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April 3, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Benjamin Mak, Associate – Ridout & Maybee LLP presents a seminar on "What is my invention? Performing Your Own Preliminary Patentability Searches," organized by the GOLD Affinity Group. Click for details. Registration required

April 10, 2008 at 6:30 p.m. Michael Wong of IBM Canada presents "The Concurrency Revolution in C++0x Standard," organized by our Computer Chapter. Click for details.

April 11, 2008 at 3:00 p.m. Dr. Colin J. McKinstrie of Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, presents a Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture, "Optical Signal Processing by Parametric Devices," organized by our Circuits and Devices Chapter, and co-sponsored by the Institute for Optical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Click for details.

April 17, 2008 (rescheduled from Mar 27) at 6:00 p.m. James A. Whatley, Senior Protection Specialist, Hydro One Networks, presents "Recent Applications and Developments in Digital Protective Relaying," organized by our Power Engineering Chapter. Click for details. Registration required

April 25, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Dr. René-Jean Essiambre, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell-Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, presents "Information Theory Applied to Fiber-optic Transmission: Limits to Spectral Efficiency of Optical Fibers Due to the Kerr Nonlinearity," jointly organized by our Communications Chapter and Circuits and Devices joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 2, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Prof. Amit Mehta of the Institute of Advanced Telecommunications, Swansea University, UK presents "Recent Progress in Switched Beam Single Element Antennas," organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 6, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. Andreas C. Cangellaris of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, presents a Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Distinguished Lecture, "A Methodology for Fast, Fully Coupled Electro-Mechanical Modelling of RF-MEMS Capacitive Switches," organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 12, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Prof. Majid Ebrahim-Zadeh of ICFO-The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain, presents "Flexible Nonlinear Light Sources," organized by our Circuits & Devices Joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 15, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. Prof. David C. Hutchings, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, presents "Enabling Technologies for the Monolithic Integration of Semiconductor Lasers and Waveguide Optical Isolators," organized by our Circuits & Devices Joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 14, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Walter Banks, President, Byte Craft Limited presents, "Linguistic Variables: Clear Thinking with Fuzzy Logic," organized by our Signals and Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter. Click for details.

May 21, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. Blair Peberdy, Vice President and Chief Conservation Officer, Toronto Hydro presents the talk "Toronto Hydro's Conservation Demand Management Initiatives," jointly organized by our Life Members and Power Engineering Chapters. Click for details.

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Local IEEE Educational Programs

"USB Hands-On in Linux" by Dennis Cecic — June, 2008
USB has emerged as the de-facto standard interface for PC connectivity. Unfortunately for developers, the USB programming model is relatively complex, compared to these traditional interfaces. The objective of this 1-day class is to de-mystify the USB, and kick-start your USB Device development in Linux by reviewing the important aspects of the USB, as well as getting some hands-on experience in implementing generic data exchange between a Microchip PIC18 USB MCU and a Linux user-space C-program.
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The IEEE Toronto Section recently held the two-day course "Project Management – Meeting those Pesky Requirements" by Celia Desmond. Click the thumbnail on the left for a larger version.

Visit our Education Activities page for a full list of upcoming and past courses.

Summary of Local IEEE Conferences

May 4–7, 2008 — 21st IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering – CCECE 2008 will be held in Niagara Falls, Ontario, at the Sheraton Fallsview hotel. CCECE is a flagship conference for researchers, students, and practising engineers in the area of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Canada and around the world to meet annually for 3 to 4 days in a Canadian city to present the latest technological advancements and discoveries, to network and exchange ideas, to strengthen existing partnerships and foster new collaborations. See website for further details.

May 9–10, 2008 — IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications – MeMeA 2008 will be held in Ottawa, Ontario. See website for further details.

July 6–11, 2008 — IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory – ISIT 2008 will be held in Toronto, Ontario. See website for further details.

All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.

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.

IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group Call for Nominations

The IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group is looking to fill the positions of Chair and Vice-Chair. Read more on the WIE page.

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 Kathy Kowalenko and visit the official workshop web page.

IEEE Toronto Section Receives 2006 Sustained Membership Growth Award

The IEEE Toronto Section has been recognized by the IEEE Regional Activities Board (RAB) for its continued success in attracting and retaining Outstanding Leadership and its results in IEEE Membership Development Activities for the period of 2004 to 2006 in Region 7. The section would like to thank volunteers Dimitri Androutsos and Alex Bot for their leadership in membership development.

Communications Society Free Online Tutorial

Sept 18, 2007: IEEE Communications Society is pleased to offer all IEEE members a free two-hour online tutorial...presentation on "Software Radio Implementation for MIMO/OFDM High Speed Wireless LAN/MAN" from IEEE Communications Society's popular Tutorials Now. Free for a limited time only.

This tutorial was originally presented at the IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, and covers cutting-edge wireless parallel transmission technologies in OFDM and MIMO. Development and systems engineers and technical managers will find the fundamental and helpful information very useful.

IEEE Milestone - First External Pacemaker The IEEE Toronto Life Members affinity group has successfully nominated the "Hopps First External Pacemaker" as an IEEE Milestone.

Pat Finnigan (LM Chair) is leading this initiative and he needs some help in working with researchers and IEEE members in the life sciences/medical area to gather some more information about Dr. Hopps and his pioneering work in the late 1940's. Click this link to see Dr. Hopps interviewed on a 1950's CBC archive clip from Front Page Challenge.

If you have any relevent information or expertise or are just interested to help out, please contact Pat using his .

Contact us - to contact any member of our executive please use the mailtos on our executive page.

Your 2008 Section Officers (L to R):
Wai Tung Ng - Vice Chair
Alex Bot - Chair
Marcelo Mota - Secretary
Pelle Westlind - Treasurer

Toronto is one of 20 sections in Canada. For more information about national activities and publications, please visit the IEEE Canada links on the left. You can visit the IEEE (worldwide) and EIC web sites by clicking on their logos below.

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