The 23rd Midwest Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science Conference
April 21-22, 2012
Engineering Research Center
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH, USA.
Paper submission deadline: February 24, 2012
For more information please visit
https://sites.google.com/site/maics2012/home
or write to the MAICS conference E-mail address: maics.conference_at_gmail.com
Linux Install Fest
(updated 2/23/2012)
Feb 25th, 2012
Pizza provided by IEEE.
Cost: Complementary
Did you know that Linux operating systems runs the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world? Linux is an open source OS that runs on a variety of platforms ranging from televisions and network routers to mainframes and supercomputers. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux).
Would you like to harness the power of Linux to breathe life into an old computer, (more…)
The IEEE-USA conference will be held in Cincinnati, OH this year. The program begins the evening of 3 May and continues until lunch time on 6 May 2012. The theme for this conference is Innovation taking Flight. The Cincinnati section is a co-sponsor with the Dayton and Columbus sections. The main plenary program begins on Friday, 4 May. The Cincinnati section has a 20 minute time slot assigned for a speaker at 11:00 a.m. Friday. The Executive committee for our Cincinnati section is looking for a person that would be willing to prepare and give this short speech. Contact Stephen Fridrick, chair, for more information. (stephen.fridrick@ge.com, 513-243-5361)
Tour of AMP Electric Vehicles
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Thursday, February 23, 2012 (Limited) |
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Amp Electric Vehicles (see below for directions) |
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5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. – Pizza & Social |
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6:30 p.m. to ~8:00 p.m. – Presentation/Tour |
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$5 for Pizza. (Not required to attend meeting) |
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MENU SELECTIONS: Pizza and water provided, vending machine available for soft drinks
LOCATION: AMP Electric Vehicles, 100 Commerce Drive
(aka Commerce Blvd and Commerce Way) Loveland, Ohio 45140
From Montgomery Road, turn south-east onto Union Cemetery Rd. Turn right at the first street; Commerce Blvd (it may say Commerce Drive). Do a U-Turn at the first opening in center median, then turn right into parking lot of AMP Electric Vehicles. Use the main entrance of the building. If the parking lot is full, turn right onto Union Cemetery Rd, and then turn right into the rear parking lot of AMP Electric Vehicle.
RESERVATIONS: (LIMITED TO 30- MEMBERS ONLY FOR THIS MEETING) Please make reservations for each meeting by going to: https://ieeecincinnati.org/meetings/. Please click on the appropriate link and complete the reservation.
Reservations close at noon on February 16th, 2012.
DINNER RESERVATION CANCELLATION POLICY
An email to Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org prior to the close of reservations is required to properly cancel your reservation.
All Reservations must be made by noon, Thursday February 16, 2012
PE CREDITS: Depending on the subject matter, attendance at IEEE Cincinnati Section Meetings now qualifies the attendee for Professional Development Hours towards renewal of Professional Engineers Licenses. Required documentation will be available following the meeting! The Section Meetings also provide a great opportunity to network with fellow engineers in the area.
ABOUT THE MEETING:
This meeting will be held at the AMP Electric Vehicles manufacturing facility in Loveland, OH. Following a pizza dinner, attendees will receive a technical presentation on the vehicles, the motors and the batteries by Don Wires, Director of Engineering, of AMP Electric Vehicles. The presentation will be followed by a Question and Answer session, and a tour of manufacturing facility.
You must be an IEEE member to attend this meeting! Space is limited to 30 attendees!
ABOUT THE PRESENTER:
Don Wires: Mr. Wires joined Amp Electric Vehicles after retiring from Procter and Gamble after 35 years. Mr. Wires was the first Technology Associated Director for Power, Control, & Information Systems at P&G. While at P&G Mr. Wires focused on advanced manufacturing processes across most of the company’s brands, with particular emphasis on high speed converting machine processes. Mr. Wires was responsible for the machine control direction for converting operations on a global basis, is co-author of several patents on machine automation and safety systems, and an early leader in developing a mechatronics approach to complex machine design at P&G. Mr. Wires was responsible for setting the automation direction on projects as large as one billion dollars across the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, He was instrumental in applying servo technology to high speed converting processes. He is the first Engineering Technology Distinguished Alumni Graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science.
If you are interested in upgrading your membership to Senior Member, please contact any member of the Executive Committee.
NEW MEMBERS
The following individuals are IEEE members who are new to our Section:
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Nick Aerni Ken Baker Asitha Bandaranayake Amal Chaturvedi James Damato Ronald Dexter Tyler Gaerke Richard Harrell |
Jordan Laycock Jason Long Chad Mclelland Joshua Smith Krishnan Venkat Nathan Wendt Xinyu Xing
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We wish to welcome these members to the Cincinnati Section!!!
Submitted by Marc Bell, Editor
Copyright 1997 IEEE. Reprinted with permission from the IEEE publication, “Scanning the Past” which covers a reprint of an article appearing in the Proceedings of the IEEE Vol. 85, No. 7, July 1997.
Frank J. Sprague and the Electrification of Urban Transportation
Frank J. Sprague (Fig. 1), known for his pioneering contributions to electric traction, electric elevators, and other applications of
electric motors, was born 140 years ago this month. In recognition of his achievements in the field of electric power, he received the Edison Medal of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) in 1910. He also served as president of the AIEE during 1892-1893.
The son of the plant superintendent of a hat factory, Sprague was born in Milford, CT, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1878, the same year that the Edison Electric Light Company was incorporated. He served for about two years on a naval ship known as the Richmond and acted as a special correspondent of the Boston Herald while General Ulysses S. Grant spent time on the ship during visits to China and Japan. Subsequently, Sprague served aboard the Lancaster, stationed in the Mediterranean, and installed an electric call bell on the ship. He managed to observe an exhibition of electric lighting systems, including that of Edison, in Paris, France in 1881.
In 1882, Ensign Sprague was granted leave to attend and report on the Crystal Palace Electrical Exhibition in London, England. He served on the awards jury for exhibits of dynamos, electric lights, and gas engines (more…)
NEWS from IEEE-USA
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White House Official, Environmental Policy Analyst to Deliver Keynotes at Carbon Management Technology Conference in Orlando in February
WASHINGTON (28 December 2011) — Katharine Jacobs of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and Robert Fri, visiting scholar at Resources for the Future, will deliver keynote addresses at the first Carbon Management Technology Conference, 7-9 February 2012 in Orlando, Fla.
Jacobs, assistant director, climate adaptation and assessment in the OSTP Environment and Energy Division, will discuss “Climate Change Adaptation in the United States” on Tuesday, 7 February. Fri, who has more than 35 years experience as an administrator and analyst of energy and environmental policy, will discuss “America’s Climate Choices” the next day.
The conference, sponsored by eight engineering societies, will bring together key stakeholders to share the latest technologies, strategies and systems related to the management and (more…)
It was a very close election this year and I would like to announce that Jay Perin has been elected as the Member At Large section officer serving for the terms in 2012 and 2013. The Member At Large officer is a voting member of the sections executive committee and participates in running the section and planning its meetings. Congratulations Jay.
“Roaming Mars: A Personal Perspective” Dinner Meeting
Guest Speaker: Scott Lever, Mission Manager, Mars Exploration Rovers Project
When: Wednesday 25 January 2012
Where: Atrium Hotel
Address: 30 Tri-County Parkway
Cincinnati Ohio 45246 (more…)
USING ELECTRONIC HOSPITAL RECORDS AND DATA WAREHOUSING TO SUPPORT QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AND CLINICAL RESEARCH
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012 |
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Raffel’s – 10160 Reading Road (see below for directions) |
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5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. – Social Time |
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6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. – Dinner |
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7:00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. – Presentation |
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$12- $20, See information in Reservations |
MENU SELECTIONS:
Buffet Menu: Spinach Stuffed Tomato, Pan Fried Tilapia w/Lemon Caper Sauce, Beef Stroganoff, Parsley Buttered Potatoes, Steamed Fresh Broccoli, Buttered Noodles, Tossed Salad, Dinner Rolls and Butter.
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) has a long history of using quality improvement methods to improve patient outcomes. The arrival of electronic health records (EHRs) has allowed these quality improvement methods to become more widespread in scale and more real-time in nature. Over the past several years, CCHMC has implemented an enterprise-wide EHR, and as part of this implementation, has worked to develop screens that allow for the capture and eventual calculation of condition-specific outcome measures. In parallel to the rollout of the EHR, CCHMC has also deployed a research patient data warehouse built upon an open-source informatics framework called i2b2. Developers at CCHMC have extended this framework to make it suitable for storing outcomes data and also as a platform for research patient registries. This talk will focus on the rationale and technical solutions that have made these efforts possible.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Keith Marsolo, PhD
Assistant Professor
Director, Software Development & Data Warehouse
Division of Biomedical Informatics
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
Department of Pediatrics
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
LOCATION: Raffel’s is located at 10160 Reading Road, south of Glendale-Milford Road on the east side of Reading. Take I-75 to the Glendale-Milford Rd. Exit, go east on Glendale-Milford Road approximately ¾ of a mile to Reading Rd. and turn right on Reading.
RESERVATIONS: (Please note New Procedure) Please make reservations for each meeting by going to: https://ieeecincinnati.org/meetings/. Please click on the appropriate link and complete the reservation. You may now pay on-line.
DINNER RESERVATIONS
Members: $12.00
Non-members: $15.00
Two ways to pay for dinner:
1) [Register and pay the fee now] using PayPal.
2) [Register and pay the fee at the meeting]. Check or cash; correct change appreciated.
Make checks payable to “IEEE Cincinnati Section”.
Those desiring to use their bank’s bill payer service to send a check, rather than paying at the meeting, should contact Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org for details.
Reservations close at noon on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 (Updated).
DINNER RESERVATION CANCELLATION POLICY
An email to Reservations@ieeecincinnati.org prior to the close of reservations is required to properly cancel your reservation. Failure to cancel does not eliminate your responsibility to pay for the dinner. Refunds for PayPal payments are more complicated, and we request that you leave the funds on deposit for a future meeting.
WALK-INS: Walk-ins are available for this meeting.
All Reservations must be made by noon, Thursday, January 19th, 2012 (Updated)
PE CREDITS: Depending on the subject matter, attendance at IEEE Cincinnati Section Meetings now qualifies the attendee for Professional Development Hours towards renewal of Professional Engineers Licenses. Required documentation will be available following the meeting! The Section Meetings also provide a great opportunity to network with fellow engineers in the area.
