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Presentations

Women in Engineering and Computer Society

6:00 PM, Thursday, 29 November

TripAdvisor exciting product developments

Please join us for our joint November IEEE Women in Engineering and Computer Society meeting which will be generously hosted at and sponsored by TripAdvisor in Newton, MA from 6-9 pm on Thursday, November 29th.

Representatives from TripAdvisor Engineering and Product teams will talk about exciting product development and opportunities for work at this rapidly growing company – TripAdvisor is hiring web software professionals at all levels. The meeting will feature drinks and appetizers.

Location: TripAdvisor Cafeteria, 141 Needham Street, Newton, MA

Registration (is required and limited) - please register through this IEEE Vtools link: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/14941

Computer, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Societies and GBC/ACM

7:00 PM, Thursday, 8 November

New Insights from Data: the Future of Data Visualization: Integrating Visualization and Analysis

Georges Grinstein

New data visualization tools are revolutionizing all research but it still appears that analysis and visualization are separate activities. In this talk I will provide an overview of data visualization, identify key visualization and analysis issues and opportunities, discuss grand challenges, and provide a few examples of potential breakthroughs. I will discuss two such breakthroughs in detail: RadViz, an ultra high-dimensional data visualization tool and Weave, a Web-based Analysis and Visualization Environment. Both were developed by at the Institute for Visualization and Perception Research at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and both have been applied to biological problems.

Georges Grinstein is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Head of its Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics Program, Co-director of its Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, and of its Center for Biomolecular and Medical Informatics. His research interests are broad and include computer graphics, visualization, data mining, virtual environments, and user interfaces with emphasis on the modeling, visualization, and analysis of complex information systems, most often biomedical in nature. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester in 1978.

He has over 30 years in academia with extensive private consulting, over 100 research grants, products in use nationally and internationally, several patents, numerous publications in journals and conferences, founded several companies, and has been the organizer or chair of national and international conferences and workshops in Computer Graphics, in Visualization, and in Data Mining (co-chair IEEE Visualization Conferences, co-chair CHI Microarray Data Analysis Conferences, program committee AAAI conferences in Knowledge Discovery and Databases, co-chair IEEE Workshops on the Integration of Databases and Visualization, co-chair IEEE and AAAI Workshops on the Integration of Data Mining and Visualization, co-chair ACM workshop on the Psychological and Cognitive Issues in the Visualization of Data, and co-chair SPIE Visual Data and Exploration and Analysis Conferences.)

He is on the editorial boards of several journals in Computer Graphics and Data Mining, has been a member of ANSI and ISO, a NATO Expert, and a technology consultant for various government agencies.

This joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society; Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and GBC/ACM will be held in the Broad Institute Auditorium (MIT building NE-30). The Broad Institute is on Main St between Vassar and Ames streets.

Up-to-date information about this and other talks is available online at ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to receive updated status information about this talk and informational emails about future talks at mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs, our self-administered mailing list.

For more information contact Peter Mager p.mager@computer.org

Microwave Theory & Techniques; Aerospace & Electronic Systems; Antennas & Propagation; Solid State Circuits; Signal Processing; Women in Engineering and Computer Societies

6:00 PM, Tuesday, 9 October

Raytheon's Breakthroughs in Radar and Technology Over the Years

Dr. Eli Brookner, Principal Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Company

Raytheon is celebrating its 90th anniversary this year. This talk will detail the amazing breakthroughs and accomplishments of the company over these years. Covered will be: the initial development of a rectifier that allowed the use of house AC instead of batteries, over million produced; developed way to manufacture the radar magnetron at a rate 5,000 faster, essential for production of the radar, radar being one of three reasons we won WW-2; developed a subminiature tube that could withstand 20,000 g, used for super-secret proximtry fuze, the 2nd reason we won WW-2, the third was the atomic bomb; 1ST 1942 military contract for WW-2 magnetic anomaly detector for locating submarines (legacy Texas Inst. [TI]); post WW-2, 1946 pocket radio using the subminiture tube, predecessor of the Walkman; invention of microwave oven; 1950, 1st intercept of aircraft by Lark missile; leads to Hawk air defense system in 50’s; first laser, the ruby laser, 1960 (legacy Hughes); transistor pocket radio; largest producer of transistors; cross field amplifier invented; 1st terrain following radar (TI); 1st periscope detection radar (TI); major role played in Apollo program: builds guidance computer and its CFA used to relay TV video signals of Neal Armstrong on moon; first phase-phase scanned array in production, limited scan TPN-25; lays foundation for internet in early ’60‘s invented E-mail & created (legacy BBN); Patriot missile air defense system with full scan phased array; 1st active phase-phase array using hybrid transistors for transmitter, the PAVE PAWS; 1st solid state “bottle” transmitter radar in production, Canadian RAMP ATC radar; 1st airport surface radar using solid state transmitter to replace magnetron, ASDE-X radar; 1st integrated circuit (MMIC [Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit])) active phase-phase arrays for ground, airborne and space based systems: TPY-2, APG-63(V)2 for F-15, and Iridium satellite system; largest most powerful phased array in the world, the XBR, 8th wonder of the world; 1st low cost ($100’s) car phased array radar (Valeo-Raytheon now Valeo Radar), about 2 million sold. Recent developments: can replace GaAs with GaN having 5 to 10X the power in the same footprint; low cost X-Band 128 T/Rs & elements on PCB building block, 2.2 lbs, 7.4x10.1x0.21 Inches, T/R chips flip-chip mounted; Extreme MMIC: 4 X-band T/R modules on one chip, ~$10 per T/R in production; one 35 GHz T/R module on one chip <$30 per T/R; integration of III-IV and CMOS on one chip without bonded wires; could lead to $1 per element 94 GHz 28,000 element array; carbon nanotubes and diamonds for T/R cooling; quantum dots for dual wavelength (UV and IR) focal plane; graphene for EMI shielding and armor; real time sniper location system and foreign language translation (BBN); metamaterial: 1) microwave GPS antenna (multifunction, wide-bandwidth, dual polarization, wide scan angle, conformal), 2) optical lens (thin, ultra-light, wideband: 0.5 – 5 µm, wavelength selective, can etch on detector); revolutionary sonar transducers (textured ceramics, potentially 1/10th the cost, larger power output, smaller size, wider BW, can be used from 10khz to 1 MHz); nano-composites optical IR missile dome (ceramic material, anti-reflective coating, mid-wave IR missile dome, 1st major breakthrough in 30 years, more rain erosion resistant by factor of two); non-mechanical noiseless bio-inspired shutters & apertures; MEMS reliability reaches 300 billion cycles without failure can reduce the power amplifier, PA, count in an array by a factor of 2 to 4, can also be used of tunable microwave filters, like 8-12 GHz with ~200 MHz BW BEE: The City College of the City of New York, ’53, MEE and DrSc: Columbia University ’55 and ’62.

Dr. Eli Brookner at Raytheon Company since 1962, where he is a Principal Engineering Fellow. There worked on ASDE-X airport radar, ASTOR Air Surveillance Radar, RADARSAT II, Affordable Ground Based Radar (AGBR), major Space Based Radar programs, NAVSPASUR S-Band upgrade, COBRA DANE, PAVE PAWS, Missile Site Radar (MSR), COBRA JUDY Replacement, THAAD, Brazilian SIVAM, SPY-3, Patriot, BMEWS, UEWR, Surveillance Radar Program (SRP), Pathfinder marine radar, Long Range Radar (upgrade for 68 ATC ARSRs), COBRA DANE Upgrade, AMDR, Space Fence, 3DELRR. Prior to Raytheon he worked on radar at Columbia University Electronics Research Lab. [now RRI], Nicolet and Rome AF Lab.

Received IEEE 2006 Dennis J. Picard Medal for Radar Technology & Application “For Pioneering Contributions to Phased Array Radar System Designs, to Radar Signal Processing Designs, and to Continuing Education Programs for Radar Engineers”; IEEE ’03 Warren White Award; Journal of the Franklin Institute Premium Award for best paper award for 1966; IEEE Wheeler Prize for Best Applications Paper for 1998. Fellow of IEEE, AIAA, MSS.

Published four books: Tracking and Kalman Filtering Made Easy, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1998; Practical Phased Array Antenna Systems (1991), Aspects of Modern Radar (1988), and Radar Technology (1977), Artech House. Gives courses on Radar, Phased Arrays and Tracking around the world (25 countries). Over 10,000 attended these courses. Banquet/keynote speaker twelve times. >230 papers, talks and correspondences, >100 invited. Six papers reprinted in Books of Reprints (one in two books). Contributed chapters to three books.

Meeting is being held at MIT Lincoln Laboratory is located at 244 Wood St., Lexington, MA 02420. The cafeteria is open to the public and visitor parking is available adjacent to the main entrance (in front of the parking structure). The Laboratory is also accessible via MBTA Bus route 76. When entering the Wood St. gate and the Main Cafeteria entrance, please tell the guard on duty that you are a visitor attending the IEEE meeting.

(Thanks to the Boston Photonics Society for the following directions.)

From interstate I-95/Route 128:

Take Exit 31B onto Routes 4/225 towards Bedford - Stay in right lane

Use Right Turning Lane (0.3 mile from exit) to access Hartwell Ave. at 1st Traffic Light.

Follow Hartwell Ave. to Wood St. (~1.3 miles).

Turn Left on to Wood Street and Drive for 0.3 of a mile.

Turn Right into MIT Lincoln Lab, at the Wood Street Gate.

From Exit 30B:

Take Exit 30B on to Route 2A - Stay in right lane.

Turn Right on to Mass. Ave (~ 0.4 miles - opposite Minuteman Tech.).

Follow Mass. Ave for ~ 0.4 miles.

Turn Left on to Wood Street and Drive for 1.0 mile.

Turn Left into MIT Lincoln Lab, at the Wood Street Gate.

To get to the Cafeteria, proceed toward the Main Entrance of Lincoln Laboratory. Before entering the building, proceed down the stairs located to the left of the Main Entrance. Turn right at the bottom of the stairs and enter the building through the Cafeteria entrance. The Cafeteria is located directly ahead.

For additional information, please contact Chris Galbraith at chris.galbraith@ll.mit.edu