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1. WELCOME

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

Welcome to the July 2004 issue of IEEE ComSoc e-News. This issue announces the results of the 2003 Journal Citation Report in telecommunications, reminds ComSoc members to vote in the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Election, reports on Second Global Sister Society Summit and two student chapter events plus the the top 10 most popular articles in ComSoc periodicals for May 2004. Also included is the latest information in Standards, Periodicals, and Imminent Events.

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2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

2003: IEEE ComSoc publications are 9 of the top 10 in telecommunications

IEEE periodicals rank highly in nearly 25 of the approximately 170 categories in the 2003 Journal Citation Reports. IEEE published 9 of the top 10 and 12 of the top 20 in the Telecommunications category. Find out more at Publication Impact factors out for 2003.

2004 Communications Society Election

The 2004 ComSoc election for President and Members-at-large is underway! Ballots were mailed Friday, 28 May 2004 to all Higher Grade IEEE Communications Society members and Affiliates (excluding Students) whose membership was effective prior to 30 April 2004. The ballot contains your member number and your control ballot number - both are necessary in order to vote electronically. For more details, see ComSoc Election

CCNC 2005 CFP Deadline near

The Call for Papers for CCNC 2005 ends July 9, 2004. For more information, please check the CCNC 2005 web site.

Second Global Sister Society Summit

ComSoc hosted the Global Sister Society Summit on June 21 durring ICC 2004. The summit was chaired by Naohisa Ohta, Director – Sister Societies, and Nim Cheung, Vice President – Society Relations Council. Goals included enhancing sister society relationships and exploring ways to exchange and disseminate information. For more details, see Global Sister Society Summit

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

Fourth Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium, WTS 2004

On May 14-15 Cal Poly Pomona's IEEE Communications Society Student Branch held its Fourth Annual Wireless Telecommunications Symposium. The event had 200 attendees from 11 countries with 24 accepted papers. For more information, see WTS2004.

Guadalajara Student Branch Hosts Conference

The student branch hosted the conference on March 30-April 2, attracting 1000 students from all over Mexico. Celia Desmond, Past President of IEEE Communications Society was a keynote speaker. The event was organized by a committee of students from six Guadalajara universities. For more information, see Guadalajara Conference.

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3. RECENT EVENTS

3.1 AWARDS

Chapter Achievement Award Winners for 2004

The CAA is awarded to chapters providing their members with high-level programs and activities. For more information, go to http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/documents/pp/pdf/2004.pdf

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

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or 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

2 June IEEE and The Open Group Okay 'FreeBSD Project' to Incorporate Material from the POSIX® Standard

7 June IEEE and SEMI Sign Agreement to Advance Nanotechnology and MEMS Standards

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• The Network Not Taken
  (The designer of the Mac talks about Apple's missed chance to create the Internet.) June 4, 2004
  
  

• Master of Convergence
  (Cellphones and digital televisions? They both started with technologies championed by Tadahiro Sekimoto .) June 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

OECC/COIN 2004
9th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference and 3rd International Conference on Optical Internet
Kanagawa, Japan July 12-16

CSNDSP 2004
4th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing
Newcastle on Tyne, UK July 20-22

ASWN 2004
4th Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks
Boston MA USA August 9-11

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

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
IEEE INFOCOM	24th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications	2005	Miami, FL USA	Mar. 13-17	Jul. 6
CCNC	IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference	2005	Las Vegas, NV USA	Jan. 3-6	Jul. 9
WCNC	IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference	2005	New Orleans, LA USA	Mar. 13-17	Aug. 1
ISPACS 2004	International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems	2004	Seoul KR	Nov. 11-17	Aug. 1

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
	Jul. 30	Optical Storage Area Networks
	Aug. 1	CDMA2000 Evolution — 1xEV-DV
IEEE Network Magazine	Oct. 15	Wireless Local Area Networking: QoS provision & Resource Management
IEEE Wireless Communications
	Jun. 15	Toward Seamless Internetworking of Wireless LAN and Cellular Networks

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5. ANNIVERSARIES

Birthdays:

28 June, 1886
John Renshaw Carson, a Bell Labs researcher, pioneering communications engineer and AIEE Fellow was born in Pittsburgh, PA USA.

29 June, 1903
Alan Dower Blumlein, prolific inventor who contributed to many fields, including telephony, stereo recording, and radar was born in London, UK.

3 July, 1886
John Howard Dellinger, radio pioneer was born in Cleveland, OH USA. Among his contributions was the development of the radiosonde, a balloon-borne device that radioed meteorological data to weather stations.

Events:

4 July, 1054
Chinese astronomers made the first observation of a supernova whose remnants we now know as the Crab Nebula, perhaps the most intensely studied bright nebula in the sky.

4 July, 1861
Western Union began construction on a telegraph line between St. Joseph, Mo., and Sacramento, CA USA It was completed on 24 October 1861, it was the final link in the first high-speed communications link between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.

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

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