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Volume 4 Number 6
December 2001

CONTENTS
  1. Welcome
  2. Announcements
  3. Call for Papers
  4. Upcoming Special  Issues
  5. Upcoming Conferences
  6. Society News
  7. Publications News
  8. Technical Committee Activities
  9. Chapter News
  10. Awards
  11. New Books
  12. How to subscribe/unsubscribe
  13. Advertising

1. WELCOME

Welcome to the Dec. issue of ComSoc e-News 2001.  As usual, we have compiled a list of upcoming paper submission deadlines for conferences and special issues of magazines/journals, the earliest of which is  Jan. 2. Readers interested in making submissions should check specific conference/special issue web sites for deadlines in case changes are made after publication of this e-News issue. 

This issue has several announcements of new EICs, Associate Editors, TC officers, formation of a new TC, a report on the success of the Global Chapter Chairs Congress, a listing of the awards made in Globecom 2001, as well as other articles. It also contains an announcement of a 50th anniversary item that goes for sale: a 2-DVD set containing over 24000 papers published in the leading journals and conferences of ComSoc.

This is my final issue as Editor. I thoroughly enjoyed my term as Editor over these last two years. It was a great opportunity to work with several outstanding ComSoc individuals and to understand the various facets of this wonderful organization.  Many thanks to all the ComSoc volunteers and staff members who provided me input for e-News. Without your support, this newsletter would not have been possible. I wish I could name you all here, but space limitations prevent me from doing so. You all know who you are, and I can only say, it was a real pleasure working with you and I sincerely thank you all.

I must however recognize the hard work and contributions of a few individuals. Jack Howell, David Alvarez and Natasha Simonovski, ComSoc, generated and distributed the text (e-mail) version of all e-News issues. Eric Levine, ComSoc, attracted sponsorship for e-News. I thank them all very much indeed, and am glad to note that they will continue in the current roles to help the new Editor. I also thank Mark Karol, Avaya Labs, for his leadership and support of e-News in his role as Director of Magazines.

Finally, I am pleased to announce that Tim Moors, Polytechnic University, NY, has been appointed as the new ComSoc e-News editor, starting Jan. 2002. Congratulations to Tim! I look forward to reading his issues.

Adieu! Farewell! Auf Wiedersehn! Goodbye! 
Malathi Veeraraghavan, Editor 

2. ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • ComSoc's 50th Anniversary
    In January 2002, The IEEE Communications Society begins to commemorate it's golden anniversary with a full year of events and products, including a special bonus issue of Communications Magazine, grand reunions at both ICC in New York and Globecom in Taipei, a 2 DVD set of 28,000+ papers from both periodicals and proceedings, and a special collection of outstanding journal papers. Watch for more announcements. See http://www.comsoc.org/50/index.shtml

  • Special Prepublication Offer
    To help celebrate the 50th anniversary of ComSoc, a special 2 DVD set Communications Engineering Technology: A Comprehensive Collection of Papers 1953-2001 has been developed. With more than 28,000 papers originally published in ComSoc periodicals or at ComSoc conferences, this DVD set will give you convenient desktop access to ComSoc's technical literature published since its inception. Copies will be available in March. A super prepublication value at $69 for members. See the order form at http://www.comsoc.org/headlines/dvd.html or review the TofC at http://www.comsoc.org/livepubs/dvdweb/index.html.

  • Pervasive Computing
    The 2002 first quarter issue of this new magazine cosponosored by the Communications Society and the Computer Society has a preliminary list of articles: "Disappearing Hardware," by Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gaetano Borriello, and Keith Farkas; "Systems Software for Ubiquitous Computing," by Tim Kindberg & Armando Fox; "Interfacing to the Physical World," by Deborah Estrin, David Culler, Kris Pister, and Gaurav Sukhatme; "The Human Aspect of Ubiquitous Computing," by Gregory Abowd, Elizabeth Mynatt, and Tom Rodden; "Leaving the Lab: Issues in Deploying Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Applications," by Nigel Davies and Hans-W. Gellersen. Subscribe with your annual IEEE renewal or at www.comsoc.org or www.computer.org

3. CALLS FOR PAPERS 


This  section is organized into three sub-sections: conferences, magazines, and  journals. 
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  • An ICC Workshop on Optical Networks: Optical Networking in the Metro Area to be held in conjunction with ICC2002,  Sunday April 28, 2002, New York City
  • IMPACCT 2002, IEEE Workshop on Integrated Management of Power Aware Communications, Computing and

    • NeTworking (to be held in conjunction with ICC2002), May 2, 2002, New York City, USA
    • Submission deadline: Jan. 15, 2002. An edited volume based on the workshop will be published in Fall 2002.
  • WOCC 2002, Wireless and Optical Communication Conference, April 26-27, 2002, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
  • ISSSTA 2002, IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications, Sept. 2-5, 2002, Prague, Czech Republic
  • HSNMC'02, 5th International Conference on High-Speed Networks and Multimedia Communications, July 3-5, 2002, Jeju Island, Korea
  • CSNDSP, Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing, July 15-17, 2002, Straffordshire University, UK
  •  CSCC 2002, The 6th WSEAS Multiconference on  Circuits, Systems, Communications & Computers, July 7-14, 2002, Rethymnon Beach, Rethymnon, Crete Islan, Greece 
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  • IEEE Communications Magazine
    • Broadband Access Series 2002-2003
    • Internet Technology Series
      • Manuscripts due: Check web site for deadlines
      • http://inetseries.tripod.com/
      • Series Editors:  Michah Lerner (AT&T) and Khaled Elsayed (Cairo University)
      • Publication date: April, August, and Oct. 2002
  • IEEE Network magazine
    • No new calls
  • IEEE Personal Communications Magazine (soon to be renamed IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine)
    • No new calls
  • IEEE Personal Communications Interactive
    • IP Multimedia in Next Generation Mobile Networks: Services, Protocols and Technologies
  • IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials accepts  tutorials and surveys.  Authors should submit contributions to the Editor, John Daigle (email: wcdaigle@cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu). 


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  • IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications special issues on
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    6. SOCIETY NEWS

    • ComSoc Policies and Procedures are posted on our web site:
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    7. PUBLICATIONS NEWS

       
    • From Jim Kurose, Director of Journals
      • Nick Maxemchuk to be new JSAC Editor-in-Chief
        Professor Bill Tranter of Virginia Tech, will be stepping down as EIC of IEEE JSAC at the end of January 2002, after 12 years of service as the journal's EIC.  Bill was recently recognized for his exceptional service to JSAC, and to COMSOC publications in general, with the IEEE Communications Society Publications Exemplary Service Award. Bill will begin a two-year term as COMSOC Vice President for Technical Activities.
        Nick Maxemchuk, now a Professor at Columbia University, and previously a member of AT&T Labs, and Bell Laboratories, will be the new EIC of JSAC.  Nick has a long history of outstanding service as a senior editor of of JSAC, and numerous other editorial posts both within COMSOC and beyond, to the job. 
    • From Norman C. Beaulieu, Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Communications
      • New Associate Editor Appointments for the IEEE Transactions on Communications
        • Dong In Kim was appointed as Editor for Spread Spectrum Transmission and

          • Access in the area of Wireless Communication.
        • Xiaodai Dong was appointed as Editor for Modulation and Signal Design in

          • the area of Transmission Systems.
           
    8. TECHNICAL COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES
    • From Hussein Mouftah, announcing the new Optical Networking TC
      • The ComSoc Board of Governors, in its meeting at Globecom'2002 in San Antonio, approved the establishment of a new technical committee, namely the Optical Networking Technical Committee (ONTC). The first planning meeting of ONTC also took place at Globecom'2001. If you are interested in getting the minutes of the meeting along with a copy of the TC charter and/or would like to be involved in its activities, please contact Prof. Hussein Mouftah, the newly elected ONTC Chair at mouftah@ece.queensu.ca. Also, the ONTC charter will be posted on ComSoc web site very soon.
    • From Henning G. Schulzrinne , Computer Communications (TCCC) Chair
      • The newly elected officers of the TCCC are:
        • Chair:  C. K. Toh
        • Vice Chair: Dinesh Verma
        • Secretary: Miguel Labrador
        • Conference Coordinator: Mohsen Guizani 
    • From Curtis Siller, c.siller@ieee.org, Vice President, Technical Activites
      • Call for participation in IWNA4
        • Due to the tragedy of Sept. 11, we have postponed IWNA4, The IEEE Fourth International Workshop on Networked Appliances (IWNA-4), from October 18-19, 2001 to January 15-16 2002. It will be held at NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, USA; please see http://www.cmr.nist.gov/iwna4 for details.

    9. CHAPTER ACTIVITIES

    • Report from Ron Horn on the success of the Global Chapter Chairs Congress, held in San Antonio, during Globecom 2001

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    10. AWARDS

       
    • Awards presented at the Awards Luncheon during Globecom 2001, San Antonio
      • Congratulations to all the award winners: Ezio Biglieri, Harvey A. Freeman, William H. Tranter, Keiji Tachikawa, John M. Cioffi, Ram Gopal Gupta, and Fred Chang! Click here for details.

     

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    Questions, comments, and newsworthy contributions are encouraged; please address to the Editor via email to mv@poly.edu