The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Toronto Section - the latest news
about upcoming events and the people that make them happen - Section and
Chapter meetings, workshops, conferences, and other events of interest
occuring in Toronto and surounding areas. Posted every month.
Daylight Savings Time Reminder - SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK is
the old addage that reminds us to set our clocks forward one hour before
we go to bed on Saturday evening, April 3 so we are ready for daylight
savings the following morning. Don't forget to make the rounds
and also adjust all of your electronic equipment that does not remember
to automatically adjust - I have to check my watches, outside lighting
timers, old VCR, breadmaker, and so on. Then there is the
reminder from our Fire Departments to replace batteries on smoke and
Carbon Monoxide detectors (what! you don't remember where it is or if
you have one...) Here are a couple of links about daylight savings
time - the technical stuff from our Canadian National Research
Council and some general information and historical tidbits from
the CBC News web site.
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Profile on Alagan Anpalagan
This month we profile Alagan Anpalagan, chair of our Communications Chapter
and the co-chair of the Technical Programme Committee of this year's
Canadian Conference in Niagara Falls. He, along with Kostas Plataniotis,
is responsible for handling the veritable flood of submitted papers and
organizing them into the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday sessions.
Alagan received his doctorate from the University of Toronto in 2001,
then co-founded the WINCORE laboratory at Ryerson University where he is
an Assistant Professor. His research interests are in general, wireless
communication, mobile networks and system performance analysis; and in
particular, QoS-aware radio resource management, joint study of wireless
physical/link layer characteristics and hybrid cellular/multihop network
architecture. He has published more than 20 papers and articles in
international conferences and journals in his research area. Prior to
his academic career, he was a Technical Consultant at Bell Mobility
working on 1xRTT system deployment studies. In 1997 he was
with Nortel Networks working on R&D projects in systems engineering. He
also completed an industry internship at IBM Canada in 1993-94.
He has served in many technical program committees of IEEE conferences
including ICC'02-03, Globecom'03, WCNC'02 and VTC'02. He is a member of
the IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications.
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Upcoming Chapter Activities
April 1 Professor Gabriel Rebeiz of the University of Michigan
at Ann Arbor will present a seminar on "RF MEMS for Commercial and Defense
Applications" organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter.
Click for details.
April 2
The first general interest meeting of the "Women in Engineering" Affinity
Group in Toronto is to be held at the University of Toronto. This meeting
features a panel session on "The Role of Women in Engineering: Has it Changed
Over the Years?" and the election of officers (a slate is presented)
Click for details
April 20 Dr. Bob Alden, Consultant, Mississauga, Ontario,
will present a seminar on "Using the Internet to Access IEEE Services"
organized by our Life Members Chapter. This first LM meeting for 2004
is a result of the feedback from our survey of life members conducted
last year. Click for details.
April 27 Professor Juin Liou of the University of Central
Florida at Orlando will present an IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished
Lecture on "Evolution and Recent Advances in RF/Microwave Transistors"
organized by our Circuits and Devices Chapter.
Click for details.
April 27 Peter M. DeVita, P.Eng, Former President, Professional
Engineers Ontario will present a seminar entitled "Who Speaks For the Interest
of Engineers" organized by our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter.
Click for details.
April 28 Professor Burhan Türksen of the University of Toronto
will present a seminar on "Recent Applications of Fuzzy Logic" organized by
our Neural Networks Chapter.
Click for details.
April 28 Toby Heaps, Editor and Publisher of Corporate Knights
Magazine will present a seminar on "Engineers Without E-Waste" organized by
our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter.
Click for details.
Section Initiatives
Here is an update from last month on the two latest IEEE Toronto initiatives:
- Our new Affinity Group for Women in Engineering - was officially
formed on March 24, 2004 and the first meeting is described above - check out the new web page
for more information. Note, membership in this group is not restricted
to women only.
- I invite you to join and participate in our new On-line Community
This is a relatively new web-based IEEE service to help
members communicate. You can now chat on-line and post discussions on the
site which is linked from the left side navigation bar - here is a direct
direct link. Why not click the
link, join, and try a new interactive experience.
Post your views start the discussion. There are
a number of topics at present, more can be added - you tell us.
There is a help page (which is also linked
from our FAQ page) on our web site (in addition to the help window on the
community site) for those not familiar with this type of service.
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Upcoming Conferences
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RWL04 Real World Linux 2004 Conference & Expo,
April 13 - 15, 2004,
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Ontario.
IEEE Member Advantage - 25% off advance rates for
conference if you use code A110 up to April 12 on the registration web site.
Complimentary trade show pass.
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2004 Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering, May 2 - 5, 2004, Niagara Falls, Ontario.
Highlights - as they are announced
- This is the 17th annual Canadian conference and will have the largest
number of papers ever presented - about 500 papers in 58 lecture presentation
sessions - plus three workshops on the Sunday afternoon.
- Sunday afternoon - preconference event - "IEEE Milestone in Electrical
Engineering and Computing" - dedication ceremony at Decew Falls
- Sunday evening - welcome reception
- Monday morning - plenary session - NSERC President Tom Brzustowski
- Monday evening - IEEE Canada Awards Banquet - includes the McNaughton Medal presentation
- Tuesday morning - plenary session - the 2004 McNaughton Medalist
- Tuesday Student Awards Luncheon - speaker - Terry Peach of GE Canada
- Student members - check out our subsidy program.
- More details and links - Check out the
conference web site.
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2004 RTAS Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application
Symposium, May 25 - 28, 2004, Le Royal Meridien - King Edward Hotel, Toronto,
Ontario. Submission deadline is January 12, 2004.
For more information, please visit the conference web site.
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Life Member News
The April 2004 issue of the life members newsletter is being mailed to all
Section LMs with an update since the last issue (September 2003) and details
about the next LM meeting planned for April 20.
Member News
Congratulations to four of our members who have been recently elevated to
Senior Member grade; Xavier Fernando, Ramesh Senthinathan, John Cristie and
Zbigniew Noworolski. If you wish to
apply for Senior Member elevation, or nominate someone else, please use this link.
Standards Hidden in Plain Sight
"IEEE Standards can be found behind technologies we use every day at home, at
work, and at play. They're responsible for the way your computer works, as
well as for your television set, wireless router, video games, and many other
electronic products. Most people don't even know they exist....."
This is the start of an interesting article written by Erica Vonderheid
in the March issue of IEEE's The Institute. If you did not see the print
version, here is a link to the on-line
version.
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Thanks For Reading
That's all for now, hope to have you visit again next month ..... Bob Alden,
Editor
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