IEEE Spectrum February, 2014 - 6

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IEEE MEdIa
SEnIor dIrEctor; PublIShEr, IEEE SPEctruM

James A. Vick, j.vick@ieee.org

aSSocIatE PublIShEr, SalES & advErtISIng dIrEctor

Marion Delaney, m.delaney@ieee.org

rEcruItMEnt and lISt SalES advErtISIng dIrEctor

Michael Buryk, m.buryk@ieee.org
buSInESS ManagEr Robert T. Ross

IEEE MEdIa/SPEctruM grouP MarkEtIng ManagEr

Blanche McGurr, b.mcgurr@ieee.org
IntEractIvE MarkEtIng ManagEr

Ruchika Anand, r.t.anand@ieee.org

lISt SalES & rEcruItMEnt SErvIcES Product/
MarkEtIng ManagEr Ilia Rodriguez, i.rodriguez@ieee.org
rEPrInt SalES +1 212 221 9595, exT. 319
MarkEtIng & ProMotIon SPEcIalISt Faith H. Jeanty,

f.jeanty@ieee.org

SEnIor MarkEtIng adMInIStrator

simone.darby@ieee.org

MarkEtIng aSSIStant Quinona Brown, q.brown@ieee.org
rEcruItMEnt SalES advISor Liza Reich +1 212 419 7578
advErtISIng SalES +1 212 705 8939

Joachim Fischer, Michael Thiel & Martin Wegener

advErtISIng ProductIon ManagEr Felicia Spagnoli
SEnIor advErtISIng ProductIon coordInator

Metamaterials small enough to work at optical wavelengths were largely theoretical in 2001,
when Wegener [right], a professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), in Germany,
began working on a way to fabricate them using direct laser writing [see "Matter Made to Order,"
p. 34]. Now, he says, "we can fabricate nearly any three-dimensional architecture from scratch."
Coauthor Fischer [left] is a postdoc in Wegener's group. Thiel left the lab in 2010 after completing
his Ph.D. to join KIT spin-off Nanoscribe, where he currently heads technical development.

Nicole evans Gyimah

advErtISIng ProductIon +1 732 562 6334
IEEE Staff ExEcutIvE, PublIcatIonS

PrESIdEnt-ElEct Howard e. Michel
trEaSurEr John T. Barr SEcrEtary
PaSt PrESIdEnt Peter W. Staecker

Mark Harris

vIcE PrESIdEntS

dIvISIon dIrEctorS

ellen J. Yoffa (I); Jerry L. Hudgins (II); Harvey A. Freeman (III);
Jozef W. Modelski (IV); Susan K. Land (V);
Bogdan M. Wilamowski (VI); Wanda K. Reder (VII);
Roger U. Fujii (VIII); Marina Ruggieri (Ix); Stephen Yurkovich (x)
rEgIon dIrEctorS

Vincent P. Socci (1); Parviz Famouri (2); Mary ellen Randall (3);
Karen S. Pedersen (4); J. Derald Morgan (5);
Michael R. Andrews (6); Amir G. Aghdam (7); Martin J. Bastiaans (8);
Norberto M. Lerendegui (9); Toshio Fukuda (10)

Gabriela Hasbun

dIrEctorS EMErItuS

James Prendergast
+1 732 502 5400, james.prendergast@ieee.org
huMan rESourcES Betsy Davis, SPHR
+1 732 465 6434, e.davis@ieee.org
PublIcatIonS Anthony Durniak
+1 732 562 3998, a.durniak@ieee.org
EducatIonal actIvItIES Douglas Gorham
+1 732 562 5483, d.g.gorham@ieee.org
MEMbEr & gEograPhIc actIvItIES Cecelia Jankowski
+1 732 562 5504, c.jankowski@ieee.org
StandardS actIvItIES Konstantinos Karachalios
+1 732 562 3820, constantin@ieee.org

Paul McFedries

gEnEral counSEl & chIEf coMPlIancE offIcEr

eileen Lach, +1 212 705 8990, e.m.lach@ieee.org
corPoratE StratEgy Matthew Loeb, CAe
+1 732 562 5320, m.loeb@ieee.org
chIEf MarkEtIng offIcEr Patrick D. Mahoney
+1 732 562 5596, p.mahoney@ieee.org
chIEf InforMatIon offIcEr Alexander J. Pasik, Ph.D.
+1 732 562 6017, a.pasik@ieee.org
chIEf fInancIal offIcEr Thomas R. Siegert
+1 732 562 6843, t.siegert@ieee.org
tEchnIcal actIvItIES Mary Ward-Callan
+1 732 562 3850, m.ward-callan@ieee.org
ManagIng dIrEctor, IEEE-uSa Chris Brantley
+1 202 530 8349, c.brantley@ieee.org

Lily Hay Newman

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eric Herz, Theodore W. Hissey

IEEE Staff
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McFedries has written IEEE Spectrum's Technically Speaking
column since 2002. In this issue he writes about "urban
computing," in which the city itself becomes a kind of distributed
computer [p. 28]. McFedries is the author of more than 70 books
on software and technology. His website, Word Spy, tracks
emerging words and phrases. His "lexpionage," as he calls it,
extends beyond technology: He recently wrote a post about
"fauxductivity"-busyness that consists of trivial activities.

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Marko Delimar

Saurabh Sinha, educational Activities; Gianluca Setti, Publication
Services & Products; Ralph M. Ford, Member & Geographic
Activities; Karen Bartleson, President, Standards Association; Jacek
M. Zurada, Technical Activities; Gary L. Blank, President, Ieee-USA

For our Dream Jobs report, Hasbun, a San Francisco-based
photographer, did two shoots with opposite technical challenges.
For the first, about solar-energy innovator Leila Madrone [p. 44],
Hasbun shot indoors, using artificial lights to mimic a lens flare
from the sun. The second shoot, of sports-software coder Mark
Perry [p. 48], was outdoors, where Hasbun had to carefully avoid
getting a natural lens flare in the photos. "I was fighting the light
for both," she says.

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Anthony Durniak

IEEE board of dIrEctorS
PrESIdEnt J. Roberto B. de Marca, president@ieee.org
+1 732 562 3928 fax: +1 732 465 6444

Contributing editor Harris has previously written for IEEE
Spectrum about failing defibrillators and firefighter-tracking
technology. In this issue, he investigates the sale of thousands
of Kodak's patents to a consortium of the world's biggest
technology companies [p. 30]. It's a homecoming of sorts for
Harris, who over a decade ago wrote his first feature for a national
newspaper (The Independent in the United Kingdom) on Kodak's
revolutionary use of OLED displays.

IEEE PublIcatIon SErvIcES & ProductS board

02.14

Always looking to learn about something new, Newman says
that she sees complicated topics not as overwhelming but "vast."
In writing about a Swiss supercomputer that's one of the fastest
and most energy efficient in the world [p. 13], she was impressed
by how tiny processor changes could significantly improve
performance. A freelancer based in New York City, Newman
cooks or listens to jazz when she wants to contemplate the
vastness of the universe.

Simone Darby,

Gianluca Setti, Chair; John B. Anderson, Robert L. Anderson,
John Baillieul, Silvio e. Barbin, Herbert S. Bennett, Don C.
Bramlett, Stuart Bottom, Thomas M. Conte, Samir M. el-Ghazaly,
Lawrence O. Hall, Sheila S. Hemami, David A. Hodges, Donna
L. Hudson, elizabeth T. Johnston, Hulya Kirkici, Khaled
Letaief, Carmen S. Menoni, William W. Moses, Michael Pecht,
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