W. Ross Stone, an influential IEEE Technical Actions chief, died on 29 March on the age of 75.
The Life Fellow obtained the 2023 IEEE Richard M. Emberson Award “for sustained contributions to and impactful management within the IEEE Technical Actions publication enterprise.”
Stone held a number of management positions with the IEEE Technical Actions Board for greater than 4 a long time. He reworked the way in which the TAB periodicals committee operates by establishing a number of packages and processes to revitalize IEEE publications and provoke strategic plans to make sure their success sooner or later, in response to his Emberson Award quotation.
He was president of Stoneware, a enterprise he based in San Diego that offered consulting and professional witness companies associated to antennas, propagation, and telecommunications.
Communications and patent legislation professional
Stone obtained a bachelor’s diploma in 1967 in earth sciences from the College of California, San Diego. He went on to earn grasp’s and doctoral levels in utilized sciences from UCSD in 1973 and 1978, respectively.
He labored as chief scientist at McDonnell Applied sciences and a analysis advisor at IRT. Within the early Nineteen Eighties he based Stoneware, which additionally offered litigation help companies, patent infringement evaluation, prior artwork analysis, and invention and design consulting within the areas of cellphone handset antennas and base stations, mobile techniques, IEEE 802.11 applied sciences, LTE networks, Wi-Fi, and wi-fi networking applied sciences. Throughout his profession, he additionally served in management positions for 16 wi-fi communications startups.
He was an adjunct professor at Beijing Jiaotong College and the Politecnico di Torino.
Longtime editor of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Journal
Stone, who served as chair of the TAB periodicals committee, established 15 advert hoc committees to additional IEEE’s publication targets. The advert hoc committees developed new analysis metrics for proposed articles, a mentoring program for publication editors, and long-term open-access methods.
For greater than 30 years, Stone was editor in chief of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society E-newsletter, which developed into IEEE Antennas and Propagation Journal.
“Whereas he’s recognized for his rigor and results-oriented strategy, those that work with Stone by no means fail to explain him as a gentleman,” one in all his Emberson Award endorsers mentioned. “He’s invariably well mannered, open to dialogue, and handles any disagreements sensitively and respectfully. Stone has a form phrase for each collaborator and shows an unwavering humorousness in probably the most difficult conditions.”
Along with his contributions to IEEE, Stone served as editor for greater than 20 years of The Radio Science Bulletin, a publication of the Worldwide Union of Radio Science (URSI).
He was a Fellow of the Chinese language Institute of Electronics, the Electromagnetics Academy, and URSI. He was additionally a life member of the Phi Eta Sigma honor society. As well as, he was a member of a number of societies together with the Affiliation for Computing Equipment, Optica, the Society for Industrial and Utilized Arithmetic, and the Society for Technical Communication.
