John R. Long Chair of the Electronics Research Laboratory at the Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands As the volunteer editor-in-chief of the RFIC-VJ, Dr. John R. Long, who is chair of the Electronics Research Laboratory at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, is responsible for preparing prefatory remarks about the papers in each issue as well as an introductory tutorial-level essay for each collection as a whole. He is currently a member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2013 European Solid-State Circuits conference (ESSCIRC) and was cochair of the 2012 European Microwave Week (EuMIC) in Amsterdam. His current research interests include low-power and broadband transceiver circuitry for highly integrated wireless applications, energy-efficient wireless sensors, mm-wave integrated electronics, and electronics design for high-speed data communications systems. Prior to joining Delft University in 2011, Dr. Long was employed by Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, as an ASIC designer for Gbit/s fiber-optic transmission systems. From 1996 to 2001, he was an assistant and then associate professor at the University of Toronto in Canada. Prof. Long is a past-associate editor of the JSSC and a Distinguished Lecturer of the SSCS. He has served on numerous conference program committees including the Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), the IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), and the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He chaired the ISSCC analog/RF and RF circuit subcommittees from 2003 to 2010. He was also a local organizer and general chair of the 1996 IEEE BCTM in Maastricht, The Netherlands. Prof. Long received the 1997 NSERC Doctoral Prize and the 2010 Douglas R. Colton and Governor General’s Medals for research excellence, as well as a number of best paper awards at ISSCC in 2000 and 2007 and at the 2006 and 2011 RFIC conferences. He earned a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Calgary in 1984, and M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, in 1992 and 1996, respectively.
coincided with an overall redesign of the IEEE VJ template that will also affect IEEE’s pioneer VJ, the two-yearold “Biometrics Compendium,” as well as a third, the Radio Frequency Iden tification (RFID) VJ, to be launched shortly. The new VJ design focuses on topics, said IEEE User Experience Architect Maurice Cruz. “We changed
the display so that a reader can jump from topic to topic through a navigation menu” to get only the articles that he or she wants to be displayed.” IEEE expects the RFIC-VJ to become the one-stop place to find RFIC publications within the IEEE library and to emerge as the leading world-wide focal point for RFICs.
“Whether you are an experienced RFIC designer looking for a highquality reference, or a junior engineer looking to design your first RF circuits, the RFIC-VJ is the place to go for a concise overview of RFIC technologies,“ said Long. —Katherine Olstein
Nominating Process for AdCom 2014–2016 Begins in March
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The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Nominations Committee begins each March to identify candidates for election to the Society Administrative Committee (AdCom) in preparation for voting the following fall; a slate of eight candidates, required by Society Bylaws to give members a choice for five slots, is announced during the summer to allow members a month’s time to petition for others to be added to the ballot. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2012.2228423 Date of publication: 4 February 2013
SSCS members who are interested in nominating others, or running themselves, should send recommendations to the chair of the Nominating Committee, Bernhard E. Boser,
[email protected], by 28 February 2013. Undergraduate student members are not eligible to vote.
Nominees by Petition Those interested in using the petition process must contact the SSCS executive director at
[email protected] no later than 20 July, immediately after the Nominating Committee’s
slate has been announced on the Society Web site (sscs.ieee.org). Once the eligibility of a petition candidate is verified, any Society voting member who wishes to sign a petition for him or her may do so electronically through online software administered by the IEEE Corporate Office. The number of signatures required for a petition candidate is 2% of SSCS voting members at the time the petition process begins, approximately 100 signatures. Once a member is posted (continued on p. 101)
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design, including latency-insensitive design, on-chip communications synthesis, and compositional design-space exploration. CEDA’s Early Career Award honors an individual who has made innovative and substantial technical contributions to EDA in the early stages of his or her career. Contributions are evaluated according to the individual’s technical merit and creativity in performing research, with consideration of his or her published record and references accompanying the nomination. The award is equally available to contributors from academic and industrial institutions. Joel Phillips has won the Outstanding Service Contribution Award for his excellent work as the general chair of the 2011 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD). He has been a member of the ICCAD Executive Committee for five years. “Prof. Carloni and Dr. Phillips have made important contributions to EDA, and CEDA is pleased to be
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Papers in IEEE Embedded Systems Letters The top-five accessed articles from IEEE Embedded Systems Letters in August 2012 were: ■■ “Opal: A Multiradio Platform for High Throughput Wireless Sensor Networks,” by R. Jurdak et al. ■■ “Smartphone-Based Vehicle-toDriver/Environment Interaction System for Motorcycles,” by C. Spelta et al. ■■ “Fault-Tolerant Architecture for an MPEG-4 Based Video Decoder Driver,” by S.P. Kamat ■■ “Managing Battery and Supercapacitor Resources for Real-Time Sporadic Workloads,” by C.M. Krishna ■■ “Predictive OS Modeling for HostCompiled Simulation of Periodic Real-Time Task Sets,” by P. Razaghi and A. Gerstlauer.
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on the site, he or she is able to re ceive endorsement signatures until a predetermined date in late August or early September when voting begins. ■■ The AdComterm of office is three years. ■■ AdCom members may be reelected to a second consecutive term. ■■ AdCom members who miss two consecutive meetings shall be dropped from the AdCom in the absence of extenuating circumstances.
able to recognize both of them,” noted David Yeh, director of the Integrated Circuit and Systems Sciences at Semiconductor Research Corp. and chair of CEDA’s Awards Committee. Luca Carloni is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University in New York. His research interests include methodologies and tools for multicore system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, with emphasis on system-level design and communication synthesis, design and optimization of networks on chips (NoCs), embedded software, and distributed embedded systems. He has a Laurea in electronics engineering from the University of Bologna in Italy, and an M.S. in engineering and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences, both from the University of California at Berkeley. Joel Phillips is a research scientist at Cadence Research Laboratories. His research interests include the development of numerically oriented algorithms for solving problems in EDA. He has a B.S. in physics and electrical engineering, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). For more information on these awards, please visit www.c-eda.org.
AdCom Scope Elected AdCom members are expected to attend the two administrative meetings each year. Some committee work is carried on by e-mail throughout the year. The AdCom oversees the operations of chapters, distinguished lecturers, awards, tutorials, publications, and conferences, including the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, the VLSI Circuits Symposium, and the Asian Solid-State Circuits
Conference, as well as IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and IEEE Solid-States Circuits Magazine and other potential technical activities within its field of interest. The Society also cosponsors or technically cosponsors a number of other journals and conferences such as the European Solid-State Circuits Conference, IEEE Design and Test Magazine, and RFIC Virtual Journal. —Bernhard Boser SSCS Nominations Committee Chair
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