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Performance ImprovementVolume 39, Issue 9 p. 40-44 Article Unexpected benefits of testing Edmond T. Parker, Edmond T. Parker Edmond T. Parker is Director, Consulting at ICUS, a company that designs, implements, and runs e-learning programs for corporations. Its learning strategies make use of advanced techniques in instructional design and information technology while maintaining the human touch through interactive coaching. Until recently, he was a distinguished member of technical staff, development manager, and instructional technologist with Lucent Technologies where his chief responsibilities were in the training of software developers, evaluation, and test design. Trained as a social scientist, much of his career has been international. At various times he has been director of the Office for Intercultural Education at Boston University, an interculturalist and negotiator for an American publisher, a Senior Fulbright-Hays Professor in Egypt, and a training manager in the Arabian-American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia. More recently, he worked for AT&T, Bell Laboratories, and Lucent Technologies. While many of his publications have been about international training, for the past three years testing has been one of his primary interests. He may be reached at ICUS Pte. Ltd., 1 International Business Park, #01-13B, The Synergy, Singapore 609917; Phone: (65) 566-1411; E-mail: Edmond@icus.net.Search for more papers by this author Edmond T. Parker, Edmond T. Parker Edmond T. Parker is Director, Consulting at ICUS, a company that designs, implements, and runs e-learning programs for corporations. Its learning strategies make use of advanced techniques in instructional design and information technology while maintaining the human touch through interactive coaching. Until recently, he was a distinguished member of technical staff, development manager, and instructional technologist with Lucent Technologies where his chief responsibilities were in the training of software developers, evaluation, and test design. Trained as a social scientist, much of his career has been international. At various times he has been director of the Office for Intercultural Education at Boston University, an interculturalist and negotiator for an American publisher, a Senior Fulbright-Hays Professor in Egypt, and a training manager in the Arabian-American Oil Company in Saudi Arabia. More recently, he worked for AT&T, Bell Laboratories, and Lucent Technologies. While many of his publications have been about international training, for the past three years testing has been one of his primary interests. He may be reached at ICUS Pte. Ltd., 1 International Business Park, #01-13B, The Synergy, Singapore 609917; Phone: (65) 566-1411; E-mail: Edmond@icus.net.Search for more papers by this author First published: 08 February 2007 https://doi.org/10.1002/pfi.4140390912Citations: 1 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume39, Issue9October 2000Pages 40-44 RelatedInformation

The Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas in Greece has named Raymond E. Goldstein, an associate professor of physics and of applied mathematics at the University of Arizona, as the winner of the Pnevmatikos Award in Nonlinear Science for 2000. The foundation recognized “his contributions to the understanding of pattern formation involving the dynamics of filaments, interfaces and surfaces, combining powerful mathematical methods with penetrating physical arguments, numerical computations, and experiments to clarify nonlinear phenomena in a wide variety of physical and biological systems.” The award will be presented next month at an international conference on Crete.At the American Physical Society March meeting in Seattle, Taekjip Ha, an assistant professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, received the 2001 Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Association of Korean Physicists in America. The association acknowledged Ha for “his truly outstanding scholarly and pioneering research on the biological physics in the field of single-molecule fluorescence.” Dirk Rischke joined the University of Frankfurt in Germany earlier this year as the chair for theoretical heavy-ion physics. He previously was a RIKEN–BNL Research Fellow with the Brookhaven National Laboratory theory group. Rischke succeeds Walter Greiner, who will retire in three years. Until that time, Rischke and Greiner will be working together to ensure a smooth transition.At the annual Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers honors ceremony next month in Jersey City, New Jersey, Herwig Kogelnik will receive the IEEE’s highest award, the 2001 IEEE Medal of Honor. Kogelnik is adjunct photonics systems research vice president at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey. According to the citation, he is being acknowledged for “fundamental contributions to the science and technology of lasers and optoelectronics, and for leadership in research and development of photonics and lightwave communication systems.”On the occasion of his retirement in March from MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Dieter J. Sigmar, senior research scientist, received the US Department of Energy’s Distinguished Associate Award. He was honored, in part, for his “contributions to our understanding of plasma confinement, the physics of burning plasmas, and the role of the plasma edge,” according to the citation, which also noted that his “commitment to international fusion collaboration and stimulation of theory programs around the world has been critical to our progress in fusion science research.” Sigmar plans to continue working on transport theory in tokamak plasmas with his MIT colleagues and following developments worldwide in the physics of burning plasmas. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Environment Center (SEC) is the principal U.S. governmental agency for providing space weather data, information, and forecasts across the user spectrum, including industry, other government entities, and the public. A major change in the reporting structure of the center is poised to occur later this year when Congress approves the fiscal year 2005 budget proposed by the Bush administration. The activities of the SEC, together with its proposed budget, will move from under NOAA's research budget and administration to that of the National Weather Service (NWS), which is also administered by NOAA. The weather service will receive augmented funding to accommodate the SEC as one of the service's National Centers for Environmental Prediction. The move, however, is more than a mere change in the wiring diagram for NOAA's administration. It would appear that NOAA is becoming more serious in recognizing and appreciating the essential responsibility that it, through the SEC, holds for supporting the nation's space environment needs. Indeed, the wording in the NWS portion of the NOAA budget strongly acknowledges this, requesting that Congress “allow the NWS to maintain the SEC's critical forecasts and products in support of the Nation's energy and telecommunications industries, NASA, and the [U.S. Department of Defense].” The SEC has long had, as a part of its mission, a research component. This activity allows the center to maintain an awareness of, and contribute to, advances in solar-terrestrial research, especially as applied to space weather. The NOAA budget for FY2005 suggests that this will continue as the SEC comes under the NWS umbrella, stating that the center “will continue to support the research framework necessary to ensure that new research findings are utilized.” We hope this will continue to be the case over the long term. In addition, the National Weather Service has a long history of interacting with private suppliers of weather information and providing value-added products. Such private-public interactions have sparked tensions in the past between the weather service and the atmospheric weather community, similar to concerns now beginning to be felt in the space weather community (see the related article on this topic by Genene Fisher in Space Weather). We hope the experiences encountered, and lessons learned, in the space and atmospheric weather communities will be beneficial to all parties as private-sector space weather services become stronger over time and as the SEC continues to grow in its service to all users. Louis J. Lanzerotti is Editor of Space Weather, a distinguished research professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a consulting physicist at Lucent Technologies’ Bell Laboratories.

Transactions of the New York Academy of SciencesVolume 28, Issue 2 Series II p. 304-315 DIVISION OF POLYMER SCIENCE: OXIDATIVE EMBRITTLEMENT OF POLYETHYLENE* F. H. Winslow, F. H. Winslow Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, N.J.Search for more papers by this authorW. Matreyek, W. Matreyek Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, N.J.Search for more papers by this authorS. M. Stills, S. M. Stills Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, N.J.Search for more papers by this author F. H. Winslow, F. H. Winslow Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, N.J.Search for more papers by this authorW. Matreyek, W. Matreyek Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, N.J.Search for more papers by this authorS. M. Stills, S. M. Stills Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc., Murray Hill, N.J.Search for more papers by this author First published: December 1965 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2164-0947.1965.tb02882.xCitations: 8 † This paper, illustrated with slides, was presented at a meeting of the Division on October 27, 1965. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume28, Issue2 Series IIDecember 1965Pages 304-315 RelatedInformation

"Stormer, Prof. Horst Ludwig, (born 6 April 1949), physicist; Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, Columbia University, 1998, now Emeritus; Adjunct Physics Director, Lucent Technologies (formerly AT&T Bell Laboratories), 1997–2006" published on by Oxford University Press.

Current efforts in the Process Analytical Chemistry and Control Technology group at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, have focused on the development of an on-line method for real-time characterization of organic-containing effluents (principally trimethyamine (TMA) and methanol) produced during a high-temperature processing. On-line analysis of the gas streams was performed by combining FT-IR spectrometry with partial least squares (PLS) to obtain quantitative information for process control. The gas-phase infrared spectra were measured at a resolution of 16 cm-1 under atmospheric conditions. The correlation coefficients for all the components including water were larger than 0.999, and the standard errors of prediction were much less than 1% by weight. The effect of CO2 on the predictability of other components is discussed. Results of our experiment showed that the predicted errors for TMA and methanol increased by as much as 10 and 15%, respectively, as the amount of CO2 increased to 100% of the...

Journal of the American Oil Chemists' SocietyVolume 78, Issue 5 p. 555-556 Letter to the Editor A simple method to enrich phospholipid content in commercial soybean lecithin V. Vandana, V. Vandana Lipid Science & Technology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR), 500 007 Hyderabad, IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorM. S. L. Karuna, M. S. L. Karuna Lipid Science & Technology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR), 500 007 Hyderabad, IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorP. Vijayalakshmi, P. Vijayalakshmi Lipid Science & Technology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR), 500 007 Hyderabad, IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorR. B. N. Prasad, Corresponding Author R. B. N. Prasad rbnprasad@iict.ap.nic.in Lipid Science & Technology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR), 500 007 Hyderabad, India *To whom correspondence should be addressed. rbnprasad@iict.ap.nic.inSearch for more papers by this author V. Vandana, V. Vandana Lipid Science & Technology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR), 500 007 Hyderabad, IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorM. S. L. Karuna, M. S. L. Karuna Lipid Science & Technology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR), 500 007 Hyderabad, IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorP. Vijayalakshmi, P. Vijayalakshmi Lipid Science & Technology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR), 500 007 Hyderabad, IndiaSearch for more papers by this authorR. B. N. Prasad, Corresponding Author R. B. N. Prasad rbnprasad@iict.ap.nic.in Lipid Science & Technology Division, Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (CSIR), 500 007 Hyderabad, India *To whom correspondence should be addressed. rbnprasad@iict.ap.nic.inSearch for more papers by this author First published: 01 May 2001 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11746-001-0303-2Citations: 17AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article.Citing Literature Volume78, Issue5May 2001Pages 555-556 RelatedInformation

An updated version of the paper with revised references has been published The review part of the paper addresses analytical (mathematical) modeling in structural analysis in fiber optics engineering, mostly fiber optics interconnects, and deals with optical fibers subjected to thermal and/or mechanical loading (stresses) in bending, tension, compression, or to the combinations of such loadings. Attributes and significance of predictive modeling are indicated and discussed. The review is based mostly on the author’s research conducted at Bell Laboratories, Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Division, Murray Hill, NJ, USA, during his tenure with this company, and, to a lesser extent, on his recent work in the field. The addressed structures include, but are not limited to, optical fibers of finite length: bare fibers; jacketed and dual-coated fibers; fibers experiencing thermal loading; fibers soldered into ferrules or adhesively bonded into capillaries; as well as the roles of geometric and material non-linearity; dynamic response to shocks and vibrations; and possible applications of nano-materials in new generations of coating and cladding systems. The extension part is concerned with a novel, fruitful and challenging directionprobabilistic design for reliability (PDfR) of opto-electronic and photonic products, including optical fibers and interconnects. The rationale behind the PDfR concept is that there is no such thing as zero probability of failure, that the difference between a highly reliable product and an insufficiently reliable product is “merely” in the level of the never zero probability of its failure and that when the operational performance of the product is imperative, the ability to predict, quantify, assure and, if possible and appropriate, even specify its reliability is highly desirable. Accordingly, the objective of the PDfR effort is to quantify the likelihood of an operational failure of a material, device or a system, including the field of fiber optics.

The role and the attributes of, and challenges in, the predictive modeling of the thermomechanical behavior of microelectronic and photonic structures (packages) are addressed. Merits, shortcomings and interaction of theoretical and experimental approaches are discussed, as well as the role and the interaction of the analytical (“mathematical”) and numerical (computer-aided) modeling. We briefly review the published work in the field, with an emphasis on the analytical modeling of the thermally induced stresses and displacements. The review is based, to a great extent, on the author’s research conducted during his eighteen years tenure with Bell Laboratories, Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Division, Murray Hill, New Jersey. The major message of the article is that a viable and reliable optoelectronic product can be successfully created and delivered to the market in a timely fashion only provided that predictive modeling, whether analytical or numerical, is widely and effectively used, in addition and, preferably, prior to experimental investigations and testing.

Some basic thermal stress and thermal stress related reliability problems in microelectronics (ME) and optoelectronics (OE) are addressed. The emphasis is on analytical (“mathematical”) stress modeling and design for reliability. The review is based primarily on the author's research conducted during his eighteen-year tenure with Bell Laboratories, Basic Research, Physical Sciences and Engineering Research Division, as well as on his recent research, based on government contracts.

Magnetic skyrmion, topologically non-trivial spin texture, has been considered as promising information carrier in future electronic devices because of its nanoscale size, low depinning current density and high motion velocity. Despite the broad interests in skyrmion racetrack memory, researchers have been recently exploiting logic functions enabled by using the particle-like behaviors of skyrmions. These functions can be applied to unconventional computing, such as stochastic computing (SC), which treats data as probabilities and is superior to binary computing due to its simplicity of logic operation. In this work, we demonstrate SC implemented by skyrmionic logic devices. We propose a skyrmionic AND-OR logic device as a multiplier in the stochastic domain and two skyrmionic multiplexer (MUX) logic devices as stochastic adders. With the assist of voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA), the precise control of skyrmions collision is not required in the skyrmionic AND-OR logic device, thus improving the operation robustness. In the two MUX logic devices, skyrmions can be driven by Zhang-Li torque or spin orbit torque (SOT). Particularly, we can flexibly regulate the skyrmion motion by VCMA or voltage controlled Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction (VCDMI) in the SOT case. Furthermore, 3-bit stochastic multiplier and adder are demonstrated by micromagnetic simulations. In addition, simulations in synthetic antiferromagnets (SAF) show that the performance of our skyrmionic logic gates can be optimized through advanced materials. Our work opens up perspective to implement SC using skyrmionic logic devices.

The maturation of large-scale Internet protocol (IP) routing and the standardization of voice over IP (VoIP) protocols have accelerated the deployment of packet telephony products in the public network. Service providers such as the Regional Bell Operating Companies, competitive local exchange carriers, multiple system operators, and Internet service providers (ISPs) are beginning to seek out next-generation products to consolidate voice, video, and data onto converged packet-based networks. To address this market, Lucent Technologies has developed and introduced a suite of data networking and packet telephony products, one of which is the PathStar Access Server. This revolutionary new product integrates Bell Labs software innovations such as the Inferno® operating system with access and interconnection technologies developed by the Switching, Access, and Data Networking areas of Lucent Technologies. The PathStar Access Server combines the functionality and features of traditional circuit switches with advanced packet routing techniques to enable end-to-end converged network solutions. This paper presents an overview of the PathStar Access Server and briefly explores its hardware and software architectures.

This project was a collaborative effort between Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (formerly The Regents of the University of California)/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and LGS Innovations, LLC (formerly Lucent Technologies, Inc.), to develop long-range and mobile operational free-space optical (FSO) laser communication systems for specialized government applications. LLNL and LGS Innovations formerly Lucent Bell Laboratories Government Communications Systems performed this work for a United States Government (USG) Intelligence Work for Others (I-WFO) customer, also referred to as "Government Customer", or "Customer" and "Government Sponsor." The CRADA was a critical and required part of the LLNL technology transfer plan for the customer.

Nature 414, 434–436 (2001). This manuscript was, in part, the subject of an independent investigation1 conducted at the behest of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. The independent committee reviewed concerns related to the validity of data associated with the device measurements described in the paper.

Nature 408, 549–552 (2000). This manuscript was, in part, the subject of an independent investigation conducted at the behest of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. The independent committee reviewed concerns related to the validity of data associated with the device measurements described in the paper.