IEEE Spectrum August, 2015 - 6

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IEEE MEdIa
SEnIor dIrEctor; PublIShEr, IEEE SPEctruM

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

Raluca Ada Popa

aSSocIatE PublIShEr, SalES & advErtISIng dIrEctor

Marion Delaney, m.delaney@ieee.org

Popa and her former MIT thesis advisor, Nickolai
Zeldovich, are working to protect people's online
privacy. In "How to Compute With Data You Can't
See" [p. 42], they write about some of the approaches they've pioneered, including a system for encrypting Web applications. Called Mylar, the system
takes its name from the aluminized reflective material used to shield spacecraft. "We want Mylar to also
be a protective layer," says Popa, who recently joined
the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.

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

Clark W. Gellings

advErtISIng ProductIon ManagEr Felicia Spagnoli
SEnIor advErtISIng ProductIon coordInator

Gellings is a Fellow at the Electric Power Research
Institute and an IEEE Life Fellow. In this issue, he
discusses why building a global power grid makes
sense [p. 48]. This is his second article for IEEE
Spectrum. His first, published in 1981, introduced the
idea of demand-side management-a now common
smart-grid practice that allows electricity customers
to manage their own usage. "People thought it was
heretical, but the idea eventually took hold," Gellings
says. "I hope that happens with this article, too."

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
chIEf InforMatIon offIcEr Cherif Amirat
+1 732 562 6399, c.amirat@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
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

Stuart Nathan

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

Vaclav Smil

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eric Herz, Theodore W. Hissey

IEEE Staff
ExEcutIvE dIrEctor & coo

Nathan, the features editor of The Engineer,
published in London, is an aficionado of motor
sports. He last wrote for Spectrum in 2013, when
he covered Formula E, the all-electric racing series.
In this issue he visits the team behind Bloodhound,
a "missile on wheels" that Nathan saw in only a
half-built state [p. 30]. Later this year its driver will
test the car on a track in South Africa; in 2016, he
will try to beat the world land-speed record of
1,228 kilometers per hour (763 miles per hour).

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

Ellen Lee

Anthony Durniak

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

Lee is a business and technology journalist based
in the San Francisco Bay Area. This issue includes
her second article in a series looking at wearable
devices that are finding their way into different
facets of daily life [p. 23]. While Lee says she loves
discovering the innovation in wearables, she
does "worry about how the data collected will be
used and monitored. What happens if my entire
life can be tracked through the various wearables
I've worn?"

IEEE PublIcatIon SErvIcES & ProductS board

08.15

Smil, a distinguished professor emeritus at the
University of Manitoba, in Canada, has published
nearly a book a year for 40 years. Known for his
contrarian outlook and interdisciplinary approach, he
writes about energy, globalization, technology, even
the eating of meat. Bill Gates calls Smil his favorite
author. Since the start of this year, Smil has been
writing our "Numbers Don't Lie" column, which this
month asks why people chase after wild ideas while
ignoring proven ones [p. 28].

Simone Darby,

Sheila Hemami, Chair; John Baillieul, Babak D. Beheshti, Herbert S.
Bennett, Jennifer T. Bernhard, eddie Custovic, Jean-Luc Gaudiot,
Ron B. Goldfarb, Glenn Gulak, Lawrence Hall, Christofer Hierold,
James M. Irvine, Hulya Kirkici, Carmen S. Menoni, Paolo Montuschi,
Thrasos Pappas, Michael Pecht, Michael Polis, Sorel Reisman,
Tariq Samad, Fred Schindler, Gianluca Setti, Gaurav Sharma, Curtis A.
Siller, David Tian, Ravi Todi, H. Joel Trussell, Leung Tsang, Stephanie
M. White, Steve Yurkovich
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