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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
Aug 10, 2006 at 7:30/9:30 a.m. Toronto Women in Engineering
is organizing a tour of "Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada Inc" which includes
a bus from Yonge and Sheppard to the Cambridge plant. This is a great
opportunity to see how popular cars are really made in Canada. Click for details
Aug 14, 2006 at 2:00 p.m. Professor Reuven Gordon of the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of
Victoria presents a seminar entitled "Optical Properties of Nanostructured
Metals: From Physics to Devices", organized by our Circuits & Devices Chapter.
Click for details
Sep 25, 2006 Now is the time to mark your calendar so you do not
miss this IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecture. Dr. Ezio Biglieri,
F-IEEE, Departament de Tecnologia; Universitat Pompeu Barcelona, Catalunya
(SPAIN) presents this DL entitled "Multiuser Detection in a Dynamic
Environment", organized by our Communications Chapter. Click for details
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Upcoming Courses
Please note the change in dates for this timely and critically useful course
in project management. Now scheduled for two days back-to-back October 28 & 29
with a revised registration deadline of October 20, 2006. The IEEE Toronto
Section is offering a 2-day course in Project Management, for those who manage
or work on projects, but have little or no formal training in the field. The
course is based on processes recommended by the Project Management Institute,
the primary authority on project management. "Project Management - Meeting
those Pesky Requirements", is taught by Celia Desmond, B.Sc., M. Eng.,
President of World Class-Telecommunications. Click here for more details.
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Upcoming Conferences
The 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems will be held September 17-20, 2006 in Toronto at the Marrott Downtown hotel. Click here for details.
The 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be held September 28-9, 2006 in Toronto at the Renaissance Downtown hotel.Click here for details.
All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.
Hall of Fame:
The Hall of Fame section features the IEEE Fellows of the Toronto Section.
In this issue we feature a Life Fellow of the IEEE who was inducted as a
Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) at the EIC March 2004
Awards Gala in Ottawa.
Dr. Pasupathy, LFIEEE - 2004 EIC Fellow
obtained his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications)
at the University of Madras and a M.Tech in Electronics and Circuits at the
Indian Institute of Technology (Madras). Subsequently at Yale he was granted
a Masters and PhD in Communications. He then did post-doctoral work at the
University of Toronto, where he is now a Full Professor in the Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is an international authority in
the field of Digital Wireless Communication, which includes modulation
and error control. His work is characterized by its solid theoretical
base, while still providing a clear path towards practical solutions. He
has contributed more than 250 articles for leading journals and
conferences, and contributions to 3 books. Dr. Pasupathy has been
awarded many honours, has lectured throughout North America, Europe and
Asia and his list of students resemble a mini United Nations. His work
and reputation have made a significant contribution to the image of the
Canadian research community on an international scale. His work has
helped very directly in the development of Canadian capability in the
area of communications in its broadest form. For this gifted researcher
and teacher the EIC recognizes him as Fellow of the Engineering
Institute of Canada.
Section News
Our new Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter is well underway
with a set of members and a lively committee consisting of Benjamin Mak as
chair with Dr. Brian Courtney, Kristiina McConville & Charudutt Shah as
vice-chairs. The parent society, EMBS, is holding its annual international
conference in New York from Aug 30 to Sep 3. Keep your eye on the EMBS chapter
web
site for details and programs of this exciting new chapter which brings
IEEE Toronto directly into be world of medical advances.
IEEE Milestone: Our 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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IEEE News
IEEE Medal of Honor:
James D. Meindl, Director and Pettit Chair Professor of the Joseph M.
Pettit Microelectronic Research Center at Georgia Institute of
Technology in Atlanta, has been named recipient of one of technology’s
most prestigious accolades - the 2006 IEEE Medal of Honor. His
pioneering contributions to microelectronics transformed medical
research, improved portable military devices and resulted in the
creation of a portable electronic reading aid for the blind. Meindl is
receiving the award for "pioneering contributions to microelectronics,
including low power, biomedical, physical limits and on-chip
interconnect networks." As a result of Meindl's work, doctors now have
the ability to utilize of micro-sized implantable instruments to help
diagnose medical conditions. The award, sponsored by the IEEE Foundation,
was presented at the annual IEEE Honors Ceremony on 24 June in Minneapolis,
Minnesota.
Metcalfe's Law is Wrong!:
Of all the popular ideas of the Internet boom, one of the most
dangerously influential was Metcalfe's Law. Simply put, it says that the
value of a communications network is proportional to the square of the
number of its users. If you are interested in communications networks or
just interested in controversy, read your copy of the July issue of Spectrum
or this online
version.
Membership
New Senior Members of the IEEE Toronto Section
Parham Aarabi, Ali-Akbar Afzalian, Ali Grami, William Melek, Samih Mikhail,
Li Qian and Jonathan Rose were elevated at the recent A&A panel meeting in
Minneapolis, Minnesota - Congratulations to all of you...
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 Alagan Anpalagan at this
Advertising
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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