1. WELCOME

This issue brings the ComSoc Top Ten list for May, an Election reminder, information regarding the Online Village, ICC 2006 Best Paper awards and the latest in Standards, Periodicals, and Imminent Events.

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2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

June Top Ten list available now…The monthly ComSoc Top Ten list of those papers receiving the most requests for PDF views through IEEE Xplore is now posted on the ComSoc www site. Check out ComSoc www site headlines at www.comsoc.org.

IEEE Communications Magazine now has Communicrostic online!

IMPORTANT - 2006 ComSoc election ends at 12:00 EDT on 9 August 2006. If you have not received the ballot or you misplaced it, you can get your control number via email: pnentwig@intelliscaninc.com (more information can be found at http://www.comsoc.org/headlines/vote.html)

Career Forum Archives Highlight What Engineers Must Know. What skills and abilities must the engineer of the future possess? How have degree programs changed in response to changes in the profession? How do you get money from venture capitalists? A panel of educators tackled these and other topics at IEEE Spectrum's second Career Accelerator Forum, held in April. Although the event is over, an archived version is available through 11 July from the "Webcasts" link on the IEEE Spectrum Online site .

Online Village Opens Doors for Entrepreneurs. Want to start a business of your own? IEEE members now have a new place to turn to for sage advice and information: the IEEE Entrepreneurs Village. The online site provides high-tech entrepreneurs with tools and resources to help them launch new businesses, and expand existing ones. Village members can seek advice and information on topics such as funding, marketing, hiring, best business practices, and legal issues. Learn more at http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/3489/08135741

Free on line access to IEEE Communications magazine, journal and conference papers on RF Testing. Visit IEEE Communications new "Tech Focus" site at: http://www.comsoc.org/tech_focus/index.html

The IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2006 award for the best paper for each symposia held. The winners were:

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3. RECENT EVENTS

3.1 AWARDS

The IEEE Communications Society actively seeks to recognize the technical achievements and services of its members. To that end our Awards Committee would like to encourage and solicit your participation in this process by submitting nominations for one of the following awards.

Career Awards
IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Award – for outstanding contributions over a period of years in a field of interest of the Society.

IEEE Communications Society Donald W. McLellan Meritorious Service Award – for outstanding long-term service to the welfare of the Communications Society.

IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Industry Leaders Award – Executive leadership resulting in major advances and new directions in the information and communications business area.

IEEE Communications Society Award for Public Service in the Field of Telecommunications – for major contributions to the public welfare through work in the field of telecommunications.

Service Awards
IEEE Communications Society Hal Sobol Award for Exemplary Service to Meetings & Conferences – for exemplary service to IEEE Communications Society meetings and conferences over a sustained period of time.

IEEE Communications Society Publications Exemplary Service Award – for exemplary service to IEEE Communications Society publications over a sustained period of time.

Do you know someone who has performed services for ComSoc and meets the criteria for a Career or Service Award? If so, we invite you to “put forward” your candidate. Nomination forms (and a listing of past winners) can be downloaded from our web site at http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/awards/careerawards.html and http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/awards/serviceawards.html.

You may also contact ComSoc’s Awards Chair Roberto de Marca for information on the nomination process. Submission deadline for all nominations is September 1; these awards are normally presented at Globecom each year.

Nominations Sought for Non-IEEE Awards IEEE members are eligible for prestigious awards besides those sponsored by the IEEE. These include the Hoover Medal, the Alfred Nobel Prize, the Sperry Award, and the Washington Award. The IEEE Awards Board encourages you to nominate and endorse members for these awards. Learn more at http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/3356/08135741

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

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3.2 SOCIETY NEWS

If you are not already a member, you can join ComSoc online. Find out more about the benefits of becoming a ComSoc member and to apply for membership visit: http://www.comsoc.org/join/index.html

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3.3 CHAPTER NEWS

IEEE ComSoc Region EAME, RCCC-2006

IEEE ComSoc Region Europe, Africa, and Middle East Regional Chapter Chair Congress was held in Istanbul, Turkey, on June 12 and 13, 2006. The Congress was co-located with ICC 2006.

The event was attended by about a half of 42 Chapter Chairs in the EAME Region. The first session was chaired by Andrzej Jajszczyk, the EAME Director. The session included welcome greetings by Baldomir Zajc, the IEEE Region Director. Harvey A. Freeman, VP Membership Services, briefly overviewed ComSoc services to its members, including conferences, publications, and educational activities. Alax Gelman talked about ComSoc involvement in standardization. Andrzej Jajszczyk gave an overview of all EAME chapters. During the second session, chaired by Jacob Baal-Schem, Sergio Benedetto, VP Technical Activities, presented 23 Technical Committees, as well 5 Standing Committees. Baldomir Zajc gave an overview of Region 8, while Hakan Delic, the Chair of Turkey Chapter, presented its activities, concentrating on experiences with ICC organization. The session was concluded by a talk devoted to IEEE History and Life Members by Jacob Baal-Schem.

Session 3, chaired by Adam Livne, included talks by John Pape on ComSoc marketing, Doug Zuckerman, VP Society Relations, and by Carole Swaim on administration and support. The core of the RCCC were brief presentations of all participating chapters.
The next day, ComSoc President Nim Cheung addressed the Congress participants. ComSoc finances were discussed by Bruce Worthman, Jacob Baal-Schem gave a talk “Making successful chapter’s meeting” and Byeong Gi Lee headed a panel “How to increase ComSoc membership”. The panelists included Harvey Freeman and Alex Gelman. The RCCC was concluded by Andrzej Jajszczyk.

A Distinguished Lecture Tour withDr. Ezio Biglieri will take place in Canada Sept 25 to Sep 28 sponsored by the chapters in Toronto, Kingston, Ottawa and Montreal.

The Maine Chapter will host a Distinguished lecture Tour with Prof Anthony Ephremides in September with the following schedule:

Sept 20, BAE Systems, Nashua, NH
Sept 21, National Semiconductor, Portland, ME
Sept 22, UMaine, Orono, ME
Sept 22, UNB, Fredericton, NB, Canada

For more info such as abstract and bios, please refer to http://www.eece.maine.edu/~abedi/comsoc/

The Hamburg chapter will have a meeting in August jointly with the International OFDM workshop InOWo-2006 sponsored by the chapter.

Abbas Jamalipour’s Distinguished Lecture Tour (DLT) to Turkey, Macedonia, Hungary and Croatia June 6–23, 2006

In June 6-23, 2006 EAME Region hosted a Distinguished Lecture Tour with Abbas Jamalipour. This tour was organized jointly by five ComSoc chapters: Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland (Poznan), and Turkey. It started in Poznan, Poland (June 6-10), continued in Istanbul, Turkey (June 10-18), Skopje, Macedonia (June 19), Budapest, Hungary (June 21), and ended in Zagreb, Croatia (June 23). Abbas Jamalipour’s visit to Poznan, Poland, on June 6-10, 2006 was hosted by IEEE Polish Section Communications Chapter (Poznan). This visit was held in conjunction with two conferences which take place in Poznan at the same time: 2006 International Workshop of High Performance Switching and Routing, and National Conference on Radiocommunication, Radiodiffusion and Television.

Prof. Abbas Jamalipour’s visit to Istanbul, Turkey, between June 11-18, 2006 was hosted by the IEEE ComSoc Turkey Chapter. This visit was held in conjunction with two ComSoc-sponsored conferences that took place in Istanbul: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2006), 11-15 June 2006 and 7th International Symposium on Computer Networks (ISCN’06), 16-18 June 2006. ISCN’06. He has also dedicated his time for lecturing to both undergraduate and graduate students at Bogaziçi University in Istanbul.

During his DLT he delivered talks entitled ““Evolution Towards Next Generation Mobile Networks and Wireless IP”, “Seamless support of terminal mobility in 4G/B3G networks with multiclass traffic” and titled “Mobile Broadband Wireless Access 3G Cellular, IEEE 802.16e, and IEEE 802.20”.

Region 9 student branch meeting will be held October 19-22, 2006 in Acapulco, Mexico.

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

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3.4 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE NEWS

IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications (TCPC)

The Committee sponsors conferences, technical sessions, workshops, and other information exchanges on architectures, applications, systems, terminals and technologies to provide personal, location-independent communications and computing in voice, data and visual media. It covers techniques for achieving portability, ubiquity and transparency using wireless networks ranging from microcellular to satellite, and wired networks ranging from narrow to broadband. The issues, at all protocol layers, include propagation, spectral allocation, coding and modulation, equipment design, network management and operation, intelligent networks,
personal profile management, security, applications program interfaces and user interfaces, and interoperability between various elements of the network and other networks, and standards.

Activities of the Enterprise Networking and Services Technical Committee

1. The major event organized by the EntNet TC is the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Enterprise Networking and Services 2006 (ENTNET 2006) to be held on 12-14 September 2006 in Vancouver, BC. Canada. The conference is co-located with the IEC's Broadband World Forum Americas. EntNet 2006 program includes seven technical panel sessions, workshop on advanced wireless technologies and a tutorial program. Jawad Khaki, Corporate Vice President, Windows Networking and Devices
Technologies, Microsoft Corporation, will deliver Keynote Presentation "Next Generation Seamless Networking"

2. As a new business activity, the 2nd Workshop on Situation Management (SIMA 2006) l will be organized on October 24th
2006 in Washington, D. C. in conjunction with MILCOM 2006.

3. EntNet TC took active part in the organization of the 8th International Conference on eHealth Networking Applications and Services (HealthCom 2006)

IEEE Communications Quality and Reliability Technical Commitee Chairman Kenichi Mase, Professor, Niigata University, Japan, honored three individuals with the CQR Chairman's Award at an award ceremony during the annual CQR International Workshop in London, England on June 7, 2006. The 2006 recipients were

- John Harrison, LanditD Ltd, Consultant to National Infrastructure
Security Co-ordination Centre (NISCC) for demonstrating the priority of security to the reliability of communications networks, for building lasting international bridges throughout his career and for pioneering trusted information sharing in the
communications industry

- Stephen Malphrus , Staff Director for Management, U.S. Federal Reserve Board for championing communications network reliability as a finance industry stakeholder, for his marked professionalism in engaging industry experts, and for advocating network reliability as top priority before the highest levels of government

- Hiromi Ueda, Professor, Tokyo University of Technology for contributions to promoting technical program activities of the IEEE CQR Technical Committee

For the background and achievements of the recipients, please visit the press release on the CQR homepage http://www.comsoc.org/~cqr/index.html

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

IEEE Book Supports Standards for Metro Wireless Networks
A new IEEE book, WirelessMAN: Inside the IEEE 802.16 Standard for Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks, describes the workings and application of broadband wireless access networks in metropolitan areas that allow the sharing of data, voice, video, and games among millions of Internet users. The book introduces metropolitan broadband wireless access networks, explains the rationale behind the choices made in creating IEEE 802.16 standards, and reviews the technology behind them. Read more at http://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/3498/08135741

IEEE Standard Telephone Loop Performance Characteristics
Revision of IEEE Std 820-1984. This standard provides common denominators for subscriber line performance, independent of facility types, construction processes or equipment, and circuit provisioning methods.

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

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3.6.1 CURRENT ISSUES MAGAZINES

MAGAZINES
IEEE Communications Magazine
IEEE Network
IEEE Wireless Communications

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3.6.2 PERIODICALS

Recent special reports in IEEE Spectrum:

• Engineering Warms To Frozen Light Slowing light in optical fibers could pave the way for novel data storage techniques

• Hydrogen on Track Trains and industrial equipment now, cars later

• Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer

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3.6.3 NEW BOOKS

For information about books published by the Wiley-IEEE Press, see http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/press/

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3.7 SISTER SOCIETIES

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

IEEE Conference on Sensor & Ad Hoc Communications & Network
25-28 Sep 2006 / Reston, Virginia USA / http://www.ieee-secon.org/2006/

IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor & Mobile Radio Communications
11-14 Sept 2006 / Helsinki, Finland / http://www.pimrc2006.org/

IEEE International Conference on Enterprise Networking & Services
12-14 Sept 2006 / Vancouver, Canada / http://www.ieee-entnet.org/2006/

International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing
22-24 Sep 2006 \ Wuhan City, China / http://www.arcst.whu.edu.cn/wicom/

IEEE Global Communications Conference
27 Nov- 1 Dec 2006 / San Francisco, California USA / http://www.ieee-globecom.org/2006/

International Conference on Communication Systems Software and Middleware
7-12 Jan 2007 / Bangalore, India / http://www.comsware.org/

IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference
11-13 Jan 2007 / Las Vegas, Nevada USA / http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/2007/

International Conference on Testbeds & Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities
5-8 Feb 2007 / Orlando, Florida / http://www.tridentcom.org/

IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conf
11-15 Mar 2007 / Hong Kong / http://www.ieee-wcnc.org/2007/

IEEE @ CTIA WIRELESS 2007
- IEEE Portable & IEEE 802.16e Standards Symposium & IEEE ISBMSB
25-29 Mar 2007 / Orlando, Florida USA / http://www.comsoc.org/confs/ieee/index.html

IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications (ISPLC) & Its Applications
26-28 Mar 2007 / Pisa, Italy / http://www.ieee-isplc.org/2007/

IEEE International Symposium on Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
18-20 April 2007 / Dublin, Ireland / http://www.ieee-dyspan.org/2007/

International Symposium on Integrated Network Management
21-25 May 2007 / Munich, Germany / http://www.ieee-im.org/2007

IEEE International Conference on Communications
24-28 Jun 2007 / Glasgow, Scotland / http://www.ieee-icc.org/2007/

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

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4.3 IMMINENT CALLS FOR PAPERS

4.3.1 CONFERENCE CFPS

Additional forthcoming ComSoc conference Calls For Papers are listed at http://www.comsoc.org/confs/calendar/2006/confscfp.html.

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4.3.2 JOURNAL CFPS

New ComSoc online publication elevated to IEEE Journal status. View the fourth issue of the Communications Society's newest online publication IEEE e-Transactions on Network and Service Management (eTNMS)

 

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4.3.3 MAGAZINE CFPS

New: IEEE Radio Communications: Components, Systems, and Networks: A quarterly supplement to IEEE Communications Magazine. Supplement Editor: Dr. Joseph Mitola III, The MITRE Corporation. See the Call For Papers at http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/commagradiocfp.htm

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4.4 INDUSTRY EVENTS

5. ANNIVERSARIES

Birthdays and Anniversaries:

30 July 1814 Birthday of Johann Georg Halske, pioneering electrical engineer who co-founded the electrical manufacturing firm of Seimens & Halske. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he died 18 March 1890 in Berlin, Germany.

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,” which featured John Barrymore and Mary Astor.

7 August 1886 Louis Allen Hazeltine was born in Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.A. This pioneer in radio engineering and inventor of the neutrodyne circuit was known for his innovations in the teaching of electrical engineering using mathematics. A Fellow of the AIEE and IRE both, he died 24 May 1964 in Maplewood, New Jersey, U.S.A.

9 August 1995 On this date, Netscape Corporation, which had been founded on 4 April 1994, held its initial public offering at a price of $28 a share. The next day it was selling for $71.

12 August 1960 The first telecommunications satellite, Echo-1, was launched. Echo-1 was passive; it did not generate or amplify signals but reflected signals which originated on the ground. Nevertheless, its successful launch inaugurated the era of space communications the next day, 13 August 1960, when it successfully reflected a two-way telephone conversation from earth stations.

17 August 1937 The first test flight of an airborne radar set occurred.

18 August 1920 Joseph H. Vogelman, contributor to the field of military electronics, IRE Fellow (1959) and IEEE Life Fellow (1986), was born in New York, New York, U.S.A.

20 August 1911 The New York Times sent the first around-the-world telegram via commercial service. The message read ''This message sent around the world,'' and traveled on 16 relays through the Azores, Bombay, the Philippine Islands, Guam, Honolulu, and San Francisco. The message, which traveled more than 28,000 miles, took about 16 minutes to transmit.

22 August 1867 Charles Francis Jenkins was born in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. Jenkins was one of the first to create a working television system using the Nipkow disk, although his first broadcast demonstration trailed Baird’s by three months. He died 5 June 1934 in Washington, DC, U.S.A.

23 August 1806 200 years ago, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, early investigator of electricity and discoverer of the force law for electric charges, died in Paris, France at the age of 70. He was born 14 June 1736 in Angoulême, France.

26 August 1873 Lee de Forest, inventor of the 3-element electron tube, was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, U.S.A. He died 30 June 1961 in Hollywood, California, U.S.A., where he had moved during his role as a developer of sound movies. De Forest was an Eta Kappa Nu Eminent Member (1952), the winner of the 1922 IRE Medal of Honor, and the winner of the 1946 Edison Medal.

27 August 1850 Augusto Righi, a pioneering Italian electrical engineer with particular interests in electrical measuring instruments and electromagnetic wave-theory, was born in Bologna, Italy. He died there on 8 June 1920.

28 August 1863 André-Eugène Blondel, inventor of the electromagnetic oscillograph, an instrument for recording alternating-current waveforms, was born in Chaumont, France. A professor of electrotechnology who also contributed to wireless telegraphy and the general theory of electrical machines, he was named an Honorary Member of AIEE in 1912 and a Fellow of the IRE in 1917. He died in Paris on 15 November 1938.

29 August 1831 The 175th anniversary of Michael Faraday recording his discovery of electromagnetic induction in his notebook, one of the key advances in electrical history; his experiment may also be considered to be the invention of the transformer.

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