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IEEE History Center
Creation and First Decade of the Center for the History of Electrical Engineerng 1980-1989
Since the formation of IEEE in 1963 there has been a standing History Committee responsible for promoting the collection, writing and dissemination of historical information in the fields covered by IEEE technical and professional activities, as well as historical information about the IEEE and its predecessor organizations.
In 1979, the IEEE Board of Directors endorsed the concept of a professionally staffed history center to support the work of the IEEE History Committee and allocated funds, and in 1980, the Center for the History of Electrical Engineering was established in the New York offices of the IEEE. For most of the first decade, the Center staff consisted of a director, an archivist or curator, and a part-time research assistant. The first director was Dr. Robert Friedel, and Dr. Ronald Kline succeeded him in 1984. These individuals and their staffs laid the groundwork for the Center, establishing it as a leading resource for electrical history.
The Center undertook many projects during its first decade. Most notable, perhaps, were three exhibits that circulated nationally: the first on Faraday and Maxwell, the second on the IEEE Centennial, and the third on Edison and the electric light. In addition, the Center collaborated on exhibits with the Smithsonian and other institutions. Perhaps most importantly the Center established the IEEE Milestones Program, overseen by the History Committee, wherein IEEE Sections could have recognized and publicized engineering achievements within their geographical area.
Move to Rutgers and Program Expansion 1989-1997
At the end of the decade, the History Committee determined that the Center should become a place where considerable historical research would be carried out. This decision was heavily influenced by a report prepared for the Committee by historian Terry Reynolds. In order to better carry out research, the Center moved in 1990 to the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. This move was carried out under the leadership of the Center's third director, Dr. Bill Aspray, who had been hired in 1989.
With University support added to IEEE support, the Center was able to expand to a staff of three permanent Ph.D. historians, a rotating post-doc, a curator, a research assistant, and four (later six) Rutgers graduate-students working part-time as research assistants. Dr. Rik Nebeker joined the staff in 1990 as Research Historian. He has since been promoted to Senior Research Historian.
Center staff carried out and published research projects on the National Science Foundation's role in the development of computing, the impact of the computer on meteorology, the history of the electric trolley, the history of radar, and many other topics. Oral history became a major activity; the Center conducted more than 200 interviews in this period. The interviews were transcribed, edited, and made available to researchers. The Center started a series of international conferences on the history of technology with conferences in 1991 in New Jersey on Technological Competitiveness, 1995 in Williamstown, Massachusetts on the history of Electrical Engineering, and 1997 in Williamsburg, VA on the history of computing. Long-term cooperation was begun with sister groups, such as the History Committee of the IEEJ (Japan's counterpart to the IEEE).
New Director, Emphasis, and Name: IEEE History Center 1997-2010
In 1997, Dr. Michael Geselowitz became the Center's Staff Director. With the guidance of the History Committee, the Center embarked on a new phase in its own history, characterized by an increased emphasis on reaching out to engineers, to public-policy makers, to public-school teachers, and to a fourth, sometimes overlooked group of people concerned with electrical history--amateur historians and collectors. Shortly thereafter, the Center acquired a new name, the IEEE History Center. It more accurately described the scope of the Center's activities. In 1998 Geselowitz, Nebeker, and the post-doc were joined in these efforts by Rob Colburn as Research Coordinator, as well as by an archivist/web manager. Projects carried out by this team include a major overhaul of the Center's web site, several IEEE Society histories, teaching and participating in the intellectual activity at Rutgers University, a workshop with the IEEJ in 2000, the Going Digital web history project sponsored by the Sloan Foundation, two more of the international conferences (1999 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, on women and technology; 2001 in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, on the history of telecommunications).
The Center also began a more concerted effort to get word on history out to the IEEE membership beginning features in many IEEE publications, including a series of special millennium articles in Proceedings of the IEEE, a regular column in The Institute, occasional special articles for IEEE Spectrum, and regular e-features for Spectrum and Today's Engineer. In 2000, the History Center also increased its move in the direction of public outreach with the introduction of an entirely new web-based program, the IEEE Virtual Museum. This program was discontinued in 2008, and most of its articles were migrated to the newer IEEE Global History Network.
In 2003, the History Center staff was responsible for Philosophy Hall at Columbia University in New York being named a U.S. National Historic Landmark (this is the building where Edwin Armstrong, winner of the first IEEE Medal of Honor in 1919, when it was the IRE, did most of his pioneering radio work). The Center also worked on a special project to copy to DVD and make accessible some very important privately held video interviews with computer pioneers. In 2004, the Center held its next conference at Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, England on the history of electronics.
Perhaps most importantly, the Milestones Program (PDF, 78 KB) passed its own Milestone in 2004, as the 50th Milestone was dedicated and IEEE Region 9—the last Region without a Milestone—received two recognitions. By 2010, the number of milestones had passed 100. In 2004, the Center also hosted the next of its international conferences, on the history of electronics, held in June at Bletchley Park in the UK. In addition, we conducted institutional history research projects with Eta Kappa Nu and with the Marconi Fellowship Foundation at Columbia University
In 2006 and 2007, the History Center was involved in numerous special projects, including Society Anniversaries and Lectures. The oral history program began videotaping interviews. The IEEE Milestones Program -- now with more than 80 Milestones continued to grow at a record pace. In 2007, the Center held its biannual conference, at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, N.J., U.S.A, on the history of electric power. In 2008, John Vardalas, who had started at the Center as a post-doctoral fellow was promoted to Outreach Historian, and Dr. Sheldon Hochheiser joined the center as Institutional Historian and Archivist.
Beginning in 2008, a major focus of the Center's activity became building a new wiki-based website for bringing the history of IEEE's fields of interests to both IEEE Members and the public, The IEEE Global History Network (GHN). The GHN went live late in 2008. While anyone can access the GHN, only IEEE members and staff, and other registered users can add and edit material. To oversee the GHN, Nathan Brewer joined the History Center staff in 2009 as Web Content Administrator. By 2010, the GHN had grown to include thousands of entries, including firsthand accounts by IEEE Members, over 450 oral histories, articles on the history of technology, selected documents from the IEEE Archives, and articles on the history of IEEE and its organizational units.
In 2009, as part of IEEE's celebration of its 125th anniversary, the History Center undertook two projects. The Center's conference, held at both Drexel University and the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia had the theme of the history of professional technical societies. And the Center conducted oral histories with 23 IEEE Past-Presidents. The Center began a new program, STARS an online compendium of invited, peer-reviewed articles on the history of major developments in electrical and computer science and technology. STARS articles appear on the GHN. The program was designed to provide recognition to the most important technological trajectories, and thus to complement the Milestone program's emphasis on specific achievements in specific places. The Center also undertook a pilot program with the Hillsborough, NJ school district on bringing the history of technology into high school social studies curricula.


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Behind the scenes, pressure and doubt
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue's feature story, "San Diego's Habitat Triage."
The Center for Biological Diversity and its allies weren't the only ones who found serious problems with the San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Program. Inside the Fish and Wildlife Service, two biologists, who have since left the agency, harbored private doubts.
Jacalyn Fleming spent two years at the service's Carlsbad office north of San Diego, writing a biological opinion for the habitat plan. "Innately skeptical" at the start, she says, she grew more disenchanted with the plan as time passed, and left her job for personal reasons soon after the plan was approved by the San Diego City Council. Today, she works as a lawyer on Long Island, practicing zoning and other land-use law.
"I did and do believe that a large-scale approach to habitat conservation, based on preserving interconnected areas, is the proper approach based on sound biological principles," she wrote in an e-mailed interview. But all the habitat on the county's west end was already extremely fragmented, she said, and there was no political will to put together a plan that would prevent, much less erase, development. The core areas that were supposed to be connected were already largely isolated and fairly fragmented, and little more than half of the planning area's remaining land would be conserved.
The limits of the program's science were openly discussed by everyone at the agency, she said: "It was acknowledged that for many of the species of concern, there was inadequate understanding of their natural history, genetics or numbers." But when she raised concerns with her superiors, Fleming said, they responded that the plan required "adaptive management." In her words, "preserve management would be tweaked to save any floundering species or populations."
One of Fleming's former supervisors, Sherry Barrett, says the service was working with the best information available. "You have to take some sort of risk," says Barrett, today the agency's southern Arizona field supervisor in Tucson. "If you didn't, it was all going to go away very quickly. If we had waited five or 10 years for more information, the options for preserve design would have been significantly diminished."
But the service was in such a hurry that it often failed to make use of the science it had, says former agency biologist Fred Roberts. He left the service in 1999; today, he is a private consultant and board member for a leading critic of the program, the California Native Plant Society.
Roberts singles out the willowy monardella, a perennial herb in the mint family with lance-shaped leaves and pale white to rose-colored flowers, which thrives in sandy washes and floodplains. There are only about 6,000 of the spearmint-scented plants left in the United States. The service listed it as endangered in 1998, a year after the conservation program promised to protect it.
But after the plan was approved, Roberts and other agency officials noticed something peculiar. One population of about 200 to 300 plants, growing at the bottom of a steep bank in Carroll Canyon, had been shown on earlier maps as being within the preserve. The final maps, however, left the plants outside the preserve boundaries — in an area where the City of San Diego has approved building a business park.
Exactly how this happened remains a matter of debate. Roberts believes the service intended to protect the Carroll population, and that the maps weren't properly drawn. But Patrick Mock, a biologist who helped shape the original plan while working for a private consulting firm, asserts that it was never a "core" population, and was never intended to be preserved.
The Fish and Wildlife Service has since allowed the plants to be removed, but no plans are in place for replanting them. According to Cindy Burrascano of the California Native Plant Society, all previous attempts to transplant willowy monardella have failed.
The native plant society is now pressing a lawsuit charging violation of the Endangered Species Act, after losing a suit based on California law.


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I have seen lot of blogs where there is a tendency to blame the man for what the woman suffers. Yes, the man is to take some amount of blame for what women suffers, but by putting the entire blame only on the man I don't think we are defining the problem completely. I would like to take another look at this blame game.
When a daughter-in-law does not beget a son, the person who indulges in harassing that woman is usually another woman- her mother-in-law. The person who, while raising the girl, tells the girl that it is her duty to be servile to parents-in-law and the husband, and that she becomes a 'pariah' after the wedding, is another woman- her mother. The person who tells her that she is inferior and that she cannot compete with a man is also another woman- a mother or an aunt. The people who make sure a widow feels she has lost everything are other women. Also, the people who bitch about a successful or independent woman with a high-growth career are usually other women.
The woman is discriminated against, harassed, insulted, berated, and discouraged, by both men and women. By singly focusing on one enemy, that is the man, we are defining the problem statement wrongly. It is not 'man vs. woman', it is rather 'society vs. woman' and the society consists of both men and women.
The wrong perceptions, the false notions, the misconceptions, about women and their status, cannot be addressed by targeting individual men or women. It cannot be solved by targeting the elusive society either. No matter how much you teach and preach, unless those words are backed by concrete actions, which include certain mandatory provisions, supported by law, enacts and bills, we will not see any change in the belief systems of this society. Mere lip-service, indignation, anger, feel of hurt would not bring about change.
I am a strong believer in 'enforcing' certain actions through 'mandatory provisions'.
I am a strong proponent of mandatory reservations. I know that many educated and elite Indians see it as anathema. They do not see it as serving their best interests, of course.
I come from a backward region, where one can see many of our belief systems in action. People openly discuss certain things about women; that she is a burden- that once the girl goes to her husband's place their 'bhoj utar jaayega', etc. People openly want a baby boy. If they beget a baby girl, they actually feel sad. Some families do not even want to celebrate and will write it off as if they are going to mourn now. Comments and insults are thrown at women freely.
While no text book, no speech, no exhortation or no leader could bring any change in the perceptions of these people, one single act from the state government (of Andhra Pradesh) brought in a fresh outlook. The state government imposed 33% reservations to girl students. Whether it had any immediate effect in enrollment of women (or not) is not important to me. What it brought as a change in the perception of the people from the small towns is quite a welcome. Families now look forward to seeing their girl kid become an engineer or a doctor. They are ready to sponsor the girl's education and encourage her in her pursuits. There are many families who see this as an opportunity for their girl kid. She is no longer considered 'absolute burden'; she is now seen as 'lesser burden'.
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On-line version ISSN 1996-7489
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S. Afr. j. sci. vol.104 n.9-10 Pretoria Sep./Oct. 2008
Photoluminescence properties of SiO2 surface-passivated PbS nanoparticles
M.S. DhlaminiI, *; J.J. TerblansI; R.E. KroonI; O.M. NtwaeaborwaI; J.M. NgaruiyaI; J.R. BothaII; H.C. SwartI, *
IDepartment of Physics, University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339, Bloemfontein 9300, South Africa
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SiO2:PbS nanoparticle phosphors were successfully prepared by a sol-gel process. The crystallized lead sulphide (PbS) nanoparticles inside the amorphous silicon dioxide (silica, SiO2) matrix were examined by X-ray diffraction and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to estimate the particle size and distribution. The particles were in the size range of 1050 nm. The TEM diffraction patterns showed the PbS particles to be cubic in structure. Two strong broad photoluminescence emission bands were observed, namely blue (450 nm) from the SiO2 matrix and yellow-orange (560 nm) from the PbS nanoparticles. In bulk PbS emission occurs at ~3200 nm, and the blue shift to the much shorter wavelength reported here is ascribed to quantum effects in the PbS nanoparticles. The emission spectra were strongly dependent on the excitation wavelength.
Nanotechnology, which is the creation and use of materials, systems, and devices through control of matter on a nanometre-length scale, is expected to become one of the main driving forces in materials research in the present century.1 The synthesis of semiconductor nanoparticles embedded in different solid matrices is currently an active research area in nanoscience.22 It is well known that the dispersion relations for the energy of electrons and holes in a bulk semiconductor are parabolic as a first approximation as illustrated in Fig. 1(a).3,4 This approximation is true only for levels that are occupied by electrons near the bottom of the conduction (CB) and by holes near the top of the valence (VB) band, respectively. It is important to remember that these parabolas are really a quasi-continuous set of electron (hole) states along a given direction in k-space and that the lowest occupied level in the CB and the highest occupied level in the VB are separated by an energy gap, which for bulk materials is usually of the order of an electron volt. When the dimensionality of the semiconductor bulk material is reduced to a zero-dimensional quantum dot, the quasi-continuous nature is de-emphasized, as only discrete energy levels can exist in the dot.
Subsequently, each of the original parabolic bands of the bulk case is fragmented into an ensemble of points for a nanoparticle as demonstrated in Fig. 1(b). These atomic-like electron energy levels are formed due to charge-carrier confinement (quantum confinement) in three dimensions and result in an increase (blue shift) of the effective band gap compared to that of the corresponding bulk materials.58 Accordingly, the effective band gaps of PbS nanoparticles are markedly blue-shifted from the near-infrared (~3200 nm) into the visible and near-ultraviolet region with decreasing particle size.9 The luminescence corresponding to exciton recombination in a single nanocrystal has a finite width as a result of homogeneous line broadening. Additionally, there will always be a statistical distribution of particle sizes due to the sample preparation process, and the dependence of the effective bandgap on the particle size will produce a further broadening effect as illustrated in Fig. A in supplementary material online.
Practical applications in photonics of these nanoparticles are reportedly lacking because surface-related non-radiative recombination dominates in the quantum confinement regime,10 exacerbated by the large surface to volume ratio of the particles.11 However, the non-radiative contribution from the surface states can be eliminated by passivating dangling bonds of the free-standing nanoparticles. Achieving proper surface passivation is therefore extremely important for nanoparticles, especially in the strong quantum confinement regime.12,13 This can be achieved in several ways, such as suspending them as colloidal particles in a liquid, forming nanocrystals in a matrix such as glass or polymers, or enclosing nanocrystals in cage zeolites.1015 The photoluminescence emission from surface-passivated PbS nanoparticles can range from a deep-red to a broad yellow-white, depending on the preparation conditions.9,16
In this study, PbS nanoparticles with a median size of 17 nm embedded in an SiO2 matrix were synthesized by a sol-gel process. The structural and photoluminescence properties of the nanoparticles are presented here.
Silica gel13 was prepared by mixing 10 g tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) solution and 5 g ethanol with drops of 0.15 M nitric acid (HNO3) as catalyst. The process is illustrated in Fig. B online. The mixture was stirred for 1 hour. To the resulting transparent solution, 0.03 g lead acetate trihydrate Pb(CH3COO)2.3H2O dissolved in 5 g ethanol and 0.01 g Na2S dissolved in 5 g ethanol, respectively, were separately added to form SiO2:PbS gel. The mixed solution was stirred for a further 30 minutes to complete the reaction. The gel was then dried for 10 days, after which it was ground and calcined/sintered at 200°C for 2 hours. All steps other than calcination were carried out at room temperature.
The particle size and crystalline structure of the PbS nanoparticles were determined by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and TEM. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to determine the morphology. A He-Cd laser (325 nm) and Ar+ laser (458 nm) were used to excite photoluminescence in the phosphor and the spectra were collected using a 0.5-m SPEX 1870 spectrometer.
Results and discussion
The diameter of the PbS nanoparticles prepared in this way, as calculated from the broadening of XRD spectra, was 16 ± 2 nm.17 An SEM image of the SiO2:PbS powder sample is shown in Fig. 2, which reveals multi-facets of agglomerated composite particles with nano-sized particles on the surface. Most of the particles measured about a micrometre in diameter. A TEM image was obtained from material [Fig. 3(a)] first suspended in ethanol and then allowed to dry on a carbon-covered copper grid. The black spots in the image are the crystalline PbS nanoparticles, enveloped in amorphous SiO2. Interplanar spacings calculated from the TEM diffraction pattern in Fig. 3(b) correspond well with those calculated for the standard PbS (galena) cubic crystalline structure18 (Table 1). Most of the particles were in the order of 17 nm in diameter, slightly smaller than the exciton Bohr diameter of PbS,8 but there were also smaller (10 nm) and bigger agglomerations (up to 50 nm).
Figure 4 shows the photoluminescence (PL) emission spectrum of a pure SiO2 powder control sample (without PbS) excited at a wavelength of 325 nm. The broad emission band at 450 nm has been ascribed to the defect luminescence originating from neutral oxygen vacancies.19 Figure 5(a) presents the normalized PL spectra of the SiO2:PbS powder sample excited at wavelengths of 325 nm and 458 nm. The spectrum excited using the shorter wavelength shows a strong peak at ~450 nm, which is attributed to the SiO2 and a shoulder at ~560 nm which is attributed to the PbS nanoparticles. The longer excitation wavelength used did not provide enough energy to excite the SiO2 peak, and the spectrum using this wavelength shows only the emission peak at ~560 nm of the PbS nanoparticles. Yang et al.13 have reported PL spectra of PbS embedded in sol-gel silica glass with an emission peak at 440 nm when excited at 380 nm and another peak at 605 nm when excited at 475 nm. In their study, no shoulder was observed when they excited at 380 nm and the same emission wavelength (440 nm) was observed for the pure sol-gel silica glass. Sashchiuk et al.7 reported a broad emission band of PbS in the range of 600800 nm in their study of optical and conductivity properties of PbS nanocrystals embedded in amorphous zirconia. A broad PL emission band peaking at 804 nm was observed also by Chen et al.2 for alkanethiolate-capped PbS nanoparticles. Cao et al.9 observed a broad PL emission at 434 nm in their study of the growth and PL properties of PbS nanocubes. For PbS nanoparticles coated with CdS, a broad band emission peak at 510 nm was observed by Warner et al.20 Our results show some similarities and also differences from previous studies. The difference can be ascribed to the different reaction environments and contrasting host materials. The luminescence properties of PbS can therefore be affected by host materials, depending on the reaction conditions.
The spectra in Fig. 5(a) show that the luminescence peak ascribed to the PbS nanoparticles is not symmetrical, but has a tail towards longer wavelengths. To investigate this, the spectrum excited at 325 nm was fitted with multiple Gaussian profiles. Figure 5(b) shows that three Gaussian peaks are necessary to provide an acceptable fit, with peak wavelengths of 450 nm (corresponding to the SiO2 emission), 514 and 593 nm. The latter two wavelengths correspond to different transitions from the PbS. The possible allowed electronic transitions in nanoparticles for exciton recombination are schematically illustrated in Fig. C online and designated by SeSh and PePh. Based on the possible energy levels of an electron confined in a quantum dot, if the bandgap energy is negligible compared with the confinement energy as is the case here, then the PePh transition should have double the energy (i.e. half the wavelength) of the SeSh transition. We note that this is indeed true for the measurements of Warner et al.,20 although their ascribing an emission at intermediate wavelength to a SePh transition is questionable because this is not an allowed transition. In our case, the wavelengths of 514 and 593 nm cannot be ascribed to these different transitions. Rather, the shorter wavelength emission is ascribed to a direct recombination and the longer wavelength to a recombination through shallow surface states.11,16,21,22
PbS nanoparticles with polyhedral shapes and a median size of ~17 nm were successfully prepared using a sol-gel method. Analysis of a TEM electron diffraction pattern showed that the nanoparticles were crystalline and the interplanar spacings compared well with those of the standard galena structure. To get the PbS nanoparticles to luminesce, for possible photonic applications, their surfaces must be passivated to avoid non-radiative recombinations. This was achieved by incorporating the nanoparticles in an SiO2 matrix during the sol-gel preparation process. The observed photoluminescence was due to both the PbS nanoparticles and the SiO2 matrix. The emission from the former occurred in the visible wavelength range, and consisted of two separate broad overlapping peaks centred on 514 and 593 nm. Emission from bulk PbS occurs in the infrared, so that a significant blue-shifting occurred due to the quantum confinement effect, which was expected because the diameter of the nanoparticles was slightly less than the exciton Bohr diameter of bulk PbS. The emission of the PbS nanoparticles can therefore be changed by altering their size. The broadness of the peaks can be ascribed to the variation in particle size produced by the sol-gel process. In some applications the emissions from the SiO2 matrix may be undesirable, so future work should include the investigation of other matrix materials.
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. We thank P.W.J. van Wyk from the Centre of Confocal and Electron microscopy, University of the Free State, for the SEM and TEM measurements. J.R.B. acknowledges that this work is based on research supported by the South African Research Chairs Initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and the National Research Foundation.
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Joan Engebretson, Connected Planet
In the paper, Levin emphasizes the importance of getting broadband to the seven million U.S. homes that currently cannot access it and explains why he believes Universal Service reforms proposed in the National Broadband Plan can achieve that goal without new funding. Levin also suggests a few new ideas for boosting broadband adoption that weren't in the National Broadband Plan.
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Connected Planet: Your new paper goes over some of the same recommendations made in the National Broadband Plan but also adds some new ideas. These include creating a $100 million fund to stimulate competition to improve the use of broadband for economic development and creating another $100 million fund to stimulate adoption efforts. What would you like to say about your new recommendations – why they're needed and why you believe they'll be successful?
Levin: What I emphasize more in the paper is the spirit of experimentation. The plan itself is focused on the principles of how to make sure the tools of the information age are available to everyone and how to apply [those tools]. That's different from the current view, which is how to funnel a lot of money to wireline companies.
From society's point of view, it's really important to get the tools everywhere. And the 90 million people who haven't adopted broadband are a very significant cost of digital exclusion as well.
One of the things we learned from the race to the top program of the Department of Education was that if you create competition to achieve very clear measurable results, you organize people to do those tasks. [The new proposals do not require] large amounts of money. But it's very important to get people organized to those tasks.
Connected Planet: Some elements of the National Broadband Plan are unpopular with rural telcos. As I see it, they have three big complaints and I thought I'd take those one by one and ask you to address them.
One of these is the 4 Mb/s minimum target for broadband service. You argue that to set this target any higher would cause the program to require additional funds. But if the target date for having broadband available to 99% of the population is 10 years from now, won't 4 Mb/s be too little by then?
Levin: If so you have to adjust [the target]. But if you look at today's uses, 4 Mb/s seems to give you access to news and health information. That's true on the residential side, not on the institutional side. We don't want hospitals to be limited but in the home we can see that that's the number.
I'll be happy to debate this with anybody any time anywhere if they answer three questions. What should the speed be? What will it cost? And how will we pay for it?
There's a huge amount of value going from 500 kb/s to 4 Mb/s. But going from 4 Mb/s to 100 Mb/s? As of now we don't see it. And when you look at the added cost, it's harder to see it.
Connected Planet: Another element of the plan that concerns small telcos is the plan to eliminate rate of return regulation. The small telcos say the rate of return system is essential to their being able to get loans and that the argument that ROR is a vestige of the old monopoly system that is inappropriate in today's market is incorrect because many of them still have no competition. What do you say to those arguments?
Levin: For the government to guarantee a rate of return to a market entity is putting its thumb very heavily on the scale. What this results in is we're paying entities to be inefficient. If you have rate of return regulation, you have an incentive to spend money as much as possible.
This is a business in which economies of scale matter a lot and we're essentially paying people not to have economies of scale. We're often paying for upgrades in areas that have broadband and at the same time we're not paying anything to unserved areas.
Connected Planet: You are quite keen on the idea of a reverse auction for awarding funding under a new broadband Universal Service program. But small telcos question whether this is an appropriate method for awarding funds.
Levin: We should fund the least expensive projects first. We should do that through a reverse auction and see how that works. Any methodology has a problem. [The question is] which methodology minimizes problems and maximizes gains. The reverse auction has a lot of benefits. Critics fail to realize the existing system has a lot of inefficiencies. If you're paying $17,000 per line to fund a line to a second home, we have a problem and we should recognize that problem.
I was [involved in implementing] wireless auctions in 1994. We took a gamble and the theory won a Nobel prize. We did simultaneous auctions. It worked, we made changes and we constantly improved on it.
Connected Planet: The majority of small telcos already have deployed broadband service at rates of at least 4 Mb/s but the National Broadband Plan seems to recognize that some of these carriers may need ongoing support. What isn't clear is how these carriers will be impacted by the plan to award funding based on a reverse auction. Do you envision the possibility that a wireless competitor might offer to deploy 4 Mb/s service at a lower level of support than an incumbent carrier that already has deployed a fiber-to-the-home network and if so what happens? Does the incumbent go out of business and the FTTH network get shut down?
Levin: That's a great question. I don't know the answer. We tried to [determine the dollars needed for ongoing support] but couldn't pin it down. Some people at the FCC are working on that.
We have to examine our priorities. We have to make un-served [areas] the Number One priority. As you make the transition, one of the guiding principles was that there would be no flash cuts. We need a data-driven analysis to address situations like that.
[Small telcos] essentially are saying, "Because you were irrational in funding us to do network upgrades that were non-economic, you have to forever be irrational and continue to do it." I don't buy that logic.
Source: http://connectedplanetonline.com/independent/news/Levin-says-USF-pays-small-telcos-to-be-inefficient-0930/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TelephonyMostRecent+%28Connected+Planet+-+Telecom+News+and+Analysis%29


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Problem Statement: File Handling in C/C++
On the basis of the given scenario create a file Expenses.txt, Open the file and copy into another Expenses2.txt, Also show output on screen
A college has announced the total budget of 50,000Rs.for each game. Games are done four times in a year. Take expenses as an input from user.
Calculate the average expenses for a game:
1. If the expenses greater than 80% show as Very Expensive.
2. If the expenses are greater than 60% and less than 80% than show Expensive
3. If the expenses are greater than 50% and less than 60% than show Less Expensive
4. If the expenses are greater than 40% and less than 50% than show Not Costly.
5. If the expenses are less than 40% than show Best.


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CARLISLE — A 17-year veteran of the Carlisle Fire Department was placed on administrative leave after he was arrested and charged with killing 11 of his neighbor's chickens by feeding them food pellets laced with rat poison, according to Carlisle police.
Frank Sargent, 66, of 734 Lowell St., who also owns a general-contracting business in town, was charged July 28 with 11 counts of malicious killing of a domestic animal.
The poisoning deaths of 10 egg-laying hens and a rooster occurred over a four-month period, from April into July, during which Sargent's late-night actions of distributing poison pellets in his neighbors' backyard chicken coop were captured on video, police said.
Sargent was arraigned on the charges in Concord District Court on Wednesday. He was ordered by the judge to have no further contact with his neighbors, Brendan Mirfield and Amanda DeFreest, the engaged couple who own the chicken coop next door, at 718 Lowell St.
Sargent was placed on administrative leave on July 30 by the Carlisle Fire Department, "pending the resolution of his personal issue," Fire Chief David Flannery said.
As an on-call firefighter/EMT, Sargent is only paid for those calls he responds to, making this involuntary leave the equivalent of an unpaid suspension, Flannery noted.
The digital images of Sargent's alleged criminal actions were obtained from an infrared game camera that police installed near the chicken coop with the cooperation of the homeowners, according to the six-page police report compiled by the investigating officers, Sgt. Scott Barnes, Detective Richard Tornquist, and Officer Christopher Arguoyan.
"From April 29, 2014, to July 22, 2014, it was reported that 11 total chickens had died, including one rooster and 10 laying hens," Arguoyan wrote in his report. "The following is a timeline of the chicken deaths: April 29, one hen found dead; May 2, three hens found dead; May 8, three hens found dead, two sent for autopsies; June 22, one rooster, one hen found dead; June 24, two hens found dead."
After first denying any involvement in the deaths of the chickens during an interview at the Carlisle police station on July 28, Sargent, when confronted with the video and photographic evidence showing his alleged late-night activities on his neighbors' property, fully confessed to the crime, Barnes wrote.
"I couldn't sleep. I couldn't take it anymore," Sargent was quoted in the police report, speaking to Barnes. "I did what you said: I mixed mouse poison with bird seed and… brought it over in a bucket and just threw it in (the chicken coop)."
Scott also reported that during the July 28 interview, he confronted Sargent with further video evidence showing that on one occasion, late at night on July 11, Sargent wore a raincoat and donned a headlamp while dousing the chicken coop with a can of wasp and hornet-killer spray.
Sargent then also admitted to dousing the chickens with the insect spray, according to the police report.
"I know it sounds crazy, but I got to the point where I thought the bird was mocking me. So I sprayed it with hornet spray just to make it stop," Sargent was quoted saying in the Carlisle police sergeant's report.
While Sargent was on the phone with his sister on the day of his arrest, Scott reported that he overheard Sargent say, "I (screwed) up. I just couldn't take it anymore, and I killed the chickens," according to the police report.
On Monday, two members of Sargent's family, who spoke with The Sun at the front door of Sargent's home, said Sargent and the family had no comment.
When contacted by phone Monday about the deaths of their chickens, DeFreest said she and her fiancé, Mirfield, had no comment to make about Sargent's arrest, based the advice of their attorney.
DeFreest said the chicken coop was installed about two-and-a-half years ago, and contained two dozen chickens before the deaths of the 10 hens and rooster. Some of the surviving chickens are also in ill health and suffering, and may need to be put down, DeFreest said.
In the police report, Mirfield and DeFreest told Tornquist their estimate of the monetary losses from the deaths of their chickens, toxicology lab-testing, and contaminated feed and eggs thrown away, totaled about $835. But that amount is "going up every day," the couple said.
"(DeFreest) also stated that the monetary losses do not even compare to the emotional distress of seeing pets suffer and die," wrote Tornquist, quoting DeFreest, in his report.
Tornquist reported a baggie containing samples of the green and blue pellets that Sargent tossed in the coop was sent to the State Police Crime Lab for testing.
The chicken coop in the backyard of Mirfield and DeFreest, which is visible from Lowell Street, is surrounded by a high chain-link fence that stands about 20 feet from a high cedar fence that divides Mirfield's and Sargent's properties.
A search of the archives of the Carlisle Mosquito, a nonprofit newspaper serving Carlisle that is published twice a month, shows that in August and September of 2012, Sargent and DeFreest each wrote letters to the editor regarding Sargent's complaints that he and family members were being deprived of sleep at all hours of the night by his neighbors' rooster's "incessant crowing," Sargent wrote.
Responding to Sargent's letter, DeFreest wrote the newspaper, "We've been putting the rooster in his box every night, which has drastically decreased and muffled his crow. To say that we are being indecent and discourteous is far from fair, or the truth."
In the months and years leading up to his arrest, Sargent contacted and appeared before the town's Board of Health several times, and called Carlisle police repeatedly to his neighbors' residence with noise complaints about the roosters, according to town records.
As part of his investigation into the poisonings, Sgt. Barnes said that he asked Sargent if he could recall a "casual conversation" the two had this past spring in which Sargent "jokingly made a statement to me that he was 'going to mix poison in with bird seed and throw it over the fence,'" Barnes wrote.
Sargent responded "no," he did not recall making such a statement, Barnes reported.
Prior to Barnes showing Sargent the video evidence against him, Sargent stated that "he loves animals, would never hurt them, and he does not eat animals because he is a member of PETA," Barnes wrote in his report.
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Skype Room Systems v2 devices based on the Surface Pro (2017) tablet may observe performance issues under meeting conditions where a combination of HDMI wired ingest sharing, dual front-of-room displays, and multiple remote video streams are being used. Repro symptoms may not appear for 15 to 30 minutes after HDMI wired ingest sharing begins. Local symptoms of such performance issues include slow touch console keyboard response and dropped meetings. Remote attendees may notice the room video rendered at a lower frame rate than normal.
Possible workarounds to alleviate these symptoms include:
- Desktop sharing into the meeting via the Skype for Business application (as a replacement for HDMI wired ingest).
- Reducing the front-of-room display configuration from dual to single screen.
The same symptoms have not been reproduced on Surface Pro 4 and non-Surface Pro-based systems.
Resolution: The Skype Room Systems Engineering Team is investigating a software-based solution to resolve this issue. Release date for a potential fix is not determined. I will keep this thread updated with any late-breaking changes in status.
Please keep me up to date...
thanks for the update. Our china office are all using 2 tv's and surface pro 2017 . We have experienced it today those you mention above .Anyway, i will ask my colleague to use 1 TV first and will test. Our main office are using mostly 1 TV without any issue except one room that is using 2 Tv.
hoping for an update soon. By the way, is there a way i can make the skype app in windows mode so that i can minimize? we want to run wireshark on the device to investigate some network reconnecting issue.
I assume this is due to overheating issues with Surface Pro 5's which don't have fans, as opposed to Surface Pro 4's that do?
@Damien Margaritis I don't think so . using 1 TV works fine without any issue. its just dual display .
we try to change to resolution of two tv's to 720p and seems it didnt disconnect or skype crash at the moment.
we will keep on testing tomorrow.
One more reason to install Lenovo Hub 500 only from now on.
is it reliable? let me check this Lenovo hub.
@rodelmurex that's precisely the reason why it's a sporadic issue, overheating based on load. If you're only using a single screen, not presenting etc device does not overheat, throw more at it and issues arise. This is due to the Surface device disabling services to protect itself from overheating.
Actually, using 1 Tv has no issue at all video + presentation . It just so happened that our china office has newly installed this device but they are using two TV . We have remove the the 1 tv display in china and test again and we don't encounter any issue .
Lenovo hub 500 is much more cheaper that this Logitech + surface pro 2017 . Time to test this haha.
Agreed @rodelmurex, but then Logitech SmartDock has flex coming soon to simplify cabling...
Each option out there does 95% perfectly, just a different 95% depending on what you choose.
@rodelmurex, it's reliable. We have been testing one since January, now the device became SRS standard in our company.
@rodelmurex - we are in the final stages of testing and preparing a fix for release to the Store. I'll have post status again before the end of the week.
Hi @David Groom, The SRS deployment kit MSI is showing a new version number (184.108.40.206) but the actual AppxManifest.xml inside is showing the old version (188.8.131.52) and when we ran the recovery PowerShell script, we still ended up with 126.96.36.199.
What's the status on the new release?
@Deleted - The only change in 220.127.116.11 was an updated version of the recovery tool. The application update itself contained in this MSI will bring you up to 18.104.22.168.
We're evaluating a fix to the perf issue described in the article above. I'll publish an update on status this week.
@Tristan Griffiths We have a 22.214.171.124 update that's been released to address the issue. It's currently throttled up to 20%. We'll monitor results a little longer before throttling up to 100%.
@Jed Ellerby When we release an update, we typically do so in a gradual manner to devices in the field. "20% throttling" means that 20% of deployed devices are being offered the update.
@David Groom so this update will resolve skype crushing for dual display when doing skype + presentation
strange I have run the update using the Microsoft store and only 1 device gets updated only to 18.104.22.168 . Ive check the version for all Skype and seems the same .
Hi @David Groom, we've got nearly 2 dozen units deployed but haven't seen the update arrive. Where are you at in terms of the deployment throttling?
I know it's a bit of a stretch, but is it possible to get a zip with all the new application files (appx, manifests, dependencies) so we can use the InstallSkype.ps1 provisioning script to do a manual update of the package? Failing that, can we get a new version of the SRS recovery tool that includes this new version?
So according to the engineer handling our support ticket, the deployment of 188.8.131.52 is at 100% now. We've seen some units update however the overall impression so far is pretty average. It doesn't appear to have made the units more unstable, but it hasn't changed the situation much when it comes to HDMI ingest. Our experience is essentially the same and we're still seeing frequent lockups too (usually when a meeting isn't even running), sometimes the app is able to recover itself after 15 minutes or so of being locked up but sometimes it'll remain locked up until someone manually intervenes by rebooting the unit.
The behavior of the application when it is locked up is really strange too. Yesterday I logged into a frozen unit via RDP as 'admin' and used procexp to look at the frozen SRS process. It looks like right around when it crashed the application suddenly started spawning a new thread approx. every second until it reached over 500 threads and suddenly stopped. The process didn't show as suspended and all the threads appeared to be idle, there were no open network connections and the DesktopAPIService log indicated that there was no activity from the app to the desktop bridge.
I'm going to monitor the situation when it comes to thread count and see if there's a correlation between a high thread count and crashes.
@David GroomIf I recall correctly, the freezing issue was acknowledged and attributed to a previous update which a subsequent update was supposed to have resolved. This freezing issue is far less frequent than it was back then but we're still seeing at least 4 units each day lock up. Has your team considered this issue resolved or are you aware of an ongoing issue still?
@Deleted - Is 22.214.171.124 now installed on your systems? Are you seeing the issue repro (i.e. non-responsive console touch screen on system connected to dual front-of-room displays + video ingest connected to a laptop)?
For others on this thread, here's a link announcing the release of 18.104.22.168.
@Deleted Also, please confirm whether you are using Surface Pro 2017 or Surface Pro 4.
Hi @David Groom, thanks for the fast reply. Yes we have 22.214.171.124. It's not on all of our units yet but the one I've been focusing on when troubleshooting is 220.127.116.11 and Surface Pro 2017 with 1703. We have a mix of Surface Pro 4s and 2017s as well as 3 Lenovo ThinkSmart Hub 500s. All of our units have a single external display, no dual displays.
Most of the time when we experience a freeze (i.e. touch screen not responding), it happens outside of a scheduled meeting. So this is a bit offtopic for this thread but we also see extremely high CPU utilisation (90-100%) when HDMI ingest is occurring. The combination of HDMI ingest and presenting the screen from the SRS unit seems to cause this to occur and we have reports of low framerates and bad audio quality when this happens, though outright app crashes/freezes are relatively rare when doing HDMI ingest.
Seconding @Deleted 's lockup issue, we are seeing non-responsive touch screen happening outside of scheduled meetings, when the device is sitting idle.
It's not only unresponsive, the clock stops moving and the app disconnects from Skype as well. Network connection overall is still OK, I am able to remote in and see this frozen screen.
I think for us it's mostly Surface Pro 4's although there may be some 2017's in there as well. And mostly single displays.
Glad to hear I'm not alone on this, @Nick DiFeo. For what it's worth we're also running Lenovo SRS units and they work fine, it's just Surface Pros which are experiencing the issue with non-responsive touch screen / freezes.
It sounds like your experience is identical to our's. I've been monitoring the thread count for the SRS app and it seems there's something odd going on.
The moment the thread count started rapidly increasing, the app became unresponsive, the dip is where I initially rebooted it then it crashed again afterwards and had to be rebooted.
From looking at the trace logs I can't find anything that jumps out as potentially useful other than this:
06/11/2018|12:15:00.523 1D00:1E7C INFO :: CUccMediaDeviceManager::DeviceRemoved - Device was removed: id=2812440981328 name=[SyncMaster (Intel(R) Display Audio)]
06/11/2018|12:15:00.523 1D00:1E7C INFO :: CUccMediaDeviceManager::FireTelephonyDeviceCollectionChanged - Telephony device was removed type=0x4 name=<[NULL], [SyncMaster (Intel(R) Display Audio)]>
I've looked at 4 trace logs today and 3/4 had this event right when the crash occurred.
I can provide these logs to David or anybody else at Microsoft if they are interested.
On an unrelated topic (but more relevant to this thread), we're having issues with HDMI ingest on a Surface Pro 2017 unit with SRS 18.104.22.168. A staff member is doing HDMI ingest and presenting their screen and they experienced poor framerate and audio issues. This is only a single display unit.
Our monitoring for that unit showed the CPU utilisation stuck at 100%.
Actually, On our 2 TV display , we have lower down the resolution of the TV's to 720 and upgrade the app to version 188.8.131.52 . So far so good. thanks to this update.
yesterday I wanted to update one of our SRS to v18.104.22.168, when I checked the updates I got the v22.214.171.124 installed? So far, so good. After a lot of stress Tests with dual Screening and HDMI Input injected, the SRS never froze again...BUT...there are several new issues!
Since the new Version, the Performance of the SRS is very poor! Changing the Tabs with participants, Chat or Content has a pretty lag. Also the mute button, it takes several seconds when I tap on the SRS Screen, that the mic is muted (we use a logitech meetup with the latest Firmware 1.2). When I share my Screen, the participants have to wait a Long time until they get my HDMI injected Display shown.
Then I had a issue that broke the whole Meeting! I presented HDMI Content, then uploaded a PowerPoint an startet switching between These two presentations in an online Meeting. After a few minutes my HDMI Content couldnt get shown in the Meeting again, only PowerPoint worked. Leaving and joining the Meeting, or reconnect the HDMI didnt help. I had to plan a new Meeting and invite every participant again, to Show my HDMI Content to the participants .
What can be the reason for all These Performance issues, is it the new v22.214.171.124?
We are experiencing this issue on our Logitech Surface Pro Skype systems. It occurs intermittently on during meetings and all of our systems are connected to just one monitor.
We have about 20 Logitech based SRS installed in our organization and are in general very happy with the functionality but have since the beginning struggled with the console not detecting the TV consoles after boot, possibly after power outages. The only workaround is a "hard" boot with the power button without the HDMI cables attached and the reconnect the HDMI after the system is up. The problem comes and goes without a clear pattern. We have also some Lenovo Hub 500 and have never experienced the same there. Has anyone seen the same issue? Have gone through the community posts but not found anything.
Hi there,
any News on this Topic? We have tested a lot in the past few weeks, and got an interesting fact. When we changed our two 4K 65" screens to two full HD Desktop Monitors, Meetings dont crash anymore when we inject HDMI Content into a SRS Meeting.
But we have to use our two 65" Displays, reducing the Resolution to full HD on These two screens didnt helped. So please tell me how we can go further, we already have opened a Case at Microsoft with this issue.
Stefan, I posted the same question also on another thread and got some feedback that you might find useful https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Skype-for-Business-Blog/Teams-meetings-enabled-on-Skype-Room-...
Hi Ivar,
thanks for your answer, do you mean we should use an extender like this https://www.gefen.com/product/booster-hdmi-edid-detective-EXT-HDBOOST-141 ?
We have connected our screens directly to the Logitech Smartdock, the cable length is about 7,5m. Should we use the logitech extender box?
This is 100% related to the passive cooling as mentioned before. Basic microprocessor theory: the more a microprocessor is doing (which means anything), the more heat it generates, the more heat, the more heat, the more electrical resistance, the more resistance, the more errors.
modern processors have built in error handling, hench the thread count spike. It's trying to compensate for the errors, which generates even more heat.
try this to prove it. Pull off the dock frame, tilt the surface forward, put a fan pointed at the unit and try to reproduce the problem. You won't be able to.
@David Groom Is this issue still persisting? Or should it be resolved when we lower down the resolution to 720p or Full HD?
I have a customer with massive problems in dual screen mode.
Yes. In fact we just discovered that throttling didn't fix the issue and that 2 of our units have permanently been damaged from the heat issues. One unit has a flicker in the back light and the other overheats and reboots even when it is not in the dock.
We ordered 2 new surfaces but plan to find a way to jam some fans in the smart dock before installing them.
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Rear Window to BroadwayOctober 24, 2012
Good news for the extended BDA family. Friend of the program Jay Russell hinted at this during last year's Little Rock Film Festival.
From the Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — A producing team has won the theatrical stage rights to Rear Window, the noir tale that Alfred Hitchcock made into a classic film.
Producer Charlie Lyons, director Jay Russell and actor Tim Guinee announced Wednesday that their two-year hunt for the rights have been successful and they're hoping to mount the show on Broadway.
Rear Window is based on a Cornell Woolrich short story, "It Had to Be Murder," that was first published in February 1942 in Dime Detective Magazine.
The 1954 film version, starring Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, tells the story of a wheelchair-bound witness to a possible murder.
Literary agent Sheldon Abend in 1971 purchased a copyright to the short story on which "Rear Window" was based. The new producing team bought the first stage option ever granted by Abend's trust.
Lyons has produced such films as The Water Horse, The Guardian and Ladder 49. Russell directed Ladder 49 and My Dog Skip. Guinee stars on NBC's Revolution and Showtime's Homeland.
No timetable was revealed.
"We are assembling a world-class team of artists to bring this timeless thriller to the stage." Russell said in a statement.