Vol. 5 No 4 – November 2002 IEEE 8 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 445 Hoes Lane Piscataway, NJ 08855 http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/8/ http://www.ieee.org/regional/r8/ Judging Panel met 25-27 May 2002 and Region 8 Students Sweep Top Prizes selected the top ten projects from this list Int’l Design Competition of twenty-five. The top ten teams were invited to pre- Computer Soc. International Design Romania’s Politehnica University of sent their projects in Washington, DC 21- Competition Bucharest beat out a field of undergradu- 23 June 2002. Copies of each team’s An international panel of experts has ates from 10 schools throughout the world PowerPoint presentation and Project report selected the winners of CSIDC 2002, in the CSIDC World Finals. The contest can be found at http://www.computer. the IEEE Computer Society 3rd began in October 2001 with entrants from org/csidc/2002PowerPoint Annual International Design Competition. about 75 universities. Substantial prizes were awarded, For this project, students had to use the Region eight teams swept the field, including US$ 15,000 first prize plus the Bluetooth radio-based, short-range, wire- winning four out of five top prizes and the team’s university will receive a $3,000 less-connectivity technology to design a top twenty-five projects were selected grant it can use for such purposes as special-purpose, potentially marketable based on their reports by fifteen scholarships, reimbursements to students system with social benefits. Submission Evaluation Teams. The who attend conferences, or laboratory equipment. Farewell From Regional continued on page 5 Director “Enjoy your IEEE” Dear IEEE Member, My responsibility, as the regional direc- INSIDE y two-year term will be over tor, is not restricted to our region only: at the end of December; so being a member of the Board of Directors Farewell From the M it is time to say goodbye... of IEEE I had my share in overseeing the Regional Director 1 The responsibility for direction of all IEEE, in all aspects. This is Region 8 Students overseeing the smooth continuation of quite a challange and requires a lot of Sweep Top Prizes 1 IEEE services to all our care; by the way IEEE as Editor’s Ramblings 2 members in our region a whole is a 240 million has been a real chal- USDollar operation per IEEE Fellows Program 4 lenge. If every one of year, and 30 Directors News 5 you enjoy your IEEE on the IEEE board have membership, then I the ultimate responsibil- Chapter Coordination 6 would feel happy and ity for providing the Region 8 LEOS comfortable. With oversight. Chapters News 8 about 50,000 members I began my term in in our region IEEE January 2001 and there Reviews of Conferences 9 related interests of our is no doubt I enjoyed [email protected] 10 members is very every minute of it. But impressive. So, it is believe me, there were Chapter and Section News 12 quite likely that in addi- difficult times and IEEE Standards 17 tion to basics like the decisions, but this was Spectrum, you have expected as well. I do Student News 19 received many not intend to share the Transactions, participat- problems with you; ed in Conferences and Onural with Support Team rather, I will take this got other IEEE benefits. September 2002 continued on page 3 November 2002 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/staff. Please use this service freely. 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We REGION 8 OPERATING COMMITTEE do it for fun and professional benefit, and See http://www.ewh.ieee.org/reg/8/committee/index.html for descriptions, by- our departing Region8 Director, Levent laws. E-mail addresses of Region 8 Committee Officers - 2002: Onural invites you to become a volunteer Officers and Vice Chairs Appointed Members Standards Coordinator and to participate and enjoy your IEEE. Director Awards & Recognitions Ingo Ruesch Levent Onural Duncan Baker [email protected] Read how you can do this in his article [email protected] [email protected] Educational & starting on page one. Past-Director and V/C Section 99 and Acting Accreditation Activities The number of Student Conferences, Strategy Membership Develop- Simon Jones Rolf A Remshardt ment Coordinator [email protected] Competitions, and Workshops in Region8 [email protected] Jaafar Al-Ibrahim [email protected] Voluntary Contributions is increasing - read about them in Chapter Secretary Fund Coordinator and Student activities reports. Students in Charles Turner Conference Coordinator Zbynek Skvor [email protected] Tariq Durrani [email protected] Region 8 won seven out of eleven prizes in [email protected] the worldwide Computer Society Treasurer Student Representative Dr Hans J Schmitt Chapter Coordinator Giorgia German International Design Competition. Why [email protected] Jozef Modelski [email protected] [email protected] not enter CSID-2003? 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The November Region 8 News is printed four times a year and distributed Photo Contest shows an important mea- with IEEE Spectrum. surement device, which was suggested by Please submit articles by e-mail to [email protected] in a the Director of Test Engineering from Ford file attachment in Text Format, Generic WordProcessor, Word, or Wordperfect, AND include with your submission Motor Company R&D in Europe. Why a short description of what, where, when together with the name of the text file and any photo files. not enter the contest? The deadlines for the Region8 News for 2002 are as I also need to hear from you, our read- Editor: follows: ers - so please write and tell me what you February 2003 Issue: 6 December 2002 Roland J. Saam May 2003 Issue: 6 March 2003 liked or did not like in R8News. Micros For Managers Ltd August 2003 Issue: 6 June 2003 149 Gloucester Road November 2003 Issue: 6 September 2003 Roland Saam London SW7 4TH Editor ENGLAND Acknowledgements Tel +44 20 7565 2111 Photo Contest: August 2002 BM Zurich Research; [email protected] Fax +44 20 7565 2114 November Ford Motor Company; Photos: IEMC-2002 E-mail [email protected] Gerald Anleitner; EED-2002 Nahel Amirah; Onural Support team: Kayacan. 2 Region 8 News November 2002 Jan Hlavic˘ka 1942 – 2002 Professor Jan Hlavic˘ka, aged 60, University in Prague (CTU) in 1984. death the Vice Chairman. He was the died on 6th of September 2002 As the first Dean of the Faculty after member of the Region 8 Membership after a serious illness. the year 1989 (1990 – 1994), he Activities Committee with responsibility Jan Hlavicka was one of the supported great changes in the struc- for the membership development. most distinguished experts in the ture and principles of education and He was also a member of the IEE, computer hardware in the Czech research towards a higher openness, New York Academy of Sciences, Republic. For a long time, he has self responsibility, and wide co- Chairman and member of IMEKO, chair- been active in the field of reliability Jan Hlavic˘ka operation at the international level. man and member of many program com- and testing of the digital circuits, As the Vice Rector of the CTU for mittees of international conferences, etc. where he received a world-wide reputation. International Relations in 1994 – 1997 he He was awarded by Silver Felber medal His professional life began at the supported the origin of curricula for for- from the CTU in 1996, IEEE Millenium Research Institute of Mathematical eign students and further broadening of medal from the IEEE in 2000, etc. Machines in Prague, where he participated international co-operation. He also founded He leaves wife Vlasta, daughter in the design of computers. Thanks to his the alumni association of the FEE-CTU in Zuzana with husband Terje and grand- professional qualities, personal charisma, Prague called ELEKTRA.