Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2003

The Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE) was established in 1988 and the first conference, CCECE’88, took place in Vancouver, BC, 3-4 Nov. 1988. At that time, the CCECE was sponsored by the Canadian Society of Electrical and Computer Engineering (CSECE). In 1995, CSECE merged with IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electron­ics Engineers) Region 7 to form IEEE Canada. Since then, CCECE has been the annual flagship conference of IEEE Canada. The major objectives of the CCECE are:

• Fostering interaction and networking in the electrical and computer engineering R&D community coming from Canadian universities, industries and governments;
• Serving as a "political" platform for leaders, thinkers and decision makers in industries, gov­ernment and universities, who are asked to give plenary sessions; and
• Providing a venue for presentation of major IEEE Canada awards.

The next version of the conference, CCECE’03 will be held in Montreal during the period 4-7 May 2003. We are expecting an attendance of about 500 delegates, consisting mostly of researchers from Canadian universities, industries and government. At CCECE’2002, some 20% of the delegates were from overseas, reflecting an international presence.

There will also be a Life Member information desk at the CCECE Conference. Arthur Yelon, a Montreal Section Life Member, and Ron Potts, LM Chapter Co-ordinator, will be at the desk on 5 & 6 May, and will be available to discuss LM activities.

IEEE Circuits and Systems society fellows listed

Members of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) included in the IEEE Fellows class of 2003 have recently been announced. Fellow is the highest grade of IEEE membership and recognizes unusual distinction in the profession. Read the list of CASS Fellows http://www.ieee-cas.org/fellows_2003.php

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Call for papers: 2003 IEEE Toronto Centennial Workshop on Wireless COmmunications

This special event, The 2003 IEEE Toronto Centennial Workshop on Wireless Communications to be held at the University of Toronto, on 3-5 October 2003, is bringing together pioneers as well as participants from around the world to celebrate the Centennial of the IEEE Toronto Section. The University of Toronto is conveniently located in downtown Toronto in walking distance from a plethora of hotels, restaurants and recreation facilities. It is an internationally acclaimed institution with strong activity in the areas of Wireless Communications and Signal Processing and with exceptional meeting and classroom facilities. Toronto is a large, modern, cosmopolitan city, easily accessible, home to many high-tech centres and companies and a hub of IT activity. Technical presentations , exhibits, and cultural activities will be
planned as part of the Workshop. The Technical Program will consist of Plenary and Interactive Lectures, which are devoted to the following subjects:

• Adaptive communication receivers
• Next Generation Wireless Systems
• Coding and modulation
• Wireless Ad-hoc networks
• Equalization and multiuser detection
• Signal Processing for communications
• MIMO systems
• Wireless networking
• Smart Antennas
• Wireless multimedia
• CDMA
• Software radio
• Mobility and location management
• Wireless IP and home networks

Intending authors should note the following deadlines:
Electronic submission of camera ready papers by: 15 June 2003
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2003

For more information please visit http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/~cwwc03/.

The following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the April 2003 Admission and Advancement Panel meetings in Frankfurt, Germany:

• Ellsworth F. LeDrew - Kitchener-Waterloo
• Shaowen Song - Kitchener-Waterloo
• Osman C. Sarmento - Montreal
• Arun Achyuthan - Ottawa
• Jean-Yves Chouinard - Quebec
• Martin Mintchev - Southern Alberta
• Serban Sporea - Southern Alberta
• TomTK Chau - Toronto
• Gruja Blagojevic - Vancouver
• Pieter Botman - Vancouver
• Dejan Lenasi - Vancouver
• Tom Wong - Vancouver

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.

• An Overview of the Ontario Electricity Market and the Summary of the First Year of Operations

1 May 2003
Auditorium of Ontario Power Generation Inc.
700 University Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
Please RSVP to Dr. Rongliang Chen at (416) 240-6759 or rchen03@ieee.org
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/toronto/events/overview.htm
An IEEE Toronto Section Power Engineering Society Chapter presentation

• IEEE/EAB, Pre-Colleg Education Workshop and Training Session for Engineers

Presented by Douglas Gorham, Ed.D., Manager, Pre-College Education, IEEE Educational Activities Board
2 May 2003 - Delta Centre-Ville Hotel, Montréal , Quebec
3 May 2003 - Montréal , Quebec
5 May 2003 - Halifax, Nova Scotia
6 May 2003 - Fredericton, New Brunswick
For more information please contact Ferial El-Hawary at F.El-hawary@ieee.org

• How to Help Pre-college Teachers Present Technical Material

2 May 2003
Hotel Delta Centre-Ville
777 University
Montréal, Quebec
Please RSVP to Dominique Beaulieu at (514) 849-2971 or dombeaulieu@ieee.org
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.org/eab/precollege/tispt/
An IEEE Montréal Education Activities Board presentation

• CCECE 2003: Canadian Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering

4-7 May 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.congresbcu.com/ccece03/

• Off-shore Technology Conference

5-8 May 2003
Houston, Texas
For more information please visit http://www.otcnet.org

• Connecting Engineers with the Pre-college and Pre-university Community

6 May 2003
Room GWD-124
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
For more information please visit http://listserv.unb.ca/bin/wa?A2=ind0304&L=ieeenb&F=&S=&P=48
An IEEE New Brunswick section presentation

• Smart Antennas for Mobile Wireless Systems

6 May 2003
Auditorium, building 2B,
Communications Research Center,
Shirley Bay, Ontario
Please RSVP to Hugh Reekie at 728-5343 or h.reekie@ieee.org
For more information, please visit http://members.attcanada.ca/%7Emax-com/IEEEOttEvents.html#winters.CRC.smartant
An IEEE Ottawa VTS & MTT/AP society presentation

• Applications of Stochastic Automata in Encryption and Learning from Stochastic Teachers/Liars

6 May 2003
NRC Auditorium,
100 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
Please pre-register with George Yee at g.m.yee@ieee.org
For more information, please visit http://members.attcanada.ca/%7Emax-com/IEEEOttEvents.html#comp.6my03.oomen
An IEEE Ottawa Computer society presentation

• Fourth Generation Wireless Systems

6 May 2003
The Crowsnest, Naval Officer's Mess,
78 Lisgar St.
Ottawa, Ontario
Please RSVP to Hugh Reekie at 728-5343 or h.reekie@ieee.org
For more information, please visit http://members.attcanada.ca/%7Emax-com/IEEEOttEvents.html#vts.winters.4thgen.06my03
An IEEE Ottawa Vehicular Technology Society presentation

• Large Engineering Systems Conference On Power Engineering (LESCOPE 2003)

7-9 May 2003
Delta Centreville Hotel
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://is.dal.ca/~lescope/ or contact Ferial El-Hawary at F.El-hawary@ieee.org

• Imaging with Terahertz Waves

8 May 2003
CRIM Montréal
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/newsletter/Ev030508.txt
Please RSVP to Peter Noutsios at noutsios@nortelnetworks.com
An IEEE Montréal Laser & Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture

• IEEE Vancouver Section 2003 AGM Dinner

12 May 2003
Hilton Hotel
Burnaby, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/news/agm2003.html

• International Symposium on Asynchronous Systems & Circuits

12-16 May 2003
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://research.sun.com/async2003/

• Development of Self-Assembled ZnO Nanostructures within a Diblock Copolymer Matrix on Si Wafers

15 May 2003
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/toronto/events/development.htm
An IEEE Toronto Electron Devices Society presentation

• Communication Networks & Services Research (CNSR 2003)

15-16 May 2003
Moncton, New Brunswick
For more information please visit http://www.cs.unb.ca/cnsrproject/Events/events.html

• International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2003)

18-21 May 2003
Delta Centreville Hotel
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/index.htm
Workshops at the conference can be found at http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/events.htm

• IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC 2003)

2-6 June 2003
Anaheim, California
For more information please visit http://www.dac.com/

• Designing Sensor Signal Conditioning With Programmable Analog ICs

5 June 2003
Insight Electronics
1 Eva Road, Suite 107
Etobicoke, Ontario
Please RSVP to Dennis Cecic at d.cecic@ieee.org
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/r7/toronto/events/IEEEAnadigmFlyerV1.0.ppt
An IEEE Toronto Instrumentation and Measurement Society presentation

• Distribution Automation Seminar and Exhibition

8-10 June 2003
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information please visit http://www.ceatech.ca/workshops.html or contact Ms. Laurie Lang at lang@ceatech.ca

• International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA'03)

10-12 June 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg/~icca03/

• Northeast Workshop on Circuits and Systems (NEWCAS'2003)

18-20 June 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.newcas.org/

• IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science

22-25 June 2003
Ottawa, Canada
For more information please visit http://www.lfcs.informatics.ed.ac.uk/lics

• IEEE Bandwidth management workshop

23-26 June 2003
Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ieeebmwx.org

• The 2003 International Conference on VLSI(VLSI-03)

23-26 June 2003
Monte Carlo Resort
Las Vegas, Nevada
For more information please visit http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/

• International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-time Applications

30 June -2 July 2003
Calgary, Alberta
For more information please visit http://www.socrt.org/

• IEEE Power Engineering Society's International General Meeting & Technical Conference

13-17 July 2003
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.org/pesgmtoronto2003

• What it takes to be an Innovator

28 July 2003
Main Auditorium, Communication Research Center
3701 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Canada
Please RSVP to John Grefford at 613-839-1108 or Grefford@ieee.org
For more information please visit http://members.attcanada.ca/~max-com/IEEEOttEvents.28jy03.html 
An IEEE Ottawa EMS presentation

• 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/

• IEEE VTC Symposium on IP Mobility

4-9 August 2003
Orlando, Florida
For more information please visit http://www.vtc2003.org

• IEEE Toronto Centennial Workshop on Wireless Communications

3-5 October 2003
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/~cwwc03/

• 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
This event is brought to you by the American Society for Quality (ASQ Reliability Division, Region 4), the Society of Reliability Engineers (SRE-Ottawa), IEEE Reliability Society (International, and the Ottawa Chapter)

• Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2003)

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

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

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

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IEEE Press offers guide to semiconductor devices

The basic components of the integrated circuit are examined in the revised edition of the handbook, "Complete Guide to Semiconductor Devices" by Kwok K. Ng. Claiming that semiconductor devices are responsible for rapid industry growth over the past five decades, Ng makes the argument that these devices are and should be constantly studied, improved and reinvented. Find out more about this Wiley-IEEE Press book at http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,0471202401,00.html.

New book on wavelets in Electromagnetics and device modeling

Professor and Director of the Electronic Packaging Lab at Arizona State University, George W. Pan has authored a new book, "Wavelets in Electromagnetics and Devise Modeling." The book, billed as the first book on this subject, delves into topics such as orthogonal wavelet theory, canonical multiwavelets, and the sampling biothogonal time domain method (SBTD). For more, visit http://www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=047141901X.

Hands-on approach to facts technology feature

New Wiley-IEEE Press volume titled "Thyristor-Based FACTS Controllers for Electrical Transmission Systems" covers the emerging technology of static reactive power compensators and their key relationship to flexible AC transmission systems (FACTS). Authors R. Mohan Mathur and Rajiv K. Varma use case studies and examples to discuss design and performance of this important part of today's power transmission systems. Mathur brings 20 years of research to his work on this volume. Varma is a Fullbright Scholar with significant teaching and research interests that include FACTS and power-system stability. To purchase this book, visit http://www.wiley.com/cda/product/0,,047120643.

IEEE press book offers a guideline to dynamical recurrent networks

In "A Field Guide to Dynamical Recurrent Networks," John F. Kolen and Stefan C. Kremer bring together the tools needed to understand new architectures and algorithms of dynamical recurrent networks. This extensive field guide examines recent advancements in artificial intelligence, control theory and connectionism. This authors offer solutions to real-world problems through the application of dynamical recurrent networks, and allow the reader to learn more about several areas of current research. For more information concerning this Wiley-IEEE Press title, go to http://www.wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=0780353692.

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