IEEE Spectrum June, 2015 - 6

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IEEE MEdIa
SEnIor dIrEctor; PublIShEr, IEEE SPEctruM

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

Ariel Bleicher

aSSocIatE PublIShEr, SalES & advErtISIng dIrEctor

Marion Delaney, m.delaney@ieee.org

Bleicher is a senior editor at Nautilus. In "100,000
People, 250 Biomarkers, and the Quest for Good
Health" [p. 56], she writes about a new project
that aims to track and also improve the health
of ordinary Americans. "It's a tantalizing idea-
being able to monitor your body so intensely
that you know you're getting sick way before you
actually feel sick," Bleicher says. "The billion-dollar
question is: Could that knowledge help you avoid
sickness altogether?"

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

David Brown

advErtISIng ProductIon ManagEr Felicia Spagnoli
SEnIor advErtISIng ProductIon coordInator

For "Computer Modelers vs. Ebola" [p. 62], freelance
journalist Brown spent several days at the Virginia
Bioinformatics Institute with the diverse team of
computer scientists, biologists, and mathematicians
who tried to predict the course of the West African
Ebola outbreak. Brown himself combines several
fields of expertise: He's a physician who signed
on with The Washington Post in 1991 for what he
thought would be a short stint as a medical reporter.
"That stretched on for 22 years," he says.

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

Vincent P. Socci (1); Timothy P. Kurzweg (2); Mary ellen Randall (3);
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

Levitan is the science writer for FactCheck.org, where
he investigates the false and misleading claims about
science that U.S. politicians occasionally make. For
this issue, he traveled to Iceland to interview Kári
Stefánsson of Decode Genetics [p. 55], who would like
to capture the DNA of Iceland's entire population. Although Stefánsson is a neurologist by training, he has
the charisma of a successful politician, Levitan notes.
"A big chunk of that population seemed to describe
Stefánsson as a 'character'-affectionately, of course."

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
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

Emily Waltz

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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

Dolgin, a journalist based in Somerville, Mass.,
observed scientists examining sewage in their quest
to understand the health of entire cities, which
he reports on in "Smart Sewers for Public Health"
[p. 18]. "This microbial world around us and within
us, we're discovering, is one of the most important
mediators of health," Dolgin says. The job wasn't
quite as dirty as he'd expected. "The sewage was
surprisingly clear," he says. "I wouldn't drink it, but it
wasn't as bad as I'd imagined."

Anthony Durniak

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

Elie Dolgin

IEEE PublIcatIon SErvIcES & ProductS board

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Waltz is a freelance journalist based in Nashville.
In "The Quantified Olympian" [p. 44], she surveys
some electronic aids that athletes are using to guard
against injury and boost performance. "I've played
tennis since I was 5, and by the time I was a senior on
my high school team, the spine-bending motion of
my serve had done a number on my lower back," says
Waltz. "Keeping an eye on a kid's mechanics using
wearable sensors might help coaches and parents
prevent such injuries."

Simone Darby,

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Bennett, Jennifer T. Bernhard, eddie Custovic, Jean-Luc Gaudiot,
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James M. Irvine, Hulya Kirkici, Carmen S. Menoni, Paolo Montuschi,
Thrasos Pappas, Michael Pecht, Michael Polis, Sorel Reisman,
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