allows integration of III-V, CMOS and opto-electronics on one chip without bonded wires leading to higher performance, lower power, smaller size, components.

Digital Beam Forming (DBF): Israel, Thales and Australia AESAs have an A/D for every element channel; Raytheon developing mixer-less direct RF A/D having >400 MHz instantaneous bandwidth, reconfigurable between S and X-band. Metamaterials: Material custom made (not found in nature): Using 20 and 30 GHz metamaterial electronically steered antennas about the size of a laptop demonstrated December 2013 the transmission to satellites and back, goal is $1K per antenna, remains to prove low cost and reliability; 2-20GHz stealthing by absorption simulated using <1 mm coating; target made invisible over 50% bandwidth at L-band; Focus 6X beyond diffraction limit at 0.38 μm; The Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi MD has funded the development of a low profile metamaterial 250-505 MHZ antenna having a /20 thickness

Electrical and Optical Signals on Same Chip: Electricity and light have been simultaneously transmitted over a silver nanowire placed over single layer 2D MoS2, could be a step towards transporting on computer chips digital information at the speed of light; alternatively could use IR beams in a Si chip, which is transparent to IR, without ohmic loss.

Technology and Algorithms: A low thickness, low profile wideband antenna can also be built using tightly coupled dipole antennas (TCDA); Lincoln Lab increases spurious free dynamic range of receiver plus A/D by 40 dB MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output): Where it makes sense; contrary to what is claimed MIMO array radars do not provide 1, 2 or 3 orders of magni-

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18 The Reflector, November - December 2015 tude better resolution and accuracy than conventional array radars; MIMO does not provide better rejection of barrage-noise-jammers, repeater-jammers or hotclutter jammers than conventional array radars; airborne MIMO radar does not provide better minimum detectable velocity (MDV) than conventional radar

papers in Books of Reprints. 9 patents.

This event is the Chapter’s annual past chairs dinner and monthly meeting. The past chairs dinner recognizes past chairs of the IEEE Boston Reliability Chapter for their years of dedication and contributions to the chapter. Traditionally, this Low Cost Packaging: Raytheon, Rockwell Collins and meeting starts with social networking, followed Lincoln-Lab./MA-COM developing low cost X- and S- by dinner & announcements, then a presentation band flat panel AESA arrays using COTS type printed on a current reliability engineering topic by a keynote speaker. circuit boards (PCBs) This meeting will be held on Wednesday, December 9th, 2015 at MIT Lincoln Laboratory Forbes Road Facility, Lexington, MA. It will begin with personal networking at 5:30 PM. The annual dinner will be served at 6:00 PM. The presentation will follow the annual chapter announcements at 6:50 PM. IEEE members and non-members are Travelogue: Will include latest photos from travels to welcome. There is no charge for the dinner or presentation but we request that you register to Turkey, China, and Papua New Guinea. attend by Friday, December 4, so we can finalize Dr. Eli Brookner received his MEE and DrSc from Co- dinner arrangements. lumbia University ’55 and ’62; BEE from CCNY, ’53. At Raytheon from 1962 until retirement in 2014 as Prin- To assist us in planning this meeting, please precipal Engineering Fellow. Worked there on radars for register at http://www.ieeeboston.org/Register/. air traffic control, military defense, space & navigation: on ASDE-X, ASTOR RADARSAT II, AGBR, major MIT Lincoln Laboratory is located at 3 Forbes Space Based Radar programs, NAVSPASUR, CO- Road, Lexington, MA 02420.

BRA DANE, PAVE PAWS, MSR, COBRA JUDY Replacement, THAAD, SIVAM, SPY-3, Patriot, BMEWS, MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Forbes Road Facility is UEWR, SRP, Pathfinder, Upgrade for >70 ARSRs, located at 3 Forbes Road in Lexington, MA 02420.

AMDR, Space Fence, 3DELRR. Before Raytheon: Driving Directions to MIT Lincoln Laboratory Columbia Un. Electronics Research Lab. [now RRI], (Forbes Road Facility): (from Interstate-95 / Route Nicolet, and Rome AF Lab. Awards: IEEE 2006 Den- 128). Take Route 128 / I-95 to Exit 30B, Route 2A nis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technology & Applica- westbound. At the first traffic light, turn left onto tion; IEEE ’03 Warren White Award; Journal of Frank- Forbes Road. Go to the end of the street. At the lin Institute Premium Award best paper, 1966; IEEE traffic circle, turn right. Go halfway around the Wheeler Prize for Best Applications Paper, 1998. traffic circle and turn into the parking lot for MIT Fellow: IEEE, AIAA, & MSS. 4 books: Tracking and Lincoln Laboratory. The main entrance is straight Kalman Filtering Made Easy, John Wiley and Sons, ahead, shared with “agenus”. Have a valid drivInc., 1998; Practical Phased Array Antenna Systems er’s license to present to security.

(1991), Aspects of Modern Radar (1988), and Radar Technology (1977), last 3 Artech House. >10,000 at- Web map link: tended courses in 25 countries. Banquet/keynote https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/mapForbesRoad.html speaker 13 times. > 230 publications. > 100 invited. 6 Bio-degradable Array of Transistors or LEDs: Imbedded for detecting cancer or low glucose; can then dispense chemotherapy or insulin; New Symmetry Breaking Theory: Could allow in future placing small low frequency antennas on a chip; Quantum Radar: See stealth targets.

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19 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Geo-Science and Remote Sensing Society – 5:30PM, Thursday, 10 December

The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Mission Status and Early Results Prof. Dara Entekhabi, Professor with the Dep. of Civil and Environmental Eng. and the Dep. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT

NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission was launched on January 31, 2015. SMAP provides highaccuracy, frequent revisit global mapping of soil moisture and freeze/thaw state based on coincident L-band radiometer and L-band radar measurements. The science objective of the mission is to understand how the three major cycles of the Earth system – the water, energy and Carbon cycles – are linked together. Soil moisture is the key linking variable over land surfaces.

ter, MA the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge in 1990.

The mission also supports a number of applications such as drought monitoring and flood prediction that use soil moisture as a critical input. The mapping lowfrequency microwave measurements are also used in development of new data and information on the cryosphere and the biosphere. This presentation will include examples on the new Earth monitoring opportunities with the availability of mapping microwave measurement.

Prof. Entekhabi is also a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

He is currently a Professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT. He is the Science Team lead for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Soil Moisture Active and Passive (SMAP) mission that was launched January 31, 2015. His research includes terrestrial remote sensing, data assimilation, and coupled land–atmosphere systems modeling.

Meeting Location: MIT Lincoln Laboratory cafeteria, 3 Forbes Road, Lexington, MA 02420.

Map: https://www.ll.mit.edu/contractinformation.html

Dara Entekhabi (M’04, SM’09, Fellow’15) received the To assist us in planning this meeting, please pre-regB.S. and M.S. degrees from Clark University, Worces- ister at http://www.ieeeboston.org/Register/.

Women In Engineering – 12:00PM, Saturday, 12 December

December Holiday Luncheon

Please join us Saturday, December 12th at noon for a casual holiday lunch where you can get to know some of the WIE Boston members in a relaxed atmosphere while enjoying some great food. We would love to meet you. The luncheon will be held at The

Cheesecake Factory at the Burlington Mall. The cost is your lunch, drinks, and tip.

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20 The Reflector, November - December 2015

Meet Innovative Technology

http://ieee.scripts.mit.edu/conference Date: November 7-8, 2015 Location: Stata Center and Building 34 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 General Chair: Miri Choi (mirichoi@mit.edu) Co-Chair & Treasurer: Soon Wan (gimsoon@ieee.org)

Registration Chair: William Huang (huangjd@mit.edu) Sponsorship & Exhibition Chair: Bob Alongi (r.alongi@ieee.org)

On behalf of the MIT IEEE Student Branch and IEEE Boston Section, we would like to invite you to the inaugural IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference.

The 2015 URTC conference brings together undergraduates around the world to present, discuss, and develop solutions to advance technology for humanity. As an IEEE official conference, undergraduates may publish papers of their school projects, research, innovations, or case studies. Participants attend a rich program with keynote speeches and technical flash talks featuring renowned speakers, a student design competition, and networking events. The conference will be hosted on the MIT campus.

Conference Highlights:  Keynote Speeches by Barry Shoop, IEEE President and CEO, Tadayoshi Kohno, professor at the University of Washington, Midred Dresselhaus, 2015 recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor, Elliot F. Kaye, Chairman of US Product Consumer Safety Commission, and more.  Four Focus Technical Tracks  Energy, Renewable, and Sustainability  Humanity and Social Development  Communication and Connectivity  Computer and Information Technology  Competitive Brainstorming Competition  MIT Tours  Meet Industry experts through networking sessions Registration Deadline: November 6, 2015 Includes conference proceeding, meals, t-shirt, conference bag with giveaways, and admission to all conference programs.

To register: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/36353 Housing and Accommodations: 1. MIT Student Host (Free for non-MIT Students) 2. Hyatt Regency Cambridge

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21 The Reflector, November - December 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS

2016 IEEE International Symposium on

Phased Array Systems and Technology Revolutionary Developments in Phased Arrays 18–21 October 2016

Westin Waltham Hotel, Greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA www.array2016.org

Sponsors Platinum

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Technical Co-Sponsors

About the Symposium Phased array systems continue to be a rapidly evolving technology with steady advances motivated by the challenges presented to modern military and commercial applications. This symposium will present the most recent advances in phased array technology and present a unique opportunity for members of the international community to interact with colleagues in the field of Phased Array Systems and Technology.

Phased Array Topics 2016, the 6th International Symposium on Phased Suggested Array Systems and Technology, will be held at the Westin Hotel  Waltham System Architecture in Massachusetts on Boston’s famous Route 128 Technology Highway.  Aperture Design The symposium will include keynote and plenary sessions, parallel technical sessions, poster sessions,  Antenna Elements tutorials, and a student paper contest. Social events will include Beamforming Techniques awelcome reception with dinner and an awards banquet. banquet .  T/R Modules 

Signal Processing for Arrays

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Array Measurements

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Advanced Materials

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Packaging and Manufacturing Techniques

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Applied Computational Electromagnetics

Conference Chair: Jeffrey S. Herd, MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL) Vice Chair: William Weedon, Applied Radar Honorary Chair: Eli Brookner, Raytheon (retired) Technical Program Chair: Alan J. Fenn, MIT LL Technical Program Vice Chair: Wajih Elsallal, MITRE Special Sessions Chair: Sean Duffy, MIT LL Plenary Session Chairs: David Mooradd, MIT LL Eli Brookner, Raytheon (retired) Tutorials Chairs: Jonathan Williams, Autoliv Jonathan Doane, MIT LL Student Program Chairs: Bradley T. Perry, MIT LL Justin Kasemodel, Raytheon Secretary: Duane J. Matthiesen, Technia International Liaison: Alfonso Farina, Selex (retired)

See webpage for more details

Exhibits Chair: Dan Culkin, SRC, Inc.

Special Sessions

Please provide suggestions for special sessions to the Technical Program Chair at info@array2016.org

Paper Template and Submission Procedures Template and submission procedures are available at www.array2016.org/forauthors.htm

Publication Information

All accepted papers will be published on the conference CDROM and distributed to conference attendees. Selected papers meeting the publishing requirements will be published in IEEE Xplore as part of the IEEE Conference Publication Program.

Important Dates Summary (~1000 words + figures) Notification of Acceptance Final Papers (8 page max)

Conference Committee

15 Dec 2015 01 Feb 2016 01 Jun 2016

Publicity Chairs: Glenn Meurer, MITRE Don McPherson, SRC,Inc. Social Media Chair: Gregory Charvat, Butterfly Network Publications Chairs: Raoul Ouedraogo, MIT LL Will Moulder, MIT LL Poster Sessions Chairs: Greg Arlow, Lockheed Martin Mark McClure, Systems & Technology Research Sponsorships Chair: Jonathan Towle, Raytheon Local Arrangements/Finance: Robert Alongi, IEEE Boston Website: Kathleen Ballos, Ballos Associates Advisors: Ellen Ferraro, Raytheon Robert J. Mailloux, Arcon Hans Steyskal, Arcon Chris McCarroll, Raytheon Primary Sponsor: IEEE Boston Section

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22 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Introduction to Embedded Android Date & Time: Mondays, January 4, 11, 18, 25, 2016, 6 - 9PM Location: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA Speaker: Mike McCullough, RTETC, LLC

Course Summary - This course introduces the student to the use of Android in Embedded Systems and the use of Embedded Android Distributions. The first part of the course focuses on acquiring an understanding of basic Android concepts and on how Android is hosted by the Linux Operating System, highlighting areas of concern for Embedded Android systems development such as overall system design, boot performance and customization. The latter part of the course covers the differences between the standard Android Open Source Project and Embedded Android distributions.

Who Should Attend - The course is designed for realtime engineers who are building Embedded Android solutions. It is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Embedded Android.

This course will clearly demonstrate both the strengths and weaknesses of the use of Android in Embedded Systems.

Android Hardware Requirements Embedded Linux Usage in Android Java Usage in Android The Android API The Dalvik Virtual Machine (VM) The Android Runtime and Zygote The Java Native Interface (JNI) Binder and System Services Key Android Libraries

Debugging in Android Process-Level and System-Level Debug ADB, DDMS and Monkey GDB and KGDB GDB Server and Remote Debugging An ADB Example Course Schedule Day 2 Applications Development Overview Eclipse-Based Application Development The .apk File The Android Emulator

Linux Modifications to Support Android Wakelocks Low-Memory Killer Binder Anonymous Shared Memory (ashmem) Alarm Logger More Androidisms

Android Internals Hardware Support Native User Space More on Dalvik and Java in Android System Services and Binder Useful AOSP Packages System Startup Overview

Course Objectives • To provide a basic understanding of Android and its use in Embedded Systems • To gain an understanding of the complexities of Embedded Android Distributions • To learn how to configure, build, boot and deploy Embedded Android solutions • To understand the differences between the AOSP and Embedded Android build approaches • To give students confidence to apply these concepts to their next Embedded Android project

The AOSP The Android Development Host AOSP Basics OUTLINE Building and Running Android ADB and the Emulator Course Schedule Day 1

The Basics Course Schedule Day 3 What Android Is and What It Is Not The AOSP Build System Android Terminology, History and Versioning Comparison with Other Builders The Android Community: Phones, Tablets and Embed- Configuration and Functions ded Systems The envsetup.sh File Android, the GPL and the Apache Harmony Project Make Recipes Android and Linux References (Books and Online) Cleaning

Getting Started Modules in Android The Android Open Source Project The Android Delivery Model Building an Embedded Android Distribution

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23 The Reflector, November - December 2015 The Default Build Basic Build Recipes

AOSP Build Recipes The Build Commands Building the Software Development Kit (SDK) Building the Compliance Test Suite (CTS) Building the Native Development Kit (NDK) API Updates Building a Single Module Building Out-of-Tree and In-Tree Linaro The Linaro Organization Key Members and Participants The Linaro Mission Objective The Linaro Android Distribution Approach Getting the Latest Linaro Distribution The Linaro Distribution and Desktop Requirements The Linaro Repository The Linaro Maintainer Tools The Linaro Image Tools

The Linaro Distribution for the i.MX53 Top Level Hierarchy The GCC Tools for Linaro The abi, android-toolchain-eabi and bionic Directories The bootable and build Directories The cts, dalvik and development Directories The device Directory The docs and external Directories The frameworks and hardware Directories The kernel Directory The libcore and linaro-kernel-config Directories The ndk, packages and prebuilt Directories The sdk Directory The system Directory U-Boot in Linaro The Linaro Build Process The Linaro SD Creation Process The Linaro Tarballs Course Schedule Day 4 Native User Space The Android Filesystem The Android Root Directory The system and data Directories Building the Linux and Android Filesystems SD Card Layout

The Android Init Process Operation and Configuration Global Properties and ueventd The Boot Logo

The Android Command Line The Shell Toolbox Native Utilities and Daemons Framework Utilities and Daemons Adding Capabilities to the Android Filesystem

The Linux Console Shell The bash and ash Shells Busybox Linux Daemons Used by Android Adding Capabilities to the Linux Filesystem

The Android Framework Framework Startup Core Building Blocks System Services and Binder Boot Animation Dex Optimizations Application Startup Utilities and Commands Support Daemons The Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL)

Advanced Android Customizations Adding New Hardware Support Customizing the Default Packages More Init Customizations

Embedded Android Trends Moving to a Generic User Interface Easier Development for Non-Phones Debugging Embedded Android Better Documentation and Training

Some Final Recommendations

Lecturer Bio â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. A 25-year electronics veteran, he has held various positions at LynuxWorks, Tilera, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems, Lockheed Sanders, Stratus Computer and Apollo Computer. RTETC, LLC is a provider of Eclipse-based development tools, training and consulting for the embedded systems market.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, December 28, 2015 Payment received by Dec. 21 IEEE Members $390 Non-members $420 Payment received after Dec. 21 IEEE Members $420 Non-members $440

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24 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Advanced Embedded Linux Optimization Date & Time:

Mondays, December 1, 7, 14, 21, 6 - 9PM (Note: Dec 1 is a Tuesday, all other dates are Monday)

Location:

Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA

Speaker:

Mike McCullough, RTETC, LLC

Course Summary - This 4-day technical training course provides advanced training in the debugging, testing, profiling and performance optimization of Embedded Linux software. The first part of the course focuses on advanced debugging, testing and profiling in an Embedded Linux context with a focus on using Eclipse, Backend Debuggers, JTAG and In-Circuit Emulators as well as Kernel Logging capabilities and Kernel Hacking. The latter part of the course covers performance measurement and optimization affecting boot, memory, I/O and CPU performance and key performance optimization tools for Embedded Linux software including the perf tool, advanced cache usage and compiler-based optimization.

Who Should Attend - The course is designed for realtime engineers who are developing high-performance Linux applications and device drivers using Embedded Linux distributions. It is also targeted at experienced developers requiring a refresher course on Advanced Embedded Linux optimization.

Course Objectives

• To understand methods for debugging, profiling and testing Embedded Linux software.

• To provide an overview of Linux application performance measurement and optimization.

• To understand the tools used for performance optimization of Embedded Linux software.

• To give students the confidence to apply these concepts to their next Embedded Linux project.

OUTLINE Course Schedule Day 1

Getting Started with Embedded Linux Linux and the GPL Building the Kernel Source Code Embedded Linux Kernels BSPs and SDKs

Linux References (Books and Online)

Basic Debugging Review Embedded Applications Debugging GDB, GDB Server and the GDB Server Debugger An Eclipse Remote Debug Example Debugging with printk and LTTng System Logs Other Debuggers

System-Level Debug System-Level Debug Tools The /proc and /sys Filesystems Basic Logging KGDB and KDB Crash Dumps and Post-Mortem Debugging

Debugging Embedded Linux Systems Backend Debuggers JTAG and In-Circuit Emulators Hardware Simulators Analyzers Debugging Device Drivers Kernel Probes Kexec and Kdump Kernel Profiling Course Schedule Day 2 Testing Design for Test Agile Software Design Unit-Level Testing System-Level Testing Code Coverage Tools gcov Automated Testing DebugFS Configuring DebugFS DebugFS Capabilities

Advanced Logging LogFS Using Logwatch and Swatch Using syslogd and syslog-ng

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25 The Reflector, November - December 2015

Kernel Hacking Configuring Kernel Hacking Kernel Hacking Capabilities Tracing ptrace and strace New Tracing Methods SystemTap Ftrace, Tracepoints and Event Tracing Tracehooks and utrace

Course Schedule Day 3 Profiling Basic Profiling gprof and Oprofile Performance Counters LTTng Another DDD Example

Manual Profiling Instrumenting Code Output Profiling Timestamping

Measuring Embedded Linux Performance

Some Ideas on Performance Measurement Common Considerations Uncommon Considerations Using JTAG Methods BootLoader Optimizations Boot Time Measurements Effective Memory and Flash Usage Filesystem Choices

Addressing Performance Problems

Types of Performance Problems

Using Performance Tools to Find Areas for Improvement Application and System Optimization Device Driver Optimization CPU Usage Optimization Memory Usage Optimization Disk I/O and Filesystem Usage Optimization

The Perf Tool

Improving Boot Performance

Boot Time Optimization

The Linux Fastboot Capability

Building a Smaller Linux

Building a Smaller Application

Filesystem Tips and Tricks

Some Notes on Library Usage

Performance Tool Assistance Recording Commands and Performance System Error Messages and Event Logging Dynamic Probes User Mode Linux and Virtualization Course Schedule Day 4

Improving CPU Performance Run Queue Statistics Context Switches and Interrupts CPU Utilization Linux Performance Tools for CPU Process-Specific CPU Performance Tools Stupid Cache Tricks

Improving System Memory Performance Memory Performance Statistics Linux Performance Tools for Memory Process-Specific Memory Performance Tools More Stupid Cache Tricks

Improving I/O and Device Driver Performance

Disk, Flash and General File I/O

Improving Overall Performance Using the Compiler

Basic Compiler Optimizations

Architecture-Dependent and Independent Optimization

Code Modification Optimizations

Feedback Based Optimization

Application Resource Optimization

The Hazard of Trust

An Iterative Process for Optimization

Improving Development Efficiency

The Future of Linux Performance Tools Some Final Recommendations Lecturer Bio â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. A 25-year electronics veteran, he has held various positions at LynuxWorks, Tilera, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems, Lockheed Sanders, Stratus Computer and Apollo Computer. RTETC, LLC is a provider of Eclipse-based development tools, training and consulting for the embedded systems market.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, November 23, 2015 Payment received by Nov. 17 IEEE Members $395 Non-members $435 Payment received after Nov. 17 IEEE Members $435 Non-members $470

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26 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Practical RF PCB Design: Wireless Networks, Products and Telecommunications Date & Time: Location: Speaker:

Thursday & Friday, December 17 & 18; 9AM - 4:30PM Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA Henry Lau, Lexiwave Technology

Outline Overview: One of the most demanding consumer products in the market is the wireless telecommunication product. A well-designed Radio Frequency Printed Circuit Board (RF PCB) contributes significantly to the success of any wireless product as the layout of the PCB greatly affects the performance, stability and reliability of the product. In today’s highly competitive wireless products market with increasingly compressed development time-frame, there is a strong demand for RF professionals who possess the knowledge and experience to design top-performing RF PCBs in less number of iterations. What matters is whether your level of competence is up to the required standard to meet such demand.

Audience: RF Designers, Wireless Product Designers, Field Application Engineers, Design Managers and related professionals.

Benefits: This course aims to provide participants with an insightful training on RF PCB design from a practical, industrial perspective. Participants will be led through a systematic, theoretical presentation with case studies on commercial products in the training. The course will be conducted by an RF expert with rich industrial experience. It is suitable for RF professionals who want to keep up-to-date their skills and knowledge in RF PCB design and stay competitive.

Expertise: Henry Lau received his M.Sc. and MBA degrees from UK and USA respectively. He has more than 25 years of experience in designing RF systems, products and RFICs in both Hong Kong and US. He worked for Motorola and Conexant in US as Principal Engineer on developing RFICs for cellular phone and silicon tuner applications. Mr Lau holds five patents all in RF designs. He is currently running Lexiwave Technology, a fables semiconductor company in Hong Kong and US designing and selling RFICs, RF modules and RF solutions. He has also been teaching numerous RF-related courses internationally.

1. Printed circuit board design for RF circuits • From product design, circuit design to PCB design • Layer stack-up assignment • Grounding methods and techniques • Interconnects and I/O • Bypassing and decoupling • Partitioning methods

2. Printed circuits board design for other circuits • Clock circuits • Base-band circuits • Audio circuits • Power supplies • Impedance-controlled circuits • 3. PCB design for EMC/EMI compliance • EMC/EMI compliance • Grounding methods • Decoupling methods • Shielding methods • 4. Additional Design Techniques • Production concerns • Systematic product design approach • RF Modules • Evaluation boards • Other RF concerns • Casing design 5. Case studies Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course is Friday, December 4, 2015 Payment received by Dec. 1 IEEE Members $405 Non-members $435 Payment received after Dec. 1 IEEE Members $435 Non-members $455

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27 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Making You a Leader - Fast Track Date & Time: Location: Speaker:

Wednesday, December 16; 8:30AM - 5:00PM Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

We do projects to make change. Yet, change will not occur without leadership, and leaders are rare. Leaders make others want to do what the leader wants done.

Leaders cause ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things. Managing is not the same as leading, and titles do not make leaders. Seminars can teach you to manage, but they cannot teach you to be a leader. Rather, making a leader takes special techniques—such as our personal development clinics—that can change deepseated behaviors learned over a lifetime. However, since clinics usually last about ten weeks, this mini-clinic was devised as a more convenient alternative.

Leadership components of project success Basic leadership practices; power sources Real change leaders in organizations TEAMS AND LEADERSHIP Everyone feels leadership is lacking Everyone thinks s/he is a leader Results, not actions or intent Workgroups, teams, and leaders Situational leadership styles Coaching and sports analogies to projects

INSPIRING AND MOTIVATING Gaining commitment to project success Communicating that influences others Addressing negativism and groupthink Conscious and unconscious messages Greatest management principle Hierarchy of needs effects on projects Hygiene factors vs. motivators Helping project players get their rewards Influencing up and down without authority Inspiring the extra efforts projects need Energizing the project team Participants will learn: SHARED VISIONS • Leadership characteristics and practices that are es- Relating values and vision to projects sential for project and personal success.

Getting others to embrace one’s vision • Differences between management and leadership, Developing a motivating project vision how they conflict, and why leaders are so rare.

• Behaviors leaders use to influence others, up and WHERE AND HOW LEADERS ARE MADE down, to want to do what the leader wants them to do Born or made? How do we know?

• Special techniques personal development clinics use Habits of thought that affect project success to change lifetime learning and make leaders.

Overcoming self-limiting lifetime learning • How to employ those special techniques in a follow- Leader’s critical success factors on mini-clinic to develop the leadership skills they Traditional education doesn’t make leaders need to make their projects successful.

Special way—personal development clinics This format places responsibility upon the participant to carry out an extended informal follow-on program after completion of the formal seminar workshop session.

During the follow-on period, the participant uses timecondensed methods that simulate the lifetime learning which makes a leader. Therefore, commitment to carrying out these exercises is essential for successful transformation.

SETTING AND ACCOMPLISHING GOALS S.M.A.R.T. goals for self and project WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been de- Action plans to achieve your goals signed for business and systems professionals who want Visualizing and emotionalizing to improve their ability to lead and influence other people.

DEFINING THE FOLLOW-ON PROGRAM Clarifying project leadership objectives OUTLINE Breaking into prioritized subgoals Establishing rewarding daily achievements LEADERSHIP CHARACTERISTICS & ROLE Special techniques to change habits How leadership looks and feels Management vs. leadership Please take this short survey, https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B8R2DYL

28 The Reflector, November - December 2015 CARRYING OUT THE MINI-CLINIC Working with a follow-up support structure Mapping results regularly to goals Objectively recording leadership changes Self-leadership through the process

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, December 7, 2015 Payment received by Dec. 2 IEEE Members $220 IEEE Non-members $245 Payment received after Dec. 2 Members $245 Non-members $265

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Defining and Writing Business Requirements Date & Time: Location: Speaker:

Monday & Tuesday, December 14 & 15; 8:30AM - 5:00PM Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

Discovering and documenting business requirements for projects always has been the weakest link in systems development. Up to 67 percent of maintenance and 40 percent of development is wasted rework and creep attributable to inadequately defined business requirements.

Too often projects proceed based on something other than what the business people really need; and traditional methodologies commonly focus mainly on the format for writing requirements. This interactive workshop also emphasizes how to discover content, why to build it and what it must do to produce value for the customer/ user. Using a real case, participants practice discovering, understanding, and writing clear and complete business/user requirements that can cut creep, speed project delivery, reduce maintenance, and delight customers

• Formats for analyzing, documenting, and communicating business requirements.

• Techniques and automated tools to manage requirements changes and traceability.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for systems and business managers, project leaders, analysts, programmer analysts, quality/testing professionals, auditors, and others responsible for assuring business requirements are defined adequately.

REQUIREMENTS ROLE AND IMPORTANCE Sources and economics of system errors How requirements produce value Participants will learn: • Avoiding creep--role and importance of defining busi- Business vs. system requirements Survey on improving requirements quality ness requirements accurately and completely.

• Distinctions between the user’s (business) require- Software packages and outsourcing How we do it now vs. what we should do ments and the system’s (design) requirements.

• How to gather data, spot the important things, and DISCOVERING “REAL” REQUIREMENTS interpret them meaningfully.

• Using the Problem Pyramid™ tool to define clearly Do users really not know what they want?

How the “real” requirements may differ problems, causes, and real requirements.

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29 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Aligning strategy, management, operations Technology requirements vs. design Problem Pyramid™ tool to get on track Understanding the business needs/purposes Horizontal processes and vertical silos Customer-focused business processes Who should do it: business or systems?

Joint Application Development (JAD) limits Management/supervisor vs. worker views

Standards, guidelines, and conventions Detailing Engineered Deliverable Quality Simulation and prototyping Defining acceptance criteria MANAGING THE REQUIREMENTS Supporting, controlling, tracing changes Automated requirements management tools Measuring the “proof of the pudding”

DATA GATHERING AND ANALYSIS Surveys and questionnaires Research and existing documentation Observing/participating in operations Prototyping and proofs of concept Planning an effective interview Controlling with suitable questions FORMATS TO AID UNDERSTANDING Business rules, structured English E-R, data flow,flow, organization diagrams Data models, process maps performance, volume, frequency statistics Sample forms, reports, screens menus

Speaker’s Bio: Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is an internationally recognized authority on software development and acquisition methodology and management. He has more than 30 years of experience in requirements definition, quality and testing, development, project management, and process improvement. A frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences and author of the recent Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, he regularly works with and trains business and systems professionals.

DOCUMENTATION FORMATS IEEE standard for software requirements Use cases, strengths and warnings 7 guidelines for documenting requirements Requirements vs. implementation scope Iterating to avoid analysis paralysis Conceptual system design solutions Detailing for clarity, clarifying quality

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Friday, December 4, 2015

GETTING MORE CLEAR AND COMPLETE Stakeholders and Quality Dimensions Addressing relevant quality factor levels

Payment received by Dec. 1 IEEE Members $ 415 Non-members $ 430

Payment received after Dec. 1 IEEE Members $ 430 Non-members $ 455

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Embedded Linux Board Support Packages and Device Drivers Date & Time: Location: Speaker:

Mondays, November 2, 9, 16, 30, 6 - 9PM Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA Mike McCullough, RTETC, LLC

Course Summary - This 4-day technical training course provides advanced training in the development of Embedded Linux Board Support Packages (BSPs), Device Drivers and Distributions. The first part of the

course focuses on BSP and Software Development Kit (SDK) development in an Embedded Linux context with a focus on application performance measurement and improvement. The latter part of the

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30 The Reflector, November - December 2015 course covers Embedded Linux Device Driver develop- Other Embedded Linux Development Tools ment including key device driver decisions and deploy- Library Support ment considerations for Embedded Linux BSPs. Glibc and Alternatives SDK Deployment and Support Who Should Attend - The course is designed for real- Debugging time engineers who are developing Embedded Linux GDB, GDB Server and the GDB Server Debugger BSPs and Device Drivers for Embedded Linux distri- Other Debug Tools butions. It is also targeted at experienced developers An Abatron Board Bring-Up Example requiring a refresher course on Linux BSP and Device An Eclipse Remote Debug Example Driver development.

Advanced Debug with printk, syslogd and LTTng

System-Level Debug Course Objectives System-Level Debug Tools

The /proc Filesystem • To gain an understanding of the complexities of Advanced Logging Methods BSP and SDK development and their uses in Embed- KGDB and KDB ded Linux systems.

Crash Dumps • To provide a basic understanding of the Linux I/O Subsystem and the Device Driver Models provided with Embedded Linux distributions.

Course Schedule Day 2 • To gain an in-depth understanding of character- Configuring Embedded Linux based device drivers in Embedded Linux Config Methods • To understand key device driver subsystems in- Config Syntax cluding relatively slow I/O interconnects such as I2C, Adding Code to the Linux Kernel SPI and USB as well as high-speed interfaces such as USB 3.0 and PCIe

Booting Embedded Linux • To give students the confidence to apply these The Linux Boot Process concepts to their next Embedded Linux project.

NFS and RAMdisk Booting Root and Flash File System Development Building the RAMdisk Busybox Development

Testing and Debug of Embedded Linux BSPs Kernel Debug and Kernel Probes Kexec and Kdump Course Schedule Day 1 The Linux Test Project (LTP)

Getting Started with Embedded Linux Performance Tuning Embedded Linux BSPs Linux and the GPL User Mode Linux and Virtualization Building the Kernel Source Code

Embedded Linux Kernels BSPs and SDKs Measuring Embedded Linux BSP Performance Linux References (Books and Online) Common Considerations Uncommon Considerations BootLoader Optimizations

Embedded Linux BSP Development Basics Boot Time Measurements

BSP Requirements Effective Memory and Flash Usage

U-Boot and Bootloader Development Filesystem Performance Issues Basic BSP Development Some Ideas on Performance Measurement Files and Filesystem Support The I/O Subsystem: Talking to Hardware Memory Management and Paging Course Schedule Day 3 Error Handling in Embedded Linux BSPs

The Original Device Driver Model Timing and Timers The fops struct and Char Drivers Interrupt Handling in BSPs The inode and dentry structs BSP Deployment Issues and Practices Major and Minor Numbers

Embedded Linux SDK Basics Embedding Channel Information

The 3 Pieces of an SDK Deferring Work Embedded Linux Distributions The /proc Filesystem The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)

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31 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Configuring the Device Driver Modularization Revisited

The New Device Driver Model An Object-Oriented Approach Platform Devices and Drivers Subsystem Registration The Probe and Init Functions The Show and Store Functions The /sys Filesystem Configuring the New Device Driver

Comparing the Two Driver Models The Flattened Device Tree (FDT) openBoot and its Effect on Embedded Linux The Device Tree Script (dts) File The Device Tree Compiler (dtc) The Device Tree Blob (dtb) File Building a dtb File Hybrid Device Drivers Other fops Functions The Need for Ioctl A Simulated Char Device Driver The SIM Device Driver Initialization Open and Close Read and Write The /proc Driver Interface MMAP Support Course Schedule Day 4 Linux Device Driver Subsystems Serial Drivers The RTC Subsystem Watchdogs I2C & SPI Block Devices PCI USB VME Video Sound Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Missing?

Memory Technology Devices What is an MTD? NAND vs NOR Flash Interfaces The Common Flash Interface (CFI) Driver and User Modules

Flash Filesystems Drivers in User Space Accessing I/O Regions Accessing Memory Regions User Mode SCSI, USB and I2C UIO High-Speed Interconnects PCIe GigE iSCSI Infiniband FibreChannel Serial RapidIO Debugging Device Drivers kdb, kgdb and JTAG Kernel Probes Kexec and Kdump Kernel Profiling User Mode Linux and Kernel Hacking Performance Tuning Device Drivers Some Final Recommendations Lecturer Bio â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Mike McCullough is President and CEO of RTETC, LLC. Mike has a BS in Computer Engineering and an MS in Systems Engineering from Boston University. A 20-year electronics veteran, he has held various positions at LynuxWorks, Tilera, Embedded Planet, Wind River Systems, Lockheed Sanders, Stratus Computer and Apollo Computer. RTETC, LLC is a provider of Eclipse-based software development tools, training and consulting services for the embedded systems market.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course is Friday, October 23, 2015 Payment received by Oct. 19 IEEE Members $395 Non-members $415

Payment received after Oct. 19 IEEE Members $415 Non-members $435

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32 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Catching and Preventing More and More Important Defects Earlier - Win Testing Advocates by Helping to Deliver

,

Projects Faster, Cheaper and Better!

Two-day Intensive Seminar Workshop!

Date & Time: Location: Speaker:

Thursday & Friday, December 17 & 18; 8:30AM - 5:00PM Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

Overview: Testing is the main means of controlling risks that software does what it’s not supposed to do or doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do. Testing takes half of typical software projects, but few project--or test—managers know how to do it effectively. Thus, traditional testing typically is reactive, coming too late and taking too much effort, yet still missing many defects, especially showstoppers. This interactive workshop shows how Proactive Testing™ applies proven traditional test techniques and special more powerful methods in low-overhead no-busywork ways that enable doing more effective testing in less time, catching many ordinarily-overlooked showstopper and other defects earlier, while also overcoming traditional user, manager, and developer resistance to testing by cutting time, effort, and aggravation. To enhance learning, participants practice each key technique in a series of exercises with various aspects of a real case fact situation.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been designed for testing professionals and others who manage and perform testing of software products, and also for analysts, designers, and system/project managers who need to know how Proactive Testing™ can cut software development time and effort.

OUTLINE

Participants will learn:

HOW TESTING CAN CUT EFFORT & TIME

Testing for correctness vs. testing for errors

Defect injection, detection, ejection metrics

Reactive testing—out of time, but not tests

Proactive Testing™ Life Cycle model

CAT-Scan Approach™ to find more errors

V-model and objectives of each test level

Dynamic, passive and active static testing

Developer vs. independent test group testing

Strategy—create fewer errors, catch more

Test activities that save the developer’s time

• A structured Proactive Testing™ model of testing that should be performed throughout the life cycle.

• Ways testing actually can cut time, effort, and aggravation for users, developers, and managers.

• Writing industry-accepted test plans and test designs that make testing easier and more reliable.

• Multiple techniques/checklists to design more thorough tests and discover overlooked conditions.

• Measurements for managing and improving test process effectiveness.

• Applying risk analysis and reusable testware to perform more of the important testing in less time.

TEST PLANNING VALUE NOT BUSYWORK

Risk elements, relation to testing

Proactive vs. reactive risk analysis

IEEE Standard for Test Documentation

Enabling manageability, reuse, selectivity

Master Test Plan counterpart to project plan

Approach, use of automated tools

Entry/exit criteria, anticipating change

Exercise: Anticipating showstoppers

Risk-based way to define test units

Letting testing drive development

Preventing major cause of overruns

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33 The Reflector, November - December 2015 DETAILED TEST PLANNING

IEEE Standard on Unit Testing

Functional (Black Box) testing strategy

3-level top-down test planning and design

Exercise: Functionality matrix

Use cases, revealing overlooked conditions

Detailed Test Plan technical document WHITE BOX (STRUCTURAL) TESTING

Structural (white box) degrees of coverage

Flowgraphing logic paths

Applying structural paths to business logic

Exercise: Defining use case test coverage TEST DESIGN: BOTH VERB AND NOUN

Exercise: Disciplined brainstorming

Checklists find more overlooked conditions

Data formats, data and process models

Business rules, decision tables and trees

Equivalence classes and boundary values

Error guessing, condition combinations

Defect isolation, reproducibility,

Formal, informal Test Design Specifications

Exercise: Defining reusable test designs

Test Case Specifications vs. test data values

Writing test cases, script/matrix

MEASURING AND MANAGING TESTING

Defect reports that prompt suitable action

Projecting when software is good enough

Measuring testing effectiveness Speakerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bio: Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is an internationally recognized authority on software development and acquisition methodology and management. He has more than 30 years of experience in requirements definition, quality and testing, development, project management, and process improvement. A frequent featured speaker at leading professional conferences and author of the recent Artech House book, Discovering REAL Business Requirements for Software Project Success, he regularly works with and trains business and systems professionals.

Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Courses is Monday, December 7, 2015

Payment received by Dec. 3 IEEE Members $ 415 Non-members $ 430 Payment received after Dec. 3 IEEE Members $ 430 Non-members $ 455

To Register, http://ieeeboston.org/event/catching-preventing-defects-earlier-fall-2015/

Software Estimating -

Making More Reliable Time, Effort, and Resources Estimates Come True Two-day Intensive Seminar Workshop!

Date & Time: Location: Speaker:

Monday & Tuesday, November 23 & 24; 8:30AM - 5:00PM Crowne Plaza Hotel, 15 Middlesex Canal Park Road, Woburn, MA Robin Goldsmith, President, GoPro Management

Overview: Unreliable estimates are a major reason many software projects are late, over-budget, and poor quality. Historically, estimating has been so weak in IT that some people simply assume it is impossible to estimate IT activities accurately, which in turn can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. In fact, though, a number of methods and approaches enable more accurate estimates which can produce huge direct and indirect benefits. This interactive seminar describes key causes of estimating pitfalls and effective estimating concepts and techniques

to overcome the difficulties. Methods address estimating not only coding but also other project components in both agile and more traditional projects. And, rather than just being a static up-front exercise, the course shows dynamic techniques that effective estimators use throughout the project to control progress as well as to refine and improve their estimates and estimating skills.

Exercises enhance learning by allowing participants to practice applying practical techniques to realistic examples.

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34 The Reflector, November - December 2015 Participants will learn: • Estimation and control roles, issues, and impacts on project success.

• Appropriate uses and limitations of rapid top-down and parametric estimates.

• Work breakdown structure bottom-up estimating techniques and issues.

• Point counting and related size estimation techniques.

• Estimating schedules and resources.

• Separately estimating testing, importance and techniques.

• Controlling activities and refining estimates throughout the project.

BOTTOM-UP ESTIMATING

Need to identify project activities regardless

Major reason estimates are inaccurate

Work-breakdown structure technique

Level-by-level increase in precision

Near- and far-term detail differences

Identifying effort by resource and skill level

Implicit vs. explicit duration

Work packet roll-up

Addressing contingencies and oversights

Relating to top-down estimates, fudge factor

Adjusting for skill level

Dealing with risk and uncertainty

Theory of Constraints, buffers

Life cycle and other ways to identify tasks

AGILE PROJECT ESTIMATING

Agile project concept differences WHO SHOULD ATTEND: This course has been Determining sprints and backlogs designed for project managers, analysts, designers, pro- Defining user stories grammers, QA/testers auditors, and others who need to Conversations to elaborate user stories estimate software and software projects.

Story point sizing

Planning poker OUTLINE

T-shirt sizing

Timeboxing vs. estimating ESTIMATING AND PROJECT SUCCESS Refactoring

Project management, development lifecycles

Why estimates destine most projects to fail

Impediments to influencing estimates Speaker’s Bio: Robin F. Goldsmith, JD is an inter Game-playing, countering Parkinson’s Law nationally recognized authority on software development

Real causes of scope creep and acquisition methodology and management. He has

Self-fulfilling self-defeating prophecies more than 30 years of experience in requirements defini Defining scope that doesn’t creep so much tion, quality and testing, development, project manage Problem Pyramid™ disciplined definition ment, and process improvement. A frequent featured

Requirements negotiation model speaker at leading professional conferences and author

Deliverable value-based estimating of the recent Artech House book, Discovering REAL

Product backlog similarities and differences Business Requirements for Software Project Success, he regularly works with and trains business and systems professionals.

ESTIMATION CONCEPTS, TOP-DOWN

“Knowing” estimating is impossible

How effective estimators differ

All estimates relate reference to target Decision (Run/Cancel) Date for this Course

Similarity, scalability, history is Friday, November 13, 2015

Top-down estimating, advantages

Main reasons top-down often is inaccurate Payment received by Nov. 9

Top position relevance for top-down IEEE Members $415

Rule-of-thumb techniques, traps IEEE Non-members $430

Wide-band Delphi

Code sizing-based project estimates Payment received after Nov. 9

Parametric estimating algorithms Members $430

Factors affecting parametric accuracy Non-members $455

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35 The Reflector, November - December 2015 IEEE/IBM WATSON STUDENT SHOWCASE

WOW!!! You mean I really can work with Watson and compete for a cash prize!

Participate in the IEEE/IBM Watson Showcase to:  Find out firsthand what cognitive computing is all about  Work with Watson  Teamwork – networking – boosting your resume…. all things to set you apart and give you a competitive advantage  Receive an IEEE Certificate of Achievement & those all‐ important bragging rights  Earn a chance to win cash prizes up to US$2000

ELIGIBILITY: o Open globally to currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students o At least one team member must be an IEEE student member o Teams of 2‐5 students work with IBM Bluemix to develop apps

Register your intent to participate NOW!

https://ieeeibmwatsonshowcase.fluidreview.com For complete details about eligibility, application procedures, and selection criteria, please visit: http://bit.ly/1aKIrxE Email questions to: a.winston@ieee.org Completed entries due: 30 September 2015: Teams will submit an executive summary, a one‐two minute demo video, & a text copy of source code. #ieeeibmwatson

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36 The Reflector, November - December 2015

Call for Papers, Posters, and Tutorials

2016 IEEE International Symposium on

Technologies for Homeland Security 10 – 12 May Westin Hotel, Waltham, MA http://ieee-hst.org/

Advancing Technology for Humanity

Co-sponsors: Call for Papers, Posters & Tutorials

The 15th annual IEEE Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST ’16), will be held 10 – 12 May, in the greater Boston, Massachusetts area. This symposium brings together innovators from leading academic, industry, business, Homeland Security Centers of Excellence, and government programs to provide a forum to discuss ideas, concepts, and experimental results.

Produced by IEEE with technical support from DHS S&T, IEEE, IEEE Boston Section, and IEEE-USA and organizational support from MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Raytheon, Battelle, and MITRE, this year’s event will once again showcase selected technical paper and posters highlighting emerging technologies in the areas of: Cyber Security

Biometrics & Forensics

Land and Maritime Border Security

Attack and Disaster Preparation, Recovery and Response

We are currently seeking technical paper, poster and tutorial session submissions in each of the areas noted above.

Submissions should focus on technologies with applications available for implementation within about five years. All areas will cover the following common topics: • Strategy and threat characterization, CONOPs, risk analysis, • Modeling, simulation, experimentation, and exercises & training, and • Testbeds, standards, performance and evaluations.

Contact Information For more detailed information on the Call for Papers, Posters & Tutorials, as well as Sponsorship and Exhibit opportunities, visit the website: http://ieee-hst.org/ or email: information@ieee-hst.org. Submissions should be made at the following website: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/HST2016/ Important Dates Paper Abstract Deadline: Paper, Poster and Tutorial Acceptance Notification Final Paper Submission Deadline:

November 30, 2015 February 1, 2016 March 20, 2016

All deadlines are by midnight Eastern Time.

Technical Program Committee Chairs

Organizing Committee General Chair: Deputy Chair: Technical Co-Chair: Tutorials Chair: Business Program Chair: Local Arrangement Chair: Marketing Chair: Publications Chair: Sponsorship/Exhibits Chair: Special Advisor to the Chair: Registration Chair:

James Flavin, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fausto Molinet, Matrix Internationale Gerald Larocque MIT Lincoln Laboratory Anthony Serino, Raytheon Andrea Marsh, Battelle Bob Alongi, IEEE Boston Jessica Patel, Raytheon Adam Norige, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Fausto Molinet, Matrix Internationale Lennart Long, EMC Consultant Karen Safina, IEEE Boston

Attack and Disaster Preparation, Recovery and Response Bob Connors, Raytheon Kenneth Crowther, MITRE Biometrics & Forensics Kevin Brady MIT Lincoln Laboratory James L. Wayman, San Jose State University Land and Maritime Border Security Karen Panetta, Tufts University Rich Moro, Raytheon John Aldridge, MIT Lincoln Laboratory Cyber Security David Balenson, SRI International Emily Frye, MITRE

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