IEEE North Jersey Section

[] Agenda: Arrival 10am Panel 10:30am Mentoring and Technical Activities 11:00am to 2:30pm AT&T Science and Technology Innovation Center and Museum, 200 S Laurel Ave., Middletown Township, New Jersey, United States

The security challenges confronting Open RAN are like those faced by contemporary RAN systems and other virtualized architectures. The division of functions in Open RAN expands the potential threat landscape. When implementing security measures, such as encryption, on the Open Fronthaul Interface, it is essential to consider the stringent latency requirements of the RAN. The growing reliance on open-source software in modern telecommunications platforms underscores the importance of secure development practices within open-source communities for Open RAN. In addition, the integration of AI in the RAN introduces the possibility of unforeseen consequences, as observed in other domains (e.g., racially biased facial recognition). Additionally, the substantial increase in IoT devices necessitates that all RAN deployments guard against the rising risk of attacks by compromised devices. Acknowledging these potential security challenges and recognizing the paramount importance of a secure RAN, this presentation will outline security requirements and solutions that empower the O-RAN architecture to deliver the expected level of security for both the industry and 5G users. The discussion will also spotlight the efforts of the O-RAN ALLIANCE Security Task Group (STG) and O-RAN ALLIANCE Working Groups (WGs) in addressing security challenges across all O-RAN interfaces and components, specifying, and recommending modern, practical security solutions. *This event is being recorded Co-sponsored by: IEEE Future Networks Speaker(s): Taha Sajid Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/403461

The security challenges confronting Open RAN are like those faced by contemporary RAN systems and other virtualized architectures. The division of functions in Open RAN expands the potential threat landscape. When implementing security measures, such as encryption, on the Open Fronthaul Interface, it is essential to consider the stringent latency requirements of the RAN. The growing reliance on open-source software in modern telecommunications platforms underscores the importance of secure development practices within open-source communities for Open RAN. In addition, the integration of AI in the RAN introduces the possibility of unforeseen consequences, as observed in other domains (e.g., racially biased facial recognition). Additionally, the substantial increase in IoT devices necessitates that all RAN deployments guard against the rising risk of attacks by compromised devices. Acknowledging these potential security challenges and recognizing the paramount importance of a secure RAN, this presentation will outline security requirements and solutions that empower the O-RAN architecture to deliver the expected level of security for both the industry and 5G users. The discussion will also spotlight the efforts of the O-RAN ALLIANCE Security Task Group (STG) and O-RAN ALLIANCE Working Groups (WGs) in addressing security challenges across all O-RAN interfaces and components, specifying, and recommending modern, practical security solutions.*This event is being recordedCo-sponsored by: IEEE Future NetworksSpeaker(s): Taha SajidVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/403461

Soldering Workshop for ECE Students [] Co-sponsored by: ECE Department NJIT Agenda: 2:30- 4pm Soldering Workshop Bldg: Maker Space, 323 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, , Newark, New Jersey, United States, 07102

• Brief history of Elastimold and origin of cable accessories • Vacuum interrupter technology and evolution • Solid Dielectric Switchgear applications, advantages and retrofits • Switchgear relaying and options • Conversion examples of oil, SF6 and air switchgear to Solid Dielectric • Recloser construction, operation, and applications Speaker(s): Abe Shocket, Brent Schwartzwald Agenda: The seminar fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts. Non-members joining IEEE within 30 days of the seminar will be rebated 50% of the IEEE registration charge. Four hours of instruction will be provided. If desired, IEEE Continuing Education Units (0.4 CEUs) will be offered for this course - a small fee of $55 will be required for processing. Please pay attention to the “Registration Fee” and choose the appropriate choice either with or without CEUs. CEU Evaluation Form can be found at: (https://innovationatwork.ieee.org/ieee-pes-northjersey-certificates/) At this time, our attendance is being limited to fifty (50). Please only register if you know you are going to attend, and you must be registered to participate. Room: Aruba Room, Bldg: PSE&G - Hadley Road Facility, 4000 Hadley Road, South Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, 07080

• Brief history of Elastimold and origin of cable accessories • Vacuum interrupter technology and evolution • Solid Dielectric Switchgear applications, advantages and retrofits • Switchgear relaying and options • Conversion examples of oil, SF6 and air switchgear to Solid Dielectric • Recloser construction, operation, and applications Speaker(s): Abe Shocket, Brent Schwartzwald Agenda: The seminar fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts. Non-members joining IEEE within 30 days of the seminar will be rebated 50% of the IEEE registration charge. Four hours of instruction will be provided. If desired, IEEE Continuing Education Units (0.4 CEUs) will be offered for this course - a small fee of $55 will be required for processing. Please pay attention to the “Registration Fee” and choose the appropriate choice either with or without CEUs. CEU Evaluation Form can be found at: (https://innovationatwork.ieee.org/ieee-pes-northjersey-certificates/) At this time, our attendance is being limited to fifty (50). Please only register if you know you are going to attend, and you must be registered to participate. Room: Aruba Room, Bldg: PSE&G - Hadley Road Facility, 4000 Hadley Road, South Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, 07080

Special Presentation by Prof. Walid Saad (Virginia Tech, USA) Hosted by Future Networks Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AIML) Working Group Date/Time: Thursday, March 21st, 2024 @ 12:00 UTC [] Topic: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)-Native Wireless Systems with Common Sense Abstract: Next-generation wireless systems, such as 6G and beyond, are expected to tightly embed artificial intelligence (AI) into their design, giving rise to what is termed AI-native wireless systems. Remarkably, despite significant academic, industrial, and standardization efforts dedicated to AI-native wireless systems in the past few years, even the very definition of such systems remains ambiguous. Presently, most endeavors in this domain represent incremental extensions of conventional "AI for wireless" paradigms, employing classical tools like autoencoders, diffusion models, or large-language models to replicate established wireless functionalities. However, such approaches suffer from inherent limitations, including the opaque nature of the adopted AI models, their tendency toward curve-fitting, reliance on extensive training data, energy inefficiency, and limited generalizability to novel new, unseen scenarios and out-of-domain/out-of-distribution data points. To surmount these challenges, in this talk, we unveil a bold, pioneering framework for the development of artificial general intelligence (AGI)-native wireless systems. We particularly show how the fusion of wireless systems, digital twins, and AI can catalyze a transformative, revolutionary paradigm shift in both wireless and AI technologies by conceptualizing a next-generation AGI architecture imbued with "common sense" capabilities, akin to human cognition. This architecture is envisioned to empower networks with reasoning, planning, and other human-like cognitive faculties such as imagination and deep thinking. We first define the technical tenets of common sense and, subsequently, we demonstrate how the proposed AGI architecture can instill a new level of generalizability, explainability, and reasoning into tomorrow’s wireless networks, liberating them from their conventional physical constraints. We then discuss how AGI-native wireless systems can unleash novel use cases such as digital twins with analogical reasoning, resilient experiences for cognitive avatars, and brain-level holographic experiences. Following the establishment of the foundational principles and components of AGI-native wireless systems, we take a significant stride forward by forging a link with the emerging concept of semantic communications. In doing so, we demonstrate how the integration of causal reasoning (a key component of our AGI vision) with semantic communication can usher in a new era of knowledge-driven, reasoning AGI-native wireless systems. These systems represent a major departure from today’s data-driven, knowledge-agnostic models, offering enhanced sustainability and resilience in their design and operation. We present our recent key results, rooted in AI, theory of mind, digital twins, and game theory, laying the groundwork for the realization of AGI-native wireless systems, and illustrating how our designed framework reduces data volume in networks while enhancing reliability, crucial for next-generation wireless services like connected intelligence and holography. We conclude with a discussion on the exciting opportunities in this field that can help redefine the intersection of wireless communications and AI. Co-sponsored by: IEEE Future Networks Speaker(s): Prof. Walid Saad Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/409919

Engineering Ethics - The study of the general nature of morals and of the specific moral choices to be made by a person’s moral philosophy - The rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession organization ethics - Encompasses the more general definition of ethics, but applied it more specifically to situations involving engineers in their professional lives. - Engineering ethics often involves choices on an organizational level rather than personal level. - Review the existing NJ statutes governing professional licensed practices and how these statutes incorporate ethical rules of conduct; - Present case studies of current headlines that could have ethical aspects - Conclude with a general discussion of professional ethics in a global economy including the impact of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act on engineers (e.g., the Anti-bribery Provisions) Speaker(s): Constantine Papademas Agenda: This Engineering Ethics session will immediately follow our regularly scheduled monthly session. These will both require separate registrations. There will be a fee for ALL participants. The cost for ALL participants will be $150. Two hours of instruction will be provided. CEU Evaluation Form can be found at: (https://innovationatwork.ieee.org/ieee-pes-northjersey-certificates/) At this time, our attendance is being limited to fifty (50). Please only register if you know you are going to attend, and you must be registered to participate. Room: Aruba Room, Bldg: PSE&G - Hadley Road Facility, 4000 Hadley Road, South Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, 07080

The seminar will cover: Engineering Ethics Speaker(s): Constantine Papademas Agenda: Two hours of instruction will be provided. The cost for ALL participants will be $150. CEU Evaluation Form can be found at: (https://innovationatwork.ieee.org/ieee-pes-northjersey-certificates/) At this time, our attendance is being limited to fifty (50). Please only register if you know you are going to attend, and you must be registered to participate. Room: Aruba Room, Bldg: PSE&G - Hadley Road Facility, 4000 Hadley Road, South Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, 07080

[] Join us for a reading of a talk by CM Jansky, Jr "who was a participant at many conferences dealing with radio regulations, broadcast planning, and radio navigation and sea rescue. He became a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers (now the Institute of Electrical and Electronic engineers) in 1918, being made a Fellow Member in 1928. He was President of the Institute in 1934 and a member of its Board of Directors from 1929 to 1942. He was senior partner of the firm Jansky and Bailey, consulting radio engineers, of Washington, D.C." "Karl Guthe Jansky died in Red Bank, New Jersey in February, 1950 at the age of forty-four. In the trying period that followed his death I told the members of his family that his contribution to basic science was such that the full value of his discovery would not be recognized for at least half a century. How wrong can a man be! Here just six years later I found myself before a group of astronomers, physicists and radio engineers far more competent that I, viewing with amazement the progress which has taken place in recent years in a new branch of astronomy based upon a scientific discovery made by a man I am proud to say was my brother." "From an after-dinner address by C. M. Jansky, Jr., at the 94th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Columbus, Ohio, March 23, 1956." The photographs with this article, not otherwise credited, are by courtesy of Mary Jansky Striffler, sister of Karl Jansky, and Marguerite Jansky Froscher, daughter of C. M. Jansky, Jr." "C. M. Jansky, Jr. (1895-1975) was born in Barry County, Michigan. After receiving the B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin in 1917 and 1919, respectively, he taught radio communications and electronics at the University of Minnesota from 1920 to 1929, becoming associate professor of radio engineering. In 1920, he established the first radio broadcasting station west of the Mississippi River at Minneapolis, Minnesota. Mr. Jansky was a participant at many conferences dealing with radio regulations, broadcast planning, and radio navigation and sea rescue. He became a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers (now the Institute of Electrical and Electronic engineers) in 1918, being made a Fellow Member in 1928. He was President of the Institute in 1934 and a member of its Board of Directors from 1929 to 1942. He was senior partner of the firm Jansky and Bailey, consulting radio engineers, of Washington, D.C." Copyright © 1979-2004 Cosmic Quest, Inc., Ohio State University Radio Observatory and North Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/411057

The TNJSF (formerly the NJRSF) is a science fair competition for high school students (grades 9-12) for students in ten counties of northern New Jersey. The mission of the TNJSF is to support, encourage, and recognize student involvement in scientific researh and engineering design. It is our belief that students can only truly appreciate the creative nature of the process if they have actually experienced it themselves. In addition, we endeavor to provide resources which further this overarching goal, including giving students various opportunities to interact with professional scientists and engineers. The opportunity to partake of the TNJSF itself as well as other resources we offer is intended to be open to all high school students in our northern NJ region. IEEE volunteers are needed for Special Awards Judging at the Fair Special awards judging takes place on Saturday morning. Judges are asked to arrive at the judges' room by 9:00 a.m. to determine their project assignments with their team and to receive instructions from the Judging Coordinator. Judging of projects takes place from 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. During this time, judges will meet with students at their project displays and evaluate their work. At least 2 judges on the award team should see each project under consideration. At 12:00 p.m., the judges reconvene in the judges' room to discuss the projects and determine which projects will be awarded. Judging of special awards is usually completed by 1:00 p.m. Volunteers use the registration link. Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave, Union, New Jersey, United States, 07083