Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond please check this page regularly - updates posted as they are received Sep 18, 2006 at 6 p.m.     Our brand new Chapter for Engineering in Medicine and Biology is holding its "Inaugural Wine & Cheese Event" at Ryerson University starting at 6 p.m. Speakers include; Stephen Dibert of MEDEC as well as Dr. Tas. Venetsanopoulos, VP Research and Innovation, Ryerson University and Dr. Ross Ethier, Director IBBME and Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto.   Click for details. Sep 21, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Jim Himer, CTO for Grid and HPTC, SUN Canada in Markham, Ontario presents a seminar entitled "The Trends, Challenges and Benefits of Grid Computing", organized by our Computer Chapter.   Click for details. Sep 25, 2006 at 11:00 a.m.   Dr. Ezio Biglieri, F-IEEE, Departament de Tecnologia; Universitat Pompeu Barcelona, Catalunya (SPAIN) presents an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecture entitled "Multiuser Detection in a Dynamic Environment", organized by our Communications Chapter.   Click for details. Sep 28, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.   Professor C.-C. Jay Kuo of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA presents an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture entitled "Ubiquitous Multimedia Computing and Communication: Challenges and Future Trends", organized by our Signal Processing Chapter.   Click for details. Oct 3, 2006 at 3:30 p.m.   Dr.Hassan Kojori, Senior Principal Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace presents a webinar entitled "Advanced Power Conversion Methods for More Electric Aircraft", organized by our Industry Applications Chapter.   Click for details.   Must register ASAP. Oct 19, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.   Valeriy Tatarnykov, P. Eng., Group Leader, Alcatel Transport Automation Solutions Canada presents a seminar entitled "Measure of Passenger Service Dependability in Communication-Based Transit System: A Statistical Approach", organized by our Engineering & Human Environment (Reliability) Chapter.   Click for details. Oct 26, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Roch Archambault, Senior Technical Staff Member, Compiler Optimization Technology and Compiler Focal Point for HPC, IBM Canada presents a seminar entitled "Using advanced compiler technology to exploit the performance of the Cell Broadband Engine architecture" organized by our IEEE Computer Chapter.   Click for details. Oct 26, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.   PEO Toronto Dufferin Chapter presents a seminar on "Hybrid Cars" co-sponsored by the IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering Affinity Group   Click for details.

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2006 dates:    Oct 9 Thanksgiving Day (Canada)    October 28 section AGM

IEEE Educational Programs

Oct 28 & 29   IEEE Toronto Section - Project Management - Meeting those Pesky Requirements - details   Registration Deadline: Oct 20, 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.   Note Revised Dates

Summary of Conferences

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.

e-management, e-business, e-fficient - Enable e-management strategies to build your business. The University of Toronto Certificate in Electronic Communications provides up-to-date background in all aspects of electronic communications, including the current business environment, planning processes for communications networks, network and access technologies and services, along with a number of management processes and career-planning materials.   It provides what you need to know to be current and competitive.   Click here for details of upcoming 2006 courses or visit the U of T PDC site to register.

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