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1. WELCOME

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

Welcome to the June 2004 issue of IEEE ComSoc e-News. This issue announces the introduction of US Patents that reference ComSoc Digital Library publications,  a new optical communications technology event, two new awards,  plus lists the top 10 most popular articles in ComSoc periodicals for April 2004. Also included is the latest information in Standards, Periodicals, and Imminent Events.

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2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

US Patent Cite ComSoc Authors

US Patents after 1998 that reference ComSoc publications can now be found in the citation area of ComSoc Digital Library papers. About 9,000 references to 3,500 papers are included, mostly citing periodical papers. See the Digital Library at http://dl.comsoc.org/DL

Call for Papers -- June 15, 2004 deadline 

Submit your manuscripts for the Fall 2004 issue of e-TNSM (eTransactions on Network and Service Management )! Electronic submissions only. Submit by e-mail to Professor Raouf Boutaba  etnsm@uwaterloo.ca See Author Guidelines here.

Stephen B. Weinstein, an IEEE Fellow and Distinguished Lecturer, member of the IEEE Board of Directors, and former President (1996-97) of the IEEE Communications Society, has signed on to be a presenter at: Wi-Fi 2004 Forbes' Wi-Fi in the 21st Century Workplace Seminars 8-14 June Chicago, Washington DC, San Francisco, New York City http://www.forbesconferences.com

2004 IEEE Communications Society Election
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. Please go to http://www.comsoc.org/headlines/vote.html for information about candidates for president-elect and members-at-large and details on voting. And then, please vote. Voting for this election closes August 6 at 12 noon EDT!

OFC AND NFOEC combine to create leading optical communcations technology event.  The executive management of the Optical Fiber Communication Conference and
Exposition(r) (OFC) and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference(tm) (NFOEC) today announced plans to combine the two events into one comprehensive conference and trade show exposition to take place March 6-11, 2005 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim,California.  For more details, go to http://www.ofcconference.org/

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

Summer 2004 Schedule of Online Courses at Stevens Institute of Technology 

Stevens Institute of Technology, in cooperation with the IEEE Communications Society, is happy to announce the continuation of the discount programs for any ComSoc member who signs up for any Stevens online course. Registration is now open for more than 40 graduate-level courses on topics ranging from Technology Management and Electrical Engineering to Computer Science and Financial Engineering. View the schedule of WebCampus.Stevens courses at http://webcampus.stevens-tech.edu/Summer_2004_Schedule.pdf

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3. RECENT EVENTS

3.1 AWARDS

Winners of the IEEE Guglielmo Marconi Award Announced 

Yan Xin, Zhengdao Weng and Georgios B. Giannakis have been selected to receive the 2004 IEEE Guglielmo Marconi Paper Prize Award in Wireless Communications. Their paper "Space-Time Diversity Systems Based on Linear Constellation Precoding" was published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless, Communications, Vol. 2, No. 2, March 2003.  The IEEE Guglielmo Marconi Best Paper Award is an annual award, sponsored by Qualcomm Inc., for an original paper in the field of Wireless Communications published in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications in the previous calendar year. To learn more about this award, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/~awards/Marconi.html

IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Industry Leader Award

QUALCOMM Chairman and CEO Dr. Irwin Mark Jacobs was awarded the IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Industry Leader Award for contribution and leadership in the wireless communications industry by the IEEE Communications Society. For more details, go to http://www.comsoc.org/headlines/wcnc04.html.  To learn more about this award, go to: http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/awards/leader.html

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

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Monterrey Student Branch hosted a successful Telecommunications Conference.  For more details, go to http://www.comsoc.org/headlines/monterrey.html

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The Multimedia Communications Technical Committee launched its electronic newsletter. Check out the first issue.

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

In addition to this, a new Technical Committee covering this subject is about to be created. If you are interested in being a member or being one of the leaders and learning about the procedures for becoming a new committee, please come to an informational meeting at ICC2004 in Providence I-III in the Newport Bay Center
from 5:45 to 6:45 pm on Monday, June 21, 2004.

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4 May: Amendment Approved for Allocating Object Identifiers Within IEEE 802® LAN/MAN Standards

6 May: IEEE Approves Start of Four Wireless Personal Area Network Standards Projects

18 May: IEEE 802.15.3™ Guide Addresses Untapped High-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) Market

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Was that Slip and Fall for Real?
(Video vault stores surveillance camera images for years.), May 20, 2004



• Indian Company Hopes To Put Cheap Batteries in HEVs
  (With the help of new technology, the lowly lead acid battery that powers the ignition of conventional cars may make it into hybrid electric vehicles.), May 26, 2004
  

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The IEICE Communications Society

- Global News Letter

- IEICE Transaction on Communications and current issue.

 CFP for Transactions for upcoming issues:
- April,2005 Internet Technology V - June 25, 2004. For more information, go to http://www.ieice.org/eventadm/ronbun-e.php?society=cs.

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4. IMMINENT EVENTS

4.1 IMMINENT CONFERENCES

ICC 2004
IEEE International Conference on Communications
Paris, France June 20-24

EntNet
IEEE International Enterprise Networking & Services Conference @ Supercomm
Chicago, USA June 21-23

ICME
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo
Taipei, Taiwan June 27-30

OECC/COIN 2004
OptoElectronics and Communications Conference/ Conference on Optical Internet
Kanagawa, Japan July 12-16

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
SECON	1st Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor Communications and Networks	2004	Santa Clara, CA USA	Oct. 4-7	Jun. 7
CCNC	2nd Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference	2005	Las Vegas, NV USA	Jan. 3-6	Jun. 30
IEEE INFOCOM	24th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications	2005	Miami, FL USA	Mar. 13-17	Jul. 6
WCNC	IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference	2005	New Orleans, LA USA	Mar. 13-17	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
	Jun. 15	Wireless Communications in China: Technology vs. Markets
	June	Multiple Access Technologies for B3G Wireless Communications
	Jul. 30	Optical Storage Area Networks
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:

4 May, 1806
Sir William Fothergill Cooke was born in Ealing, England. He and Charles Wheatstone worked togoether
to develop telegraphy.

6 May, 1949
The first program was run on the EDSAC, Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer, In Cambridge, England,
at the Cambridge University Mathematical Laboratory.

8 May, 1893
Construction began on the Volta Bureau Building under the supervision of Alexander Graham Bell. This National Historic Landmark functioned as a center of information for deaf and hard of hearing persons

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

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