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IEEE Fellow Honoured by Britain's Queen Elizabeth R8 Teams Vol. 6 No. 4 – November 2003 IEEE 8 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08855 http://www.ieee.org/r8 http://www.ieee.org/r8 IEEE Fellow Honoured by Britain's Queen Elizabeth IEEE Fellow, Tariq Durrani was honoured VP-elect of the IEEE by Britain's Queen Elizabeth with the Engineering Management “Order of the British Empire” at a cere- Society. His work has led mony at Buckingham Palace on 10 July to major technical develop- 2003. The investiture recognized his out- ments and several of his standing contribution to the British nation PhD students have estab- for “services to electronics research and lished advanced electron- higher education”. ics companies in Scotland At the University of Strathclyde, and abroad. Scotland, Tariq established one of the Readers may recognize largest research groups in Signal Tariq in these pages – he is our Processing in Europe. His leadership is Region 8 Vice-Chair of well known in his community, in industry, Technical Activities! With this photo, he sends and abroad. In 1994-95 he was President us his regards “from the Investiture Ceremony INSIDE of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, at Buckingham Palace - my daughter Sophia, now serves on several IEEE Boards, and is my wife Clare, me, and my daughter Monise.” Editor’s Ramblings 2 The IEEE Foundation 3 IEEE Standards Development Principles; Standards- R8 Teams Succeed in Washington Europe Portal; 4. Help Wanted - Standards Development 5. IEEE Computer Society The theme of CSIDC 2003 was “Added CASS Vitold Belevitch Award 5 Value: Turning Computers Into Systems” Int'l. Design Competition Chapter Coordination 6 At the fourth annual IEEE Computer Society The top 3 winning schools also receive Conference Reviews International Design competition held in money to establish an IEEE Computer XII Wilga Symposium; 6. 3rd ESA 7. Washington DC from 30 June to 1st July Society Financial Aid Fund for computer Section and Chapter News 2003, the top ten teams included two win- science and engineering students at their 40th Anniversity; Germany; Israel; 8. Portugal; Russia; UK&RI; UAE 9. ners from Region 8. CSIDC was supported host schools Raising Technology Literacy – by Microsoft Corporation with additional Politechnica Univ. Bucharest team won A Challenge to IEEE Life Members 10 funds from ABB and the IEEE Foundation. second prize of $10,000. for their entry Eyes Region 8 Gold 11 CSIDC 2003 expanded to include 164 teams Only Security- an innovative encryption Region 8 Industry from 133 universities in 40 countries. scheme that ensures privacy on personal com- Member Profile; 12. First UK&RI Ind. puters. The team Mentor Nicolae Tapus, Relations; IEEE Industry Relations 13. and students Tiberius Pircalabu and Photo Quiz 14 Andrei Hagiescu designed, built, Harnessing Geothermal Heat for the Supply of Energy 15 demonstrated their system and its poten- tial markets. Student News Hi!; R8SAC; SBC’04; New History Competition; Another IEEE Region8 finalist last 16. Briefs; Sarjevo SB – EESEE 2003; 17. year, Karlsruhe University Team also Stud. Paper Contest; Nigeria SB’s NAUSB; FUTO; Ghana SB KNUST; Poland; 18. Ibadan received an Honorable Mention Award SB; Neural Net Notes; 19. EAB Invitation; of $1,000. for their project "Free-XS", New R8 Student Forum; 20. Calendar 21. a wireless network access device Book Corner 21 mounted on a balloon. R8 Year 2003 – Photo Review 22 Learn more about the CSIDC 2004 Politech University Bucharest 2nd Place – CSID 2003: Tiberius Pircalabu; Nicolae Tapus (team mentor); competition Making the World a Safer Andrei Hagiescu Place. www.computer.org/csidc November 2003 Region 8 News 1 Editor’s REGION 8 CONTACTS Help Desk Members: Ramblings... Members, students, applicants may have all their questions answered by contacting the Help Desk volunteers. Please use this service freely. November R8 News Information on what, where, when, how regarding membership, payments, procedures. IEEE member and affiliate inquiries from Region 8 should be In Jozef Modelski’s report on Chapters, he sent to: [email protected] says that the number of members in R8 has Ayhan Altintas Andrej Zemva Iiro Hartimo declined to about 47,000. He observes that Bilkent University Univ. of Ljubljana, HUT, Finland Chapter activity has increased. 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