• Topic: Challenges & Solutions in IoT End-Point Security:
             
  A Case for Implantable Medical IoT
• Joint IEEE-Student Branch/EMB18 Chapter Professional Meeting
• Date:  Thursday, January 25th at 4:45 PM
• Dinner:  Pizza and a Drink
• Fee:
  Members: $5, Guests: $5, Students Free
  
• Location: 
      Engineering Hall, Room: EH2535
      1415 Engineering Drive
      Madison,  WI
• Please Register at the IEEE-Madison 
  event page.
• Non-member guests are always welcome.

  Talk: Implantable medical IoT devices are used for
  monitoring, diagnosis, and therapy of an ever-increasing range
  of medical conditions, leading to improved quality of life and
  outcomes for patients. Advances in the use of implantable
  medical IoT devices have been accompanied, and in great part
  enabled, by increases in their functional complexity, wireless
  connectivity to allow for post-deployment monitoring, and
  programmability to allow therapy to be tuned to the evolving
  needs of each patient. These factors have also led to a rapid
  growth in concerns about security and reliability of
  implantable medical IoT devices, as underscored by recent
  trends in warnings and recalls of these devices due to
  failures, and a series of successful attacks on them
  demonstrated by academic researchers and the hacker community.
  The unique usage models of implantable medical IoT devices,
  and the need to provide very high levels of security and
  reliability under very stringent resource constraints, set
  them apart from other classes of computing platforms.

  In this presentation,Dr. Kim will present the security and
  reliability challenges faced by designers of implantable
  medical IoT devices, and two techniques for improving the
  security and reliability are introduced. First, a zero-power
  contactless signal probing technique is introduced. Long-term
  signal monitoring for continuous physiological data collection
  and device status monitoring for improved reliability is
  enabled by inductively coupled circuits with no active power
  consumption. Second, a vibration-based physically secure
  communication technique is presented. Mechanical vibration has
  a short transmission range and is highly perceptible, and thus
  it is suitable as an auxiliary channel for exchanging a
  cryptographic key to establish a secure wireless channel.
  

• Entrepreneurs and Consultants Network Meeting
  • Professional Meeting
  • Date:  Thursday, February 8th at 11:30 AM
  • Fee:
    Free
    
  • Location: 
        Sector67
        2100 Winnebago Street
        Madison,  WI
  • Snacks and Drinks are available at Sector67
  • Please Register at the IEEE-Madison 
    event page.
  • Non-member guests are always welcome.
    

  
  
  Event:  Be
  prepared to give give a brief introduction to what you do
  (“Elevator Speech”).  This is your opportunity to discuss
  your company, or your consulting expertise.
  

• Section
  Elections
  

2018 Officer Election Results:
Chair: Tom Kaminski, Vice Chair: Nate Toth, Treasurer: Charles
Gervasi, Secretary: Steve Schultheis, with Clark Johnson, Dennis
Bahr, San Rotter, and Craig Heilman as Member at Large. 
Congratulations to the elected officers.

• Meeting
  Reviews
  

  December ECN Meeting:  
  Several people presented their interests and “tech toys” for
  the meeting.  Jack Kissingler, a new member of IEEE
  (welcome, Jack!) showed a PIC-microcomputer based device
  that mimicked a cat’s ability to follow a sound.  The
  device used a pair of microphones and a fast ADC to
  correlate the direction of sound arrival and drive a servo
  to move the cat’s head.  Scott Olsen brought in an
  InfraRed camera and explained how he uses it to find wasted
  energy in facilities.  He mentioned that the cameras
  used to cost many tens of thousands of dollars, but are now
  in the range of a consumer pocketbook as attachments to cell
  phones.  Also shown was a weather sensor network
  complete with a 3D printed sensor housing that looked like a
  bird house, a Turtlebot 3 robot, and an add-on Matrix
  Creator Raspberry Pi hat.

  December Social Event: Twenty-five people attended an
  evening meeting/election event at Brasserie V on Monroe
  Street.  After a brief election, the evening turned to
  a social event, honoring the IEEE-Madison Volunteers. 
  Many thanks to our volunteers.  For 2017, they were Tom
  Kaminski – Chair,/ECN Chair/Newsletter Editor, Scott Olsen –
  Vice Chair, Charles Gervasi – Treasurer, Steve Schultheis –
  Secretary, Nate Toth – Webmaster, Dennis Bahr – Engineering
  in Medicine and Biology Chapter Chair,  Chuck Kime –
  Life Member Affinity Group Chair, Charles Cowie – Life
  Member Affinity Group Vice Chair, David Jensen – Life Member
  Affinity Group Secretary,  Members at Large: Clark
  Johnson, Craig Heilman, Dennis Bahr, Sandy Rotter.
   
  
  January, 2018 Life Member Affiliate Group Meeting:
  Professor Barmish gave an excellent presentation on his
  research into algorithmic stock trading and showed some of
  the results that he and his graduate students have attained.
  His primary interest is in applying control theory to stock
  trading using simple techniques
  based on the current value and past history of the stocks to
  be traded. First, he motivated his interest in not using
  predictive models, because models do not do well under
  extreme changes.  Second, he used illustrative examples
  of historic stock data to see how different algorithms
  behaved.  Using Apple, Inc. stock, he showed how day
  traders would have performed poorly using daily trades and
  not holding the stocks.  The best strategy would have
  been to buy-and-hold the stocks for the period discussed. A
  simple control algorithm would have fared better, but not as
  well as the buy-and-hold for the period. Dr. Barmish also
  discussed some of the practical issues, such as where you
  get historic data and how you can manage to defer trading
  fees with a big enough investment. He encouraged everyone to
  try it and join in with his research group if you are
  interested.
  
  

• Section Meetings

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  December is reserved for a meeting to provide recent research,
  developments, trends and/or innovations in one of our membership’s
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  • Date: First Thursday of even-numbered months
  • Time: 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM
  • Location: Sector67, 2100 Winnebago Street (East Side of
    Madison)
  • Parking: Park in lot or on Winnebago Street.
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    companies, needs, resources.

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