Dave Michelson (dmichelson@ieee.org) Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:29:25 -0700
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Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:29:25 -0700 From: Dave Michelson <dmichelson@ieee.org> Subject: IEEE ComSoc (Vancouver) - August Newsletter-------------------------------------------------------------- IEEE Communications Society (Vancouver) - Newsletter Vol. 1, No. 4 - August 1999 http://members.home.net/comsoc-vancouver/ -------------------------------------------------------------- All ComSoc-Vancouver events are open to the entire community. -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Rogers Presentation (Mon, Aug 16) - Postponed! 2. Technical Presentations - Fall 1999 3. Upcoming Seminars and Workshops 4. Volunteers -------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Rogers Presentation - Postponed! The presentation entitled "Inside Rogers@Home: The Evolution of Hybrid Fibre Coax Networks" by Dean Patterson of Rogers Cablesystems, originally scheduled for Mon, Aug 16, has been postponed to Mon, Sep 20, 1999. This will accomodate the many people who expressed regret that they would likely be on vacation in mid-August and therefore unable to attend. See http://members.home.net/comsoc-vancouver/ for details. 2. Chapter Committees. We're very fortunate that several ComSoc members have expressed interest in helping to organize chapter activities, including Jim Cavers, Matt Yedlin, Jin Ng, Verona Wong, Mohamed Cherif, Eric Guetre, Andrew Ng, Mehdi Mahdavi Ardekani, Vincent Wong, and Peter Chong. In order to simplify the task of matching people up with their interests, we're forming four committees: Awards and Advancement, Technical Presentations, Seminars and Workshops, and Student Activities. If *you* have any suggestions or would like to help out in some way, please let me know. 3. Technical Presentations - Fall 1999 --------- Monday, September 20, 1999, 7:30 - 9:00 pm BCIT, Bldg SE6, BC Tel Theatre Inside Inside Rogers@Home - The Evolution of Hybrid Fibre Coax Networks Dean Patterson, Rogers Cablesystems Ltd. ------- Wednesday, October 13, 1999, 7:30 - 9:00 pm BCIT, Bldg SE6, BC Tel Theatre (tentative) The Challenge of Integrating 800 and 1900 MHz Radios into PC Cards Ron Vanderhelm, Sierra Wireless ------- Speakers for the November and December meetings have not yet been scheduled. Suggestions and volunteers for future presentations are most welcome. 4. Seminars and Workshops. A recent poll of Comsoc-Vancouver mailing list subscribers showed that there is a great deal of interest in IEEE-sponsored seminars and workshops. Since third generation cellular systems, software for wireless communications system design, and smart/adaptive antennas were near the top of the list, we're going to start by organizing events in these areas. a. Siavash Alamouti and his colleagues from Cadence Design Systems (Bellevue, WA) will present a full-day technical seminar on third generation cellular systems and software for wireless communications system design in either late-November 1999 or early January 2000. Although the seminar will be sponsored by Cadence, the presentations will deal only with technical issues. While Cadence is best-known for their commercial CAD tools such as SPW, note that they also support and feed code back into the freely available Ptolemy package (http://ptolemy.eecs.berkeley.edu/) developed at UC Berkeley. More details concerning the seminar will follow in next month's newsletter. b. We are organizing a full-day IEEE workshop on Smart/Adaptive Antennas to be held in late February 2000. (Our working date is Friday, February 25, 2000.) A principal aim of the workshop is to inform service providers and other end-users about recent developments in this area. So far, the technical program committee includes myself, Jim Cavers (SFU), Matt Yedlin (UBC), Titus Lo (AT&T Wireless Services), and Brent Sauder (BC ASI). The BC Advanced Systems Institute will co-sponsor the event. The venue has not yet been selected. If you're interested in helping out with this workshop in one form or another, please let me know! 5. Student Activities. We're in the processing of setting up ComSoc student chapters at UBC and SFU. While the existing IEEE student branches focus on undergraduate participation, these new ComSoc chapters will emphasize graduate student participation. Mehdi Mahdavi Ardekani (MASc candidate) has volunteered to take on the task of organizing the SFU chapter. Vincent Wong (PhD candidate) and Peter Chong (PhD candidate) have volunteered to take on the task of organizing the UBC chapter. Our main objective in all this is to ensure that students (especially grad students) are kept in the loop regarding local IEEE activities such as conferences, workshops, presentations, and seminars. If you're interested in helping out with the student chapters in some way, please let me know! -- -o) Dave Michelson /\\ dmichelson@ieee.org _\_v