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1. WELCOME

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

This issue introduces three new online tutorials on Tutorials Now!, the latest information on IEEE
compliance with the ITAR and OFAC, the IEEE election candidates and Communications Engineering
Technology for 2005. Also included is the latest information in Standards, Periodicals, and Imminent Events.

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2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

Three new online tutorials debut on Tutorials Now: Smart Antennas for Wireless Systems; Broadband
Wireless IP; Coding for MIMO Systems. Each is available with free five minute preview. See Tutorials Now.

Communications Engineering Technology. New Edition planned for 2005. 3 DVD set. Over 20% more
content than the original edition. Watch for the prepublication news.

New On Line now: IEEE Communications Technology Focus. Tech Focus provides FREE access to
papers from IEEE Communications Society publications and conferences on a single topic! The topic for
the currrent issue is 3G Wireless.

Vote in the IEEE Elections! ComSoc members should vote for IEEE President, IEEE Vice-President
of Technical Activities and Division III Director Click here for a list of candidates and other election
information.

Communications Society Digital Library
ComSoc members please note the new title of the Communications Society Digital Library (formerly the
EPP - Electronic Periodicals Package). Look for it on your 2005 member renewal.

For the latest information on the IEEE compliance with the regulations of the ITAR and OFAC
IEEE has completed changes to its computer systems that enable the organization to re-establish
electronic communications with members in embargoed countries. Click here for more information.

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

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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

3 November IEEE Signs VoteHere's Jim Adler for Book on Electronic Voting

21 October IEEE Approves Corrections to Recloser Standard and Revisions to Relay Standards

20 October IEEE P1725™ Cell Phone Battery Standard Working Group to Hold First Meeting

19 October IEEE Revises Nuclear Power Standard for Class 1E Cables, Starts Revision for Power Supply
Standard

For more news regarding IEEE Standards development work go to
http://standards.ieee.org/announcements/index.html.

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IEEE Wireless Communication Standards: A Study of 802.11, 802.15, and 802.16

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Recent special reports in IEEE Spectrum:

• Swift Satellite Turns on a Dime
  (NASA craft to be launched this month must act fast to catch fleeting deep space explosions)
  1 November 2004

• Lost Radio Contact Leaves Pilots On Their Own
  (Communications error wreaks havoc in the Los Angeles air control system) 29 October 2004

Electrical Fuse Lets Chips Heal Themselves
(IBM engineers turn a fault into a feature) 21 October 2004

 

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The IEICE Communications Society
Global News Letter
IEICE Transaction on Communications current issue

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

ISPACS 2004
International Symposium on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems
Seoul KR November 18-19

GLOBECOM 2004
IEEE Global Communications Conference
Dallas, TX USA  November 29 - December 3

PV 2004
14th International Packet Video Workshop
Irvine, CA USA December 13-14

CCNC 2005
IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
Las Vegas, NV USA January 3-6

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
ISPLC	9th International Symposium on Power-Line Communications and Its Applications	2005	Vancouver, BC CA	Apr. 6-8	Nov. 15
WOCN 2005	2nd International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications and Networks	2005	Dubai AE	Mar. 6-9	Dec. 15
ICME 2005	IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo	2005	Amsterdam NL	Jul. 6-8	Jan. 10

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
Jan. 15, 2005	4G Wireless Systems
Feb. 15, 2005	Price-Based Access Control and Economics for Communication Networks
Mar. 1, 2005	Power Line Communications
Sep. 1, 2005	Nonlinear Optimization of Communication Systems

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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
	Jan. 31, 2005	Optical Networking Testbeds: Experiences, Challenges, and Future Directions
IEEE Network Magazine	Dec. 1	4G Network Technologies for Mobile Telecommunications
	March 15, 2005	Interdomain Routing
IEEE Wireless Communications
	Jan. 1, 2005	Applications and Services for the B3G/4G era

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5. ANNIVERSARIES

Birthdays:

5 November, 1936
Michael Leonidas Dertouzos, a computer scientist, inventor, and faculty member at MIT for 37 years,
was born in Athens, Greece. Professor Dertouzos was made an IEEE Fellow in 1976.

8 November, 1923
Jack St. Clair Kilby, Nobel Prize winner and IEEE Member, was born on this day in Jefferson City, Mo. Kilby
developed the integrated circuit and was winner of the 1986 IEEE Medal of Honor, 1989 Draper Prize and the
1999 Eta Kappa Nu Vladimir Karapetoff Award.

Events:

1 November, 1884
At a meeting of the International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C., Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) was
universally adopted.

4 November, 1952
CBS television coverage of the Presidental election featured the UNIVAC computer that accurately predicted the
victory of General Dwight D. Eisenhower based on early returns.

7 November, 1994
The EE Times publicizes the "floating point bug" in the Pentium chip. The chip's maker, Intel, admitted prior
knowledge of the flaw but had not made the information public since it did not think the bug would cause problems.

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

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