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Fall/Automne 1998 No --r~- ~-_.__..__._-_._--- - .... Fall/Automne 1998 No. 30 - A few words from the Managing Editor / Quelque mots du redacteur en chef - IEEE prepares for the future / IEEE se prepare pour I'avenir - Une nouvelle approche pour un nouveau dati de formation des informatici(e)nes au Canada - Teamwork creates "Made in Canada", next generation te/ecorp solution - Letters to the Editor / Lettres en voyer au redacteur - IEEE News / Nouvelles ~ ~ Bulk IEEE third class F1468 The Instituteof Electricaland ElectronicsEngineersInc. MONTREAL. P.Q. I Managing Editor IEEE Canada IEEE Canadian Review Redacteur en chef IEEE Canada is the Canadian Region of the Vijay K. Sood Institute of Electrical and Electronics General Information Hydro-Quebec (IREQ) Engineers, Inc. 1800 boulevard Lionel-Boulet The IEEE Canadian Review is published 3 times/year as follows: Varennes, Quebec Winter (to appear in March); Spring/Summer (to appear in July); tel: (450) 652-8089 Officers Fall (to appear in November). 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Piscataway (New Jersey) 0885, Fax: (613) 823-6218) USA The Internet home page address ofIEEE Canada is: or by email at "[email protected]". ..http://www.ieee.ca.. Member Society of the The National Library of Canada Engineering Institute of Canada ISSN 1481-2002 2 IEEE Canadian Review -FaD / Automne 1998 A few words from the Managing Editor Que/que mots du redacteur en chef une des raisons pour laquellej'aime Ietravail queje fais pour Vijay K. Sood, Hydro-Quebec la « Canadian Review» est qu'il m'oftre la possibilite de co1- laborer avec des membres de )'IEEE et avec d'autres per- III sonnes-ressources techniques. Editer une revue n'est pas une ne of the reasons why I enjoy my role mince tache et en plus il s'agit de benevolat. Personne ne at the Review is the networking m'oblige a faire ce travail, mais c'est plus fort que moi --je travaille aspect with IEEE members and other d'arrache-pi,edpour livrer la marchandise! Le present numero ne fait pas technical people. Putting together a exception. Etant toutjuste de retour d'un long conge (dans un pays chaud journal is a lot of hard work, and it is et lointain), il m'a ete tres difficile de faire face au courrier accumule (en all voluntary work at that. Nobody forces it upon general de la publicite-rebut et des demandes de fonds) et de m'attaquer me, and yet I find myself working ever so hard to au travail qui s'etait amasse a la maison, au bureau, a l'universite et a get the final product out. This issue is no excep- IEEE. Ce qui m'a facilite la tache, ce sont tous les gens tres sympa- tion. Having just returned from a prolonged vaca- thiques avec qui j'ai eu la chance de travailler. Sans nommer tout Ie tion (in a hot hot country, far far away), it was not monde, il faut souligner Ie travail extraordinaire accompli par Joan E., easy to come back to a pile of mail (mostly junk, qui a reuvre sans relache a la preparation de l'article principal, ainsi que and rude notes asking for money) and backed-up Terry M., adjoint a la redaction, qui est enfin sorti d'hibernation et m'a home, office, university and IEEE related work. envoye un article d'actualite. De plus, j'ai eu l'occasion d'aller a Ottawa The job was made easier by all those very helpful people I had to deal et de rencontrer en personne Vaidy C., un autre adjoint a la redaction. Le with, and I mean that most sincerely. To name a few, Joan E trom president Dave Kemp etait a Ottawa a ce moment-la et j'ai eu la chance Extraordinary Conversations who worked tirelessly to put the lead paper de Ie rencontrer ainsi que d'assister a une partie de la reunion du Conseil together; my associate editor (Terry M) who finally came alive and for- du ICI avec lui. warded a news item. Finally, I got a chance to visit Ottawa and meet associate editor (Vaidy C) face-to-face. President Dave Kemp was in La boite a courrier de l'IEEE a enfin commence a se remplir et nous Ottawa at the same time and I got to meet him and attend part of the EIC avons refi:udes lettres, du courrier electronique et des appels des mem- meeting. bres au sujet du numero precedent du journal. Voustrouverez quelques- uns de leurs commentaires dans Ie present numero; c'est tres encourag- The mailbox also finally kicked in at IEEE and we had letters, emails eant de savoir que nous reussissons a rejoindre les membres et qu'ils and phone calls trom members about the previous issue of the Review. prennent Ie temps de lire cejournal (malgre tous ses defauts!). Some of these letters are published in this Review; it is very heartening to know that there is life out there somewhere! and the Review is being Encore une fois,je vous invite a soumettre vos articles, faits divers, pub- read (warts and all). licite et autres. Veuillez communiquer avec moi ou avec un de mes adjoints a la redaction (de preference) pour avoir des renseignements I ask you again for your interesting papers and stories, adverts and what- supplementaires. II va sans dire que vos annonces sont les bienvenues. have-you to include in the Review. Please contact me or one of the asso- Le Coin des Consultants (voir l'annonce sur page 8) est en marche et je ciate editors (preferably) for any information you may need. Adverts are vous invite done a vous en servir. always welcome. The Consultants Corner (see announcement on page 8) is open for business, please use it. Tutorials on some special interest- De plus, j'envisage la possibilite d'organiser des tutoriels sur des sujets ing topics are something I would like to explore for forth-coming d'interet particulier.
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