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1. WELCOME

Welcome to the August 2004 issue of IEEE ComSoc e-News.

This issue reminds ComSoc members to vote in the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Election, encourages nominations for the categories of career awards and service awards, announces the fall schedule of WebCampus courses at Stevens Institute of Technology, plus the the top 10 most popular articles in ComSoc periodicals for June 2004. Also included is the latest information in Standards, Periodicals, and Imminent Events.

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2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Career and Service Awards - Request For Nominations

The IEEE Communications Society actively seeks to recognize the technical achievements and services of its members. The Awards Committee would like to encourage and solicit your participation in this process by submitting nominations for the categories of career awards and service awards. For more details, go to awards.

Serving Your Educational Needs--Online

To help you achieve your objective of advancing the fields of electrical engineering, computer science, and the related sciences and technologies, ComSoc encourages you to take advantage of quality online education programs at Stevens Institute of Technology. ComSoc is happy to continue to offer its members a 10% discount for online “WebCampus” courses at Stevens. Of special interest are programs in Networked Information Systems, Microelectronics, CyberSecurity, Wireless Networks, Telecommunications Management, and Project Management.

Registration is now open for the Fall 2005 semester, beginning on September 7. A complete list of Fall courses can be viewed at: http://webcampus.stevens-tech.edu/Fall_2004_Schedule.pdf

Detailed course and program descriptions as well as admissions information can be viewed at: http://webcampus.stevens-tech.edu/courses/index.html.

The 10 most popular articles published in ComSoc periodicals viewed online for June 2004 based on PDF views, can be seen at http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/topten/index.html

2004 Communications Society Election

The 2004 ComSoc election for President and Members-at-large is underway and the voting for this election closes August 6 at 12 noon EDT!
For more details, see ComSoc Election.

IEEE receives ruling from OFAC, resolving U.S. embargo-related publishing issues for the Institute. This ruling allows IEEE to resume normal publication process for authors worldwide. Please see OFAC Ruling for more details.

IM 2005 Call For Papers Deadline Approaching

The IM 2005 CFP Technical Paper and Application Session Deadline is August 23, 2004 and the Poster, Tutorial and Panel Deadline is September 30, 2004.

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3. RECENT EVENTS

3.1 AWARDS

For information about ComSoc awards, visit
http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/awards/index.html

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For more information about ComSoc chapters, see http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/chapters/index.html

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Proposed  Ad Hoc & Sensors Communications & Networks Technical Committee

Given the large number of papers submitted on the topics of Ad Hoc and Sensors Communications and Networks, the IEEE Communications Society is
sponsoring a new Conference on this topic to be held October 4-7, 2004. For more information, go to http://www.ieee-secon.org/2004

For more information about ComSoc technical committees, see http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/techcom/committees.html

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3.5 STANDARDS NEWS

6 July IEEE Okays Four Point-of-Care Medical Device Communication Standards

20 July IEEE Starts Standard to Support Broadband Communications Over Local Power Lines

23 July IEEE Approves Two Wireless LAN Projects that Address Fast Roaming and Mesh Standards

29 July IEEE Standard Amended to Greatly Enhance Wireless Local Area Network Security

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Recent special reports in IEEE Spectrum:

• Unsafe At Any Broadband Speed?
  (A US Securiety Agency says Internet Explorer is so vulnerable to attack, users should consider other browsers.) July 21, 2004
  
  

• Nanoholes Permit Remarkable Light Transmission
  (Passing a camel through a needle's eye—with big implications for light-emitting devices.) July 22, 2004

• Can Quantum Dots Compute?
  (Connected quantum dots may form the building blocks of a solid-state quantum computer) August 4, 2004

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The Korean Institute of Communication Sciences

KICS is co-organizing The 9th International Conference on Cellular and Intelligent Communications (CIC) to be held on Oct. 25~28, 2004
in Seoul, Korea. For important dates and more information, go to CIC 2004.

For information about ComSoc Sister Societies, see http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/socrel/societies.html.

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4. IMMINENT EVENTS

4.1 IMMINENT CONFERENCES

ICETE 2004
1st International Conference on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks
Setubal PT August 25-28

PIMRC 2004
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications
Barcelona, ES  September 5-8

RAWCON 2004
IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference
Atlanta, GA USA  September 19-22

SECON 2004
1st Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor and Ad Hoc
Communications and Networks
Santa Clara, CA USA  October 4-7

MILCOM 2004
IEEE/AFCEA Military Communications Conference
Monterey, CA USA  October 31 - November 3

Additional forthcoming conferences are listed at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/index.html.

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4.2 IMMINENT SPECIAL ISSUES

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4.3 IMMINENT CALLS FOR PAPERS

4.3.1 CONFERENCE CFPS

 

Conference	Full name	Year	Location	Date of conference	CFP deadline
IM	IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management	2005	Nice FR	May 16-19	Aug. 23
ICC	IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications	2005	Seoul, UT KR	May 16-20	Sep. 1
EWSN	2nd European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks	2005	Istanbul TR	Jan. 31- Feb. 2	Sep. 3
OFC	Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition	2005	Anaheim, CA USA	Mar. 6-11	Sep. 14

Additional forthcoming ComSoc conference Calls For Papers are listed at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/calendar/2004/confscfp.html.

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4.3.2 JOURNAL CFPS

Deadline	Topic
Sep. 1	Wireless Overlay Networks Based on Mobile IPv6
Oct. 1	Security in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
Oct. 1	The Next Generation CDMA Technologies
Oct. 1	Autonomic Communication Systems
Jan. 15, 2005	4G Wireless Systems
Feb. 15, 2005	Price-Based Access Control and Economics for Communication Networks
Mar. 1, 2005	Power Line Communications

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4.3.3 MAGAZINE CFPS

 

Magazine	Deadline	Topic
IEEE Communications Magazine
	Recurring	IEEE Optical Communications Supplement
	Recurring	IEEE Radio Communications Supplement
	Aug. 1	CDMA2000 Evolution — 1xEV-DV
	Nov. 1	Entertainment Everywhere: System and Networking Issues in Emerging Network-Centric Entertainment Systems
IEEE Network Magazine	Oct. 15	Wireless Local Area Networking: QoS provision & Resource Management
IEEE Wireless Communications
	Jan. 1, 2005	Applications and Services for the B3G/4G era

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5. ANNIVERSARIES

Birthdays:

3 August, 1811
Elisha Graves Otis, inventor of the safety elevator, was born in Halifax, Vt.

5 August, 1850

Carl Theodor Coerper, technical director for a company manufacturing generators and motors and promoter of AC-power systems, was born in Meisenheim, Germany

7 August, 1886

Louis Allen Hazeltine, pioneer in radio engineering and inventor of the neutrodyne circuit, was born in Morristown, N.J. He was a Fellow of both AIEE and IRE.

8 August, 1901
Ernest Orlando Lawrence, one of the most important physicists of the 20th century,was born in Canton, S.D. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for the invention of the cyclotron and was a key member of the Manhattan Project, where he developed an electromagnetic means of isotope separation.

Events:

6 August, 1926
On this date, Western Electric and Bell Labs in collaboration with Warner Brothers and Vitaphone, showed the first successful commercial sound picture "Don Juan,"

More historical information is available at http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/history/index.html.

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