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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.
Now formatted for portrait-orientation printing.
Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings
Feb 12, 2008 at 6:00 p.m.
Peter Hiscocks, CEO of Syscomp Electronic Design presents a seminar on "Launching an Electronics Business," organized by the GOLD Affinity Group. Click for details.
Feb 27, 2007 at 5:00 p.m.
Prof. Juin J. Liou of the University of Central Florida presents an Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecture, "Recent Advances and Future Directions of MOS Devices for RF ," organized by our Circuits and Devices Chapter. Click for details.
Feb 28, 2008 (revised date) at 6:30 p.m.
"Engineering Forum for Nuclear Technology in Ontario – Joint IEEE Toronto/Association of Polish Engineers in Canada Conference," organized by our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter. Click for details.
Feb 29, 2008 at 3:00 p.m.
Prof. Werner Wiesbeck of Universität Karlsruhe presents an Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecture, "UWB Antennas and Channel Characteristics," organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter. Click for details.
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Upcoming Conferences
All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.
IT360° Conference & Expo 2008
Conference Dates: April 7 – 9, 2008
Trade Show Dates: April 8 – 9, 2008
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Bldg.
Website: www.it360.ca
IEEE members receive a 25% discount and a FREE trade show pass! -
Use code A101 when registering for the Conference before April 6th. If you would like to visit the trade show only, please use Code: TS1 for free admission.
IT360° is an interactive experience for IT professionals and business executives. Faced with the challenge of shrinking budgets and limited time to test or evaluate, IT360° provides a conference of 80+ educational sessions and an informative exposition where professionals can compare applications and solutions while learning first-hand from leading companies and their experts in this immersive arena.IT360is cultivating innovation by exploring the following stacks in the conference -
Security , Information Architecture ,Unified Communications , Virtualization ,SaaS ,Open Source
SOA , Storage , Database Management , Service Management , Microsoft Technology , Smalltalk , IT Green , Web 2.0
Member News
 Dr. Bruno N. Di Stefano Awarded the 2008 IEEE Canada W. S. Read Gold Medal
Bruno DiStefano, a Senior Member of IEEE residing in the Toronto Section, is President of Nuptek Systems Ltd. He is being awarded the 2008 W.S. Read Gold Medal (Outstanding and Sustained Service to IEEE Canada and the Institute) in recognition of service to the profession & IEEE
The IEEE Toronto Section would like to congratulate Bruno Di Stefano for his achievement and thank him for his service to the profession.
There are ten awards, six for achievement and four for service, which will be presented at the IEEE Canada Awards Banquet on the evening of May 5, 2008 in Niagara Falls during the 21st annual IEEE Canada Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE08). Nominations for these awards closed on Nov. 30. Your awards committee then ranked the nominations and proposed the recipients who were then approved by IEEE Canada.
 Pas Pasupathy: Meeting Challenges Head On
IEEE Life Fellow and Toronto Section member, Prof. Subbarayan "Pas" Pasupathy, was recently profiled in the IEEE publication "The Institute":
"A lunch with co-workers and perhaps a fancy watch or a piece of luggage are typical retirement gifts for many people. But those weren’t adequate to mark the career of IEEE Life Fellow Subbarayan “Pas” Pasupathy. Instead, his students and colleagues at the University of Toronto, in Canada, devoted an all-day workshop to honor his contributions as teacher, pioneering researcher, and international authority on wireless digital communications, detection and estimation theory, and biomedical signal processing."
Read the full article by in The Institute and visit the official workshop web page
The following IEEE Members were elevated to Senior Members for their contributions to Electrical & Computer Engineering in 2007.
Antonio Carreira , Syed Haqqi,Ming-Kin Law,Kristiina Mcconville,Gomaa Hamoud,Roger Berube,Daniel Fischer,Les Hajagos,David Murray,Visda Vokhshoori,Brian Mitsuki
,Michael Doherty,Yu Sun,Raghu Chetram,Patrick Finnigan,Robert Caputo,Hou Ming,Mieso Denko,Ivan Lee,Mohammad Mojahedi,Jahangir Tavakkoli,Ioan Marusca,Brian Kent Courtney
,Saeed Khan,J Gregory Steffan.
Congratulations to all!
IEEE News
IEEE Spectrum Special Report Explores Engineering Dream Jobs
1 February – In its special report featured in the February issue, IEEE Spectrum profiles 10 technologists and their engineering “Dream Jobs.” This year’s crop of dream jobs include studying penguins in Antarctica, watching shooting stars in the South Pacific and tracking robots through the Amazon. Read the full “Dream Jobs 2008” story on the Read the full press release
Intel Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore to Receive 2008 IEEE Medal of Honor
23 January – Gordon E. Moore, chairman of the board, emeritus, at Intel Corporation, has been named as the recipient of the 2008 IEEE Medal of Honor. Moore will be presented with the award 20 September 2008 at the IEEE Honors Ceremony to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Sections Congress. He is widely known for “Moore’s Law,” which predicted that the number of components the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year. Moore was selected “for pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer and the semiconductor industry.” To review the full list of 2008 IEEE Medal recipients, visit the IEEE Awards Web site.
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And check out the IEEE Institute Magazine here.
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 Dimitri
, 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. If you are interested, please contact our
Section Chair Alagan Anpalagan at this
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