IEEE Spectrum December, 2013 - 6

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IEEE MEdIa
SEnIor dIrEctor; PublIShEr, IEEE SPEctruM

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

Jeremy Hsu

aSSocIatE PublIShEr, SalES & advErtISIng dIrEctor

Marion Delaney, m.delaney@ieee.org

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based reporter Hsu knew the
time was right for a story about the Canadian
quantum-computer company D-Wave Systems
and its controversial claims [News, p. 11]. "There
are finally independent studies that go at these
big questions that have been hanging over
this company from the start," he says. "It was
time to check in with the quantum-computing
community to see if their attitude had changed."
The answer? It's complicated.

rEcruItMEnt and lISt SalES advErtISIng dIrEctor

Michael Buryk, m.buryk@ieee.org
buSInESS ManagEr Robert T. Ross

IEEE MEdIa/SPEctruM grouP MarkEtIng ManagEr

Blanche McGurr, b.mcgurr@ieee.org
IntEractIvE MarkEtIng 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

Jesse Lefkowitz

advErtISIng ProductIon ManagEr Felicia Spagnoli
SEnIor advErtISIng ProductIon coordInator

When asked to illustrate this month's Technically
Speaking ["Clamorous Computing," p. 28],
Lefkowitz considered the idea of intrusive
technology in his own life. Just thinking about the
effects of being constantly plugged in "was very
stressful." Inspired to reduce such tech distractions,
he says, "I decided I wasn't going to check
Facebook while I was working on this project." To
further clear his mind, Lefkowitz also plays ultimate
Frisbee and hikes near his home in Berkeley, Calif.

Nicole evans Gyimah

advErtISIng ProductIon +1 732 562 6334
IEEE Staff ExEcutIvE, PublIcatIonS

PrESIdEnt-ElEct Roberto de Marca
trEaSurEr John T. Barr SEcrEtary Marko Delimar
PaSt PrESIdEnt Gordon W. Day
vIcE PrESIdEntS

Michael R. Lightner, educational Activities; Gianluca Setti, Publication
Services & Products; Ralph M. Ford, Member & Geographic
Activities; Karen Bartleson, President, Standards Association; Robert
e. Hebner, Technical Activities; Marc T. Apter, President, Ieee-USA

Karl Rauscher

dIvISIon dIrEctorS

Cor L. Claeys (I); Jerry L. Hudgins (II); Douglas N. Zuckerman (III);
Jozef Modelski (IV); James W. Moore (V);
Bogdan M. Wilamowski (VI); Cheryl "Cheri" A. Warren (VII);
Roger U. Fujii (VIII); Jose M. Moura (Ix); Stephen Yurkovich (x)
rEgIon dIrEctorS

Peter Alan eckstein (1); Parviz Famouri (2); David G. Green (3);
Karen S. Pedersen (4); James A. Jefferies (5);
Michael R. Andrews (6); Keith B. Brown (7); Martin J. Bastiaans (8);
Gustavo A. Giannattasio (9); Toshio Fukuda (10)
dIrEctorS EMErItuS

James Prendergast
+1 732 502 5400, 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
MEMbEr & gEograPhIc actIvItIES Cecelia Jankowski
+1 732 562 5504, c.jankowski@ieee.org
StandardS actIvItIES Konstantinos Karachalios
+1 732 562 3820, constantin@ieee.org

Rodney S. Tucker

gEnEral counSEl & chIEf coMPlIancE offIcEr

eileen Lach, +1 212 705 8990, e.m.lach@ieee.org
corPoratE StratEgy Matthew Loeb, CAe
+1 732 562 5320, m.loeb@ieee.org
chIEf MarkEtIng offIcEr Patrick D. Mahoney
+1 732 562 5596, p.mahoney@ieee.org
chIEf InforMatIon offIcEr Alexander J. Pasik, Ph.D.
+1 732 562 6017, a.pasik@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

Adam Voorhes

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Tucker, who wrote "Australia's (Less Super)
Superhighway" [p. 46], is a professor of electrical
engineering at the University of Melbourne
and an IEEE Fellow. In 2008, the Australian
government appointed him to an expert panel
that recommended building a nationwide all-fiber
broadband network. Although this ambitious project
is now in danger of being downscaled, Tucker
considers his work on the panel "one of the most
significant contributions of my engineering career."

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Anthony Durniak

IEEE board of dIrEctorS
PrESIdEnt Peter W. Staecker, president@ieee.org
+1 732 562 3928 fax: +1 732 465 6444

An electrical engineer by training, Rauscher heads the
Worldwide Cybersecurity Initiative at the EastWest
Institute, a think tank that enables back-channel
diplomacy between institutions and governments
that may not normally cooperate. If nations can
be brought together to discuss placing limits on
cyberattacks, as Rauscher proposes in "Writing
the Rules of Cyberwar" [p. 30], he wants to be sure
engineers are involved in the conversation. "The
world can't solve this problem without EEs," he says.

IEEE PublIcatIon SErvIcES & ProductS board

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"We do some pretty crazy things," says Voorhes
of his photography studio in Austin, Texas. He
describes his work as "conceptually driven still
life." Collaborating with a stylist (who is also his
wife) and an assistant, he distilled Australia's
stalled broadband program into a single image
[p. 46]. To do that, the group made a wire outline of
Australia, fed monofilament strands through it until
they fanned out into the desired shape, and then lit
the contraption from below.

Simone Darby,

Gianluca Setti, Chair; John B. Anderson, Robert L. Anderson,
John Baillieul, Silvio e. Barbin, Herbert S. Bennett, Don C.
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Lawrence O. Hall, Sheila S. Hemami, David A. Hodges, Donna
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Letaief, Carmen S. Menoni, William W. Moses, Michael Pecht,
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