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The IEEE Global History Network (GHN) is provided by the IEEE in support of its core purpose to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. The wiki based GHN enables those throughout the world who have developed electrical, electronic, and computer products and services to share their first-hand experiences. These shared experiences will provide the premier global record for preserving and interpreting the history of technological innovation and make that history available to the public.
The IEEE Global History Network enables IEEE members to contribute their personal involvement in technological innovation and excellence yesterday and today. Through these personalized, first-hand accounts, IEEE members have the opportunity to share their experiences in developing products and services -- from invention, R&D, design, testing, production and commercialization -- with the world. These first-hand accounts will also include the broader range of experiences that led to your success as a professional, such as your education and your affiliations.
Simply log into the site using your IEEE membership user ID and password, and you’ll be able to tell your own story in your own words, while enhancing it with photos, drawings, diagrams, documents (in both word and PDF format), and video and audio recordings. A special feature of the IEEE GHN even enables individuals to write down their engineering experiences collectively as members of a group, such as R&D lab or design team within a corporation.
At the same time you will be able, in concert with fellow members, historians and other knowledgeable parties, to write wiki-style articles about the history of technology that will help IEEE to raise the public visibility of the role of IEEE, IEEE members, engineers, and related professionals in enhancing the quality of life and the environment through the years.
Unlike other on-line encyclopedias that may include technological topics, the IEEE GHN will be solely focused on the history technology. The IEEE GHN’s content will also be unique. No other wiki site offers the personal accounts of the technical innovators themselves. In other words, the IEEE GHN serves as a living, electronic memory of all the important contributions made by IEEE members and others to technological progress — from around the globe. As such, the site will never be “complete” — it will continually grow and expand to be a central site for members and others to explore the history of technological innovation.
Gordon E. Moore was awarded the 2008 Medal of Honor at ceremonies attended by Hampton Roads IEEE section members, Kurt Clemente, Bill LaBelle, and Bill Clayton, in Quebec City.
Moore, co-founder and chairman of the board, emeritus, of Intel Corporation, is one of the pioneers of semiconductor and microprocessor technology. He is the namesake of Moore's Law, one of the guiding principles of the global semiconductor industry. Introduced in 1965, Moore's Law stipulated that the number of transistors on a silicon chip would double each year for ten years. In 1975, he revised the theory, stating that the complexity of chips would double every two years. Moore's Law remains an industry guidepost today for a US$200 billion per year industry that feeds a trillion dollar a year electronics industry.
In addition to his engineering contributions, Moore is among those responsible for the formation of two of the semiconductor industry's best-known companies - Intel Corporation and Fairchild Semiconductor.
Dr. Moore was among a group of eight scientists and engineers that founded Fairchild in 1957, to develop and manufacture a diffused silicon transistor. As head of Fairchild's research and development department, Dr. Moore led the creation of the first family of integrated logic circuits. Capitalizing on the almost simultaneous inventions of the integrated circuit and the MOSFET (Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistor), Fairchild became the leading producer of bipolar integrated logic circuits and was responsible for much of the device understanding for MOSFETs, which are used in most microprocessors.
To manufacture integrated circuit memories using the MOSFET transistor, Dr. Moore left Fairchild in 1968 with Robert Noyce to co-found Intel Corporation. Dr. Moore later led Intel from being simply a memory company to one focused on microprocessor development. Under his leadership, Intel has produced a number of products based on LSI technology, including the world's first microprocessor. The development of the microprocessor is considered among the most significant developments in all of technology, and Intel's success in this area has made it the largest semiconductor company in the world.
An IEEE Life Fellow and member of the National Academy of Engineering, Dr. Moore has received numerous awards, recognitions and honors, including the IEEE Founders Medal, the U.S. National Medal of Technology and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor. He most recently received the EE Times ACE Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2000, Dr. Moore and his wife created the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to focus on the environment, higher education and science and the San Francisco Bay Area. He holds a bachelors degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and a doctorate in chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology.
Sent at the request of Dr. Sandra J. DeLoatch, Dean, College of Science, Engineering, and Technology, Norfolk State University
You are cordially invited to participate in the Broadening Participation in Computing Disciplines Conference (BPCD) being sponsored by Norfolk State University and Old Dominion University on October 9 - 10, 2008 in Virginia Beach, VA. We have assembled a cadre of outstanding speakers to address this very critical issue for computer science professionals. Details regarding this NSF supported event are provided in the attached flyer and online at sst.nsu.edu/conference/BPCS.
The conference web site provides guidelines for a planned Student Poster Session and registration, hotel, and program information.
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for what we expect to be an exciting and informative conference. Some stipends are available to support travel expenditures.
The IEEE Power & Energy Society (recently renamed from the Power Engineering Society) or PES is the oldest society in IEEE and consists of 21,550 members. Hampton Roads is home to 169 of those members. The fields of interest in this society are in the research, development, installation and operation of systems for the generation, transmission, distribution, measurement and control of electric energy. PES provides the world’s largest forum for sharing the latest in technological developments in the electric power industry and for creating standards for the development and construction of equipment and systems.
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You may recall that some Region 3 long-time members were very upset with the demise of the paper IEEE Member Directory (2 volumes) for cost reasons, around 2003. As a result, in 2005 (after activist support from Bob Duggan, Jim Beall and others) then-Director Bill Harrison put an item on the RAB agenda to look into revival of the directory in some form. It was referred to Membership Development, and a plan for an on-line membership directory evolved.
That directory, called MemberNet, will be available this spring. John Day has promised that a IEEE staff member will be present at Huntsville to brief the Region 3 meeting about this development.
Briefly, owing to privacy concerns, the directory will initially contain only name and present member grade, but the member can "opt-in" to include other information as well.. The paper directory included member grade history and dates as well as work affiliation, contact information and, for Fellows, a brief biography with their citation and other awards. This latter information made it invaluable for Fellow nominators and references.
The new directory will be available through the "My IEEE" portal, and can contain a variety of information - that the member wants to share.
The directory will have advantages for peer-to-peer networking (identifying/locating other society members in your area), and for member recruitment and retention (e.g., aiding in senior member elevations). It will include a search capability. It will include higher-grade members (including associate members) but not affiliates.
It can also fill a "Rolodex" function for members, and John Day has solicited ideas for how this can be implemented and used.
The "My IEEE" portal is functional now, and can be populated with as much information as you want to put into it. Again, it will be opt-in management (by you) with the security of your web account for access.
Regards,
George
The IEEE recently issued ISO/IEC 15288- 2008 jointly as IEEE 15288-2008, and ISO/IEC 12207-2008 jointly as IEEE 12207-2008. One benefit is that 15288 and 12207 are now "harmonized" (i.e., conflicts are removed). Another benefit is that these two ISO/IEC standards are available from IEEE at less cost than from ISO/IEC. One limitation is that the guidance and figures that were in ISO/IEC 15288-2002 were moved into ISO/IEC TR 24748 which is yet to be released. ISO/IEC TR 24748 will contain guidance on how to apply both 15288 and 12207.
I hope you all have had a good, and possibly even restful, summer! IEEE Hampton Roads begins our fall technical presentation series with Dr. Aftab Ahmad of Norfolk State University who will discuss network security and industry standard frameworks developed to quantify levels of security. Please note that we will meet one week later this month on the 4th Thursday of the month to permit several Executive Committee members to travel to Sections Congress; we will return to our 3rd Thursday routine in October. Later this fall we plan to host Adeeb Hamzey of IEEE Richmond and a presentation about Jefferson Labs. We are also preparing some exciting new topics for the spring 2009 series, so if you have any ideas or suggestion please pass them along.
Upcoming meetings:
The topic of regular and structured technical meetings to meet the anticipated Virginia Engineering licensure requirements appears to be coming to a head, with implementation expected in early 2009. Examination of the draft regulations as well as the experiences of neighboring states shows that our IEEE topics will most likely satisfy the three requirements of presenter qualifications, relevance of technical content and sufficient meeting duration. Because the state places the education documentation burden on the engineer, one major benefit that IEEE provides is the detailed presenter biography and topic abstract published in each month’s newsletter. While simply retaining each month’s newsletter will go a long way towards documenting the educational requirement, IEEE-HR additionally archives both the newsletters and the details of the presenter and topic for each month. We continue to investigate ways in which IEEE members who are licensed engineers can find value in their membership, but as the new regulations are implemented it appears the current web site structure will be very helpful.
I hope you make it out to our Fall 2008 technical programs and find them interesting and valuable. For October and November we do plan to try something a little different in terms of format, hosting the meeting at a local Norfolk employer and serving pizza as opposed to a catered dinner. This will permit charging a much lower meeting fee, something I think we can all appreciate. As always, your feedback is most welcome – do you value the full meal, albeit at a higher price? Does the restaurant present a nice change of pace from the standard conference room? We want to know, and will seek feedback after our initial forays. If you have a suggested speaker or might want to present something yourself, please speak with me or any IEEE officer about this. I look forward to seeing you September!
Regards,
Kurt Clemente, PE
2008 Chair
Hampton Roads Section
As yet, we don't have a way of measuring security, which makes it difficult to allocate resources appropriately for secure networking. The best we have towards this end is the ITU X.805 framework that can be used to assess the security of a network. The recommendation classifies the nature of attacks and security dimensions required to thwart them. The X.805 is a slightly modified version of the Lucent Security Framework, originally designed at Bell Labs. In this presentation, we discuss this framework, how it divides a network into three layers (infrastructure, service and application) and three planes (user, control and management) and defines the attacks in terms of dimensions in each plane and on each layer. We will assess the security of a popular sensor network standard, the IEEE 802.15.4 in light of X.805. In possible future extensions of this presentation, we will analyze the Internet security architecture in view of X.805 with the help of a quality-of-service QoS) intensive application, such as compressed video transmission.
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