IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter Vol. 57, No. 1. February 2011

Table of Content Front page: President's Message From the Editor Messages from VPs: VP Publications Report from Dr. Robert Loomis Society News: 2011 EXCOM and ADCOM Members Prestigious Engineer of the Year Award Best Chapter Awards AdCom Meeting Nominations for IEEE Medals and Recognitions RS seeks Administrative Committee Candidates for 2012/2013/2014 Term Reliability Society Past AdCom Members Obituaries: Former RS President Monshaw Dies At 84 Obituary for Ann Miller Feature Articles: Reliability through the Ages Reliability Overview of Air Traffic Reliability in the National Air Space Regular Articles: Field Based Reliability Calculations (MTBF) – Surmounting Practical Challenges. An outside the box approach. Applying basic and familiar reliability theory to estimating and improving the avialablity of software-intensive systems Fault Tolerance in Web Services PHM Articles: Detection of Multiple Failure-Modes in Electronics using Self-Organized Mapping Book Review : Reliability Engineering Book Review Chapter Activities: Cleveland Chapter Taipei/Tainan Chapter The Denver Chapter awarded a certificate to Hobbs Engineering Announcements: Solicitation for Society Technical Committees UK&RI Workshop on Reliability and Safety WCEAM-IMS 2001 Conference Calendar Links: Reliability Society Home RS Newsletter Homepage

Calendar 2011 March International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED), Santa Clara, California, March 14-16, 2011 http://www.isqed.org/ Submission Deadline: October 14, 2010 ACM Symposium on Information, Computer, and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Hong Kong, March 22-24, 2011 http://www.cs.hku.hk/asiaccs2011/ Submission Deadline: October 8, 2010 International Workshop on Security Protocols (IWSP 2011),Cambridge, England, March 28-30, 2011 http://spw.feis.herts.ac.uk/ Submission Deadline: January 31, 2011 2011 April International Reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS), Monterey, California, April 12-14, 2011 http://www.irps.org/ Submission Deadline: January 11, 2011 2011 May International Conferences on Networking (Networking 2011), Valencia, Spain, May 09-13, 2011 http://www.networking2011.org/index.html Submission Deadline: December 10, 2010 International Electrostatic Discharge Workshop (IEW), Lake Tahoe, California, May 16-19, 2011 http://www.esda.org/IEW.htm Submission Deadline: March 1, 2011 International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Hawaii, US, May 21-28, 2011 http://2011.icse-conferences.org/ Submission Deadline: August 20, 2010 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), Oakland, California, USA, May 22-25, 2011 http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2011/index.html Submission Deadline: November 19, 2010 Prognostics and System Health Management Conference (PHM Shenzhen), InterContinental Shenzhen, China, May 24-25, 2011 http://www.cityu.edu.hk/phmc/PHM2011.htm Submission Deadline: December 13, 2010 International Symposium on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 24-27, 2011 http://www.rsp-symposium.org/doku.php Submission Deadline: January 23, 2011 2011 June ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec),Hamburg, Germany, June 14-17, 2011 http://www.sigsac.org/wisec/WiSec2011/ Submission Deadline: December 8, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), Denver, Colorado, June 20-23, 2011 http://www.phmconf.org/ Submission Deadline: January 31, 2011 Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Edinburgh, UK, June 20-24, 2011 http://conferences.ncl.ac.uk/adaconnection2011/index.html Submission Deadline: November 21, 2010 Secure System Integration and Reliability Improvements (SSIRI), Jetju Island, Korea, June 27-29, 2011 http://paris.utdallas.edu/ssiri11/ Submission Deadline: January 15, 2011 Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Hong Kong, June 27-30, 2011 http://www.dsn.org/ Submission Deadline: December 10, 2010 International Conference on Systems of Systems Engineering (SoSE), Albuquerque, New Mexico, June 27-30, 2011 http://www.sose2011.org/ Submission Deadline: March 14, 2011 2011 July International Symposium on the Physical and Failure Analysis of Integrated Circuits (IPFA), Incheon, Korea, July 4-7, 2011 http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/10/ipfa/index.htm Submission Deadline: February 14, 2011 International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC), Madrid, Spain, July 13-14, 2011 http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/10/ipfa/index.htm Submission Deadline: January 7, 2011 Security and Management (SAM), Las Vegas, USA, July 18-21, 2011 http://www.di.unipi.it/TGC2011/index.html Submission Deadline: June 5, 2011 2011 August USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '11),San Francisco, CA, August 10–12, 2011 http://www.usenix.org/events/sec11/ Submission Deadline: February 10, 2011 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (IEEE ARES), Vienna University of Technology, Austria , August 22-26, 2011 http://www.ares-conference.eu/conf/ Submission Deadline: February 21, 2011 2011 September Trustworthy Global Computing, Aachen, Germany, September 09-10, 2011 http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp11/ws/conferences/sam11/index_html Submission Deadline: March 10, 2011 European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), Leuven, Belguim, September 12-14, 2011 https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.be/esorics2011/ Submission Deadline: March 21, 2011 New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW),Marin County, CA, USA, September 12-15, 2011 http://www.nspw.org/2011 Submission Deadline: April 4, 2011 IEEE European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS2011), Lugano, Switzerland, September 14-16, 2011 http://ecows2011.inf.usi.ch/ Submission Deadline: April 15, 2011 2011 October World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), Cincinatti, Ohio, October 3-5, 2011 http://www.wceam.com/ Submission Deadline: June 1, 2011 International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IIRW), Lake Tahoe, California, October 16-20, 2011 http://www.iirw.org/ Submission Deadline: June 16, 2011 2011 November International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Tokyo, Japan, November 14-17, 2011 http://2011.issre.net/ Submission Deadline: May 10, 2011 2012 January Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), Reno, NV USA, January 23-26, 2012 http://rams.org/ Submission Deadline: April 18, 2011