JULY 1 - CANADA DAY 1867 - 2006 139 years since the formation of the union background Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond please check this page regularly - updates posted as they are received Jul 15, 2006 at 10:00 a.m.   Toronto GOLD Affinity Group is organizing a technical tour of "The Hamilton Museum of Steam and Technology".   Click for details. Jul 20, 2006 at 5:00 p.m.   Dr. Robert Gray, Lucent Technologies Professor of Engineering at Stanford University, California, presents an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture entitled "Extracting Discrete Information from a Continuous World: Quantization, Compression, and Classification", organized by our Signal Processing Chapter.   Click for details. Jul 20, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.   Toronto Women in Engineering Affinity Group is organizing a dinner discussion on "Creative Thinking".   Click for details. Aug 10, 2006 at 7:30/9:30 a.m.   Toronto Women in Engineering Affinity Group is organizing a tour of "Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc."   Click for details.

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2006 dates:    July 1 Canada Day    July 4 Independence Day - U.S.    Oct 28 section AGM

IEEE Educational Programs

Oct 14 & 28   IEEE Toronto Section - Project Management - Meeting those Pesky Requirements - details   Registration Deadline: Oct 6, 2006, 12:00 noon.   The Course Instructor is Celia Desmond, President of World Class Telecommunications and currently IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities and a former President of the IEEE Communications Society. She taught telecommunications at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto for over 5 years. She teaches Project Management over the web for Stevens Institute of Technology, and in Toronto with Procept Associates Ltd.

Summary of Conferences

Jul 9...   The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo will be held July 9-12, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario at the Hilton hotel.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Sep 17...   The 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems will be held September 17-20, 2006 in Toronto at the Marrott Downtown hotel.   Submission deadline - March 1.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Sep 28...   The 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be held September 28-9, 2006 in Toronto at the Renaissance Downtown hotel.   Please visit their website   All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.

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 .

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

Another Well Attended Seminar Dr. George Anders, Fellow IEEE at the Marriott Hotel on Bloor St.

With great pleasure, I welcome you to our website that has a wealth of information and useful links for you.   Our job is to serve the members of the Section as well as the society.   We serve our members by organizing technical meetings and social gatherings to advance the knowledge and network with other professionals. Many thanks to our active and dedicated volunteers who contribute to the success of our Section.   I welcome your suggestions that can help improve our services to our members.   There are many other interests as can be seen by exploring the IEEE Toronto links on the left.   Thank you very much for visiting our website. Dr. Alagan Anpalagan IEEE Toronto Section Chair