CCECE 2005 Submission Deadline

Just a reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions for CCECE05 is 10 Dec 2004. This is an excellent opportunity for Canadian authors to publish and present papers on a wide variety of topics to an international audience. Please visit our web site - http://www.ieee.ca/ccece05 - for additional information and links to the Paper Submission System.

The Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering 2005 (CCECE05) is an international conference with a broad range of submission topics available. It is being held 1-4 May 2005 in Saskatoon, SK. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings as well as available through IEEE Publications.

IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES) in Canada

Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim is in the process of coordinating efforts to establish a Canadian IES group. All IEEE Canadian members who are interested in Industrial Electronics are invited to send him an e-mail to register their interest in such a group. He will communicate further with those who express their interest. The URL for the IES society is http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/ies/ and Dr. Ibrahim's address is ahmad1@ieee.org.

IEEE Technical Activities Vice-President Elect 2005

Congratulations to Celia Desmond on being elected as IEEE Technical Activities Vice-President Elect for 2005. Celia was elected to serve as vice president-elect of IEEE Technical Activities. She will succeed 2005 Technical Activities Vice President John Vig on 1 Jan. 2006.

IEEE Winnipeg MANCOM Chapter presents student membership award

The IEEE Winnipeg MANCOM Chapter (Engineering Management, Professional Communication, and Education) presented student membership awards to Carolyn Walker and Ben Davies on 17 November 2004. The student membership award is presented for their participation in the Red River College Technical Communication Diploma Program.

Vijay Bhargava Recognized by Royal Society of Canada

When IEEE Fellow Vijay Bhargava journeyed from his native India to Canada as an 18-year-old to study engineering at Queens University in Kingston, Ont., he had no intention of staying in North America. But 38 years later, he's still there. He's become a renowned educator and wireless technology pioneer. Recently, Bhargava's adopted country recognized his contributions to wireless technology by presenting him with the Royal Society of Canada's Thomas W. Eadie Medal. Read more at http://www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/pages/tionline/legacy/ inst2004/nov04/11w.profilebhargava.html

Michael Lightner Wins President-Elect Race

IEEE Fellow Michael Lightner is the 2005 IEEE President-Elect. He will succeed 2005 President W. Cleon Anderson on 1 January 2006. Lightner is a professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA, the current IEEE Vice President of Publication Services and Products, and a member of the IEEE Board of Directors. For more election results, visit http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/newsinfo/elections04.html.

IEEE Computer Society Publications seek Editor-in-Chief

The IEEE Computer Society is currently seeking applicants for the position of editor-in-chief for three periodicals for terms starting 1 January 2005: IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. For qualifications and requirements, visit http://www.computer.org/pr/Jan04/seekeditor.htm.

Global Document Storage and Retrieval service available to IEEE members

IEEE members now have the opportunity to purchase a document storage and retrieval service through the IEEE Financial Advantage Program. Offered through Global Work Life Solutions, this service provides secure storage for personal documents, including medical information, children's vital statistics, and family and travel information. To ensure security, the database housing this information is not connected to the Internet and cannot be hacked. However, IEEE members and medical or police personnel can easily access the information during an emergency around the world. For more information or to enroll, visit http://www.gwls.com/ieee.

Call for fellow nominations

Nominations are being accepted for the 2006 class of IEEE Fellows. For the second year, nominations, references and endorsements may be submitted electronically. The deadline is 1 March 2005.

At its June 2003 meeting, the IEEE Board of Directors approved changes to the process for nominating and electing IEEE members to Fellow grade. The change established a new nomination category for individual contributions, with the goal of increasing nominations for members in industry and encouraging nominations of application engineers or engineering practitioners who have made contributions of unusual distinction to the profession.

The board also established a Fellow Nomination Resource Center to help nominators locate the required number of references to support a nomination. To nominate an IEEE senior member or to learn more about the Fellow program, visit www.ieee.org/fellows.

Montreal

• Minimal Communication in Decentralized Discrete-Event Systems

8 December 2004
Concordia University
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/events/2004/Ev041208.txt

• International Conference on Power Systems Transients (IPST)

19-23 June, 2005
Hilton Montreal Bonaventure,
1 Place Bonaventure
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.ipst.org

• International Workshop Advances in Signal Processing for Non Destructive Evaluation of Materials (IWASPNDE)

2-5 August, 2005
Université Laval,
Quebec City, Québec
For more information, please visit http://intl.gel.ulaval.ca/

Ottawa

• Robotics and Control Systems Mini Conference

8 December 2004
Room ME3328,
Mackenzie Building,
Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/RoboticsSeminar1204.pdf
An IEEE Ottawa Section Robotics and Control Systems Societies Joint Chapter presentation

• Workshop on Critical Infrastructure Protection and Emergency Preparedness

10-11 December 2004
Room SITE 2-060,
SITE Building,
University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/CriticalInfrastProtect04.pdf

• Face recognition in video as a new biometrics modality and the appropriate associative memory framework

15 December 2004
Room 5084,
SITE Building,
University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/ci

• Physician Resistance to Engineering in Medicine

15 December 2004
Room SITE 5084,
SITE Building,
University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.site.uottawa.ca/%7Egroza/ieee/IM_EMB.html

• Colloquium: Trustworthy Software Systems

20 December 2004
Auditorium,
National Research Council
1200 Montreal Road,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/cs/next.html

• Software Defined Radio

12 January 2005
CRC,
3701 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc

• IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference

17-19 May 2005
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/im/imtc/imtcup/

• Climate Change Technology: Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century

9-12 May 2006
Ottawa Congress Centre,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ccc2006.ca/

Toronto

• Wen-do - a Women's Self Defense Workshop

12 January 2005
University of Toronto
Toronto , Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/jan1205.htm
An IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering Affinity Group Workshop

Vancouver

• Talk by Mr.Paul Howard, Vice Chair of General Hydrogen

1 December 2004
National Research Council of Canada,
Institute for Fuel Cell Innovation
3250 East Mall
Univerisity of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Please RSVP to Roya Rahbari at Roya.Rahbari@nrc.gc.ca 
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/ems/ 
An IEEE Vancouver Engineering Management Society presentation

• Converting MATLAB Algorithms to FPGA or ASIC Designs

6 December 2004
BCIT
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://www.comsoc.org/vancouver/ 
An IEEE Vancouver Joint Communications Society presentation

• Workshop on Wireless Systems

6 December 2004
Macleod Building Room 228,
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia
Please RSVP using the instructions on the site
For more information, please visit http://vancouver.ieee.ca/news/wirelesssystems.html

• IEEE Bandwidth Management Workshop XI

3-6 October 2005
Fairmont Chateau
Whistler, British Columbia,
For more information, please visit http://www.ieeebmw.org

Rest of Canada

• Legacy Product Strategy: Software Product Maintenance

2 December 2004
DC 1304
University of Waterloo
Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://kw.ieee.ca/Presentations/04Sem_dec2.pdf

• Nova Scotia’s Wireless Communications Heritage: Is It Worth Saving?

9 December 2004
Room A103, Sexton Campus
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
For more information, please visit http://agrg.cogs.ns.ca/IEEE/December9.html

• Connecting Engineers to the Pre-University Community

10 December 2004
University of Waterloo
Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://eceprojects.uwaterloo.ca/

• Design Projects Symposium

19 January 2005
DC 1304
University of Waterloo
Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://kw.ieee.ca/Presentations/04Sem_dec10.pdf

• Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2005)

1-4 May 2005
Saskatoon Inn
Portugal Cove Road
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.ca/ccece05/

US

• IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom)

29 November - 3 December 2004
Dallas, Texas
For more information please visit http://www.globecom2004.org/

• International Symposium on Microarchitecture

4-8 December 2004
Portland, Oregon
For more information, please visit http://www.microarch.org/micro37/ 

• International Electron Devices Meeting

13-15 December 2004
Hilton San Francisco Towers
San Francisco
For more information, please visit http://www.his.com/~iedm/ 

• IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

3-7 January 2005
Lake Buena Vista, Florida
For more information, please visit http://ieeepvsc.org 

• IEEE 2005 Winter Vision Multi-Meeting

5-7 January 2005
Breckenridge, Colorado
For more information, please visit http://wacv2005.vast.uccs.edu/

• National Scout Jamboree

25 July - 3 August 2005
Caroline, Virginia
For more information, please visit http://www.emeritbadges.org 

International

• International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG)

4-8 April 2005
Nagoya, Japan
For more information, please visit http://www.intermag2005.jp/ 

• IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems

23-24 June 2005
Trinity College
Dublin, Ireland
For more information, please visit http://conferences.computer.org/CBMS2005/index.html  

• International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2005)

9 - 12 May 2005
Suntec, Singapore
For more information please visit http://www.iccsa.org

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

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