CCECE 2004 a success

A full report on the conference can be found at http://www.ieee.ca/ccece04/index.html.

2005 IEEE Election Candidates Revealed

Michael R. Lightner, Levent Onural and James M. Tien will vie for the chance to be the 2005 IEEE President-Elect. Candidates for numerous other local and national positions have also been declared. The entire list can now be viewed on the IEEE website. Biographies on each of the candidates will are being provided as they become available. Official ballots will be mailed to IEEE Members by 1 September. To learn about the election and these IEEE leadership candidates, go to www.ieee.org/corporate/elections/candidates.xml

Gateway Insurance offers IEEE members coverage when traveling

Planning to travel away from your home country? The IEEE Financial Advantage Program offers Gateway insurance to IEEE members, their families, and their associates, providing coverage for accident and illness medical expense when traveling abroad. With five different plans to choose from, and options based on where people are traveling to and from, the Gateway plans offer help in many situations, particularly when existing coverage is limited. For more information visit www.ieeeinsurance.com/gtwy/highlite.asp.

Try the new full-text search prototype in latest IEEE Xplore release

Users of IEEE online information are invited to help test a new full-text search prototype within IEEE Xplore 1.7. IEEE Xplore powers online subscriptions for IEEE members, as well as institutional online collections such as the IEEE/IEE Electronic Library. Users have the option to test the new full-text search capabilities from a special link on the Search pages or continue to use the "traditional search" of abstract records. The full-text search allows researchers to search content from over 100,000 documents, representing roughly ten percent of the total IEEE online database. Users are encouraged to provide feedback through a link on the page, enabling IEEE to modify and improve the experience over time. Try the new features at www.ieee.org/ieeexplore.

For details on all of the enhancements in IEEE Xplore 1.7, visit http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/ReleaseNotes.jsp.

Travel grants available for industrial electronics conferences

The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) is offering its student members travel grants for attendance to several of their 2004 technical conferences. Qualified applicants must be active IES student members, reside outside the city in which the conference is held, and have a paper accepted at the conference. IES will award 24 grants in the amount of US$500 each. For details and application forms, visit  http://www.icit2004.com/studentGrant.html

IEEE offers special student dues rates for those interested in joining an IEEE Society. There are 38 societies from which an individual IEEE member may choose to join. Don't miss this valuable part of IEEE membership. For more information, visit www.ieee.org/services/join/societylist.html.

Call for papers: Wireless overlay networks based on mobile IPv6

Although the primary purpose of IPv6, the next version of the Internet Protocol, is to greatly increase addressing space, it also enables a very important feature: Mobile IPv6, a much better protocol design for mobility. The IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications has issued a call for papers for all aspects of Mobile IPv4 or IPv6-based wireless overlay networks. Manuscripts are due by 1 September 2004. To find out more, visit www.argreenhouse.com/society/J-SAC/Calls/ipv6.html.

The following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the May 2003 Admission and Advancement Panel meetings:

• Sofiène Affes - Montreal
• Jacob Benesty - Montreal
• Rajesh Karki - North Saskatchewan
• Seok-Bum Ko - North Saskatchewan
• Armin Bluschke - Ottawa
• G.F. Randall Gibson - Ottawa
• Vernon Singhroy - Ottawa
• Vincent Chiew - Southern Alberta
• E. Ryerson Case - Toronto
• Stephen W. Davies - Toronto
• Brendan J. Frey - Toronto

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

Kitchener-Waterloo

• Approaching the dirty paper limit for canceling known interference

14 June 2004
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.cst.uwaterloo.ca/DSS/talks_2004.html#2004_jun_14

• The August 2003 North-east Blackout

8 July 2004
University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.brag.uwaterloo.ca/talks.html#2004_july
An IEEE Kitchener-Waterlooo Signal Processing Neural Networks Chapter presentation

Montreal

• Adaptive Filtering Using Block Floating Point Arithmetic

1 June 2004
Concordia University, Sir George Williams Campus
Hall Building, 1445 de Maisonneuve, West
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2004/Ev040601.txt
An IEEE Montréal Circuits and Systems Society presentation

• International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS)

7 June 2004
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://iqua.ece.toronto.edu/iwqos04/

• Design and test considerations for EMC compliance of wireless devices

8 June 2004
Centre de Recherche Industrielle du Québec (CRIQ)
8475, Christophe-Colomb
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2004/Ev040608.txt
An IEEE Montréal Electromagnetic Compatibility Society presentation

• Software Architecture Evaluation

14 June, 2004
CRIM Montréal
550, ave. Sherbrooke Ouest
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2004/Ev040614.txt
An IEEE Montréal Computer Society Distinguished Lecturer presentation

• Navigation Systems

17 June, 2004
Concordia University, Sir George Williams Campus
Hall Building, 1445 de Maisonneuve, West
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2004/Ev040617.txt
An IEEE Montréal Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society presentation

• Northeast Workshop on Circuits and Systems (NEWCAS 2004)

20-23 June, 2004
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.newcas.org

• International Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control 50th Anniversary Joint Conference (UFFC 2004)

23-27 August 2004
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ieee-uffc.org/fcmain.asp?page=2004fc

• World Conference on Nondestructive Testing

30 Aug - 3 Sep 2004
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.wcndt2004.com/

• IEEE Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting

12-14 September 2004
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.macs.ece.mcgill.ca/~rfic/bctm04/

Ottawa

• Hi-Tech Strategic Management in 2004

4 June 2004
Communication Research Center,
3701 Carling Avenue,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/index.html#ems2

• Design and Test Considerations for EMC Compliance of Wireless Devices

9 June 2004
FIDUS SYSTEMS Inc.,
900 Morrison Drive, Suite 203,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/index.html#emc
An IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Presentation

• Power System Stability and Trends in Wide Area Protection

11 June 2004
Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/index.html#ea2

• Photonics North

27-29 September 2004
Ottawa Congress Centre
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://spie.org/conferences/calls/04/pn/

• NATO Advanced Study Institute in BiophotonicsApplications

29 September - 9 October 2004
Crowne Plaza Hotel,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.vitesse.ca/programs/natoasi.asp

Toronto

• Monitoring of Electrical Energy and Demand to Reduce Your Costs

2 June 2004
EPIC Learning Center,
5759 Coopers Ave.,
Mississauga, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://www.epic-edu.com

• Life Balance

8 June 2004
Spadina Garden Restaurant
116 Dundas Street West
Mississauga, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/jun0804.htm
An IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering Affinity Group discussion

• 2004 Annual Dinner and General Meeting

16 October 2004
The Old Mill Inn,
21 Old Mill Road,
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/oct1604.htm

Rest of Canada

• Electrical System Safety: Hazards and Safeguards

7-8 June 200
Holiday Inn Select
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information, please visit http://www.electricityforum.com/forums/safety2004.html

• Technology creep

8 June 200
Red River College, W4-11
Princess Street Campus,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
For more information, please e-mail d.kemp@ieee.org or acampbell@rrc.mb.ca
A brown-bag technology for lunch session presented by IEEE MANCOM in Winnipeg

• Avionics for Manned Space

28 June 2004
Four Points by Sheraton
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information please visit http://agrg.cogs.ns.ca/IEEE/June28.html
Please visit the website and register for the event if you will attend

• Large Engineering Systems Conference on Power Engineering

28-31 July 2004
The Delta Halifax Hotel
1990 Barrington Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information please visit http://is.dal.ca/~lescope/

US

• ITT/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium

6-11 June 2004
Fort Worth, Texas
For more information please visit http://www.ims2004.org/

• IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits

15-19 June 2004
Honolulu, Hawaii
For more information please visit http://www.vlsisymposium.org/

• IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

27 June - 2 July 2004
Washington, DC
For more information please visit http://cvl.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/cvpr2004/index.htm

• UT-IEEE Engineering Management Conference

12-13 August 2004
Austin, Texas
For more information please visit http://lifelong.engr.utexas.edu/emc/index.cfm

• IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON 2004)

19-22 September 2004
Atlanta, Georgia
For more information please visit http://rawcon.org/

• IEEE Broadcast Symposium

13-15 October 2004
Washington, DC
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.org/organizations/society/bt/symposium.html

• Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC)

24-28 October 2004
Salt Lake City, Utah
For more information please visit http://www.dasconline.org

International

• International Workshop on Wireless Ad-hoc Networks

31 May - 3 Jun 2004
Oulu, Finland
For more information please visit http://www.cwc.oulu.fi/iwwan2004/index.html

• International Conference on Communications (ICC 2004)

20-24 June 2004
Paris, France
For more information please visit http://www.icc2004.org/

• IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC)

20-26 June 2004
Aachen, Germany
For more information please visit http://www.pesc04.org/

• IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC)

11-14 July 2004
Lisbon, Portugal
For more information please visit http://spawc2004.isr.ist.utl.pt/

• Optoelectronics and Communications Conference

12-16 July 2004
Kanagawa, Japan
For more information please visit http://edpex104.bcasj.or.jp/oecc-coin/

• International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing

20-22 July 2004
Newcastle on Tyne, United Kingdom
For more information please visit http://www.ncl.ac.uk/csndsp/

• IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)

25 July 2004
Hiroshima, Japan
For more information please visit http://www.huis.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/mwscas04/

• European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2004)

7-10 September 2004
Vienna, Austria
For more information please visit http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/eusipco2004

Many IEEE Canada sections maintain their own listings of upcoming events:

Canadian Atlantic Kitchener-Waterloo Montreal Newfoundland and Labrador New Brunswick Northern Canada

Ottawa Southern Alberta Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg

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

Latest Wiley-IEEE Press book focuses on Electromagnetic modeling

Award-winning author Dr. Ismo V. Lindell imparts his expertise in the field of mathematical modeling with the new Wiley-IEEE Press book "Differential Forms in Electromagnetics." An internationally respected authority on differential forms, Dr. Lindell conveys a clear and practical understanding of theoretical analysis of electromagnetics. The topics covered include EM theory, wave equations for electromagnetic two-forms, derives useful identities and much more. For more information, or to purchase this book, visit: www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471648019.html.

New edition of bestselling real-time systems design book now available

Author Phillip Laplante has updated his bestselling guide to building real-time systems with the release of "Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis, Third Edition." This new book from IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons maintains its predecessors' systems-based approach, which was devised to help engineers write problem-solving software. Dr. Laplante incorporates a survey of related technologies and their histories, complete with time-saving practical tips, hands-on instructions, C code, and insights into decreasing ramp-up times. Chapters discuss hardware considerations and software requirements, software systems design, the software production process, performance estimation and optimization, and engineering considerations. To purchase or find more information, visit: www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471228559.html.

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