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Proposed
Changes to IEEE
Code of Ethics
The IEEE Board of Directors at its
meeting of 1 July 2013 approved the
following resolutions:
Resolved that the following
resolutions shall be, and are hereby,
approved:
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Sections Congress
Is One Year Away
N E X T Y E A R S IEEE Sections
Congress is scheduled for 22 to
24 August at the Amsterdam RAI
convention center. The IEEE
Member and Geographic Activities
Board is partnering with Region 8
(Europe, Africa, and the Middle East)
to host the event.
Held every three years, the congress provides IEEE volunteers and
leaders of IEEE regions, sections,
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opportunity to network and discuss
ways to promote and increase members participation in IEEE activities.
The congress also develops recommendations that it submits to the
IEEE Board of Directors to help guide
the direction of IEEE.
Four Priorities
for IEEE
T H E I E E E B O A R D of Directors set
four priorities at its February Meeting
Series, in Austin, Texas:
CALENDAR
September
1995: Computer
programmer Pierre
Omidyar [above] launches
AuctionWeb, an online
auction and shopping
website that was renamed
eBay two years later.
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1820
Region 7
meeting
in Toronto.
Master of Science in
Systems Engineering
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1888: Birth
date of Alfred
N. Goldsmith [above],
1928 IRE president and
rst editor of Proceedings
of the IRE.
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1976: William
Millard establishes
ComputerLand in Hayward, Calif. Its more than
800 stores by 1986 made
it the largest computer
retailer in the world.
http://www.spsu.edu/systemseng/
Southern Polytechnic State University is a residential, co-educational institution within the University System of Georgia.
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1971: Englands
Prospero satellite is launched.
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1961: Australias
Parkes Observatory, which has a
64-meter-tall radio
telescope [below], is
completed.
1846: Birth
date of George
Westinghouse, founder
of Westinghouse Air
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October
21
November
2026
IEEE
Meet-
Historical events provided by the IEEE History Center. IEEE events indicated in red.
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FEATURES
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Minimizing the
Damage From
Natural Disasters
Researchers use satellites to monitor
Earths conditions B Y K A T H Y P R E T Z
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HETHER THEYRE
oods, earthquakes,
or sinkholes, natural
disasters wreak havoc.
Since 2010, more than
700 have been registered worldwide,
affecting more than 450 million people, according to a study released last
year by the International Monetary
Fund. The IMF reports that since the
1990s, annual damages have risen
from an average of US $20 billion to
about $100 billion. And that upward
trend is expected to continue.
that might lead to forecasting earthquakes [p. 7]; and software for
detecting sinkholes [p. 8].
You might think technologies that
warn of impending natural disasters
have been developed only recently,
but inventions that were meant to do
so existed more than 170 years ago, as
an article from the IEEE History Center describes [p. 9].
Also featured in this issue is the
work of IEEE Fellow James A. Smith,
who helped pioneer the remote
sensing of Earths biosphere [p. 17].
FLOODING IN
ARGENTINA
This image taken by the
Advanced Spaceborne
Thermal Emission and
Reflection Radiometer
(ASTER) in early July
shows major flooding
along the Parana
River, in Argentina, due
to heavy rainfall in
June. ASTER is one of
five Earth-observing
instruments launched in
December 1999 aboard
NASAs Terra satellite.
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TECH TOPIC
ARTHQUAKES
CHINAFOTOPRESS/GETTY IMAGES
strike suddenly,
almost without
warning. There
were 80 quakes in
the rst six months of this
year with a magnitude of 6
or greater, according to the
European Mediterranean
Seismological Centre. Countries where they struck
include Colombia, Greece,
Indonesia, and the United
States. Earthquakes can
cause loss of life and structural damage in populated
areas. Poorly designed
buildings are destroyed,
walls tumble, and furniture
is smashed.
Because earthquakes
strike seemingly at random,
they are among the most
difcult disasters to forecast, but that hasnt stopped
scientists from trying to
decipher the clues that may
foretell an occurrence.
One area of research
relies on images from
satellites to analyze thermal
anomalies caused by the
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of Geoinformatics and
Digital Mine Research at
Northeastern University, in
Shenyang, China.
Qin received his Ph.D. in
March in photogrammetry
and remote sensing at the
College of Geosciences and
Surveying Engineering at
China University of Mining
and Technology, in Beijing,
and Wu was his thesis advisor. Now Qin is a lecturer
at the School of Environment Science and Spatial
Informatics at the universitys Xuzhou campus.
Their paper, GEOSSBased Thermal Parameters
Analysis for Earthquake
Anomaly Recognition, was
published in the October
2012 Proceedings of the IEEE
special edition on remote
sensing of natural disasters.
We can use the multiple
thermal parameters from this
integrated Earth observation
system for seismicity analysis
and earthquake anomaly recognition, Wu says.
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STUDENTS
Predicting
Sinkholes
in the Road
A new algorithm can identify
trouble spots B Y I VA N B E R G E R
ANY OF
us take for
granted the
solidity of
the ground
we walk on. But on occasion the ground can open
wide enough to swallow a
person, a house, or a street
full of cars.
Sinkholes are alarming
to witness and can be catastrophic when they appear
suddenly on a road or under
a home. A new computer
algorithm could provide
warning signs, to save lives
and avoid expensive repairs.
Current detection methods might provide us with
clues to where a sinkhole
will appear, but these
methods require observing minute changes in
ground level over time. For
example, a roadway subsidence requiring immediate
attention might amount to
only a half-centimeter shift
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TECH HISTORY
LECTRICAL AND
computing technologies
have greatly enhanced the
ability to warn of impending natural disasters.
Before electrical communications,
a severe storm simply traveled
faster than observers could warn of
its formation.
The invention of the telegraph
stimulated the formation of networks of weather observers. In 1848,
James Pollard Espy of the Franklin
Institute, in Philadelphia, helped
establish a network of observation
stations to report weather conditions. The following year, the Smithsonian Institution, in Washington,
D.C., supplied weather instruments
to telegraph companies so they
could transmit information over
an extensive observation network.
In 1868, Cleveland Abbe, director
of the Cincinnati Astronomical
Observatory, suggested that warnings should be issued three days in
advance for storm systems and six
hours for hurricanes.
T O R N A D O WAT C H
NSSL/NOAA
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PROFILE
James Smith:
Modeling
Earths
Biosphere
His love of nature fueled
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