IEEE Spectrum July, 2012 - 6
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Senior Director; PubliSher, IEEE SpEctrum
James A. Vick, j.vick@ieee.org
ASSociAte PubliSher, SAleS & ADVertiSing Director
Marion Delaney, m.delaney@ieee.org
Marc Mosko and Victoria
Bellotti, who wrote "Smart
Conservation for the Lazy
Consumer" [p. 26], are researchers
at Xerox's Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC). Mosko focuses on
wireless data network access and
routing; Bellotti helps clients build
technology businesses around
the world. When they're not at
PARC, Bellotti moonlights as a
jazz vocalist around the Bay Area,
while Mosko continues his battle
with local authorities to install
a natural gas compressor in his
1890s home to fuel his CNG car.
alfred Poor is
a senior member of
the Society for
Information Display.
At PC Magazine, he
was a contributing editor for more
than 20 years and the publication's
first lead analyst for business
displays. TV channel choices once
ranged from channels 2 to 13, but
Poor says that today even "a control
knob the size of a Studebaker
hubcap" wouldn't suffice. In
"Smart TV" [p. 22], he writes about
the new world of TV controls that
draw on speech and gesture
recognition, data mining, and more.
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gregg segal,
a regular contributor
to IEEE Spectrum,
has loved being
behind a camera
since he was 11 years old. For this
issue, he traveled to Iowa to
photograph the bonobo apes with
their apps [p. 38]. Kanzi,
Panbanisha, and 2-year-old Teco
are able to understand spoken
English, respond using touchscreen icons, and even create
words, such as bread cheese tomato
for pizza. "It's just kind of jawdropping," says Segal.
VaclaV sMil,
a distinguished
professor in the
department of
environment and
geography at the University of
Manitoba, in Canada, dates the
interests that inform his article
"A Skeptic Looks at Alternative
Energy" [p. 46] to his student days
at Prague's Carolinum University
more than 50 years ago. "Contrary
to the currently popular assertion
of accelerating innovation,"
he says, "most technical
improvements are evolutionary
and take time to make a real
difference. Consequently,
I think little of claims of
near-instant transformations
of any complex system."
Jeong suh,
creator of the charts
for "A Skeptic
Looks at Alternative
Energy" [p.46],
is an illustrator and 3-D modeler
for Bryan Christie Design. His
favorite projects are architectural
animations, such as the new
World Trade Center rising from
the ground he did for Esquire.
He constructed the realistic 3-D
buildings from scratch, detail by
detail, based on actual specs.
He also loves snowboarding.
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Miguel Miranda
writes about the
growing problem of
semiconductor
variability, in
"When Every Atom Counts" [p. 32].
Miranda's interest in the issue was
sparked about 10 years ago at the
research firm Imec, in Belgium,
where he joined a team that was
trying to tackle various problems
in the chip industry. He was
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team. Miranda, who recently
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taking a plunge in a cold pool."
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