Scenes from the 2003 IEEE Symposium on
EMC, Boston, Massachusetts, August 18-22
Dennis Lewis of Boeing Seattle, Washington, Mike Windler of UL Northbrook, Illinois, and Ken Hall of Hewlett Packard
Roseville, California, (from left) came a
long way to Boston to sample some of the
famous seafood, especially the oysters!
Don and Ethel Shepherd of Amplifier
Research enjoy break time in their booth
during the Boston symposium.
Mitchell Phillipi of Logitech (standing)
arrived early in Boston to attend the
annual workshop on ANSI C63.4. He is
shown diagramming one of the workshop
problems with fellow student Ho Sze
Khian from Motorola, Malaysia.
Canadians Victor Kuczynski of Vican Electronics (left) and Bob Sobolewski of Dynamic Sciences International, located in Woodland Hills, California caught up on old
times in Boston.
Trace McInturff of A2LA surveys the
exhibit area at the Hynes Convention Center, site of the Boston EMC Symposium.
Deryl Kimbro and Shuji Mikami (from left) of Murata Electronics N.A.,
Inc. staffed a large exhibition area during the Boston Symposium.
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Kathy MacLean, President, APREL Laboratories, enjoyed the activity in the exhibit
hall during the Boston Symposium.
The head table at the annual Exhibitors Breakfast in Boston included (from left) Elya Joffe, EMCS VP for Conferences, Jon Curtis, Chair of the 2003 Boston Symposium Steering Committee, Janet O’Neil, EMCS Exhibitor Liaison,
John Howard, Chair of the 2004 Santa Clara Symposium Steering Committee, Jesse Marquez, Exhibits Chair for the
Santa Clara Symposium, Barry Wallen, EMCS International Conference Chair, and Fred Heather, the EMCS “number cruncher” in charge of the exhibitor points system.
Bob Goldblum of ITEM Publications (center) drew some friendly, long time colleagues
to his booth in Boston, including “Navy” Joe
Fisher (left) and Ernie Magyar (right).
European EMC conferences were represented in Boston.
Lorenz Jung of Siemens Germany and Markus Bucker (from
left) of Zuken Germany came all the way to Boston to find out
more about EMV 2004 in Düsseldorf. Claudia Brautigam
and Barbara Bohne (far left) of Mesago, organizers of EMV
2004, were happy to share information with them.
That’s Mike Smith (left) and Dale
Reynolds of Wyle Laboratories in
Cedar Falls, Iowa relaxing during
a break in the action on the exhibit
floor in Boston.
It’s never too early to plan a Symposium! Tom Braxton, Chair
of the 2005 Chicago EMC Symposium (second from right), calls
a quick meeting in Boston with committee members Jerry Meyerhoff of Motorola, Ray Klouda of Elite Electronic Engineering
and Bob Hofmann of Hofmann Engineering (from left).
UL was ready to take down their exhibition by Thursday afternoon. There to lend assistance were Asim Tirmizi, Steve Urbanski, Corey Hyatt, Mike Windler, Bob DeLisi, Vinny Sylvester, Patty
Jones, Robert Roberson (holding box) and Matt Morotto (from left).
Supervising the action was Yolanda Holton (foreground right).
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Darryl Ray of Apple Computer, Barry Steltz of Ballard, and Keith Frazier and
Richard Kautz, both of Ford Motor Company, (from left) tour the exhibition in Boston.
What’s going on in this picture? Only Dan
Hoolihan of Hoolihan EMC Consulting (left) or
Dave Staggs of Dell Computer could tell you!
Jim Muccioli of X2Y Attenuators
stopped by the ANSI booth to see
what the latest work this standards making organization is
undertaking.
The EMC Society Membership booth was ably
staffed by Henry Ott of
Henry Ott Consultants,
Bruce Crain of Northrop
Grumman, and Sandy
Bush (from left).
Emulex was well represented at the Boston Symposium by Rex and Connie Brucker and Al
Gamarra (from left).
Also seen sampling some good draft beer in
Boston were (from left) Ghery Pettit of Intel, his
wife Marilyn, Paul Gregory of ETS-Lindgren,
and Eddie Pavlu with Don Erwin, both of Elliott
Laboratories.
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Several symposium attendees managed to visit
the local bars for which Boston is famous,
including (from left) Ben Perreault of Cisco
Systems, and Walt Luczkow and Boris Shusterman, both of EMC Corporation, a company
which provided significant manpower to the
Boston Symposium (thanks Louise!).
Brazilians traveled to Boston, including
Benjamim da Silva Medeiros C. Galvao of
INPE in Sao Jose dos Campos (left) and
Roberta Menna Barreto of QUEMC in Rio
de Janeiro.
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John Maas of IBM joined Keith Hardin of Lexmark,
Pat McCarthy of Motorola and Lee Hill of Silent Solutions (from left) for some “shop talk” while in Boston.
Canadian EMC engineers visiting the
Boston Symposium included (from left)
Stéphane Proulx, Dan Sigouin, and
Stéphane Picard, all with Industry Canada in Ontario.
Boston Symposium Chair Jon Curtis addresses
the crowd at the annual Awards Luncheon.
Steve Laya of Elite Electronic
Engineering (far left) joined
company founders Marilyn
and Jim Klouda in Boston.
Cheers! That’s noted EMC Consultant
Steve Jensen with his lovely wife Linda at
a VIP bar in Boston.
Joe Butler of Parker Chomerics, Vice Chair of the Boston Symposium Steering Committee, (far right), looks cool, calm and collected with friends from DLS Electronic Systems,
including (from left) Jason Lauer, Jack Black and Bill Stumpf. Of course Joe’s relaxed;
the Symposium hadn’t started yet!
Now that’s a grouping of sharp EMC engineers, including, (from
left) Perry Wilson of NIST, Dave Baron and Garth D’Abreu,
both with ETS-Lindgren, Chris Holloway of NIST and
Francesca Maradei with the University of Rome, “La Sapienza.”
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The dB Society held it’s annual gathering
in Boston. Supporting the Italian theme
of the party are the masked “Venetians”
(from left) Janet O’Neil, Rosemary
Hoolihan and Dave and Patti Traver.
Dennis King of FerriShield (right)
was one of many exhibitors sharing
their products with attendees at the
Boston Symposium.
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Ever popular with the kids attending the
EMC Symposia, this year’s Children’s
Workshop proved no exception under the
guidance of Deb Carlson (far right).
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Chomerics had an interesting gizmo in their booth during the Boston
symposium. Jack Fehrs and Larry Denefrio of Chomerics investigate
the workings of a Segway Human Transporter under the watchful
gaze of locals Joe Thompson and Dave Wheeler (from left).
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EMC Zurich in 2005 will mark the 150th Anniversary of the famed
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. Chair Ruediger Vahldieck
(left) was on hand to promote the Zurich EMC Conference in Boston.
Clayton Paul, who was a long time technical program chair for this
prestigious conference, joined him for a nostalgic visit.