Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings

Feb 9, 2006 at 7:45 p.m. Dr. David Yap of the Ontario Ministry of the Environment presents a seminar entitled "How Bad is Smog in Ontario?" organized by PEO and our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter. Click for details Feb 10, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.Dr. David Plant of McGill University presents a seminar entitled "Agile All-Photonic Networks" organized by our Circuits & Devices Chapter.Click for details Feb 20, 2006 at 6:30 p.m. Dr.Bin Wu of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Ryerson University in Toronto presents a seminar entitled "Medium Voltage Drives with Multilevel Voltage Source Inverter Technology" organized by our Industry Applications chapter.Click for details Feb 20, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.Dr. Alexander Geyer, presents a seminar entitled "Trellis decoding of error-correcting codes"Organized by our Communications Society.Click for details Feb 21, 2006 at 6:30 p.m. "First 2006 General Interest Meeting of IEEE GOLD - Graduates of the Last Decade" organized by our GOLD Affinity Group. Members of ALL ages are invited.Click for details Feb 21, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.Dr. George Anders, Fellow IEEE, of Kinectrics and Meir Klein of Hydro One, present a seminar entitled "On-line and Off-line Transformer Monitoring" organized by our Power Engineering Chapter. Click for details Feb 23, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.Puica Nitu of Ontario Power Generation in Toronto presents a seminar entitled "From Financial Markets to Energy Markets" organized by our Women In Engineering Group. Click fordetails Feb 24, 2006 at 5:10 p.m.Hugh Chow, Executive VP of ViXS Systems, Toronto presents a seminar entitled "Globalization: A Semiconductor Industry Perspective" organized by our Solid-State Circuits Chapter and Student Activities Committee. Click for details

Upcoming Conferences

LinuxWorld & NetworkWorld 2006 Conference & Expo, April 24 - 26, 2006, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON
	"Where the IT Industry Meets!" LinuxWorld & NetworkWorld Canada Conference & Expo 2006 is the key tradeshow & conference for management & IT professionals to learn about the most up-to-date information technology products, services, applications & solutions on all platforms. Conference is a non-commercial education program that includes keynotes, case studies, tutorials & hands-on workshops. The tradeshow features experts from leading companies; 20,000 sq. ft of exhibits all under one roof truly makes this event a must-attend. New! LWNW 2006 will present the "Smalltalk Solutions Conference 2006" in conjunction with the Smalltalk Industry Council. Check out speakers, topics, contests, sponsors, and more at http://lwnwexpo.plumcom.ca.
IEEE members - free pre-registration for trade show, 25% discount on pre-registration for conference and tutorials - use code A101 when you pre-register and show your IEEE membership card at the door.   Register today to take advantage of Early Bird Rates: https://www.exporeg.com/lwnw.

The 19th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering will be held May 7-10, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario. Click here for details.

The Engineering Institute of Canada Conference on Climate Change Technology: Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century will be held May 9-12, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario. Please visit their web site for full details

The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo will be held July 9-12, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario at the Hilton hotel. Click here for details

The 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems will be held September 17-20, 2006 in Toronto at the Marrott Downtown hotel. Click here for details.

The 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be held September 28-9, 2006 in Toronto at the Renaissance Downtown hotel.Click here for details.

Hall of Fame

The Hall of Fame section is an attempt to feature the IEEE Fellows of the Toronto Section.

Robert T.H. Alden, IEEE-LF - 2005 IEEE Fellow,Bob received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1968. His professional career included working at the Sangamo Company in Toronto, the Electricity Commission of New South Wales in Australia, a number of consulting assignments in several countries, the University of Toronto, and McMaster University where he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus in 2001.He has published over 75 technical papers in his field of electric power engineering. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario, a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada and a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has been an active IEEE volunteer for 35 years - for example - serving as Chair of the Hamilton Section, Director of Region 7 (now IEEE Canada), and IEEE Vice President for Regional Activities. Dr Alden is currently President of the IEEE Canadian Foundation, a Director of the IEEE Foundation, as well as Awards & Recognition Chair and Webmaster-in-Chief for IEEE Canada. Over a 10 year period, he published more than 80 articles in IEEE's THE INSTITUTE under the title traveling the information highway with Bob Alden. He has received numerous awards from IEEE and IEEE Canada - most recently the prestigous Haraden Pratt Award for Outstanding Service to IEEE, and a Toronto Section Scholarship named in his honour. Within the Toronto Section, he was the founding chair of the Life Members Chapter and assumed the Chair of the Publications Committee in October 2003. He has completed a redesign of the Toronto Section web site and newsletter - he is currently the webmaster. Click here for a link to Dr.Alden's webpage

Robert A. Hanna, IEEE-F - 2004 IEEE Fellow,Dr. Robert A. Hanna is a registered professional engineer in the provinces of Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, and a designated consulting engineer. He is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (FIEE), UK, and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC). He is President of IEEE Canada and IEEE Director (Region 7) for 2006 - 2007.
In the past 33 years, Dr. Hanna has been actively engaged in all aspects of electrical design work, complex power quality investigations and Adjustable Speed Drives (ASDs) applications covering over 50 installations for 30 major clients. The work conducted in these areas has resulted in 75 technical company reports, 35 technical papers including 16 IEEE transaction/conference papers. He is frequently retained as a senior consultant to provide unique technical expertise on complex, non-conventional, multimillion dollars projects for large industrial customers and consulting firms
Click here for a link to Dr.Hanna's webpage.

Dr.I. Burhan Türksen, IEEE-F - 2004 IEEE Fellow,Dr. Türksen received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Systems Management and Operations Research all from the University of Pittsburgh, PA. He joined the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto and became Full Professor in 1983.His current research interests centre on the foundations of fuzzy sets and logics, measurement of membership functions with experts, extraction of membership functions with fuzzy clustering and fuzzy system modeling. His contributions include, in particular, Type 2 fuzzy knowledge representation and reasoning, fuzzy truth tables, fuzzy normal forms, T-formalism which is a modified and restricted Dempster's multi-valued mapping, and system modeling applications for intelligent manufacturing and processes, as well as for management decision support and intelligent control.
He is a member of the Editorial Boards of numerous technical and scholarly journals such as Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Approximate Reasoning, Decision Support Systems, Information Sciences, Fuzzy Economic Review, Expert Systems and its Applications, Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence, Information Technology Management, Transactions on Operational Research, Fuzzy Logic Reports and Letters, Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Failures and Lessons Learned in Information Technology. He is the co-editor of NATO-ASI Proceedings on Soft Computing and Computational Intelligence, and Editor of NATO-ASI Proceedings on Computer Integrated Manufacturing. He is a Fellow of IFSA and IEEE, and a member of IIE, CSIE, CORS, IFSA, NAFIPS, APEO, APET, TORS, ACM.
Click here for a link to Dr.Türksen's webpage.

Section News

The newly appointed IEEE Toronto Section officer's met for the ExCom meeting in January to outline the Strategy for the section.Please welcome join us in welcoming Dr.Anpalagan and his team.

Your 2006 Section Officers (from left):   Marcelo Mota - Secretary   Alex Bot - Vice Chair   Alagan Anpalagan - Chair   Pele Westlind - Treasurer

Member News

IEEE Toronto Section members Juwei Lu,Konstantinos N. Plataniotis and Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos have won the prestigious 2003 IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks Best Paper Award - an IEEE Computational Intelligence Society award for their paper titled "Face Recognition Using Kernel Direct Discriminant Analysis Algorithms".

Dr.A.Anpalagan - IEEE Toronto Section Chair and the entire team at the IEEE Toronto Section are proud of their achievements and pass on the Kudos to the winning team.

Congratulations to Dr.Bob Hanna and Dr.Frank Kschischang on becoming the new EIC Fellows.

IEEE News

Microelectronics Pioneer to Receive 2006 Medal of Honor

January 18th,2006- James D. Meindl has been named the 2006 recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor for his "pioneering contributions to microelectronics, including low power, biomedical, physical limits and on-chip interconnect networks." Click here to read the entire article.

Engineers Week Expands Around the World

January 18th,2006– Engineers across the U.S. and in other countries are making plans for Engineers Week 19-25 Feb. According to The Institute, EWeek was initiated in the United States but programs and materials are now also accessible to countries around the world. EWeek activities are now held in several countries, including Australia, Canada, Columbia, Dubai, Germany, India, Mexico, the Netherlands and Trinidad and Tobago.Click here to read the entire article.

IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CELEBRATES 60 YEARS IN 2006

WASHINGTON,January 19th,2006 - The IEEE Computer Society this year kicks off its celebration of the 1946 invention of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC, and (in the same year) the formation of the Subcommittee on Large-Scale Computers of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, one of the two IEEE predecessor societies. The IEEE Computer Society is marking the event by running monthly articles on the history of computing in COMPUTER Magazine; awarding the "Technology of the Decade Award," at a joint meeting of the society's Board of Governors and the IEEE Education Society's board on 30 Oct. in San Diego; and a 60th Anniversary History Competition for undergraduates, who design and build a Web site on the history of computing. Information on the history competition, with a first-place prize of $10,000, can be found here. In addition the Computer Society is seeking applications for its annual international design competition, with a 15 March deadline. For details, go to :

Membership

Future Senior Members of the IEEE Toronto Section   Have you been in professional practice for at least ten years and have shown significant performance over a period of at least five of those years?   You should be an IEEE Senior Member.   Need help in obtaining your three references?   We will help you - just contact Alex , our membership chair.   Please click this link to find out the advantages, the requirements, and an explanation of the process including key links to apply online.

Volunteers Invited

Volunteering a few hours a month is a very rewarding experience - we have a great group of about 45 volunteers who contribute to the smooth running of our Section - by distributing the workload over many Section members, the individual load is kept small - we are looking for a few additional members to help out in the following specific areas:

- Secretary for our Industry Applications Society    If you are interested, please contact David
- The Communications Society is looking for a Volunteer is to get involved with organizing technical, educational and professional seminars. Somebody from the industry will be an asset.    If you are interested, please contact Xavier

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