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Vol 20 No 1 September 2017 Looking for back- issues? Scan or click www.ieeer8.org Published quarterly and distributed to more than 70,000 IEEE members across Region 8 on this QR code. IN THIS ISSUE Stockholm welcomes new Region news .................. 1–6 faces to OpCom meeting IEEE contacts........................2 ‘Father of Section and Chapter compact disc’ news ....................................6–9 receives top IEEE honour Netherlands’ Immink leads roll-call of award YP news ............................... 10 recipients in Region 8 THE 108th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meet- be to increase membership in Region 8 by ing was hosted by Swedish Section in Stock- 1%. As the director said, we all can invite IEEE’S highest award, the Medal holm on 25-26 March. Sweden’s capital saw one new member, can’t we? of Honor, was presented to Kees more than 100 participants, including the Beside the director’s presentation, the Schouhamer Immink at a ceremony newly appointed members of OpCom. meeting’s very busy schedule included during the IEEE Vision, Innovation, Incoming Region 8 director Margare- reports and presentations from all the Op- Student news ............ 10–12 and Challenges Summit on 25 May tha Eriksson presented an overview of the Com members: director-elect Magdalena at The Palace Hotel in San Francisco, region and shared her vision and plans for Salazar Palma, past-director Costas Staso- California, USA. the future. The membership in the Region poulos, secretary Jan Verveckken, treasurer Immink’s pioneering work on showed again a small decrease at the begin- Ralph Kennel, and vice-chairs for Member information coding theory while ning of 2017, but it is slightly better than pre- Activities Antonio Luque, Student Activities working at Philips accelerated the vious years. One of the goals in 2017 would ...continued on page 3 development of the compact disc at the beginning of the 1980s. His subsequent work on optical storage extended into DVD and Blu-ray, and Milestone unveiled at TV’s birthplace dramatically advanced the fields of digital video, audio and data record- BROADCAST professionals, technology ing technology. historians, IEEE members, Italian dignitar- Over the course of his career, ies and intrigued members of the public Immink has also won an Emmy and gathered outside a café in central London been inducted into the Consumer on 26 January to witness the unveiling of Electronics Hall of Fame. He was an IEEE Milestone plaque to commemorate knighted by Queen Beatrix of the the first public demonstration of television. Netherlands in 2000. Precisely 91 years earlier, to the day, The Dutch engin eer and re- entrepreneurial inventor John Logie Baird searcher was also the subject of a had invited 40 members of the Royal Institu- cover feature in tion to his workshop above 22 Frith Street the May 2017 issue in the heart of the British capital to watch of IEEE Spectrum him demon strate the live transmission of an (https://goo.gl/ image of a moving face “by radio”. KAGAv3). As with cinema, various claims to have Further recipients of IEEE me- been the inventor of television abound, but dals in Region 8 include: all agree Baird was the first to have built a O Shlomo Shamai (Israel) re- working prototype that was good enough IEEE’s street-level bronze plaque ceives the Richard W Hamming to show off to his scientific peers. He used joins an existing blue memorial by the first-floor rooms where Medal for fundamental contribu- the first floor of the building as a workshop John Logie Baird conducted his ...continued on page 2 ...continued on page 3 demonstration of TV technology. editorial Vol 20 No 1 September 2017 Region 8 News is published quarterly by the Region 8 Committee of the IEEE, and distributed free with IEEE Spectrum to more than 70,000 IEEE members. Read past issues online at www.ieeer8.org –> R8News Newsletter. Opinions expressed in IEEE Region 8 News are the authors’ own and do not necessarily represent the policies of their employers or IEEE Board or Region 8 Committee. Your editors (from left): Roland Saam, Zhijia Huang and Bojan Nikolic. News & articles Delivery problems? [email protected] Please notify all problems regarding membership, publications delivery So much is happening in R8 Student News email and change of address directly to IEEE member services. 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Otherwise, this issue is packed Theresa Smith December 2017 issue ................................................deadline: 1 October 2017 This issue brings you a round- as per usual with conference re- [email protected] March 2018 issue ........................................................ deadline: 1 January 2018 up of main events that have been ports and news updates from Sec- taking place since last time, plus tions, Affinity Groups and Student several key stories that overlapped Branches from all over the Region. REGION 8 OPERATING our schedule last year. Principal Rest assured that so much is go- COMMITTEE OFFICERS among these has been the installa- ing on that we’ll be back in your 2017–2018 tion of a fresh Region 8 Operating mailbox with yet another generous Operating Committee Appointed Committee for the next two years: helping of news before the end of (OpCom) Members you can find the contact names for the year. Speak to you soon! Director Awards & Recognition Professional Activities each role in the panel to the right. Zhijia, Roland and Bojan Margaretha Eriksson (Sweden) Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus) Jan Haase (Germany) [email protected] [email protected] Region 8 News Director-elect Chapters Zhijia Huang (UK & Ireland) ‘Father of compact disc’ Magdalena Salazar Palma (Spain) Amara Amara (France) [email protected] Past-director Conferences Roland Saam (UK & Ireland) Costas Stasopoulos (Cyprus) Péter Nagy (Hungary) [email protected] receives top IEEE honour [email protected] Educational Activities Sections Congress Coordinator Secretary Sohaib Qamar Sheikh Marko Delimar (Croatia) continued from page 1... the Medal for Environmental and Jan Verveckken (Benelux) (UK and Ireland) Standards Coordinator tions to information theory and Safety Technologies for leadership Treasurer Action for Industry David Law (UK & Ireland) wireless communications. in vehicular environmental percep- Ralph Kennel (Germany) Marios Antoniou (Cyprus) [email protected] O Martin Vetterli (Switzerland) tion, and for setting worldwide mile- Vice-chair, Member Activities Membership Development Student Representative receives the Jack S Kilby Signal stones in safe and reliable intelligent Antonio Luque (Spain) Andrejs Romanovs (Latvia) Ines Inacio (Benelux) Processing Medal for fundamental vehicles. Vice-chair, Student Activities Young Professionals Efthymia Arvaniti (Austria) Sara Barros (Benelux) contributions to advance sampling, O Sir James Dyson (UK and Ire- Vice-chair, Technical Activities Ad-hoc Members signal representations and multi- land), inventor of the bagless vacu- Christopher James rate and multi-resolution signal um cleaner and other novel prod- (UK and Ireland) Electronic Communications Life Members George Michael (Cyprus) Charles Turner (UK & Ireland) processing. ucts, was awarded IEEE Honorary [email protected] [email protected] O Hugh Griffiths (UK and Ireland) Membership for his achievements Assistant Secretary, Social Women in Engineering receives the Dennis J Picard Medal in industrial design, entrepreneur- Media and Web pages Youmna El-Bitar (Lebanon) for Radar Technologies and Applica- ship and manufacturing technology, Dora Fourou (Greece) Region Vitality Coordinator tions for technical leadership and and for services to the profession. History Activities Aleksandar Szabo (Croatia) Tony Davies (UK & Ireland) [email protected] exceptional contributions to multi- Video clips [email protected] Voluntary Contribution Fund static radar. from the 2017 IEEE Corresponding members: Andreas Koltes (Germany) O Antonio Perez Yuste (Spain), Africa Area Chair Marian P Kazmierkowski (Po- Honors Ceremony Antonio Savini (Italy) land) receives the Medal in Power can be viewed at Gloria Chukwudebe (Nigeria) Engineering for leadership in and ieee.tv. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers pioneering contributions to the Engineers from Region 8 were 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor development of power electronic also notable among those receiving New York 10016, USA converters and electric drive con- IEEE’s Technical Field Awards this IEEE prohibits discrimination in its activities.