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Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond

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Empowering systemic racism research at MIT and beyond

At the turn of the 20th century, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about the conditions and culture of Black people in Philadelphia, documenting also the racist attitudes and beliefs that pervaded the white society around them. He described how unequal outcomes in domains like health could be attributed not only to racist ideas, but to racism embedded in American institutions.

Almost 125 years later, the concept of “systemic racism” is central to the study of race. Centuries of data collection and analysis, like the work of Du Bois, document the mechanisms of racial inequity in law and institutions, and attempt to measure their impact.

“There’s extensive research showing racial discrimination and systemic inequity in essentially all sectors of American society,” explains MIT Professor Fotini Christia, who directs the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), where she also co-leads the Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR). “Newer research demonstrates how computational technologies, typically trained or reliant on historical data, can further entrench racial bias. But these same tools can also help to identify racially inequitable outcomes, to understand their causes and impacts, and even contribute to proposing solutions.”

In addition to coordinating research on systemic racism across campus, the IDSS initiative has a new project aiming to empower and support this research beyond MIT: the new ICSR Data Hub, which serves as an evolving, public web depository of datasets gathered by ICSR researchers.

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MIT Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism Video: IDSS

Data for justice

“My main project with ICSR involved using Amazon Web Services to build the data hub for other researchers to use in their own criminal justice related projects,” says Ben Lewis SM ’24, a recent alumnus of the MIT Technology and Policy Program (TPP) and current doctoral student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. “We want the data hub to be a centralized place where researchers can access this information via a simple web or Python interface.”

While earning his master’s degree at TPP, Lewis focused his research on race, drug policy, and policing in the United States, exploring drug decriminalization policies’ impact on rates of incarceration and overdose. He worked as a member of the ICSR Policing team, a group of researchers across MIT examining the roles data plays in the design of policing policies and procedures, and how data can highlight or exacerbate racial bias.

“The Policing vertical started with a really challenging fundamental question,” says team lead and electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) Professor Devavrat Shah. “Can we use data to better understand the role that race plays in the different decisions made throughout the criminal justice system?”

So far, the data hub offers 911 dispatch information and police stop data, gathered from 40 of the largest cities in the United States by ICSR researchers. Lewis hopes to see the effort expand to include not only other cities, but other relevant and typically siloed information, like sentencing data.

“We want to stitch the datasets together so that we have a more comprehensive and holistic view of law enforcement systems,” explains Jessy Xinyi Han, a fellow ICSR researcher and graduate student in the IDSS Social and Engineering Systems (SES) doctoral program. Statistical methods like causal inference can help to uncover root causes behind inequalities, says Han — to “untangle a web of possibilities” and better understand the causal effect of race at different stages of the criminal justice process.

“My motivation behind doing this project is personal,” says Lewis, who was drawn to MIT in large part by the opportunity to research systemic racism. As a TPP student, he also founded the Cambridge branch of End Overdose, a nonprofit dedicated to stopping drug overdose deaths. His advocacy led to training hundreds in lifesaving drug interventions, and earned him the 2024 Collier Medal, an MIT distinction for community service honoring Sean Collier, who gave his life serving as an officer with the MIT Police.

“I’ve had family members in incarceration. I’ve seen the impact it has had on my family, and on my community, and realized that over-policing and incarceration are a Band-Aid on issues like poverty and drug use that can trap people in a cycle of poverty.”

Education and impact

Now that the infrastructure for the data hub has been built, and the ICSR Policing team has begun sharing datasets, the next step is for other ICSR teams to start sharing data as well. The cross-disciplinary systemic racism research initiative includes teams working in domains including housing, health care, and social media.

“We want to take advantage of the abundance of data that is available today to answer difficult questions about how racism results from the interactions of multiple systems,” says Munther Dahleh, EECS professor, IDSS founding director, and ICSR co-lead. “Our interest is in how various institutions perpetuate racism, and how technology can exacerbate or combat this.”

To the data hub creators, the main sign of success for the project is seeing the data used in research projects at and beyond MIT. As a resource, though, the hub can support that research for users from a range of experience and backgrounds.

“The data hub is also about education and empowerment,” says Han. “This information can be used in projects designed to teach users how to use big data, how to do data analysis, and even to learn machine learning tools, all specifically to uncover racial disparities in data.”

“Championing the propagation of data skills has been part of the IDSS mission since Day 1,” says Dahleh. “We are excited by the opportunities that making this data available can present in educational contexts, including but not limited to our growing IDSSx suite of online course offerings.”

This emphasis on educational potential only augments the ambitions of ICSR researchers across MIT, who aspire to use data and computing tools to produce actionable insights for policymakers that can lead to real change.

“Systemic racism is an abundantly evidenced societal challenge with far-reaching impacts across domains,” says Christia. “At IDSS, we want to ensure that developing technologies, combined with access to ever-increasing amounts of data, are leveraged to combat racist outcomes rather than continue to enact them.”

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James Edward Heath (October 25, 1926 – January 19, 2020) nicknamed Little Bird, was a jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader.

He was born in Philadelphia. His father, an auto mechanic, played the clarinet. His mother sang in a church choir. The family played recordings of big band jazz groups around the house. His sister was a pianist, while his brothers were bassist Percy Heath and drummer Albert Heath.

He played alto saxophone. He earned the nickname “Little Bird” after his work for Howard McGhee and Dizzy Gillespie, and his playing displayed influences from Charlie Parker. He switched to tenor saxophone.

He performed with the Nat Towles band. He formed his band, which was a fixture on the Philadelphia jazz scene with John Coltrane, Benny Golson, Specs Wright, Cal Massey, Johnny Coles, Ray Bryant, and Nelson Boyd. Charlie Parker and Max Roach sat in on one occasion. He recalls that the band recorded a few demos on acetate, its arrangements were lost at a Chicago train station. He joined Dizzy Gillespie’s band.

He was arrested and convicted twice for the sale of heroin, he was an addict. He went cold turkey and was able to spend a lot of his time engaged in music. While in prison he composed most of the Chet Baker and Art Pepper album Playboys.

He joined Miles Davis’s group and worked with Kenny Dorham and Gil Evans. He was recorded as a leader and sideman. He worked with Milt Jackson and Art Farmer. He and his brothers formed the Heath Brothers, featuring pianist Stanley Cowell.

He composed “For Minors Only”, “Picture of Heath”, “Bruh’ Slim”, and “CTA” and recorded them on his album Picture of Heath.

He joined the faculty of the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. He led the creation of the Jazz Program at Queens College and attracted prominent musicians such as Donald Byrd. He taught at Jazzmobile.

He married Mona Brown (1960), they had two children. He was the father of R&B songwriter/musician James Mtume.

In 2010 his autobiography I Walked With Giants was published. He played in a jazz concert at the White House when President Bill Clinton borrowed his saxophone for one number. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

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The Empty World (Ch. 4.1)

Donald Pierce x Reader

Status: Ongoing

Summary: Pierce and the Reavers are sent to capture a mutant with mysterious abilities. This chapter: An interlude. The mutant escapes the alternate world in which they were trapped, and finds their way to El Paso, where they meet the Wolverine.

Warnings: Injury.

Angst, slow burn, hopefully smut later on:D

Author's Note: This chapter was a bit of an interlude, to get Reader from one place to another:) Back to our regularly scheduled program of angst and slow-burn after this!

P.S. Yes, this fic will now be moving with the events of the movie Logan! I'm excited! R u excited? 'Cause I'm excited! Get excited!

Comments/reblogs/feedback mean the world to me!:)

Ch. 4.1: Ghost

It took a few weeks of wandering for you to spot a lightning storm on the horizon. When you did, you ran all the way too it, refusing to stop though your lungs burned and your leg ached. You’d stitched up the wound in your thigh using a makeshift needle and spare piece of thread, but it had unsurprisingly become infected. Cauterization had been your only option – and now the top of your right thigh was a mess of mending scar tissue. You tried not to look at it.

You caught up to the storm as it unfurled over a great, flat plane of bare earth. The wasteland was devoid of trees as far as the eye could see, and the sky roiled above it, dark clouds of Ether crackling with energy.

The first lightning strike came down too far away from you – snapping out at the husk of a dead tree thirty paces away. But the second was nearer. It struck a boulder, fizzing the air around you and making your hair stand on end.

“Third time’s a charm,” you said, running towards the highest point of the land nearby. It was a jut of stone, sticking up from the dry earth; and you hoped it’d be the lightning’s next target. “C’mon!” You shouted, turning to face the storm. “You know what to do!”

The lightning came down from the sky like a pillar of white fire, proving that, indeed, the third time was a charm. It struck the outcrop of stone beside you, electrifying the air with a thousand volts of energy.

It was more than you needed. The ether within you flared up bright and hot.

Home, you thought fiercely. Take me home.

***

A corn field in Philadelphia wasn’t exactly what you’d pictured when you’d told the Ether to take you home, but, hey – beggars couldn’t be choosers. You were back in the living world, and that was all that mattered.

You were done with cold winters and grey skies, so you rode buses and trains and hitchhiked the highways until you didn’t know the name of a single city you passed. Until the trees were replaced by scrub brush, and the earth was baked orange by the sun.

The Reavers would still be searching for you, you knew. You’d disappeared in the midst of that psionic attack, and had been gone from the face of the earth for weeks – but you had a feeling they wouldn’t give up that easily. The next time your Ether flared, you were sure their sensors would register it. So you’d have to find a way to shield the energy. To hide yourself.

Your travels eventually washed you into the streets of El Paso, where you worked odd jobs to get by, eventually taking up as a mechanic in a small garage. And it was there that you came to meet Logan. He was going by James, then; and drove his beat-up limousine in on a Monday night, with one of its headlights out and a series of impressive dents along its side. You didn’t ask where they’d come from, though their shape suggested the work of a baseball bat. Nor did you ask about his painful limp, bloodstained jacket, or gashed knuckles. But you’d heard enough stories to eventually put the pieces together.

The Wolverine is in El Paso.

They say he’s working as a driver.

And that he’s getting old, now – one of the last relics from the days of the X-Men.

He didn’t speak much, but began bringing his limousine into the garage whenever it needed servicing. A silent trust developed between you, founded on discretion, and the shared knowledge that you both knew that the other knew what you were. So when he offered you a safe place to stay, in exchange for your help with the mechanical issues it had, you already knew your answer.   

Safety, a roof over your head, and the company of other mutants? It was a no-brainer. Besides, you knew the Reavers were still out there. That Pierce was. And though you were used to being on your own, you knew going it alone couldn’t work forever. So you travelled with Logan to the barren lot and abandoned factory across the border, and made a new home for yourself.

It would be a year until you saw Donald Pierce again.

In so many ways, so much time.

But for him? Not nearly long enough.

***

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The Ghosts of Hershey Park

The park officially opened on April 24, 1907 and in its early days, was not much more than a nice place to have a picnic and go boating. It was created by Milton S. Hershey as an outdoor recreation area for employees of his candy factory. Over the years, additional attractions were added, including a swimming pool complex, amphitheater, and rides. In the early 1970s, HERCO pushed for the expansion of the property as a modern day theme park with a one-price admission for total access.

Over its long history, the park has definitely picked up its fair share of ghost stories. Here’s just a few of those tales!

Milton Hershey

The ghost of founder, Milton Hershey is said to roam the grounds of his park, keeping an eye on this aspect of his chocolate empire. Although a few witnesses have claimed to actually SEE Mr. Hershey’s apparition after park hours, this is one ghost that is usually smelled, and not seen. A phantom smell of cigar smoke is said to indicate Mr. Hershey’s ethereal presence.

“The Carrousel”

Every amusement park needs a carousel…and a haunted one is even better! The current carousel at Hershey’s is actually the park’s third. A year after the park opened, Milton Hershey decided to allow the public to enjoy it as well and added a used carousel for the enjoyment of his guests and employees. It quickly became a hit, and in 1912, a larger carousel was installed and operated until 1944. That year a new carousel was purchased, but due to a shortage of park funds, an older, used model was picked out.

That carousel was the Philadelphia Toboggan Company #47 Carrousel (notice the two ‘r’s). Built in 1919, the carousel began its career at Liberty Heights Park in Baltimore, where it remained for ten years. Then, it moved to Enna Jetta Park in New York before it was purchased in 1944 by Hershey Park. The theme of the carousel is one of understated patriotism. Beautifully carved eagles, flags, and Lady Liberty are sprinkled throughout the artwork of the ride as a tribute to the end of WWI in 1918–the war to end all wars. It was quite fitting that it would arrive at Hershey Park in the last days of WWII.

Today, the carousel is famous for being one of the spookiest places in the whole park! Originally installed near Spring Creek, it was moved to Founder’s Circle in 1972. Since then, park personnel have seen the carousel’s lights turn on by themselves, and the ride eerily start to turn without a living soul nearby. The music coming from its Wurlitzer organ begins to drift through the park, all under the command of an unseen operator. Well, mostly unseen. There is one story where a security officer was doing his rounds, when he noticed the lights of the carousel turned on. He turned them off and began to walk away, but the lights flipped themselves back on. As the officer turned back around towards the ride, a shadowy figure of a person sitting near the controls was seen. By the time the officer actually reached the ride, the mysterious figure was gone.

The Lighthouse

The original swimming pool complex of Hershey Park was completed in 1911 and lasted until 1928. The following season, a new swimming complex, complete with a concrete island lighthouse, was opened. The pools were filled in during the 1971 season and all that remains as a reminder of those years gone by is the lighthouse near the front of the park….that, and the ghosts. Over the nearly half a century that the pools were in operation, several children unfortunately drowned in their waters. The spirits of those children have been seen near the lighthouse wearing their old-fashioned swimwear, oblivious to the changes made by time

The Sooperdooperlooper Rollercoaster

The 1977 season of Hershey Park opened with the addition of a brand new thrill ride: the Sooperdooperlooper rollercoaster! However, the ride seemed cursed from the very beginning. On its opening day on July 4th, 1977, the ride experienced a mechanical failure, stranding passengers, including Hershey’s CEO and other VIPs, on the hill lift. No one was hurt, but passengers were forced to walk down the narrow catwalks to safety. Unfortunately, it would be only a month later when someone WOULD get hurt.

William Harter was a 16 year old high school student working at the park as a maintenance man as part of a summer vocational program. On August 25th, Harter was removing some bolts from a magnetic control device designed to stop the train. Standing between the rails with his back toward the train, it suddenly started moving and ran over him. Since the incident, many security guards, maintenance personnel, and other employees in the park after dark have seen the shadowy figure of a young man standing or walking along the rails of the coaster.

Boardwalk

The tale of the Lady of the Boardwalk can be found in Christopher Wolfe’s book, Ghosts of Hershey and Vicinity. Apparently, when the park began its huge expansion project in the 1970s, several nearby private properties were purchased. One elderly lady who was a long-time resident did not want to sell her beloved home, yet felt she had no choice. Instead of giving in, she killed herself in her own attic. The area where the house once stood is located across from the Kissing Tower and is home to several shops, including Boardwalk Fries.

In fact, it is believed that part of the original house does still stand, renovated into the strip of shops here. Employees of the establishment have heard the moaning and wailing of a woman, most notably coming from the second story of the building.

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Namaste 🙏. For all #PATRIOTS2Q2Q+++, Eye truly miss our Duly Elected President Donald John TRUMP2Q2Q and our First Family. It’s aggravating knowing all that Qui have been gifted with. While having to “ hold the line!” Defectively observing the turmoil of stupidity seem as if it’s running amok. White Hats are guide lining these unfortunate creatures while good men trained in evil skills just watch. This evolutionary process is in tune with the right side of history while our Sentient Home-world, adjusts sentiently. Our off-World Families are also benevolently observe the mechanisms of greed and service to selfishness minions continue heaping hordes of unfathomably dangerous levels of karmic Effects on themselves. Angelic Beings are activating Dormant DNA and etheric cellular memories. Which, accordingly will indelibly create supermen and Superwomen. By all researchable records… this is happening now. Even timelines are being critically adjusted to avoid any collateral damage that could reset the future of our race/species.

Project Superman

The Saga of Andy Pero
by Eve Lorgen

2000

from MindControl Website

In August of 1998, I met Andy Pero in Philadelphia, PA while attending Bob Eure’s CIREAP group. At the time I was scheduled to be a speaker on my Alien Abduction research. Preston Nichols also presented his material that evening. Preston brought Andy Pero with him this evening as a surprise guest to share some of his "Montauk Boy" experiences.

After I first lectured, Andy walked up to me to tell me that he had been in underground bases, and recalled a memory of walking down a hallway in some underground facility, seeing women and children in chickenwire cages, screaming for help. He also said he’d seen reptilians. After Preston lectured on his material, he handed over the floor to Andy. Andy spoke about his Montauk time travel experiences, mind programming, electroshock treatments, and training sessions to be a multi-talented covert operative and assassin for his "secret government" Nazi mind programmers. Andy described how his mind was split through trauma, electroshock, and sophisticated mind programming techniques. He told us about his training in Silva Mind Control as a young boy, and how he was able to do extraordinary human feats under mind control programming, such as jumping off high buildings without injury—hence the nickname "Superman". He also had a good knowledge of the occult and metaphysical world and confirmed the power of prayer.

When Andy first "broke programming", and memories surfaced of being a covert operative in a sub-project of the Montauk Project, he was "gung-ho" about wanting to take down the whole "evil Nazi Mind Control Regime". He claimed that he and thousands of others had been victimized by this type of mind control experimentation. He was well aware of the Reptilian-Draco Illuminati connection and had a few run-ins with the Reptilian shapeshifters himself.

When the Bob Eure’s lecture was over, Andy, Preston, Bob and myself went out to a local café and talked into the wee hours of the morning. We discussed many things, among them my Love Bite hypothesis of alien orchestrated relationships. Andy joked about this and related a few comments about his recent slew of ex-girlfriends whom he later believed to be sleeper mind controlled agents sent into his life. Every one of them were "bad" relationships that were deliberate set–ups to steer Andy off course from his recent "breaking of programming". I was impressed with Andy’s candor and his strong willed survivor spirit. Andy was also good looking, quite muscular and strong physically. He was confident--almost too much so-- but that was also part of his programming--to be a fearless warrior who will stop at nothing to accomplish his mission. Well, now his mission was to go public, expose the enemy and take them all down. At least, that is what he wanted to do—until a series of "reprisals " occurred.

I referred Andy to my friend Janet Russell, who ran her own local Long Island Cable TV talk show called Beyond the Unexplained. Andy met Janet and completed a successful butt-kicking interview that spilled major beans about his victimization in a government mind controlled project. The next day after the shows broadcast Andy said agents tried to kill and kidnap him, but they were unsuccessful.

Andy and I continued our correspondence by telephone, as these events unfolded. He knew that his mind controllers and "handlers" would keep throwing things at him to get him back into the fold, but Andy was resisting. He was remembering more and more details of his mind controlled ops and he knew he had extraordinary abilities--but for some reason he could not get these abilities "back". (Too bad he had not met Michael Relfe of The Mars Records, and tried deliverance first) Andy was doing a lot of self-healing work, trying to purify his physical system from the various poisons he believed aided in the mind controlled state—such as eliminating microscopic ‘nanites" via a blood cleansing device. 

Andy also went to the chiropractor, where one of his ex-girlfriends worked. Andy admitted to me that this ex-girlfriend was a Presidential Model, a Monarch programmed mind controlled operative—who he was trying to stay away from. Andy told me that when he was in for a treatment at the Chiropractors office, his ‘ex-girlfriend--the "project girl-- spoke a few trigger phrases, which elicited a pre-conditioned rageful response from Andy. Andy’s angry outburst directed at this woman then resulted in her filing

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The Ghosts of Hershey Park

The park officially opened on April 24, 1907 and in its early days, was not much more than a nice place to have a picnic and go boating. It was created by Milton S. Hershey as an outdoor recreation area for employees of his candy factory. Over the years, additional attractions were added, including a swimming pool complex, amphitheater, and rides. In the early 1970s, HERCO pushed for the expansion of the property as a modern day theme park with a one-price admission for total access.

Over its long history, the park has definitely picked up its fair share of ghost stories. Here’s just a few of those tales!

Milton Hershey

The ghost of founder, Milton Hershey is said to roam the grounds of his park, keeping an eye on this aspect of his chocolate empire. Although a few witnesses have claimed to actually SEE Mr. Hershey’s apparition after park hours, this is one ghost that is usually smelled, and not seen. A phantom smell of cigar smoke is said to indicate Mr. Hershey’s ethereal presence.

“The Carrousel”

Every amusement park needs a carousel…and a haunted one is even better! The current carousel at Hershey’s is actually the park’s third. A year after the park opened, Milton Hershey decided to allow the public to enjoy it as well and added a used carousel for the enjoyment of his guests and employees. It quickly became a hit, and in 1912, a larger carousel was installed and operated until 1944. That year a new carousel was purchased, but due to a shortage of park funds, an older, used model was picked out.

That carousel was the Philadelphia Toboggan Company #47 Carrousel (notice the two ‘r’s). Built in 1919, the carousel began its career at Liberty Heights Park in Baltimore, where it remained for ten years. Then, it moved to Enna Jetta Park in New York before it was purchased in 1944 by Hershey Park. The theme of the carousel is one of understated patriotism. Beautifully carved eagles, flags, and Lady Liberty are sprinkled throughout the artwork of the ride as a tribute to the end of WWI in 1918–the war to end all wars. It was quite fitting that it would arrive at Hershey Park in the last days of WWII.

Today, the carousel is famous for being one of the spookiest places in the whole park! Originally installed near Spring Creek, it was moved to Founder’s Circle in 1972. Since then, park personnel have seen the carousel’s lights turn on by themselves, and the ride eerily start to turn without a living soul nearby. The music coming from its Wurlitzer organ begins to drift through the park, all under the command of an unseen operator. Well, mostly unseen. There is one story where a security officer was doing his rounds, when he noticed the lights of the carousel turned on. He turned them off and began to walk away, but the lights flipped themselves back on. As the officer turned back around towards the ride, a shadowy figure of a person sitting near the controls was seen. By the time the officer actually reached the ride, the mysterious figure was gone.

The Lighthouse

The original swimming pool complex of Hershey Park was completed in 1911 and lasted until 1928. The following season, a new swimming complex, complete with a concrete island lighthouse, was opened. The pools were filled in during the 1971 season and all that remains as a reminder of those years gone by is the lighthouse near the front of the park….that, and the ghosts. Over the nearly half a century that the pools were in operation, several children unfortunately drowned in their waters. The spirits of those children have been seen near the lighthouse wearing their old-fashioned swimwear, oblivious to the changes made by time

The Sooperdooperlooper Rollercoaster

The 1977 season of Hershey Park opened with the addition of a brand new thrill ride: the Sooperdooperlooper rollercoaster! However, the ride seemed cursed from the very beginning. On its opening day on July 4th, 1977, the ride experienced a mechanical failure, stranding passengers, including Hershey’s CEO and other VIPs, on the hill lift. No one was hurt, but passengers were forced to walk down the narrow catwalks to safety. Unfortunately, it would be only a month later when someone WOULD get hurt.

William Harter was a 16 year old high school student working at the park as a maintenance man as part of a summer vocational program. On August 25th, Harter was removing some bolts from a magnetic control device designed to stop the train. Standing between the rails with his back toward the train, it suddenly started moving and ran over him. Since the incident, many security guards, maintenance personnel, and other employees in the park after dark have seen the shadowy figure of a young man standing or walking along the rails of the coaster.

Boardwalk

The tale of the Lady of the Boardwalk can be found in Christopher Wolfe’s book, Ghosts of Hershey and Vicinity. Apparently, when the park began its huge expansion project in the 1970s, several nearby private properties were purchased. One elderly lady who was a long-time resident did not want to sell her beloved home, yet felt she had no choice. Instead of giving in, she killed herself in her own attic. The area where the house once stood is located across from the Kissing Tower and is home to several shops, including Boardwalk Fries.

In fact, it is believed that part of the original house does still stand, renovated into the strip of shops here. Employees of the establishment have heard the moaning and wailing of a woman, most notably coming from the second story of the building.

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Jesse Russell

Jesse Eugene Russell (born April 26, 1948) is an African American inventor. Trained as an electrical engineer at Tennessee State University and Stanford University, and working in the field of wireless communication for over 20 years, Russell has helped to shape the wireless communications industry direction through his leadership and perspectives for standards, technologies as well as new wireless service concepts.

He holds patents and continues to invent and innovate in the emerging area of next generation broadband wireless networks, technologies and services, which is frequently referred to as 4G. Russell was inducted into the United States' National Academy of Engineering during the Clinton Administration for his innovative contribution to the field of Wireless Communication. He pioneered the field of digital cellular communication in the 1980s through the use of high power linear amplification and low bit rate voice encoding technologies and received a patent in 1992 (US patent #5,084,869) for his work in the area of digital cellular base station design.

Russell is currently Chairman and CEO of incNETWORKS, Inc. a New Jersey-based Broadband Wireless Communications Company focused on 4th Generation (4G) Broadband Wireless Communications Technologies, Networks and Services.

Early life and education

Jesse Eugene Russell was born April 26, 1948, in Nashville, Tennessee in the United States of America into a large African-American family with eight brothers and two sisters. He is the son of Charles Albert Russell and Mary Louise Russell. His early childhood was spent in economically and socially deprived neighborhoods within the inner-city of Nashville. During his early years, he focused on athletics and not academics. A key turning point in Russell's life was the opportunity to attend a summer educational program at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. Russell participated in this educational opportunity and began his academic and intellectual pursuits. Russell continued his education at Tennessee State University where he focused on electrical engineering. A Bachelor of Science Degree (BSEE) in Electrical Engineering was conferred in 1972 from Tennessee State University. As a top honor student in the School of Engineering, Russell became the first African American to be hired directly from a Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) by AT&T Bell Laboratories and subsequently became the first African-American in the United States to be selected as the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of the Year in 1980. Russell continued his academic pursuits and obtained his Master of Electrical Engineering (MSEE) degree from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, in 1973.

Innovations and patents

Russell's innovations in wireless communication systems, architectures and technology related to radio access networks, end user devices and in-building wireless communication systems have fundamentally changed the wireless communication industry. Known for his patented invention of the digital cellular base station, that enabled new digital services for cellular mobile users, Russell continues to innovate in the emerging next generation broadband wireless communication technologies, products, networks, and services as well as "Mobile Cloud Computing" which are shaping the forefront of the 4G Communication Industry.

Over 100 patents granted or in process, thirty years of experience in Research and Development at prominent institutions and pioneering technologies such as the invention of the first digital cellular base station and fiber optic microcell utilizing high power linear amplifier technology and digital modulation techniques, which allowed the beginning of the digital cellular evolution, digital cellular standards, personal communications networks as well as the emergence of "Mobile Cloud Computing" within 4G broadband wireless networks are only some of the accomplishments that have forged new directions for the wireless communication industry. Listed below are significant patents.

Professional accomplishments

Russell joined Bell Labs as a Member of the Technical Staff. He was one of the first designers to embrace the use of microprocessor in the design of equipment for use in the telecommunication network for monitoring and tracking calling patterns within the Bell System Network. The system was referred to as the traffic data collection systems, which using a microprocessor-based portable data terminals for interfacing to electro-mechanical switching systems.

Russell served in the following positions; Director of the AT&T Cellular Telecommunication Laboratory (Bell Labs), Vice President of Advanced Wireless Technology Laboratory (Bell Labs), Chief Technical Officer for the Network Wireless Systems Business Unit (Bell Labs), Chief Wireless Architect of AT&T, and Vice President of Advanced Communications Technologies for AT&T Laboratories (formerly a part of Bell Labs).

As the Director of the AT&T Cellular Telecommunication Laboratory (Bell Labs), this Bell Labs Group formally managed by Russell is credited with the invention of cellular radio technology and received the United States' Medal of Technology for the invention.

Russell continued to develop his expertise as he established and led an Innovation Center focused on Applied Research in Advanced Communication Technologies that enabling AT&T to extend its existing portfolio of services and expand into new businesses and markets. As a key decision maker in the selection and development of emerging communications technologies, Russell's efforts lead to the rapid realization of new access network platforms that enable AT&T to expand its broadband communication network options (i.e., Specialization: Cable Access Networks, DSL Access Networks, Power-line Carrier Access Networks, Fixed Wireless Access Networks, Satellite Access Networks and Broadband Wireless Communications Networks). The applications of these access technologies were one of the keys in expanding AT&T's interest in re-building it local access services business.

Acknowledgements

Elected as IEC Fellow for contributions in the development of Broadband Communications Access Technologies into the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), 1999.

Inductee into the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for the development of and contributions to digital cellular communications, 1995.

Elected to IEEE Fellow grade for technical leadership in the development of digital wireless communication concepts, technology, systems and standards, 1994.

US Black Engineer of the Year for best Technical Contributions in Digital Cellular and Microcellular Technology, 1992, US Black Engineer Magazine.

America's New Leadership Class Award 1985, Esquire Magazine.

Outstanding Service Award 1983, Eta Kappa Nu.

Outstanding Scientist Award 1982, National Society of Black Engineers.

Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer of the Year, 1980.

Scientist of the Year Award 1980, National Technical Associations Inc.

Professional memberships and affiliations

Board of Directors Advisor, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)

Board of Governors, IEEE Vehicular Technology Society

Chairman of the Board, Electromagnetic Energy Association (EEA, Third term)

Chairman, Mobile & Personal Communications Division of TIA

Chairman, Telecommunication Industry Association (TIA) -Wireless Communication Standards Organization

Fellow member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE)

Fellow member of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC)

Inducted Member of the National Academy of Engineering

Member of the Technological Advisory Council (TAC), U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Member of Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society

Member of International Regulatory and Standards Committee on Third Generation Wireless Communications Systems

Member of the Congressional Subcommittee on Technology Member, National Academy of Engineering (NAE), Electronic Engineering Section and Computer Science & Engineering Section

Member of the Information & Technology Council of the American Management Association

Member of the National Academy of Engineering

Member Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society

Member Tau Beta Pi Honor Society

Past Chairman, Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) Cellular Radio and Common Carrier Section (1987–1992)

Technical Program Chairman, 38th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Philadelphia

Technical Program Chairman, 43rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Secaucus

Testified before Judge Green on Bell System Divesture

Publications

"Universal Personal Communications: Emergence of a Paradigm Shift in the Communications Industry", International Journal of Wireless information Networks, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1994.This paper examines a major paradigm shift in the communications industry across four dimensions, analyzes the factors influencing the shift, articulates a vision of universal personal communications under the new paradigm and presents several service environment and transmission hierarchy models supporting the vision.

"The US Evolution towards Personal Communications in the '90s" (with A. T. Kripalani), Proc. Pan European Digital Cellular Radio Conference, Rome, Italy, 1990.This paper proposes and describes a set of strategic technology platforms to assist the migration of the existing US cellular network to an all digital personal communications network.

"AT&T Next Generation Digital Cellular Base Station Technology" (with R. W. Henn and R. S. Kerby), Proc. International Switching Symposium, Stockholm, Sweden, 1990.This paper describes the first all digital cellular base station system utilizing linear radio technology to support multiple radio air interface methods such as FDMA, TDMA and CDMA in a single system.

"Design of Mobile Satellite System Architecture as an Integral Part of the Cellular Access Digital Network" (with E. S. K. Chien and J. A. Marinho), Proc. the Mobile Satellite Conference, Pasadena, 1988.This paper provides an overview of the interoperability aspects between digital cellular access networks and mobile satellite systems.

"Emerging Cellular Access Digital Network" (with E. S. K. Chien and D. J. Goodman), Proc. World Telecommunication Forum, Americas Telecom, '88, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1988.This paper describes the characteristics of an all digital cellular access network that supports integrated voice and data services (cellular ISDN). It is an expansion of the concepts put forth in publication 11 below.

"Evolution Toward Digital Cellular Network in the U.S." (with E. S. K. Chien), Proc. 1988 Pan European Cellular Radio Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1988.This paper provides a vision for the migration of the existing US cellular network towards an all digital wireless access network.

"A Systems Approach to Indoor Wireless Communication" (with E. S. K. Chien and D. J. Goodman), Proc. GLOBECOM '87, Tokyo, Japan, 1987.This paper describes an approach to in-building wireless communication and examines the interoperability with cellular mobile communication.

"Cellular Access Digital Network (CADN) Wireless Access to Networks of the Future" (with E. S. K. Chien and D. J. Goodman), IEEE Communications Magazine, June 1987.This paper describes a scenario for the evolution of a digital cellular access network towards providing personalized wireless voice and data communication services.

"Network Foundation for Providing Personal Communications", Proc. Digital Mobile Workshop on Personal Communications, Melbourne, Australia, 1987.This paper puts forth some original concepts, such as personal telephone numbers, logical network addressing and universal wireless access service protocols related to personal communications.

"Cellular ISDN: New Interface for Wireless Access" (with E. S. K. Chien), Proc. International Conference on Communication Technology, Nanjing, China, 1987.This paper describes the benefits of mobile communications as an effective means to modernize the telecommunications infrastructure for China.

"Cellular Access Digital Network" (with E. S. K. Chien), Proc. International Telecommunications Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, 1987.This paper describes cellular integrated voice and data services access network (cellular ISDN) as a complement to the wire line ISDN.

"Extension of ISDN Capability to Cellular Wireless Access" (with E. S. K. Chien and D. J. Goodman), Proc. Second Nordic Seminar on Digital Land Mobile Radio Communications, Stockholm, Sweden, 1986.This paper describes the original concept of an integrated voice and data services cellular access network (cellular ISDN) and establishes the important role of intelligent network in the cellular context.

Major addresses

Keynote Speaker, Excellence Through Education and Achievement 2008, Missouri Legislative Black Conference Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri

"Migration to Broadband IP Based Wireless and Wired Networks-May 2006" Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC) Mr. Jesse E. Russell, VP, Advanced Communications Technologies, AT&T Labs

SuperComm99-Chairman., SuperComm99 Plenary Session, Atlanta, GA – 1999. Where is the Network Headed? Panelist on the Convergence of Global Voice and Data Networks, Wired & Wireless Networks, and Global Wireless IP Networking.

Keynote Address, Rural Telecommunications Association, Arizona/Mexico Telecommunications Conference – 1995. This address introduced the vision of wireless communications as a key to the revitalization of local access within the US and its use to provide connectivity from rural communities to the national information Infrastructure.

Keynote Address, National Communications Forum – 1995. Expanded on the evolutionary trends in wireless communications and presented a visionary projection of them in reshaping the local access aspects of future telecommunications in the US.

Keynote Address, European Commission, Spain – 1995. Discussing the emergence of breakthrough communications technologies such as digital radio processing, power-line communications, satellite communications and free space optics and projecting their impact in revitalizing the global telecommunications industry through the expansion of markets and services.

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Amit Kolvekar has over 12 years IT industry experience in India and the United States. He worked on critical projects and programs for the leading IT Telecom clients and received appreciation for commitment and productiveness. He has experience in project management, cloud technologies, agile development,  front end UI, backend API, and database development. He has extensively worked for the Telecom clients in India and abroad throughout his career.

SKILLS

PSM-I certified, Scrum Master, Agile Development, Project Management, AWS Solution Architect, DevOps, SDLC, Communication Skills, Documentation, Linux, JavaScript, Shell Script, Python, PHP, PL/SQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Web Applications, REST APIs, Apache Web server, DBA, Production Support, Network Automation, Network Discovery.

Tools

Service Now, Smart sheet, Jira, Rally, GitHub, Splunk, Putty, WinSCP, Wireshark, SQL developer, MySQL Workbench, Postman.

Domain

Telecom OSS/BSS, Network Devices & Protocols, Software Development, Service Assurance, Software Quality Assurance.

EXPERIENCE

PROJECT MANAGER • TCS – COMCAST, Gandhinagar, India • Nov-2018 TO PRESENT

As a project manager, I am responsible for the delivery of an application for the Billing team used for automating the PDF bill validation process.

My responsibilities include

Coordinating with team

Planning and estimations

Tracking and mitigating the risks

Recommending best practices

Answering client inquiries

Overseeing the development of technical solutions

Running scrum meetings reviewing technical documentation

Guiding and motivating the teams

Liaising with stakeholders

PROJECT MANAGER • TCS – COMCAST, PHILADELPHIA, PA • JUL-2015 TO Nov-2018

As a project manager, I am responsible for the delivery of a suite of business-critical applications for the network engineering team used for configuring the network devices.

My responsibilities include but not limited to

Coordinating with multiple teams

Planning and estimations

Tracking and mitigating the risks

Recommending best practices

Answering to client inquiries

Overseeing the development of technical solutions

Running scrum meetings reviewing technical documentation

Guiding and motivating the teams

Liaising with stakeholders

I was also involved in identifying the potential customers, arranging presentations and responding to RFIs and RFPs.

LEAD DEVELOPER • TCS – COMCAST, MT.LAUREL, NJ • NOV-2013 TO JUN-2015

Comcast has application suite used to generate and push configurations, monitor and manage network devices. Discover network devices and services. Run the performance tests on the circuits deployed for the business customers.

As lead developer, I was responsible for

Understanding the technical and business requirements from the product owners

Documenting and expanding user stories

Assigning tasks to the onshore and offshore developers

Presenting product demo

Troubleshooting and fixing production issues

Managing the databases and application servers

Provide regular reports and metrics to the management

Attended Cisco Interconnected Network devices training.

DEVELOPER • TCS – ERICSSON, RICHARDSON, TX • JUL-2011 TO OCT-2013

As an onsite developer, I was developing and maintaining the web-based application used by the Emergency Recovery team. The application used for managing the high severity issues happening in the various customer locations across the globe. There were about 600 users across the US, Europe, and China.

This tool used to

Keep track of issues and the engineers could update the status

Add notes as engineers troubleshoot the issue

The hand-off between the engineers working in shifts

Send SMS and Email alerts to the customers

Generate reports for the management to review

My responsibilities include adding new features and functionalities, answering user queries, coordinating with offshore team. Writing technical documentation and code review.

DEVELOPER • TCS – NORTEL NETWORKS, RALEIGH, NC • OCT-2010 TO JUL-2011

Nortel Network sold its business to Ericsson, Avaya, and Ciena. This project was to extract and migrate the business data to the buyers.

I was working with the team at onsite to perform the following activities.

Write and execute jobs that scan the document repository

Extract the relevant data,

Encrypt and package the data

Using Java and PowerShell and Documentum.

DEVELOPER • TCS –TATA COMMUNICATIONS, MUMBAI• MAR-2008 TO SEP-2010

At Tata Communication I was working on the development and maintenance of business critical Operations and Business process application. This application was developed in Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (LAMP) with a user base of over 300 across India. This application used for presale, order management and provisioning of the various services provided by the Tata Communications.

My responsibilities include

Discuss new requirements with product owners and developing the features.

Troubleshooting the production issues in L3 support

Generating reports based on customer requirements using PL/SQL.

Working with other groups and assist them in understanding business data.

Document various aspects of the application and business cases.

Set up MySQL replication for redundancy and reports.

Trainee • TCS, coimbatore• Oct-2007 TO dec-2007

At Tata Consultancy Services, we were trained in Java, Oracle RDBMS, and Linux. Along with programming skills we were also trained in written and verbal communications. Email and telephone etiquettes in the business environment.

EDUCATION & Certifications

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING – Mechanical Engineering • 2007 • VTU BELGAVI KARNATAKA

AWS Certified Solutions Architect  – Verification code: F6H2Z3J2LBFQ1RGJ

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  Amit Kolvekar – Technical Project Manager Email:amitmk.jobs@gmail.com              Phone: +91-9638 646 124                 LinkedIn Amit Kolvekar has over 12 years IT industry experience…