IEEE Spectrum October, 2011 - 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

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 became the
publication's first lead analyst for
business displays. In "LCDs' Bright
Future" [p. 24], Poor explains three
technological advances that will
make TVs lighter and cheaper and
reveals why he still is "fascinated
by shiny, sparkly things."

ritchie S. King,
who quantified
programming
languages for
The Data [p. 84],
formerly dealt with numbers
full-time as a chemical process
engineer. Unlike most engineers,
though, he enjoyed writing
reports and making charts more
than any other aspect of the job.
In 2009, King decided to make
writing about science and
technology a full-time gig.
He landed an internship at
Spectrum this past summer and
is currently finishing journalism
grad school and interning at
The New York Times.

JOSeph M.
SMith is the chief
medical and science
officer of the West
Wireless Health
Institute, in San Diego. He is also an
advisor to programs at Johns
Hopkins, Harvard, and the Defense
Advanced Research Projects
Agency. After using what his sons
called "poky" instruments like
needles and scalpels in his 15 years
in cardiology, he moved to a more
hands-free job: championing the
first wireless technology for
implanted pacemakers and
defibrillators at Guidant. He
writes about these and related
developments in "The Doctor Will
See You Always" [p. 56].

BuraK Ozpineci and leOn
tOlBert, both IEEE senior
members, write about the rise
of silicon carbide in power
electronics in "Smaller, Faster,
Tougher" [p. 44]. Ozpineci
heads the power electronics
and electric machinery group at
Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
in Tennessee. Tolbert is the
Min Kao professor of electrical
engineering and computer science
at the University of Tennessee,
in Knoxville. The two began
working on silicon carbide devices
in 2001, when a friend of a friend
of a friend sent along some of the
first SiC Schottky diodes. "We
were hooked," Ozpineci says.
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richard
StevenSOn,
author of "A Driver's
Sixth Sense" [p. 50],
got a Ph.D. in
physics at the University of
Cambridge. There he focused
on gallium nitride and other
compound semiconductors, the
beat he usually covers for Spectrum.
This time, he writes about an
advanced yet inexpensive
car-radar system from Infineon
Technologies that's based on good
old silicon. "With the shift to
silicon, we may soon see luxury
features like adaptive cruise
control on economy cars," he says.

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

ieee MeDia/SPectruM grouP Marketing Manager

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

interactiVe Marketing Manager

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rePrint SaleS +1 212 221 9595, ext. 319

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liza reich +1 212 419 7578

Marketing & ProMotion SPecialiSt
recruitMent SaleS aDViSor

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aDVertiSing ProDuction Manager

felicia Spagnoli
nicole evans

Senior aDVertiSing ProDuction coorDinator
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ieee Staff executiVe, PublicationS

anthony Durniak

iEEE bOArd Of dirEctOrS
PreSiDent & ceo Moshe kam
+1 732 562 3928 fax: +1 732 465 6444

president@ieee.org

PreSiDent-elect gordon

W. Day
treaSurer harold flescher
Secretary roger D. Pollard
PaSt PreSiDent Pedro a. ray

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howard e. Michel, Member & Geographic Activities;
Steve M. Mills, President, Standards Association;
Donna l. hudson, Technical Activities;
ronald g. Jensen, President, IEEE-USA

diViSiON dirEctOrS
hiroshi iwai (i); J. keith nelson (ii);
nim k. cheung (iii); Peter n. clout (iV);
Michael r. Williams (V); Jeffrey M. Voas (Vi);
enrique a. tejera M. (Vii); Susan k. land (Viii);
alfred o. hero iii (ix); Vincenzo Piuri (x)

rEgiON dirEctOrS
charles P. rubenstein (1); ralph M. ford (2);
clarence l. Stogner (3); James n. riess (4);
Sandra l. robinson (5); edward g. Perkins (6);
om P. Malik (7); Marko Delimar (8);
tania l. Quiel (9); Wai-choong Wong (10)

dirEctOrS EmErituS
eric herz, theodore W. hissey

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james.prendergast@ieee.org

executiVe Director & coo
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huMan reSourceS betsy Davis, SPhr
+1 732 465 6434, e.davis@ieee.org
PublicationS anthony Durniak
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technical actiVitieS Mary Ward-callan
+1 732 562 3850, m.ward-callan@ieee.org
Managing Director, ieee-uSa chris brantley
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iEEE publicAtiON SErVicES & prOductS bOArd
David a. hodges, Chair; tayfun akgul, John baillieul, Silvio e.
barbin, karen bartleson, Maja e. bystrom, celia l. Desmond,
tariq S. Durrani, Mohamed e. el-hawary, David a. grier,
lajos hanzo, elizabeth t. Johnston, hulya kirkici, russell J.
lefevre, Michael r. lightner, carmen S. Menoni, Pradeep Misra,
William W. Moses, Jose M.f. Moura, edward a. rezek, Jon g.
rokne, gianluca Setti, curtis a. Siller, ravi M. todi, robert J. trew,
karl r. Varian, timothy t. Wong, Daniel S. yeung, Jacek M. Zurada

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CloCkwise From Top leFT: Carin Baer; CompuTer shopper;
wesT wireless healTh insTiTuTe; randi silBerman kleTT; riTChie s. king

SuSan Karlin
lists among her
achievements acting,
drawing, traveling to
every continent, and
writing for such publications as
The New York Times, Entertainment 
Weekly, and IEEE Spectrum. For
this issue, she profiled Cameron
Cohen [p. 26], a 13-year-old who
spent a nine-month recuperation
developing a lucrative iPhone app
and then donated US $20 000 of the
profits to help hospitalized children.
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