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



Links:
Reliability Society Home


RS Newsletter Homepage

Obituary for Ann Miller

IEEE 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.