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
Links:
Reliability Society Home
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Obituary for Ann MillerIEEE Reliability Society ADCOM Member (2002 – 2006)
Dr. Ann Miller was born in 1947 in East St. Louis, Ill. She graduated from Notre Dame High School in Bellevue, Ill., in 1964, and continued her education at Saint Louis University, earning her bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics.
Her professional career encompassed industry, government and academia. She served on the faculty of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Michigan Technological University, and the University of New Mexico. She held various positions within Motorola, Inc., culminating as a manager of the Technology Center for the Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector. From 1997-1999, she was at the Department of Defense. For more than a year of that time, she was the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for command, control, communications, computing, intelligence, electronic warfare and space [DASN(C4I/EW/Space)] and was the Department of the Navy CIO for part of that period.
She joined S&T as the Cynthia Tang Missouri Distinguished Professor of Computer Engineering in 1999. Her research interests were in trustworthy computer systems, including computer and network security.
Her service experience included serving as an associate editor-in-chief for IEEE Software and a member of the Administrative Committee of the IEEE Reliability Society. Recently, she served multiple years as a member of the National Academies Study Board for U.S. Department of Navy, Information Assurance for Network-Centric Operations; as a member of the NATO Information Systems Technology Panel; and as a member of the NATO Task Group on Dual Use of High Assurance Techniques. From 2001-2004, she chaired the NATO Information Systems Technology Panel, and from 2003-2004 she served on the National Academies Study Board on FORCEnet. Previously, she chaired the IEEE GLOBECOM 2005 conference and the NATO Task Group on Validation, Verification, and Certification of Embedded Systems, participated in a NATO Special Workshop on Combating Terrorism, and was general chair of the NATO Symposium on Real-Time Intrusion Detection.
Dr. Miller died on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, at St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield, Mo. She is survived by her parents, Elwood and Virginia Miller; one brother, Scott Miller and wife Beta, Chesterfield; a niece; two grand-nephews; and friends.
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