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MONTEREY CHAPTER - 09/22/2017
Research performed by a recent graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) not only earned one of the chapter's top academic honors but caught the attention of Vinton Cerf, who is widely known as a father of the Internet. Capt. Julian D'Orsaneo, USMC, earned the 137th AFCEA John McReynolds Wozencraft Electrical and Computer Engineering Academic Honor Award, which recognizes a master's student in electrical and computer engineering who shows the greatest promise through his or her thesis work. The captain was honored at the NPS September commencement ceremony. Cerf, vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google, reviewed D'Orsaneo's thesis. The Internet pioneer "provided the young captain with words of encouragement that he was indeed on the right track for continuing research in detecting cyber attacks in a software-defined network," said Chapter President Lawrence Reeves. In a congratulatory letter to D'Orsaneo, Cerf wrote: "I am most impressed by your innovative use ... READ MORE
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MONTEREY CHAPTER - 06/19/2016
Both of the recipients of the AFCEA John McReynolds Wozencraft Award for Academic Excellence in Joint C4I joined the AFCEA table at the 74th Battle of Midway Dining Out in June. Maj. Adam Foushee, USMC, a top student in electrical and computer engineering, and Maj. Eric Larsen, USMC, a top student in joint command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I), attended with Chapter President Lawrence Reeves and his special guests, former Salinas mayor Dennis Donohue and his wife, Paula. Donohue joined AFCEA in May. Completing the AFCEA table were wife Kristen with children Kylee, 7, and Noah, 5.
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MONTEREY CHAPTER - 06/19/2016
The 13th consecutive Battle of Midway Dining Out remembrance was held in June in the ballroom of the historic 23,000-acre former five-star resort Hotel Del Monte, now part of the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS). The chapter, the Navy League Monterey Council and the Naval Order of the United States collaborated with the Naval Support Activity Monterey to attract graduate students, NPS faculty, mayors, two congressional candidates, council members and community members from Monterey, Santa Cruz and Silicon Valley, the University of California Santa Cruz, Stanford University, California State University Monterey Bay and the Defense Language Institute to the event. The 74th anniversary theme selected was Aleutian Islands 1942-43, and guest of honor World War II veteran Seaman 1st Class David Hendrickson, USCG, provided a talk on Japanese activities. NPS Naval War College professor Jonathan Czarnecki spoke about the U.S. defense of the Aleutians during World War II.
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MONTEREY CHAPTER - 03/16/2016 In March, the newest AFCEA member former Salinas Mayor Dennis Donohue presented the 130th AFCEA John McReynolds Wozencraft Electrical & Computer Engineering Academic Honor Award to Lt. Andrew Spencer Jackson, USN in the historic Hotel Del Monte lobby at NPS Herrmann Hall. Few knew Jackson's 2008 engineering assignment became news worldwide. While gathering for a photograph, retired Vice Adm. Ronald Route, NPS president, noticed Jackson's SECDEF Joint Service Commendation Ribbon—they discovered both had served on USS Lake Erie, an AEGIS cruiser, at different times. Jackson remarked, "the Lake Erie seemed to be a ship where many future admirals hailed from—maybe there is more in store for me in my career!" Mayor Donohue attended Jackson's thesis presentations with several graduate engineering students in early March where he heard about his special computer experiment on a late 2017 launch of NPS Satellite 1 on Elon Musk's Space X Falcon 9. Jackson received a Joint Servi ... READ MORE |
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MONTEREY CHAPTER - 04/18/2016
In March, the selection of quarterly AFCEA Wozencraft electrical and computer engineering academic honor awardees was performed by the department chairman and faculty committee, and included thesis presentations. Prior to thesis presentations, Department Chair Dr. Clark Robertson showed the chapter his Hamming Teaching Award from Hedy Lamarr, well known for her movies and invention of spread spectrum technology. Chapter member Honorable Dennis Donohue, former Salinas mayor and Salinas Valley high tech STEM leader, presented the 130th Wozencraft award to Lt. Andrew Jackson, USN. Jackson's thesis project addressed space environment radiation impact on computer processing and memory hardware, e.g. single event upsets and functional interrupts causing logical values in memory elements to change, detectable and correctable with various error mitigation techniques. His thesis "proof" will be tested with NPS Satellite 1 and his computer hardware XILINX Kintex-7FPGAs will be ... READ MORE |
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MONTEREY CHAPTER - 12/05/2014
To win the cyber wars with breakthough technology will require a next generation of engineers and scientists with advanced degrees in mathematics, electrical and computer engineering, computer sciences and operations analysis. Finding ways to inspire students volunteering for difficult academic studies is one of the chapter's missions: STEM on steroids.Quarterly AFCEA John McReynolds Wozencraft awards recognize top achievers in Master of Science and doctoral programs. Cmdr. Thor Martinsen, USN, has been the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) military curricular officer since June 2012 and continues working closely with Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, USN, Ph.D., and the Navy's 10th Fleet on graduate level cyber educational needs. Cmdr. Martinsen will be the first NPS permanent military professor for cyber while completing his Ph.D. in applied mathematics. One of his students, Anthony J. Kubat Jr., was selected by as the 126th AFCEA Wozencraft awardee in electrical and computer engineering ... READ MORE |
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MONTEREY CHAPTER - 12/28/2014
Lt. Andrew B. Moss, USN, was honored in December at the sold-out Pearl Harbor Remembrance dinner co-hosted by the chapter, Naval Order and Navy League. They were seated with Silicon Valley's internationally known venture capitalist and former Chairman of the Export/Import Bank and Deputy Secretary General United Nations Programme, William Draper III. AFCEA members Peter Coe Verbica, Rear Adm. Jerry Ellis, USN (Ret.), and Adm. Henry Mauz, USN (Ret.), were also dinner companions. AFCEA co-founder David Sarnoff wrote in 1948 that the association's purpose was "a never-ending effort to ensure that never again will America be so pitifully weak that it is a temptation for an aggressor nation to attack us as was done at Pearl Harbor." At the dinner, Draper's talk was on cyberwar, a topic of national interest. He also presented four signed copies of his book, The Startup Game, to students.
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MONTEREY CHAPTER - 12/28/2014
The 125th AFCEA John McReynolds Wozencraft Electrical and Computer Engineering Academic Honor Award was presented in December to Lt. Andrew B. Moss, USN. His Master of Science thesis was "Temporally Adjusted Complex Ambiguity Function Mapping Algorithm for Geolocating RF Signals," supervised by professor Herschel Loomis, who was an MIT Ph.D. student in 1963 of the late information theorist Wozencraft. Now a tradition, a group photo is taken with those who guide the winner's academic achievement.
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MONTEREY CHAPTER - 06/17/2014
The chapter presented the 123rd quarterly Electrical & Computer Engineering and 25th annual Joint C4I AFCEA John McReynolds Wozencraft academic honor awards in June at the historic Hotel Del Monte McNitt Ballroom to two Marine captains, Capt. Douglas Columbus, USMC, and Capt. Kevin McMullen, USMC, who earned two Master of Science degrees.
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MONTEREY CHAPTER - 03/16/2010
As part of a quarterly chapter tradition, Dr. Thomas Kailath presented Lt. Nathan Geisinger, USN, a student at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), with the AFCEA Winter Quarter 2010 Honor award at the school's March pre-graduation ceremony. Kailath also presented a volume of the Principles of Communication Engineering, co-written by the late Jack Wozencraft, a communications pioneer and former NPS professor. Kailath, Wozencraft's first Massachusetts Institute of Technology doctoral student back in 1961, included his personal inscription to Lt. Geisinger on behalf of the Wozencraft family. The book's co-author, Dr. Irwin Jacobs, also wrote a special inscription wishing Lt. Geisinger the best in his future career in advancing communications technology. The lieutenant will be assigned to the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Center Atlantic, Charleston, South Carolina.
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