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Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings May 6, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.  IEEE Toronto GOLD Affinity Group holds their "Graduation Social Event," featuring speakers: Bud Derakhshani, PMP, Managing Director of CareerMatch®; Wai Tung Ng, IEEE Toronto Section, Vice Chair; and April Khademi, IEEE Toronto GOLD Chair. Click for details. Registration required. May 27, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.   The IEEE Toronto Engineering in Medicine & Biology Chapter is holding a talk with Wine and Cheese Reception, featuring a keynote speech by Prof. Shelley McKellar of University of Western Ontario, entitled "Repairing the Diseased Heart: The Impact of Medical Engineering". Part of the "IEEE Milestone - First External Pacemaker" series for 2009. Click for details. Jun 25, 2009 at 5:00 p.m.   Dominic Lalli of National Instruments, and Mohamed Hafed of DFTMicrosystems Inc. present, "Test Challenge and Solution in High-speed IO" organized by our Instrumentation and Measurement Chapter. Click for details. Section News IEEE Toronto Section's Survey As part of the IEEE Toronto Section's desire to better respond to members' needs and wishes, we are conducting a survey. The survey is organized into 3 broad categories namely membership, member needs and how you rate IEEE to your needs.In total, there are 20 questions that require responses.The Survey is designed to preserve anonymity without reference to member identity and the results of the survey will be used by the IEEE only. The survey is designed and delivered securely (over a SSL session) using the services provided by Surveymonkey (www.surveymonkey.com). I kindly request your cooperation to take this survery by clicking here. IEEE Milestone - First External Pacemaker 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 at this e-mail . Project Management Institute - Southern Ontario Chapter (PMI SOC) and IEEE Toronto Section Sign Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) On March 26, IEEE Toronto Section and PMI Southern Ontario Chapter signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the purpose of exchanging ideas and experiences on how to benefit from each others’ operations. Under the MOU, both organizations will hold joint activities and facilitate the knowledge sharing among the constituents. Moredetails. ************************************************************ 2009 IEEE Toronto International Conference – Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH 2009) http://www.TIC-STH2009.org Toronto, Ontario, Canada September 27 - 29,2009 ************************************************************ Conference is focusing on advanced interdisciplinary problems across a broad spectrum of the IEEE fields of interest. The scope is NOT limited to the traditional IEEE areas – electrical, electronic, computing, engineering Benefits of Attending Prestigious International IEEE Conference,Full-Paper Peer Review,Publication in the IEEE Xplore – Most Respected,Scientific Full-Text Database,Attend the Conference On-Site in Toronto or Participate On-Line,Low Registration Fee- $299 with High-Value Tutorials Included,Opportunity to Publish Lengthier Papers – Up to 6(six) Pages With No Extra Fee,.... Upcoming Conferences 8-10 July 2009, The Second IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (IEEE CISDA 2009) http://ieee-cisda.org/ Ottawa, Canada Important Dates Tutorial/Special Session Proposals submission: February 15, 2009 Full Paper Submission: March 15, 2009 Notification of Acceptance/rejection: April 15, 2009 Submission of Camera-Ready Submission: May 15, 2009 May 12–15, 2009 — Canadian Conference on Climate Change – CCTC 2009 will be held in Hamilton, Ontario. Sep 27–29, 2009 — Toronto International Conference – Science and Technology for Humanity – TIC-STH 2009 will be held in Toronto, Ontario Oct 19–21, 2009 — Product Safety Engineering Society Symposium – PSESS 2009 will be held in Toronto, Ontario. All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link. Upcoming Courses Using WinUSB to Communicate with a USB Device" by Dennis Cecic — June 20, 2009 Are you developing a customized USB Peripheral for Windows® XP or Vista®? USB peripheral manufacturers must provide a way for the PC host application to access the device’s features. Microsoft has recently provided a user-mode driver, WinUSB.sys and user-mode DLL, WinUSB.dll, which exposes user-mode client support APIs. The objective of this 1-day class is to review the important aspects of USB (electrical, mechanical, protocol), as well as providing hands-on experience in implementing a Windows® application using the WinUSB APIs, which will exchange data with a USB microcontroller. The course will be run in a fully instrumented computer laboratory. Click for details. "Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (WCET) Training" by Javan Erfanian and Luis Blanco — Jun. 11 and 12, 2009 A 2-day course aims to cover end-to-end wireless engineering concepts, technologies, standards, architecture, design, services, management, and related infrastructure, regulatory and other attributes. This course targets the requirement for the WCET certification examination. Click for details IEEE News IEEE.tv Wins National Awards HP-35 Scientific Calculator Awarded IEEE Milestone Participants Sought for Humanitarian Technology Challenge Conference 1-2 June in Washington, DC For more these and other IEEE news from the IEEE Newsroom - Click here. And check out the IEEE Institute Magazine here. 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 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 Advertising For Advertisting in the annual printed edition of IEEE Toronto Section - The Annual Connection 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. Please send any news item submissions, comments, suggestions, concerns to the editor before the 28th at this email . Thank you for reading - Naresh Kurada,MSEE,P.Eng.,MBA (Editor). 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