Discontinuation of the IEEE.CA E-mail Alias Service and distribution lists ( by C. Philip Choy, IEEE Canada Electronic Services Chair)

As of the end of May 2002, the IEEE.CA E-mail Alias Service and distribution lists will no longer be available. In the mean time, you can use the IEEE.ORG E-mail Alias Service and distribution lists which will be available on a continuous basis, supported in a data centre operated by full time IEEE staff.

The IEEE.ORG E-mail Alias Service offers many advantages, including  integrated virus scan for your e-mail. Should someone sent you an infected e-mail or attachment(s), you will receive a warning that it had happened with the bad attachment(s) removed. The service also offers the same forward anywhere capability as IEEE.CA. Moreover, the IEEE.ORG e-mail ids are a privilege for IEEE members in good standing. As a legitimate IEEE member, you can manage your own IEEE.ORG e-mail forwarding address as well and do not have to look for the appropriate parties to update it for you.

If you have not done so, you can set up and transfer to your IEEE.ORG e-mail alias now by visiting the web site http://eleccomm.ieee.org. IEEE Distribution list/mailing list setup instructions are also available from the same web site http://eleccomm.ieee.org.

We are continuing to find ways to serve you better and more efficiently. I hope you will find these more robust services make your on-line life safer.

Life Member Chapter for Central Canada

IEEE Canada now has a Life Member Chapter for Central Canada and a representative Life Member in all the Ontario Sections of R7. The Toronto Section has over 200 Life Members .If you are a life member and would like to assist Neil Magrath who has volunteered to represent Toronto Section in the Chapter please contact Ron Potts or Neil. Their first objective is to contact by email or newsletter and update our LM data base of email addresses, telephone numbers, and postal addresses. Please contact either Magraths@rogers.com or potts@caninet.com.

Transistors Pioneer presented with 2002 IEEE Medal of Honor

Herbert Kroemer, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, has been presented with the 2002 IEEE Medal of Honor, the Institute's highest honor. Professor Kroemer is being honored for his pioneering work in heterostructure-based transistors and light-emitting devices. The transistor portion of Kroemer's heterostructure research played a key role in the development of the cell phone and other wireless communications technologies. For a complete list of 2002 IEEE medalists, honorary memberships, service awards and corporate recognition recipients, visit  http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/pr/2002mdl.htm.

Browse 750,000 articles through IEEE Xplore

Over three quarters of a million articles are now available through the IEEE Xplore (TM) online interface. IEEE Xplore provides full-text access to subscribers of IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and conference proceedings published since 1988 and all current IEEE Standards. Visitors without subscriptions may browse and access tables of contents. IEEE members may browse or search any IEEE abstract or citation record as well as all articles from IEEE Spectrum Magazine. An IEEE Web Account is needed to access http://www.ieee.org/ieeexplore.

IEEE Computer Society launches software development certification

Following three years of research among professionals, employers and their customers, the IEEE Computer Society has launched a program to certify software development professionals. Certification is based on education and mastery of a Body of Knowledge in software development. This is the only software development professional certification endorsed and administered by the IEEE Computer Society. The deadline to register for the Spring testing period is 15 April. For more information on this new program, visit http://computer.org/certification/.

IEEE Magazines win design and content awards

Three IEEE magazines took home awards in the annual Society for Technical Communications' (STC) NY Metro Chapter Technical Art and Technical Publication competition. IEEE Microwave Magazine took top honors as "Best in Show" in addition to earning the "Distinguished" award in magazine design. IEEE Computer Applications in Power Magazine earned the "Distinguished" award for Cover Design. IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine received the award for "Excellence" in the Technical Publications category. "Distinguished" is the STC's highest level award and "Excellence" is their second level award. Both "Distinguished" winners will advance to the STC International competition. To subscribe or read more about these three award-winners, visit: http://shop.ieee.org/store/Overviews/periodicals.asp.

Free Digital camera contest marks celebration of 40-year partnership

In celebration of their 40-year partnership, the IEEE and MARSH Affinity Group Services will be giving away a digital camera every month in 2002. Over the years, MARSH Affinity Group has provided IEEE members with competitive rates on life, disability, health, business and personal insurance products. Enter to win a digital camera through the IEEE Financial Advantage Program at http://www.ieee.org/fap.

Nominate a Senior Member Initiative Continued for 2002

With 1,515 elevations in 2001, the Nominate a Senior Member Initiative (NSI) surpassed its goal of 1,500 new Senior Members. This program pays Sections and Societies with cash awards for successfully nominating Senior Member candidates. Last year the Electron Devices Society (EDS) used the program to earn US$1,250 by sucessfully nominating 125 EDS members to IEEE Senior Member grade. The NSI program is being continued for 2002 - with a new “stretch” goal of elevating 1,750 new Senior Members. Region 7 has a goal of 70 new members.

For more details on the NSI program and SM goal chart updates for 2002, see http://www.ieee.org/ra/md/smprogram.html.

The following members were updated to Senior Member status at the February and March 2002 Admission and Advancement Panel meetings

• Xuemin Shen - Kitchener-Waterloo
• Alain Turgeon - Montreal
• Barry A. Biglow - Northern Canada
• Amir Asif - Vancouver
• Balbir Gill - Vancouver
• John Harris- Hamilton
• W. Robert J Funnell - Montreal
• Gordon Walter Roberts - Montreal
• Bassam Hashem - Ottawa
• Mihaela Ulieru - Southern Alberta
• Bensiyon Benhabib - Toronto
• Cameron K Carr - Vancouver

For more information on the Nominate a Senior Member Initiative (NSI) Program, please visit http://www.ieee.org/ra/md/smprogram.html.

• From Femtoseconds to Attoseconds --- from Coulomb Explosions to Writing Waveguides

5 April 2002
University of Toronto
Galbraith Building, Room 244
Toronto, Ontario
An IEEE Toronto Section event. For more information please visit http://www.tor.ieee.ca/events/femtoseconds.htm.

• IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference (IPCCC 2002)

3-5 April 2002
Phoenix, Arizona
For more information please visit http://www.ipccc.org/ipccc2002/

• Writing Effective Reports, Proposals, Letters, and Email

8 April 2002
Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal (CRIM)
Monteal, Quebec
An IEEE Montreal Section event. For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/newsletter/Ev020408e.txt

• 8th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2002)

15-19 April 2002
Florence, Italy
For more information please visit http://www.noms.org/2002/

• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2002)

28 April - 2 May 2002
New York Marriott Marquis
New York, NY
For more information please visit http://www.icc2002.com/

• Quantum Dots for Lasers and Microcavity Light Emitters

2 May 2002
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
An IEEE Toronto Section event. For more information please visit http://www.tor.ieee.ca/events/quantum.htm

• International Conference for Upcoming Engineers (I-CUE 2002)

2 May 2002
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario
An IEEE Ryerson University Student Branch event. For more information please visit http://www.tor.ieee.ca/events/icue2002.pdf

• Digitally Corrected Delta-Sigma DataConverters

10 May 2002
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
An IEEE Toronto Section event. For more information please visit http://www.tor.ieee.ca/events/digitally.htm

• Canadian Conference on Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE 2002)

12-15 May 2002
Hotel Fort Garry
Winnipeg, Manitoba
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/ccece02/

• AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC 2002)

12-15 May 2002
Montreal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.icssc2002.com/

• 6th IASTED International Multi-Conference on transmission and distribution

13-14 May 2002
Marina Del Rey, California
For more information please visit http://www.iasted.com/conferences/2002/marina/td.htm

• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2002)

26-29 May 2002
Scottsdale, Arizona
For more information please visit http://www.iscas2002.com

• Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM 2002)

16-21 June 2002
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.nrc.ca/confserv/cpem02

• 48th Annual Pulp and Paper Industry Technical Conference

17-21 June 2002
Sheraton Centre, Toronto
For more information please visit http://www.pulpandpaper2002.com

• IEEE Infocom 2002

23-27 June 2002
New York City
For more information please visit http://www.ieee-infocom.org/2002/index.htm

• IEEE International Conference on Power Engineering (LESCOPE'2002)

26-29 June 2002
The Sheraton Hotel
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information please visit http://is.dal.ca/~lescope/

• 2002 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging: Macro to Nano

7-10 July 2002
Washington, DC
For more information please visit http://www.biomedicalimaging.org

• International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied Electromagnetics (ANTEM 2002)

30 July - 2 August 2002
Canadian Space Agency
St-Hubert, Quebec
For more information please visit http://antem.ee.umanitoba.ca/

• International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Electric Machines, Convertors and Systems

18-21 August 2002
École de technologie supérieure
Montreal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.electrimacs2002.com/

• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2002)

22-25 September 2002
Rochester, NY
For more information please visit http://icip2002.com/

• Accelerated Stress Testing Workshop 2002

2-4 October 2002
Hotel Wyndham Montreal
Montreal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/tc7/ast2002/index.html

IEEE Montreal maintains a page of upcoming events at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/evenements_e.html.
IEEE Toronto maintains a page of upcoming events at http://www.tor.ieee.ca/events.htm.
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