IEEE Spectrum September, 2011 - 6

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Staff Director; PubliSher, IEEE SpEctrum

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

SWapnajit
MitRa works on
input/output chip
protocols as senior
manager of
hardware engineering at PLX
Technology, in Sunnyvale, Calif.
In The Data [p. 72], he reports the
results of tests he ran on how the
most popular search engines try to
anticipate what information you're
seeking, even as you type in your
query. He is amazed that while one
search engine predicts you want to
find a flash-in-the-pan singer,
another is sure you're searching
for a multiplayer fantasy game.
SiMon c. page,
who created the
colorful illustrations
for "The Terahertz
Frontier" [p. 44], first
caught the design bug while drafting
presentations as an analyst for a real
estate finance firm. He started doing
graphics just for fun, and some of
his art, including a series of posters
about the International Year of
Astronomy in 2009, drew attention-
and ultimately patrons. Page, based
in London, says his slogan is "Good
design excites."
gReg tayLoR and geoRge
cox have over half a century
of combined experience as Intel
architects. Helping to develop
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a hardware random-number
generator, which they describe
in "Digital Randomness" [p. 32],
was their first collaboration. Cox
believes this work could make a
fundamental computing problem-
the need for a dependable source
of truly random numbers-
"just go away." Taylor has
helped design 10 generations
of microprocessors and traces
his interest in digital logic to
his father, who worked on the
first commercial computer
produced in the United States.

MichaeL c. Wanke and
MaRk Lee write about creating
the first terahertz IC in "The
Terahertz Frontier" [p. 44].
Wanke is a principal member of
technical staff at Sandia National
Laboratories, in Albuquerque.
Lee, formerly of Sandia, is a
physics professor at the University
of Texas, Dallas. They met at Bell
Laboratories more than 10 years
ago, where Wanke worked on
terahertz photonic devices and Lee
focused on terahertz electronics.
"It wasn't until we started working
at Sandia that we realized we could
blend the two approaches to make
an integrated circuit," Wanke says.
thoMaS Wiegand and gaRy
j. SuLLivan became coleaders
in 2000 of the International
Telecommunication Union group
that developed the H.264/MPEG-4
Advanced Video Coding standard,
which they describe in "The
Picturephone Is Here. Really"
[p. 50]. Wiegand, a professor at
the Technical University of Berlin
and head of the image processing
department of the Fraunhofer
Institute for Telecommunications,
got into video telephony in the late
1990s, when data rates were still
measured in kilobits. Sullivan, a
principal software development
engineer at Microsoft, began
working on video telephony
20 years ago at PictureTel Corp.

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From Top: STephen Lacko; SwapnajiT miTra; Simon c. page

RobeRt W.
Lucky reflects this
month [p. 30] on the
various models of
research funding in
the past century, a subject on which
he is particularly well informed.
Lucky, an IEEE Fellow and holder
of 11 patents, worked for many
years at Bell Labs before becoming
vice president for applied research
at Telcordia Technologies, in
Piscataway, N.J. He retired in 2002,
but he can't stop thinking about
ways to make the current century
equally progressive.

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