Algonquin Student Branch Wins third place in web site contest

The IEEE Student Branch at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has won first place in the 2004 IEEE Student Branch Web site contest. IEEE Student Branches at New York Institute of Technology-Manhattan Campus and Algonquin College win second- and third-place honors, respectively. Entries in the annual contest are judged in three areas: content, navigability and originality. Monetary awards are given in the amounts of US$1000, $750 and $500 for first, second and third place winners. For more information about the 2004 winners and award criteria, visit  http://www.ieee.org/membership/students/programs/websitecontest.xml.

New IEEE online publication focuses on network and service management

The first issue of a new IEEE online publication is now available and accessible for free online for all users with an IEEE web account. e-Transactions on Network and Service Management (eTNMS) is an introductory initiative of the IEEE Communication Society for timely electronic presentation of archival research on the management of networks, systems, services and applications, as well as on issues in communications software, service engineering, policies and business processes for network and service management. Although it is not yet an IEEE journal, the success of eTNSM will encourage a future initiative toward an IEEE electronic transactions journal in this area. The articles of the inaugural issue and a call for papers for future issues are now available online at http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/etn/public/2004/apr/index.html.

IEEE announces new way to access online technical information

The IEEE has announced the July 2004 release of IEEE Enterprise, a new product developed to deliver online technical information to organizations with a need for instant access to IEEE content. Subscribers to IEEE Enterprise will be able to choose from three levels of access to IEEE information. Each level will allow a specific number of full-text article downloads from the online collection of IEEE magazines, journals, transactions and conference proceedings. Access continues until all downloads are exhausted, at which point a subscription may be renewed. For more information on IEEE Enterprise, visit http://www.ieee.org/enterprise.

Online electrical safety forum celebrates first anniversary

The IEEE Standards Association Electrical Safety Forum celebrates its first anniversary this month. The online forum provides the opportunity to collaborate and share information about electrical safety, and serves the fields of construction, operation and maintenance, facilities and process design, electrical safety services, risk management, workplace safety, and regulations and standards. Anyone may join. To preview, visit https://www.ieeecommunities.org/ieee.esafety.

Student volunteers sought for 2004 Visualization Conference

The 2004 IEEE Visualization Conference is actively recruiting student volunteers. The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and will be held from 10 through 14 October 2004, in Austin, Texas, USA. Applicants must be enrolled as either full- or part-time undergraduate or graduate students during 2004. Those selected may receive complimentary conference registration, tickets to receptions and a discount on accommodations. For more information and the application form, visit http://vis.computer.org/vis2004/cfp/.

CCECE photos now up!

The annual Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, held in Niagara Falls, Ontario was a great success. For a full report and access to the plenary presentations, please visit the conference web site home page at http://ieee.ca/ccece04. Also there are lots of photos now available - you can use the "photos" link on the home page or use this direct link http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/ccece04/photos.

Kitchener-Waterloo

• 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

• 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

• 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 Biophotonics Applications

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

• Dam Safety Risk Assessment Seminar and Workshop

30 September - 1 October 2004
The Westin Ottawa,
11 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ceatech.ca/Workshops/Upcoming.html

• IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Technology Conference

16-19 May 2005
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/soc/im/imtc/imtcup/

Toronto

• Capacity and Outage Issues of Wireless MIMO Systems on Correlated Fading Channels

8 July 2004
Room EPH 216A,
Eric Palin Hall,
Ryerson University,
Toronto, Ontario
For more information, please visit http://toronto.ieee.ca/events/jul0804.htm

• 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

• 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/

• Newfoundland Electrical and Computer Engineering Conference (NECEC)

12 Oct 2004
Holiday Inn
Portugal Cove Road
St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador
For more information please visit http://necec.engr.mun.ca

US

• 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 Computer Society Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Minicomputers

22-24 August 2004
Stanford University
California
For more information please visit http://www.hotchips.org

• Workshop on Accelerated Stress Testing and Reliability

6-8 September 2004
Chicago
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/tc7/ast2004/

• 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

• 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/

• International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

22-27 August 2004
Buenos Aires, Argentina
For more information please visit http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla70/index.htm

• IEEE Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference

2-4 September 2004
Riga, Latvia
For more information please visit http://www.rtu.lv/epe-pemc2004/index.asp

• 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

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