IEEE Spectrum October, 2012 - 6

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Senior Director; PubliSher, IEEE SpEctrum

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

ASSociAte PubliSher, SAleS & ADVertiSing Director

Marion Delaney, m.delaney@ieee.org

StEphEn caSS
is Spectrum's newest
contributing editor,
helming the magazine's careers,
reviews, and DIY coverage. It's a
return to the fold for Cass, a staff
editor here from 2000 to 2007.
In this issue, he introduces a new
type of article with a report on
LevelUp [p. 28], the first in a series
of start-up profiles. Cass says his
goal is "to celebrate the interests of
techies and give them a heads-up
about useful things to know."
JoSEph a. konStan and
John riEdl, both professors
of computer science at the
University of Minnesota, wrote
"Recommended for You" [p. 54]. As
codirectors of GroupLens Research,
Konstan, an IEEE Senior Member,
and Riedl, an IEEE Fellow, helped
create the MovieLens recommender system. The pair's scariest recommender moment came
during an interview on "ABC
Nightline." Just before a station
break, MovieLens pitched the
1950s film noir Sunset Boulevard
to host Robert Krulwich. Konstan
and Riedl had to wait until they
were back on the air to hear his verdict on the suggestion: He loved it!
6

Sylvain
martEl, who
founded and directs
the NanoRobotics
Laboratory at École
Polytechnique de Montréal, spent
many long nights trying to
navigate a metal bead through a
live pig's blood vessels with an
MRI machine. Even the machine's
manufacturer thought he was
crazy, he says. But as he reveals in
"Journey to the Center of a Tumor"
[p. 48], his patience paid off. He is
now a pioneer in the burgeoning
field of medical microrobotics.
JoEl r. primack
writes about
simulating the
evolution of the
cosmos in "The
Universe in a Supercomputer"
[p. 42]. Primack is a physics
professor at the University
of California, Santa Cruz,
and director of UC's HighPerformance AstroComputing
Center. Back in the early 1980s,
pencil and paper were the tools of
choice for cosmologists. "Now
high-performance computers have
become vital," Primack says.
"They've helped transform
cosmology from philosophical
speculation into what's almost an
experimental science."
david yEllEn,
this month's cover
photographer, loves
shoots that make
great stories-
like taking a portrait of Baxter
the robot. Outside of photography,
Yellen enjoys fishing and molecular
gastronomy. In recent culinary
adventures, he ate the still-beating
heart of a bigeye tuna, renovated
his Brooklyn kitchen, and had a
dinner party where everything
was cooked either sous vide ("under
vacuum," in a low-heat water bath)
or with a blowtorch.

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CloCkwise from top left: evan aCkerman; éCole polyteChnique De montréal;
paul sChraub; DaviD yellen; alana range

Evan
ackErman,
based in San Jose,
Calif., is the lead
contributor to
Automaton, IEEE Spectrum's
robotics blog. He started covering
robots on his own blog, BotJunkie,
back in 2007. The hobby turned
into nearly a full-time job, and in
early 2011 BotJunkie merged
with Automaton to form the
top robotics blog on the Net.
Ackerman cowrote "The Rise of
the Robot Worker" [p. 34] with
Senior Associate Editor Erico
Guizzo, about start-up Rethink
Robotics and its robot, Baxter.
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