CSIDC 2003 Winners

An international panel of experts has selected the winners of CSIDC 2003, the IEEE Computer Society 4th Annual International Design Competition. The teams were selected from a group of more than 150 that participated in the CSIDC 2003. The top twenty-five projects were selected based on their reports by twenty-three Submission Evaluation Teams. The Judging Panel met 16-17 May 2003 and selected the top ten projects from this list of twenty-five. The winners of CSIDC 2003 are:

1. First Place: National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
   NEWS - Novel Educative Wireless Style
2. Second Place: "Poltehnica" University of Bucharest (Romania)
   Eyes Only
3. Third Place: North Carolina State University (USA)
   Diet Download
4. Fourth Place: Instituto Militar de Engenharia (Brazil)
   In Site Command System
5. Fifth Place: DeVry Calgary (Canada)
   Chatterbox Device

Congratulations to the team from DeVry!

For more information, please visit http://computer.org/csidc/CSIDC2003Winners.htm

Leonard Bateman invested into the Order of Manitoba

IEEE member Leonard Bateman was one of eleven citizens invested into the order of Manitoba on 15th July 2003, Manitoba Day. This is the highest honor that Manitoba can bestow on one of its citizens.

Mr. Bateman is a Graduate Electrical Engineer from the University of Manitoba. He also has a Masters Degree from the same university. He has post graduate qualifications in Engineering and Business Administration. His career involved service with both Winnipeg Hydro and Manitoba Hydro, and for the last twenty-four and one-half years, has been President of his own company - Bateman & Associates Ltd.

He has made many contributions to various professional bodies, including serving as President of the Manitoba Association of Professional Engineers and as President of The Canadian Electrical Association. He has been active in International Professional Groups and served a six-year term as Chairman of the CIGRE Study Committee on HVDC Transmission Lines. When he was appointed to chair this prestigious international committee, it was the first time that a Canadian had been elected to chair a committee of CIGRE. He has also served as President of the Canadian National Committee of CIGRE. During his six-year term as chair of the Canadian national committee he invited the Administrative Council of CIGRE to meet in Winnipeg. It was their first meeting in North America. They have not returned since.

He is a recipient of the Association of Professional Engineers' of Manitoba Merit Award, The Canadian Council of Professional Engineers' Gold Medal, and the Queen's Twenty-Fifth, and Fiftieth Anniversary Medals, as well as numerous other awards including an Honorary Life Membership in the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of the Province of Manitoba awarded in October 2000.

Product Safety Engineering becomes 38th IEEE society

The IEEE Board of Directors has established the new IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society for 2004. This brings the total number to 38 societies and four technical councils. An IEEE society is made up of individual IEEE members and affiliates interested in a specific area of technology. More information on the new Society will be available soon; for more information on IEEE societies, please visit http://www.ieee.org/societies.

IEEE Board announces new journals for 2004

The IEEE Board of Directors has approved five new technical periodicals for publication in 2004. Included are: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; IEEE Distributed Systems Online; IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters; IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering; and IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. All will be available through IEEE Xplore and various IEEE online collections. More information on these journals, including how to subscribe, will be available soon. For more information on IEEE publications, please go to http://www.ieee.org/products/periodicals.html.

Free abstracts now available on IEEE Xplore

Guest users of the IEEE Xplore (R) online delivery platform can now access free abstracts to all online articles, and current subscribers can utilize new linking features to make research faster and more efficient than ever before. Version 1.5 of IEEE Xplore, which powers the IEEE Member Digital Library as well as IEEE online collections for institutions, was released this month with the following enhancements:

• Free abstract records now available for guests
• Google (TM) to index IEEE Xplore
• Consolidated title history links for IEEE journals and magazines
• Reference links to the ASK*IEEE document delivery service to purchase papers not found in IEEE Xplore
• IEEE magazines display in browse list now organized by first keyword

For more information on this, visit http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/ReleaseNotes.jsp. To start using these new features, visit IEEE Xplore http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/

Call for Papers - ISCAS 2004

The 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on May 23-26, 2004. The Symposium is sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Papers are sought from all areas of the Circuits and Systems Society, including:

• Analog Signal Processing
• Biomedical Circuits and Systems
• Blind Signal Processing
• Cellular Neural Networks and Array Computing
• Circuits and Systems for Communications
• Computer-Aided Network Design
• Digital Signal Processing
• Graph Theory and Computing
• Multimedia Systems and Applications
• Nanoelectronics and Gigascale Systems
• Neural Systems and Applications
• Nonlinear Circuits and Systems
• Power Systems and Power Electronic Circuits
• Sensory Systems
• Visual Signal Processing and Communications
• VLSI Systems and Applications

Only electronic submissions and correspondence via e-mail will be accepted.

Authors’ schedule:
Deadline for submission of tutorial proposals: 28 September 2003
Deadline for submission of invited sessions proposals: 28 September 2003
Deadline for submission of papers: 5 October 2003
Notification of paper acceptance: 11 January 2004
Deadline for submission of camera-ready papers: 1 February 2004
Deadline for author registration: 15 February 2004

More information is located at http://www.iscas2004.org.

The following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the June 2003 Admission and Advancement Panel meetings in Nashville, Tennessee:

• Zhiqiang J. Ma - Hamilton
• Sunny Yu Sun - Hamilton
• Chen Wu - Hamilton
• Raphael Tana - Montreal
• Kevin B. Englehart - New Brunswick
• Apisak Ittipiboon - Ottawa
• Dorina C. Petriu - Ottawa
• George O M Yee - Ottawa
• Richard H. Billings - Toronto
• Dennis Cecic - Toronto
• David M. Hiemstra - Toronto
• Anna Lawniczak - Toronto
• Konstantinos N. Plataniotis - Toronto
• Govindan Ravindran - Toronto
• Edward H. Sargent - Toronto
• Malgorzata S. Zywno - Toronto
• Mihai Huzmezan - Vancouver
• Philippe B. Kruchten - Vancouver
• Glenn Pellegrin - Vancouver
• Resve Saleh - Vancouver
• N. Ross Chapman - Victoria

For more information on the Nominate a Senior Member Initiative (NSI) Program, please visit http://www.ieee.org/ra/md/smprogram.html. The 2003 Goal for IEEE Canda is to elevate 150 members to Senior Members.

Alberta

• IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics

21-24 August 2003
Banff, Alberta
For more information please visit http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/INDIN03/

• Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2003)

19-22 October 2003
Banff, Alberta
For more information please visit http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/drcn2003/

Ottawa

• Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference

18-22 August 2003
Château Laurier Hotel
Ottawa, Canada
For more information please visit http://ims-ism.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/semi2003/

• International Safety Conference (ISSC21)

4-8 October 2003
Ottawa, Canada
For more information please visit http://www.system-safety.org/

• Canadian Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 2003

16-17 October 2003
Lord Elgin Hotel,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.CRMS2003.ca
If you are a member in good standing of the IEEE Reliability Society Ottawa Chapter, and are in transition between employers, you may be eligible for a reduced registration fee. For more information, email registrar@crms2003.ca. This offer is limited to the first five qualifying registrants.

• IEEE Ottawa Section 59th Annual General Meeting

4 November 2003
The Salon, Museum of Nature,
240 McLeod,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please contact John Grefford or visit http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/ottawa/AGMInvite2003.htm

Toronto

• Power Generation: Gas Turbines, Co-Generation and Combined Cycle Plants

22-24 September 2003
EPIC Learning Centre
Mississauga, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.epic-edu.com

• Operating and Maintaining Electrical Equipment

25-26 September 2003
EPIC Learning Centre
Mississauga, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.epic-edu.com

Rest of Canada

• Canadian Conference of Electrical and Computer Engineering

2-5 May 2004
Niagara Falls, ON
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.ca/ccece04

• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2004)

23-26 May 2004
Sheraton Vancouver Wall Centre Hotel
Vancouver, BC
For more information please visit http://www.iscas2004.org

US

• IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON)

10-13 August 2003
Boston, Massachusetts
For more information please visit http://rawcon.org/rawcon2003/confprofile.html

• IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC)

21-24 September 2003
San Jose California
For more information please visit http://www.ieee-cicc.org/

• IEEE Workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP 2003)

29 September - 1 October 2003
St. Louis, Missouri
For more information please visit http://ssp03.wustl.edu/

• IEEE VTC Symposium on IP Mobility

6-9 October 2003
Orlando, Florida
For more information please visit http://www.vtc2003.com

• IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Communication Technology

15-17 October 2003
Honolulu, Hawaii
For more information please visit http://hcac.hawaii.edu/conferences/tcwct2003/

• IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (IEMC -2003)

2-4 November 2003
Albany, New York
For more information please visit http://www.ieee-iemc.org

• IEEE International Conference on Computer Aided Design (ICCAD)

9-13 November 2003
San Jose, California
For more information please visit http://www.iccad.com/techprog.html

• Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)

5-8 January 2005
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information please visit http://www.ccnc2004.org/

International

• International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)

25-27 August 2003
Seoul, Korea
For more information please visit http://poppy.snu.ac.kr/~islped

• International Conference on Methods & Models in Automation & Robotics (MMAR 2003)

25-28 August 2003
Miedzyzdroje, Poland
For more information please visit http://www.mmar.ps.pl

• International Symposium on Turbo Codes and Related Topics

1-5 September 2003
Brest, France
For more information please visit http://www-turbo.enst-bretagne.fr/

• IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services (MMNS)

7-10 September 2003
Belfast, Northern Ireland
For more information please visit
http://ee-server.ee.qub.ac.uk/dsp/mmns2003/

• Power and Timing Modeling Optimization and Simulation Workshop

10-12 September 2003
Torino, Italy
For more information please visit http://eda.polito.it/patmos03/

• IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2003)

14-17 September 2003
Barcelona, Spain
For more information please visit http://www.icip2003.org

• IEEE International Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP 2003)

17-19 September 2003
Toulouse, France
For more information please visit http://isp.imm.dtu.dk/nnsp2003/

• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS 2003)

17-21 September 2003
Cancun, Mexico
For more information please visit http://itzamna.uam.mx/cancun

• International Conference on Information Technology & Applications (ICITA 2004)

8-11 January 2004
Harbin, China
For more information please visit http://www.icita.org/

• Managing Next Generation Convergence Networks and Services

19-23 April 2004
Seoul, Korea
For more information please visit http://www.noms2004.org/

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

IEEE Ottawa maintains a page of upcoming events at http://members.attcanada.ca/~max-com/IEEEOttEvents.html.

IEEE Toronto maintains a page of upcoming events at http://toronto.ieee.ca/events.htm.

IEEE Vancouver maintains a page of upcoming events at http://www.ieee.org/vancouver.

For more IEEE conferences, visit IEEE Conference Search at http://www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/.

Book aims to assist medical professionals in analyzing medical images

Intelligent processing of multi-dimensional images has become crucial in conventional or computer-aided interpretation for radiological and diagnostic applications. "Medical Image Analysis," a new book published this month by Wiley-IEEE Press, focuses the in-depth knowledge of the modalities used to acquire images for medical image reconstruction and processing to assist medical professionals in effectively selecting and developing the most appropriate image reconstruction and processing methods for accurate analysis and interpretation. The text discusses such topics as the interaction of the basic unit of imaging in a biological environment, formation of a quantifiable signal representing the biological information, detection and acquisition of the signal, and appropriate image reconstruction. To find out more, or to purchase, visit http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471451312.

New Wiley-IEEE Press book offers help with computer simulations

Engineers hoping to solve problems by using computer simulations may find some of the answers they need in "Complex Electromagnetic Problems and Numerical Simulation Approaches," a new book from Wiley-IEEE Press. Author Levent Servgi offers a look at both observable-based parameterization as well as numerically computable forms. The book comes with a companion FTP site. For more information, or to purchase, visit  http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471430625.

Emerging Nanotechnology focus of new IEEE Press book

Nanotechnology is the focus of "Future Trends in Microelectronics: The Nano Millennium," a new book on microelectronics edited by Serge Luryi, Jimmy Xu and Alex Zaslavsky. The book from Wiley-IEEE Press makes the case that the evolution of this technology, acknowledged by the U.S. government as one of the top areas of emerging technology, presents an unprecedented opportunity to impact the future of the world. This volume offers a collection of articles based on ideas raised during the summer of 2001 at the third meeting in the Future Trends in Microelectronics (FTM) workshop series. Find out more about this new book at http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471212474.html.

Book analyzes dynamic performance of interconnected power systems

The Wiley-IEEE Press publication "Power System Control and Stability" studies the characteristics of the many components that make up a power system under normal and abnormal conditions. The book looks into detailed mathematical models of system components and studies the system behavior using the necessary computational tools. For more information, or to purchase, please visit http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471238627.html.

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