ICC'97 will be held in Montreal, Canada on 8-12, June, 1997, and the Asia Pacific Committee (APC) of ComSoc will have its meeting there on June 9. I would like to encourage all of the ComSoc members in AP region to attend the meeting, where you can have valuable information on the APC activities, see your friends again, and have new friends from AP region.

APC acts as a management body which fosters participation of ComSoc members from AP region in ComSoc activities. In order to perform its tasks APC has three subcommittees, AP Technical Subcommittee (Chair: Iwao Sasase, Japan), AP Meeting and Conference Subcommittee (Chair: Naohisa Ohta, Japan) and AP Regional Affairs Subcommittee (Chair: Kee Chaing Chua, Singapore). The activities of each subcommittee will be reported by each subcommittee chair in the meeting.

APC has its own e-mail alias to exchange information among people to participate APC activities. The address is "apc_members@hornbill.ee.nus.sg". This e-mail alias is maintained by AP Regional Affairs Subcommittee. You can easily distribute valuable information among members in the APC e-mail alias. Any ComSoc members in AP region can join the APC e-mail alias, and I encourage people to ask Kee Chaing Chua (eleckc@leonis.nus.sg) for your participation in the e-mail network.

APC publishes the AP Newsletter twice a year. It contains valuable information for members in AP region. This newsletter is edited by AP Newsletter Editorial Board (Editor-in-Chief: Tan Teik Kheong, Singapore). In the next APC meeting you will see the newest edition of the newsletter. You can also receive it through the APC e-mail network and the APC Homepage described below. I would like to ask you to provide your article and news to an editor in your country so that the newsletter can be more useful for members.

APC opened the APC Homepage last year. Please crick now " http://onlab.tas.ntt.co.jp/APC/" so that you can access various information on APC and ComSoc. For example, you can reach meeting and conference information through the homepage linked to these conference homepages. Student members can get information on how to apply the student travel grant through the APC Homepage. Secretary of APC, Koichi Hagishima, is improving the contents of the APC Homepage, and he really needs your contribution to update the contents and to include new information. The improvement of the APC Homepage is one of the most urgent task of APC.

APC has its own reviewers list which covers various technical areas so that a technical program committee of a conference can utilize the reviewers list to ask paper review for the conference. Actually some technical program committees for IEEE conferences and workshops contacted me to recommend reviewers for their paper selection. This list was established and is maintained by AP Technical Subcommittee. If you can participate in the reviewers list, please contact AP Technical Subcommittee Chair. You can see the list at the APC Homepage.

APC supports all IEEE sponsored conferences and workshops, and especially it is heavily involved in supporting the regional conferences held in AP region. These conferences are APCC (Asia Pacific Conference on Communications), ISPACS (International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communication Systems) and OECC (Optoelectronics and Communications Conference). APCC is a regional version of ICC and GLOBECOM, and APCC'97 will be held on Dec. 7-10 in Sydney. ISPACS is a workshop on advanced signal processing technologies for communications, and ISPACS'97 will be held on Nov.13-15 in Malaysia. OECC is an AP version of OFC and ECOC, and OECC'97 will be held on July 8-11 in Seoul. I strongly encourage you to submit papers and to attend these regional conferences. For further information, please access to the APC Homepage.

ComSoc has currently 9 sister societies, and 5 out of 9 are in AP region. They are CIC and CIE in China, CIEE in Taiwan, IEICE in Japan and KICS in Korea. APC can promote joint activities with these sister societies in AP region, however we have not had any specific joint activity so far. I ask you to propose any idea to proceed with joint activities between APC and any group in the sister societies.

ComSoc has two regional offices outside North America, one of which is Singapore Office (Manager: Fanny Su Beh). Members in AP region can contact it when you have any questions on ComSoc membership. APC has tight relationship with this office, and sometime it helps our APC activities.

ComSoc is initiating actions to promote membership/chapter development in difficult countires and areas, and IAC (International Affairs Council, Chair: Lin-shan Lee) is proposing a plan to form new chapters/joint chapters in these countries and areas. APC covers wide areas in which engineers/researchers have difficulties to join ComSoc's programs or activities, and members participating APC can support the initiative. In the next APC meeting we will discuss what APC can do in this regard.

Nominations are requested for the following three career and service awards.

(1)Edwin Howard Armstrong Achievement Awards

(2)Donald W. Mclellan Meritorious Service Award

(3)The Communication Society Award for Public Services in the field of telecommunications

  If you nominate someone that you think is deserving, please contact Award Liason in APC, Dr. Takeshi Hattori (thattori@mmc.ee.sophia.ac.jp) as soon as possible.

The term of the current APC officers will finish at the end of this year, and it is time to start the nomination procedure to select the next APC Chair. ComSoc will change the basic organization structure, and the new structure will be effective in January 1998, in which APC Chair will be upgraded to a Director for AP region. The Director should be appointed by the President of ComSoc. Accordingly APC should nominate at least two candidates for the Director based on APC's nomination procedure. APC defined its own nomination procedure in the previous officer term, but we should modify it in line with the change of ComSoc organization structure. This is an item to be discussed in the next APC meeting.

The APC Homepage has been opened to public since last November. It has been renewed in order to provide more useful information for the IEEE ComSoc members in the Asia Pacific region and those who are interested in our activities. 

Such information as the next APC meeting at ICC'97 (Montreal, Canada) or the Call-for-papers for APCC'97 (Sydney, Australia) is provided at the Homepage. The table of contents looks like the following:

1. What's New ?

2. About IEEE ComSoc APC (Charter)

3. Student Travel Grant (information)

4. Reviewers at APC

5. Contacts (APC Officers)

6. Asia Pacific Office

7. APC mailing list

8. AP Newsletter Archive

9. Link Index

It will be appreciated if you give us any feedback or contributions to the Homepage.

To be Awarded for the Student Travel Grant at ICC97

20 students have been selected as the recipients for the Student Travel Grants of ICC'97 (Montreal, Canada). The acceptance ratio (20 out of 36 applications) is slightly higher than 50%. The to-be-recipients in the Asia Pacific region include:

A check of US$800 plus the Conference Record will be granted at ICC'97 in Montreal, Canada. In order to qualify for the Grants, the applicants should be:

by Lin-shan Lee

Vice President for International Affairs

Globalization has been a long term goal in the development of the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) for many years. Many people have been making great efforts towards this goal. In short, the society wishes to serve the members and related technical communities all over the world, and hopefully the services provided by the society should be uniform and ubiquitous globally regardless of the geographical location. Such efforts will be continued for many years to come. Table 1 is the membership percentage distribution of ComSoc among different geographical regions.

Table 1 Membership percentage distribution of ComSoc in 1985 and 1995

As can be found, in 1985 roughly 80% of the membership were in North America, but this ratio was reduced to 64% in 1995. For IEEE as a whole the membership percentage of North America ( regions 1-7 ) is still 74% today. So ComSoc is actually "very global" compared to many other IEEE societies in terms of membership distribution. Note that the membership of ComSoc in North America has been actually substantially increased from 1985 to 1995, however the data in Table 1 actually indicate that such increases have been much more faster in regions outside of North America. Right now both region 8 (Europe/Africa/Middle East) and region 10 (Asia Pacific) have 16% of the membership. As this trend is expected to continue for many years to come, the time that the membership in North America will be reduced to less than 50% will not be very far.

ComSoc has been making the long term efforts of globalization right from the organization structure of the society. One out of the three vice presidents of ComSoc has been a "Vice President for International Affairs" for many years. This vice president's primary responsibility is to develop better services to all members in all parts of the world, and to promote the technical activities in all parts of the world. An International Activities Council (IAC), chaired by the Vice President for International Affairs, has been in operation for many years, which is the primary vehicle for this vice president to fulfill the above responsibility. Three regional committees were established under IAC, the Europe/Africa/Middle East Committee (EAMEC) for region 8, the Latin America Committee (LAC) for region 9, and the Asia Pacific Committee (APC) for region 10. IAC includes representatives from every part of the world, from the above three regional committees as well as from North America. This council has been making various policies, measures and taking various actions towards the globalization goal. Actually the globalization efforts have been made by many people in almost every department and all programs of ComSoc, from conferences to publications, from chapters activities to technical committees, etc., certainly not limited to IAC, although many of the basic concepts or general policies were really generated in IAC. Below is a brief summary of some, certainly not all, of the major efforts made by ComSoc in recent years towards the globalization goal. Some of them may be developed under other major goals, but are also very helpful in the globalization direction, thus are also mentioned.

ComSoc has been actively developing sister society relationships with many national societies of different countries. With such relationships not only ComSoc can conduct join programs with many technical societies all over the world, but the members of ComSoc (or the sister society) can subscribe the publications and attend the conferences of the sister society (or of ComSoc) at reduced rates. So the members of one society are actually some kind of "semi-members" of the other society. Up to this moment ComSoc has signed such agreements with quite many national societies located at various parts of the world, including AEI of Italy, SBT of Brazil, CIC and CIE of China, KICS of Korea, CIEE of Taiwan, IEICE-CS of Japan, POPOV of Russia and SEE of France.

On the other hand, in addition to ComSoc's headquarter office in New York, ComSoc hasestablished two regional offices at the other parts of the word: one at Brussels to serve members in Region 8 and one at Singapore to serve members in Region 10. Located within similar time zones and with staff understanding local environments better, these regional offices can certainly provide better services than the New York office to members in their region. This Global Communications Newsletter inserted in the Communications Magazine was also started a few years ago, reporting society information as well as programs and activities in all parts of the world to the global members.

Various programs have been developed by the Publications Department. More and more publications will be available on-line via WWW, so members in far away regions don't have to wait for too long time to read the hard copies.

The editors, reviewers and authors of the publications also indicate a much better global distribution in recent years. A complimentary subscription program was started several years ago, in which free publication packages have been provided to major libraries in countries with economic difficulties but telecommunication developments. This program began with several East European countries, and now it has reached at many countries including Egypt, Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Turkey, Slovenia and Croatia of Region 8, and India, Srilanka, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Pakistan in Region 10. The Meetings and Conferences Department has been making similar efforts. Many major conferences of different sizes and subjects have been rotated to different parts of the world. For example, Globecom were in Singapore in 1995, in London in 1996, and will be in Sydney in 1998 and in Rio De Janeiro before 2000.

Experiments for broadcasting conference sessions electronically via networks to global members were started in Globecom'96 in London. Travel grants have been provided to members with difficulties to travel to attend major conferences. For example, 75 students from 22 countries received this grant in 1996.

The Chapters department is now trying to provide special activities funds to all chapters globally. Right now ComSoc has 19 chapters in region 8, 11 in region 9, and 13 chapters plus two councils (Korea Council and India Council, each with more than one chapters) in region 10. Moreover, all the technical committees of ComSoc are now trying to provide technical information and technical programs over WWW, and have their activities available for members to participate in via Internet. Similar to the on-line publications, these are of special interests to members in far away regions since the electronic media are the most helpful in overcoming geographical distances, although they are also very helpful to members in North America. The distinguished lecturer tours is another very helpful program, in which distinguished lecturers give a series of talks to several chapters in a tour. A new international student membership awards program has also been started in 1997, in which the chapters in each country can select their student recipients with their own criteria.

Globalization is a long term goal and the efforts will be continued by many people for many years to come. It is my belief that this long term goal can be achieved by many small steps one by one, and this is why we are trying to make as many such small steps as possible in all directions. If you have any further suggestions, comments, opinions or questions regarding the globalization efforts of ComSoc or the details of any programs mentioned above, please feel free to contact me at:

I look forward to hearing from you.

A Handy Medium for ComSoc's Globalization

by Byeong Gi Lee, Editor

The IEEE Global Communications Newsletter (GCN) is an important and convenient monthly news medium for all ComSoc members to exchange news and information on all communications communities worldwide. It can also help to disseminate information on ComSoc policies and decisions to members, and to return members' feedback on future policies and decisions.

Since March, the GCN has been diversifying its contents for more balance between regional local news, regional office news and ComSoc office reports. Specifically, the GCN has allocated new space for Sister Societies, ComSoc regional offices and commitees, and the International Activity Council (IAC) in addition to the existing correspondents' and Chapter's reports. Also, it has alloted columns for contributions from International Conference Policy Board (ICPB), Technical Activity Council (TAC), Publications Board and other ComSoc officers. Furthermore, we plan to secure space for ComSoc member's feedback, though how to implement it is yet to be determined.

Each ComSoc member will learn from the GCN what's new in each national society, regional office, and regional committee, what's being decided by each council, board, and committee of ComSoc, and also have opportunity to provide feedback on them. This type of open forum should encourage much more active participation in ComSoc activities by members, and stimulate collaboration among all members, globally.

As far as the inter-regional activities are concerned, two regional offices (Brussel Office and Singapore Office) will take turns to write bi-monthly reports on regional activities, and the three regional committees (EAMEC, LAC, APC) and IAC will take turns to write quaterly reports on regional and inter-regional activities. In addition, Chapters Director will provide bi-monthly or quarterly articles introducing the activities of Communications Chapters worldwide. The nine Sister Societies(SBT of Brazil, CIC and CIE of China, SEE of France, AEI of Italy, IEICE of Japan, KICS of Korea, POPOV of Russia, CIEE of Taiwan) will share a column introducing their status and activities.

On the other hand, members of each of ICPB, TAC and Publications Board, will take turns to write articles every month, thus yielding a monthly contribution from each board/council. This arrangement will enable the GCN to introduce the activities and/or the status of each conference, technical committee and journal/transactions/magazine effectively, as each member in those boards/councils corresponds to a chair/director of a smaller-sized committee/board, a TC chair, or a journal/transactions/magazine editor.

For all of these development plans to be successful, the active participation and interest of all ComSoc members is essential. Especially, timely contributions from all GCN correspondents, regional offices, regional committee chairs, members of IAC, ICPB, TAC and Publications Board, who are to provide reports and articles, are crucial. I hope all members will actively participate in continuously developing the GCN, and would welcome any comments or other ideas that would foster the development of the GCN. (5/22/1997)

3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC '97)

Incorporating

ACOFT - Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology & ATNAC - Australian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference

SYDNEY CONVENTION AND EXHIBITION CENTRE

DARLING HARBOUR, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

DECEMBER 7-10, 1997

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications provides a forum for greater regional interaction and dissemination of information on the latest developments in the rapidly expanding field of communications.

The Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications was successfully launched in Taejon, Korea in 1993. The 2nd APCC, held in Osaka Japan in 1995, attracted technical papers from 19 countries in the Asia-Pacific region, North America and Europe.

The 3rd APCC will be held in Sydney, Australia, from December 7-10, 1997 and will incorporate the Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology, ACOFT and the Australian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference, ATNAC, which are major Australian meetings on Telecommunications, each attracting typically well in excess of 200 delegates.

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Original papers reporting new and significant results are solicited from a range of topics in the broad area of communications including:

PAPERS

Original contributions within the scope of the Conference are solicited for APCC'97. Prospective authors should email, fax or mail the Conference Secretariat for more information as soon as possible. Detailed instructions for the preparation of a paper will then be forwarded.

All papers will be subject to strict review and the closing deadline for receipt of papers will be strictly adhered to by the Technical Program Committee.

Authors can submit a preference for an oral or poster presentation but the final decision will ultimately rest with the Technical Program Committee All papers will be reproduced in the Conference Proceedings. The Conference will include a postdeadline session, a plenary session and a number of invited talks by internationally recognised experts.

KEY DATES

Camera Ready Paper Submission: June 27, 1997

Notification of Acceptance: August 22, 1997

Conference: December 7-10, 1997

FURTHER INFORMATION

For information on any aspect of APCC'97, please complete the details below and email, fax or mail this from to

the APCC'97 Conference Secretariat,THE IREE Society,

Level 1, 118 Alfred Street

(PO Box 495), Milsons Point NSW2061, Australia.

Phone:+61-2-9929-0099; Fax:+61-2-9929-0587; Email:ireesoc@ozemail.com.au

Web Page:Under development, see http: //www.ozemail.com.au/ ~ireesoc

A Call For Paper have been distributed since last year, and the last date for "abstract" is 1 June 1997. The current count for abstract for both ISPACS and MICC are close to 150 papers. It is expected that there will be another 50 papers coming in.

The Conference will be held on 11-13 Nov. 1997 , at Hotel Nikko, Kuala Lumpur. Please take noticed of the change in the venue from Lagoon in Sarawak to Kuala Lumpur. Here are the particulars;

i) Submission Address

MICC'97/ISPACS'97 Secretariat,

c/o: BATC, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,

Jalan Semarak, 54100 Kuala Lumpur.

Att: Liza Abd Latiff (Ms)

Tel: +603-290-4782 (ask Liza), +603-413-4655 (ask Aniza)

Fax: +603-291-5348

Email:liza@batcserv.batc.utm.my

ibrahim@batcserv.batc.utm.my

ii) Payment: IEEE Malaysia Section (same address)

iii) Rates:

Conference registration fee is RM 800.00 ( non IEEE member) and RM 700.00 ( IEEE member)

Tutorial registration : RM650.00

Date of tutorial : Nov 10, 1997. Hotel Nikko.

The organizing committee are still looking for " Invited Speaker" for MICC'97 ( which cover all telecommunication areas) and ISPACS'97 ( which covers Signal ( voice, data, and video processing).

Candidates to give tutorial in MICC'97 and ISPACS'97 are also being requested. Please feel free to send infomation to above address.

Important dates:

Conference:

Tutorial:

To meet the demands of the future and the needs of evolving enterprise and wide-area networks, multiservice platforms will require multiservice architectures. ATM is one technology that can serve as the basis for these flexible systems.

Most WANs today offer a multitude of services such as circuit services, frame relay, LAN internetworking and routing services, and ISDN capabilities over multiple T1/E1 or T3/E3 trunks. ATM technology represents a broadband switching opportunity to extend bandwidth management, routing, and frame switching into a single "unifying system." Only such a multifaceted system can exploit the flexibility and breadth of ATM's promise.

For network managers, the challenge is to leverage tomorrow's offerings with today's technology. To meet the divergent requirements of such broadband switching systems, multiservice platforms must evolve into multiservice architectures. Multiservice architectures in the LAN/WAN must integrate narrow band multiservice platforms that provide access to the WAN, ATM WAN switching capabilities, and network elements that provide high-performance LAN internetworking and frame/packet processing functions. Multiservice platforms also enable the full range of ATM capabilities and provide an evolutionary path to ATM from existing network infrastructures.

ATM can be considered as providing switched trunks as well as virtual trunks. Switched trunks provide bandwidth-on-demand services to achieve overall network cost reduction while virtual trunks can supplement private lines for disaster recovery, backup and traffic overflow. Early video-on-demand trials to bring ATM to the home have been completed. It is become increasingly clear what the bulk traffic would be judging by the explosive growth of the Internet. World Wide Web sites have become increasingly rich in still image and video animation. This thirst for bandwidth has resulted in many frustrated Internet users. Enabling technologies like ADSL & HFC allow ATM to be brought to the home over existing copper and coax facilities, thus breaking the bandwidth bottleneck for Internet access.

In conclusion, the challenges of broadband networking are to enable such multiservice architectures in the eventual realization of multimedia services to the home and corporate environments.

ISPACS'96, the fourth International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems was held in conjunction with ICCS (IEEE Singapore International Conference on Communication Systems) on Nov. 25-29, 1996 in Singapore.

ISPACS'96 has attracted researchers and engineers by its special technical feature: focusing on advanced signal processing technologies that enhance adaptability and intelligence of communication systems. The total number of participants was 450 including ICCS'96.

The heart of ISPACS'96 was the comprehensive and high quality technical program which included regular sessions and tutorials jointly organized by ICCS'96. The TPC made 14 technical sessions and 5 tutorials. 107 papers were presented in the technical sessions. In addition, ISPACS'96 invited a remarkable Banquet Speaker, Dr. Tomonori Aoyama, Vice President, Director, NTT Optical Network Systems Laboratories, Japan. He gave an exciting talk on "Toward 21st Century: Advanced topics in Networking and Signal Processing."

I would like to thank all the committee members, and especially the local committee members for their enthusiastic support and contributions. Of course, special thanks go to the all authors and speakers for their contributions to ISPACS'96.

The next ISPACS will be held in conjunction with MICC'97 (IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications) on 18-20 Nov. 1997 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The APC reviewers' list is now available!

You can reach it from the APC home page, http://onlab.tas.ntt.co.jp/APC/.

The list is classified in 21 technical fields, as shown below;

The lists include reviewer's name, affiliation, e-mail address and Fax number.

For this period, we have been working to collect the technical conference activities information (CFPs, etc) especially held in AP regions. We distributed the information via APC e-mail mailing list in a timely manner and post some of them on the APC Web page as well.

A) On 1 Jan 1997, the IEEE Asia Pacific Customer Service Centre(which also functions as the IEEE Communications Society Office located in Singapore) was re-named the IEEE Asia Pacific Operations Centre.

The re-naming was in-line with the scope of work the office now encompasses which has expanded beyond its original set-up as a customer service centre, and is now consistent with the name of the other non-US office i.e the European Operations Centre located in Brussels.

B) We are pleased also to announce that since the first quarter of 1997, the office has been connected to the IEEE New Jersey Oracle master database. The connection was linked in Jan, and staff completed training in Feb.

We are able now to immediately up-date member's change of address directly onto the Oracle master database upon member's request. We are also on INQUIRY mode for other Oracle responsiblities and would be able to advise members on their membership status, subscriptions, payments and orders placed.

C) Our focus for 1997 is on increased interaction and co-ordination with our volunteers, and participation in Communications Society events in the Asia Pacific. With feedback from our APCC volunteers, the 1997 support activities for the Communications Society and the Scheduled Plan of Activities have evolved into the following:

1997 Support Activities for the Communications Society Office

1. Quarterly (Mar/June/Sept/Dec) up-date ComSoc Chapter Chair contacts - reminders to go to chapter chairs whose terms are expiring. Maintain Chapter Chair contact up-date information.

2. Bi-yearly(Mar/Sept) Formation of Chapter - messages to go out to Section chairs with more than 100 Communication society members asking them if they would like to form ComSoc Chapters

3. Yearly(Feb) - letters to National Societies asking them for latest contact up-date on their key personnel with which ComSoc has sister society agreements. Maintain National Societies president contact up-date information and agreements.

4. Bi-yearly(Jun/Dec) - send promotion letters to major Communication related companies encouraging them to have their employees sign up as ComSoc members.

5. Participate at major ComSoc conferences in the Asia pacific. The 2 major ComSoc sponsored events for 1997 we will attend are 7-11 April INFOCOM'97 Japan and 7-10 Dec APCC'97 Australia.

6. Coordinate 1997 Distinguished Lecture Tour - May tour of the 5 Australian chapters for Prof. Goodman. To initiate interest in the Distinguished Lecture Tour for Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Tahiland etc.

7. Assist the Editor in the production of the AP Newsletter before 8-12 June ICC'97 and 4-8 Nov GLOBECOM'97

8. Bi-monthly article contribution to the Global Communications Newsletter starting March 1997.

Others:

9. membership services - maintain a dedicated telephone line for ComSoc members to call into the Communications Society office for : a) Change of address b) Replacements/claims for non-receipt of publications c) requests for ComSoc society application forms/brochures/flyers & other information.

10. Assist the ComSoc Asia Pacific Committee in setting up and maintaining an Asia Pacific Distinguished Lecturer's database. Dr. Tomonori will seek recommendations from volunteers for potential candidates to be included in the Asia Pacific Distinguished lecturer's database to be set up.

11. Handling/mailing of ComSoc information package, distribute Call for papers/information on conferences, symposiums and workshops, to ComSoc members in the Asia pacific, and distribute information to active APC volunteers - upon request.

12. Assist in the logistic support for hotel/travel arrangements for Distinguished Lecture Tour.

13. Assist in identifying market for ComSoc membership promotion campaign and advertising.

14. Use of office facilities for ComSoc meetings when required.

15. Assist in National Society dialogues when required.

16. Assist in strategic planning for ComSoc when required.

17. Provide fax facility support to KC Chua's function with regards to APC matters when required.

18. Support preparation for the APC meeting if necessary.

19. Assist in the maintenance and up-date of the APC reviewer's list.

20. Set up a Homepage on the Web for this office and link it to the APC homepage.

This is an evolving document.

---1997---

---JUNE---

#1997 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems: Circuits and

Systems in the Information Age -9-12 Jun.

Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong *Info: ISCAS'97

Conference Secretariat c/o Department of Electrical and Electronic

Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong;

Tel:+852-28592710; Fax:+852-25598738; E-mail:iscas97@hkueee.hku.hk

#IWANNT*97 International Workshop on Applications of Neural Networks to

Telecommunications -9-11 Jun.

Melbourne, Australia *Info: C. Lee Giles, NEC Research Institute, 4

Independence Way, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA; +1-609-951-2642;

Fax:+1-609-951-2482; giles@research.nj.nec.com

---AUGUST---

#ISRAMT '97 - 6th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RECENT ADVANCES IN MICROWAVE

TECHNOLOGY - 4-7 Aug.

Beijing, CHINA *Info: Prof. Yue Wang, Tech. Prog Beijing Institute of

Technology, P.O. Box 327, Beijing 100081 CHINA; Tel:+86-10-8841-2840;

Fax:+8610-6841-2889; E-mail:YOUANKE@public.bta.net.cn;

URL:http://www.cs.unr.edu/~sushil/isramt.html

---SEPTEMBER---

#First International Conference on Information,Communications & Signal

Processing -9-12 Sep. Singapore *Info: ICICS '97 Secretariat c/o Research

Lab III, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang

Technological University, Singapore 639798; Tel:+65-799-1287; Fax:+65-792-0145;

E-mail:icics@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg; Home

Page:http://www.ntu.ac.sg/~hw/icics97.html

#NR'97 Workshop The Third IEEE Workshop on Networked Realities -9-13 Sep.

Linz, Austria *Info: Chris Stary; Tel:+43-732-2468-7102;

Fax:+43-732-2468-7111; E-mail:office@ce.uni-linz.ac.at

#ISIC'97-SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON IC TECHNOLOGY, SYSTEMS &

APPLICATIONS - 10-12 Sep.

Hyatt Regency, Singapore *Info: The ISIC-97 Secretariat Center for

Continuing Education Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Avenue.

Singapore 639798 Republic of Singapore; Tel: +65-799-4723; Fax:

+65-793-0997; E-mail:isic97@ntuvax.ntu.ac.sg

---OCTOBER---

#INTELEC'97 -19-23 Oct.

World Congress Centre in Melbourne, Australia

*Info:URL:http://www.telstra.com.au

---NOVEMBER---

#IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communication (MICC'97)

IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and

Communication Systems (ISPACS'97) -11-13 Nov.

Renaissance Kuala Lumpur Hotel, Malaysia *Info:MICC'97/ISPACS'97

Secretariat C/O:BATC, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Jalan Semarak, 54100

Kuala Lumpur Malaysia; Att: Liza Abd Latif(Ms); Tel:+603-291-8088;

Fax:+603-291-1294; E-mail:liza@batcserv. batc. utm. my

#MICC97/ISPAC97- 13-15 Nov.

Venue, Damai Resort, Kuching Sarawak. Malaysia *Info: MICC'97/ISPAC97

Secretariat, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300

Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, Malaysia; Tel:+60-82-671000; Fax:+60-82-672317;

Email: kadim@tualang.unimas.my

#ISPACS'97 -11-14. Nov.

Kuara Lumpur, Malaysia*Info:

---DECEMBER---

#BSS '97- 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Broadband Switching Systems -

3-4 Dec. Taipei, Taiwan *Info: Dr. G.S. Kuo National Central

University,Chung-Li, Taiwan 32054; Tel:+886-3-4263086; Fax:+886-3-4262309;

E-mail:gskuo@imrnet.mgt.ncu.edu.tw.

#APCC'97 -7-10 Dec.

Sydeny Convention and Exhibition Centre Darling Harbour, Sydeny, Australia

*Info:Ms Cherie Morris APCC '97 Conference Secretariat, c/o The IREE

Society, Level 1, 118 Alfred Street, (PO Box 495), Milsons Point NSW

2061Tel:+61-2-9929-0099; Fax:+61-2-9929-0587; E-mail:

ireesoc@ozemail.com.au

#1997 IEEE International Conference on Personal Wireless Communications

-17-20 Dec. Bombay, India *Info: Vijay K. Bhargava, Conference Co-founder,

University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada; Fax: +1-604-721-6048;

E-mail:v.bhargava@ieee.org

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#GLOBECOM '98 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference -8-12 Nov.

Sydney, Australia *Info: GLOBECOM '98 Secretariat, c/o Ollencio D'Souza, 149

Milton Street,Ashfield N.S.W. 2131, Australia; Tel:+612-9304213 (DID) or

+612-9304222 (via operator); Fax:+65-9304406;

E-mail:globecom@elec.uow.edu.au

  ( Editorial Note) 

I am pleased to release the eleventh edition of AP Newsletter. The newsletter is published biannually just before ICC/Globecom, so that it is delivered at the conference sites. This email version is basically identical to the paper version except the graphical designs. It will be appreciated if you forward this to your colleagues who might be interested in it. Any comments on this newsletter will be welcome.