IEEE Spectrum June, 2014 - 6

CON T RIBU T ORS _
IEEE MEdIa
SEnIor dIrEctor; PublIShEr, IEEE SPEctruM

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

Philip Ball

aSSocIatE PublIShEr, SalES & advErtISIng dIrEctor

Marion Delaney, m.delaney@ieee.org

Ball holds degrees in chemistry and physics
and was a physical sciences editor at the
journal Nature for many years. In this issue,
he writes about programmable matter [p. 40],
a topic he first covered a decade ago while
working on a radio program for the BBC. "In the
information age, it seems inevitable that we're
eventually going to start building information,
and computation, into the building blocks of
matter itself," says Ball.

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

Nancy Kress

advErtISIng ProductIon ManagEr Felicia Spagnoli
SEnIor advErtISIng ProductIon coordInator

Kress has been writing science fiction and fantasy
since the 1970s, winning five Nebula Awards, two
Hugo Awards, a John W. Campbell Memorial Award,
and a Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. Her next
novel, Yesterday's Kin, will be released in September.
As in her story "Someone to Watch Over Me," in this
issue [p. 80], she often writes about the unanticipated
effects of technology in everyday life. "Technology is
always a double-edged sword," she says. "The day that
fire was discovered, arson became a possibility."

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
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)
dIrEctorS EMErItuS

James Prendergast
+1 732 502 5400, james.prendergast@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
huMan rESourcES Shannon Johnston, SPHR
+1 732 562 6343, s.johnston@ieee.org
StandardS actIvItIES Konstantinos Karachalios
+1 732 562 3820, constantin@ieee.org

Adam Voorhes

gEnEral counSEl & chIEf coMPlIancE offIcEr

eileen M. 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

Ben Wiseman

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For the past five years, Voorhes has been
collaborating with his wife, stylist Robin Finlay,
to craft and photograph artistic marvels. It took
them 8 hours to paint and strategically place
6500 tiny steel balls on the floor and chair they
used in the opening photograph for "Infinitely
Malleable Materials" [p. 40]. Working on four
projects together for this issue posed no
problems, he says. "It's really fun because we
each know how the other thinks."

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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

Prachi Patel

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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

Patel is a contributing editor to IEEE Spectrum.
In this issue, she writes about the emergence
of certificate and degree programs aimed at
cybersecurity specialists [p. 26]. She herself
holds a master's in electrical engineering from
Princeton as well as a master's in journalism
from New York University. "It's interesting to
see how the proliferation of new technologies-
in this case, IT and networking-brings with it
new jobs and education demands," she says.

IEEE PublIcatIon SErvIcES & ProductS board

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"The simplest idea is always the best," says artist
Wiseman. Shortly after beginning studies for a
degree in illustration, he realized the curriculum
wasn't for him: "It was just too nerdy to me." Opting
instead for a degree in communication design
allowed him the freedom to develop his own style.
"I'm more of a graphic designer doing illustration,"
he says. In this issue, his clean, graphic approach is
apparent in his image of digital doubles [p. 48] and
in three other features.

Simone Darby,

Gianluca Setti, Chair; John Baillieul, Babak Beheshti, Herbert
Bennett, Jennifer Bernhard, Stuart Bottom, Jean-Luc Gaudiot,
David Allan Grier, Glenn Gulak, Lawrence Hall, Sheila Hemami,
David Hodges, Hulya Kirkici, Khaled Ben Letaief, Carmen Menoni,
Paolo Montuschi, Lloyd A. "Pete" Morley, William Moses, Michael
Pecht, Sorel Reisman, Charles Rubenstein, Tariq Samad, Gaurav
Sharma, Curtis Siller, David Tian, Joel Trussell, Leung Tsang,
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