The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Toronto Section
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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
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
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. .
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Local IEEE Educational Programs
April 26, 2008 8:00AM – 5:00PM
One Day USB Hands-On in Linux
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 program.
Click for details. REGISTRATION REQUIRED & ONLINE PAYMENT OPTIONS. Registration deadline: April 16, 2008.
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Upcoming 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.
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.
Section News
IEEE Toronto Section is on Facebook
Click here for the Section's FACEBOOK LINK
April 7th 2008 - As many of you may know by now, Facebook has become an international phenomenon. - It's one of the most popular social networking sites on the Internet. Members may create personal profiles and add friends and colleagues to their "Friends List", which allows them to view each other's personal profiles. In addition to this, through this medium, it is possible to send messages to one another, create events (and invite whoever you please), create groups and more.
There are millions of users from all around the world on Facebook and it has become one of the most important tools for advertising events, both social and technical in nature. As a result, in the Toronto Section, my GOLD group has created a Facebook Group "IEEE GOLD - Toronto Section". There is almost 100 members - both IEEE and non-IEEE members, and not only from Toronto.
Through this Facebook Group, GOLD sends messages to all the members of our upcoming events, and we maintain a list of the upcoming events in the "Recent News" section. We also have pictures of our past events, a "Wall" for blog-type discussions, links to our homepage and more.
The "IEEE GOLD - Toronto Section" Facebook group has been very well-received by its members. It promotes interactivity and also gives us another way of getting IEEE GOLD's message out there. Due to the positive response received, I strongly recommend other Affinity Groups, Chapters and Sections to create their own groups. It requires little maintenance and is a fun way to keep in contact with your members.
IEEE is coming out with its own social networking tool. It's called "MemberNet". If you log onto myIEEE with your web account info, you will see it there. It's still in its Beta version, but you can easily sign up - I believe it will be fully functional very soon (within a month). You can easily search other IEEE members and maintain a profile. It's similar to "Linked In".
April Khademi
IEEE Toronto Section, GOLD Chair
IEEE Canada, Regional Student Representative
IEEE News
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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 Alex Bot at this
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please contact the Editor.
The IEEE Toronto Section accepts advertising for items deemed to be of
interest to our members. If you would like to advertise in our newsletter,
please contact the editor.
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