IEEE Spectrum - North American - March 2015 - 6

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IEEE MEdIa
SEnIor dIrEctor; PublIShEr, IEEE SPEctruM

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

Elise Ackerman

aSSocIatE PublIShEr, SalES & advErtISIng dIrEctor

Marion Delaney, m.delaney@ieee.org

In this issue, Ackerman, a freelance writer based in
the San Francisco Bay Area, writes about Topher
White, inventor of a cellphone-based system to
thwart illegal logging [p. 46]. Her reporting included
helping White and some volunteers disassemble
donated Android phones. "My job was ripping out the
speaker and vibrator with a pair of pliers," she says.
The volunteers really believed in the cause, she notes.
"They just wanted to do something hands-on to move
the project forward."

rEcruItMEnt and lISt SalES advErtISIng dIrEctor

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

IEEE MEdIa/SPEctruM grouP MarkEtIng ManagEr

Blanche McGurr, b.mcgurr@ieee.org

IEEE MEdIa grouP dIgItal MarkEtIng SEnIor 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

Alan Grau

advErtISIng ProductIon ManagEr Felicia Spagnoli
SEnIor advErtISIng ProductIon coordInator

As a college student, Grau found and fixed a security
flaw in his college's mainframe computer that was
allowing unfettered access to the campus e-mail
system. He's been focused on electronic security
solutions, like those described in "Can You Trust
Your Fridge?" [p. 50], ever since. The work has taken
him from Motorola to AT&T Bell Laboratories to
Digital Storage Technologies to his current position
as president of Icon Labs, an embedded systems
security company he cofounded in 1992.

Nicole evans Gyimah

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

PrESIdEnt-ElEct Barry L. Shoop
trEaSurEr Jerry L. Hudgins SEcrEtary
PaSt PrESIdEnt J. Roberto B. de Marca
vIcE PrESIdEntS

dIvISIon dIrEctorS

ellen J. Yoffa (I); Hirofumi Akagi (II); Harvey A. Freeman (III); William
W. Moses (IV); Susan K. Land (V); Rob Reilly (VI); Wanda K. Reder (VII);
John W. Walz (VIII); Marina Ruggieri (Ix); Kazuhiro Kosuge (x)
rEgIon dIrEctorS

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Robert C. Parro (4); J. Derald Morgan (5); Thomas Coughlin (6);
Amir G. Aghdam (7); Costas M. Stasopoulos (8);
Norberto M. Lerendegui (9); Ramakrishna Kappagantu (10)
dIrEctorS EMErItuS

James Prendergast
+1 732 502 5400, james.prendergast@ieee.org
PublIcatIonS Anthony Durniak
+1 732 562 3998, a.durniak@ieee.org
corPoratE actIvItIES elena Gerstmann
+1 732 981 3452, e.gerstmann@ieee.org
EducatIonal actIvItIES Douglas Gorham
+1 732 562 5483, d.g.gorham@ieee.org
actIng chIEf InforMatIon offIcEr Donna Hourican
+1 732 562 6330, d.hourican@ieee.org
MEMbEr & gEograPhIc actIvItIES Cecelia Jankowski
+1 732 562 5504, c.jankowski@ieee.org
huMan rESourcES Shannon Johnston, SPHR
+1 732 562 6343, s.johnston@ieee.org
StandardS actIvItIES Konstantinos Karachalios
+1 732 562 3820, constantin@ieee.org

Neel V. Patel

gEnEral counSEl & chIEf coMPlIancE offIcEr

eileen M. Lach, +1 212 705 8990, e.m.lach@ieee.org
chIEf MarkEtIng offIcEr Patrick D. Mahoney
+1 732 562 5596, p.mahoney@ieee.org
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+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

Mark Peplow

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Patel is an editorial fellow at Wired and a former
IEEE Spectrum intern. In this issue, he profiles
the electronic music maven known as Jerobeam
Fenderson [p. 26] and the anticounterfeiting
expert Brian Monks [p. 47]. The two men are very
different, Patel says, "but both Fenderson and
Monks share a technical mastery of their craft that
keeps them innovating. It was fascinating to see
such similar work ethics produce such diverse
work in the end."

Parviz Famouri

Saurabh Sinha, educational Activities; Sheila Hemami, Publication
Services & Products; Wai-Choong "Lawrence" Wong, Member
& Geographic Activities; Bruce P. Kraemer, President, Standards
Association; Vincenzo Piuri, Technical Activities; James A. Jefferies,
President, Ieee-USA

Mark Harris

Anthony Durniak

IEEE board of dIrEctorS
PrESIdEnt & cEo Howard e. Michel, president@ieee.org
+1 732 562 3928 fax: +1 732 465 6444

Contributing Editor Harris has written for IEEE Spectrum on a wide range of subjects: defibrillators, patents, computer gaming, Google's self-driving car. With
his feature on the Harvard Forest project [p. 32], the
British-born Seattleite adds environmental science,
an interest he cultivated last year as a Knight Science
Journalism Fellow at MIT. "Technology is giving a voice
to organisms that have traditionally been mute," he
says. "It creates a digital dialogue between us and the
living world that feels very natural in the Internet age."

IEEE PublIcatIon SErvIcES & ProductS board

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Peplow is a freelance science journalist based in
Cambridge, England. In this issue, he profiles Eben
Upton, creator of the low-cost, credit-card-size
Raspberry Pi computer [p. 40]. Peplow's own coding
skills peaked around 1987, when he wrote a program
for the BBC Micro that tested the user's knowledge
of the world's capitals. "Yet despite my dismal record
with computers," he says, "Upton's infectious enthusiasm inspired me to buy a Raspberry Pi." Peplow's
daughter is now patiently teaching him how to use it.

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