IEEE Spectrum September, 2010 - 6

iEEE mEdiA
Staff Director; PubliSher, IEEE SpEctrum

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

aSSociate PubliSher, SaleS & aDVertiSing Director

Marion Delaney, m.delaney@ieee.org

recruitMent SaleS DeVeloPMent Manager

Michael buryk, m.buryk@ieee.org
buSineSS Manager robert t. ross

ieee MeDia/SPectruM grouP Marketing Manager

DaviD LammerS
is a veteran chip
industry reporter.
He began covering
semiconductors as a
correspondent for the Associated
Press in Tokyo in the 1980s. He
continued there and in Austin,
Texas, with EE Times and most
recently with Semiconductor
International. Reporting
"Resistive RAM Gains Ground"
[p. 14] confirmed for him that
"this is one of the most interesting
times in memory research in the
past three decades."
LucaS LaurSen
is a freelance
journalist based in
Madrid. While
writing "When
Chickens Attack" [p. 11], he began to
feel some sympathy for hens when
he learned that "they take out their
[pecking] instincts on each other."
He'll still eat poultry products,
though, he says. Laursen also
writes for Science, Nature, and the
Financial Times weekend magazine.
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thomaS
Lawrence,
a technical fellow at
Sikorsky Aircraft
Corp., has made a
career of peculiar projects. First
he helped design an airship lifted
by four conjoined helicopters.
Next came the XH-59A, a futile
effort to break the helicopter
speed record. He then focused on
the X-Wing, an aircraft that could
take off like a helicopter but
switched midair to fly like a
fixed-wing airplane. None
succeeded. Before turning to the
very successful X2 ["The Fastest
Helicopter on Earth," p. 36],
Lawrence says, "I wasn't sure
what my career path was."
cLint Schow, FuaD
Doany, and JeFFrey KaSh,
who wrote "Get on the Optical
Bus" [p. 32], work at the IBM
T. J. Watson Research Center in
Yorktown Heights, N.Y. Their
mission is not to speed up
processors but to deal with the
shortage of bandwidth between
them-an irksome problem
that must be solved if future
generations of supercomputers
and servers are to be more
powerful than today's.
PauL waLLich,
when not reporting
on oddball technologies, takes to
his shop to make
small household parts by casting,
carving, forming, filing, sawing,
drilling, riveting, tapping,
soldering, and gluing up laminated assemblies. He was, in
other words, the natural choice to
write "3-D Printers Proliferate"
[p. 23], about systems for sending
a CAD file from a computer to a
device that extrudes or sinters an
object into being.

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ruchika anand, r.t.anand@ieee.org

interactiVe Marketing Manager

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

aDVertiSing SaleS +1 212 419 7760
SaleS aDViSor

John restchack

+1 212 419 7578

aDVertiSing ProDuction Manager

felicia Spagnoli
nicole evans

Senior aDVertiSing ProDuction coorDinator
aDVertiSing ProDuction +1 732 562 6334
ieee Staff executiVe, PublicationS

anthony Durniak

iEEE boArd of dirEctorS
PreSiDent & ceo Pedro a. ray
+1 732 562 3928 fax: +1 732 465 6444

president@ieee.org

PreSiDent-elect Moshe

kam
treaSurer Peter W. Staecker
Secretary David g. green
PaSt PreSiDent John r. Vig

VicE prESidENtS
tariq S. Durrani, Educational Activities; Jon g. rokne,
Publication Services & Products; barry l. Shoop, Member &
Geographic Activities; W. charlton adams, President, Standards
Association; roger D. Pollard, Technical Activities;
evelyn h. hirt, President, IEEE-USA

diViSioN dirEctorS
hiroshi iwai (i); robert e. hebner Jr. (ii);
nim k. cheung (iii); roger W. Sudbury (iV);
Michael r. Williams (V); Mark i. Montrose (Vi);
enrique a. tejera M. (Vii); Stephen l. Diamond (Viii);
alfred o. hero iii (ix); richard a. Volz (x)

rEgioN dirEctorS
charles P. rubenstein (1); William P. Walsh Jr. (2); clarence
l. Stogner (3); Don c. bramlett (4); Sandra l. robinson (5);
leonard J. bond (6); om P. Malik (7); Jozef W. Modelski (8);
tania l. Quiel (9); yong Jin Park (10)

dirEctorS EmErituS
eric herz, theodore W. hissey

iEEE StAff
James Prendergast
james.prendergast@ieee.org
huMan reSourceS betsy Davis, SPhr
+1 732 465 6434, e.davis@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
StanDarDS actiVitieS Judith gorman
+1 732 562 3820, j.gorman@ieee.org
MeMber & geograPhic actiVitieS cecelia Jankowski
+1 732 562 5504, c.jankowski@ieee.org
corPorate Strategy & coMMunicationS Matthew loeb, cae
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chief Marketing officer Patrick D. Mahoney
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chief financial officer thomas r. Siegert
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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

executiVe Director & coo
+1 732 502 5400,

iEEE publicAtioN SErVicES & productS boArd
Jon g. rokne, Chair; tayfun akgul, John baillieul, Silvio e. barbin,
Deborah M. cooper, celia l. Desmond, tariq S. Durrani,
Mohamed e. el-hawary, gerald l. engel, David a. grier,
Jens hannemann, lajos hanzo, hirohisa kawamoto,
russell J. lefevre, Michael r. lightner, Steve M. Mills,
Pradeep Misra, Saifur rahman, edward a. rezek,
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CloCkwise From Top leFT: DaviD sTuarT; sikorsky airCraFT Corp.;
Julie robiChaux; molly CroCkeTT; Dan huTCheson

Scott Dorman
of Smalldog
Imageworks started
with an untouched
photograph of
Anybots' telepresence robot ["When
My Avatar Went to Work," p. 26] to
create a dynamic composite of six
separate shots for this month's cover.
Dorman says that "painting with
pieces of photography" has gotten a
lot easier since the pre-Photoshop
days, when professional digital
retouching required a US $300 000
system called the Quantel Paintbox.
"Compared to today's standards, it
was a dinosaur," Dorman
remembers. He has enhanced
photographs for BMW, Coca-Cola,
and Puma and is a regular
contributor to IEEE Spectrum.
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