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.
toronto.ieee.ca
Sorry that this newsletter is late but some events have been taking
place "behind the scenes". This web site is hosted at the IEEE
Operations Center in Piscataway, New Jersey on a server known as EWH.
This is an acronym for Entity Web Hosting - a service provided by
IEEE to any Section with a web site. This is the "computer" where
these web pages are stored. With the implementation of something
called "Virtual Domain Hosting" or VDH, you can now see our web address
"http://toronto.ieee.org" in the address window of your web browser.
To see this, you have to use our web address (previous sentence)
by typing it into your browser window, or placing it in your list of
favorites, or using it on any web page that links to our Toronto Section
web site. Toronto was the first Section to use VDH, followed the
next day by IEEE Canada (http://ieee.ca).
This new service is one of many service upgrades that
we have been implementing - many will not be obvious to us as users but
simply improve reliability and security. As an IEEE volunteer
involved with these upgrades, your editor has been very busy for the past
couple of weeks - again, my apologies for the resulting delay in this
newsletter.
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Upcoming Chapter/Group Activities
September 23
Dr. Heping Ding of the Institute for Microstructural Sciences at the
National Research Council in Ottawa will present a seminar on "Stable and
Robust Fast Affine Projection - Adaptation Algorithms", organized by our
Signals and Applications Chapter. Click for details.
October 1 at 3 p.m.
Dr. Christi K. Madsen, Distinguished Member of the
Technical Staff of the Bell Laboratories at Lucent Technologies
will present a seminar on "Making A Many-Colored Processing Engine: Signal
Processing with Optical Filters", organized by our Circuits and Devices
Chapter. Click for details.
October 1 at 5 p.m.
Constantine A. Balanis of the Department of Electrical Engineering at
Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ will present an
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society distinguished lecture on "Smart
Antennas for Wireless Communication Systems and Networks", organized by our
Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter. Click for details.
October 8 Professor K. J. Ray Liu of the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute of Systems Research
at the University of Maryland in College Park, USA will present
an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture
on "Toward Maximum Achievable Diversity in Space, Time, and Frequency",
organized by our Signals and Applications Chapter. Click for details.
October 19 Dr. Roger B. Marks of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, USA will present an IEEE
Computer Society Distinguished Lecture on "The IEEE 802.16 Standard for
Broadband Wireless Access", organized by our Computer Chapter.
Click for details.
Section News
October 16
The Annual Awards Dinner and General Meeting of the IEEE Toronto Section will
be held at the Old Mill Inn, 21 Old Mill Road, Toronto. This is a
opportunity to meet and socialize with the IEEE volunteers that organize
all of our Section's events. Come and take part of a fine dinner,
meet our award winners and our guest speaker, Brian O'Connell, president
of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology. Brian
is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and the
Department of Philosophy at Central Connecticut State University in New
Britain. He teaches courses concerned with the ethical, legal and
social aspects of computing and with the jurisprudence of new
technologies. Click for details.
Member News
Congratulations to one of our members who has been recently elevated to
Senior Member grade; Mokhtar A. Aboelaze If you wish to
apply for Senior Member elevation, or nominate someone else, please use this link.
Student News
The Fall term has started, and now is the time for IEEE student members and
especially those who organize student branches at our universities and colleges
to check out the IEEE Canadian Foundation web site and consider the various
funds (Scholarships and Grants) that are available - details
IEEE News
Now is the time to vote in the IEEE Annual Elections - this year for the
first time - we can vote online at www.directvote.net/ieee.
Before you log on to vote, find your personal "Control Number"
and "E-signature" values that are printer at the top of your IEEE
election sheet which you should have received by mail. Let's show
we appreciate this convenient way of voting (finally !) by casting our
electronic ballots. I just did, and I found it to be both simple
and effective.
IEEE has improved its Spam filtering service for those of us who have
an IEEE E-mail Alias - click for more information
Don't forget to renew your membership when your IEEE renewal form arrives -
including life members!
Career Services
For Her Success specializes in the placement of women in the workplace,
and has been recommended by the IEEE Toronto Women In Engineering committee.
Please use the
link on our careers site to access.
Advertising
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interest to our members. If you would like to advertise in our newsletter,
please contact the editor.
Thanks For Reading
That's all for now, hope to have you visit again next month ..... Bob Alden,
Editor
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editor at this email
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