IEEE Spectrum July, 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

Jonathan Schaeffer, Martin Müller & Akihiro Kishimoto

advErtising production ManagEr Felicia Spagnoli
sEnior advErtising production coordinator

Schaeffer [left], a computer science professor at the University of Alberta, in Canada, had
been creating game-playing artificial intelligence programs for 15 years when Müller [center]
and Kishimoto [right] came to the university in 1999 as a professor and graduate student,
respectively. Together they tried to crack the game of Go using methods discussed in their
article "Go-bot, Go" [p. 48]. Kishimoto has since left for IBM Research-Ireland, but the work
goes on-and Schaeffer now finds it plausible that a computer will beat Go's grand masters
soon. "Ten years ago, I thought that wouldn't happen in my lifetime," he says.

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)

Jin-Woo Han & Meyya Meyyappan
Han [left] and Meyyappan work at NASA Ames Research Center
in Moffett Field, Calif., where Han is a research scientist and
Meyyappan is chief scientist for exploration technology. The
vacuum-channel transistors they describe in this issue ["The
Device Made of Nothing," p. 30] grew out of an unrelated attempt
to oxidize a single thin nanowire. "It ended up as two separate
electrodes," says Han, who then realized that the botched
experiment could be turned into a new kind of transistor.

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

Nathan Myhrvold & W. Wayt Gibbs

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

G. Pascal Zachary

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eric Herz, Theodore W. Hissey

iEEE staff
ExEcutivE dirEctor & coo

Myhrvold [left], founder of Intellectual Ventures and the Cooking
Lab and former chief technology officer of Microsoft, cooked his
family's Thanksgiving dinner at age 9. Myhrvold and freelance
writer Gibbs have collaborated on two noteworthy culinary works:
the six-volume Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking
(2011) and Modernist Cuisine at Home (2012). In "Recipe for
a Better Oven," in this issue [p. 36], they look at designing the
perfect high-tech oven.

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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

Johnson, a performance scientist at Oracle/Sun Microsystems
in Bloomfield, Colo., chronicles the ups and downs of owning
a plug-in hybrid vehicle [p. 26], which he bought to use up the
net-metering credits from his rooftop solar panels. "I looked into
just about every form of electric vehicle: electric motorcycles,
electric bicycles, even battery-laden skateboards," he says.
"Given Colorado's winters, though, I concluded that something
enclosed-a car, in other words-was the most practical."

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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

Steven A. Johnson

iEEE publication sErvicEs & products board

07.14

Zachary is a former reporter for The Wall Street Journal and a
professor at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School
of Journalism and Mass Communication. In this issue, he
explores the vexing question of why engineering has so few
heroes [p. 42]. Zachary has the good fortune of living with
one of his own heroes: his wife, Chizo Okon. "She's overcome
adversity, she's courageous, and she accepts that people are
imperfect," he says.

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,
Stephanie White, Timothy Wong
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