October 2004 - ifip-tc6 - lists.rwth-aachen.de

LANC'05
by Otto Spaniol 20 Oct '04

20 Oct '04

Dear all, please find enlosed the first CfP for LANC'05 in Cali, Colombia. I attach an additional message of the organisor (E. L. Leiss). The further commitment of IFIP in this conference series will have to be discussed in Bangkok. Best regards Otto --------------------------------- Greetings: Attached you will find a preliminary draft of the Call for Papers of the 2005 Latin America Networking Conference (LANC 2005). This was essentially carried out by Ramon and me, starting from the 2003 CfP. You will note that a few points still need attention, for example the members of the Organizing Committee. Please send me your contributions as soon as is feasible. (If you anticipate delay in resolving a particular issue, I would appreciate knowing about this as well. This will be the First Call for Papers; there will be a Second, in which additional information may be provided. Thus, not all issues need be completely resolved by the time this First CfP is disseminated.) Please check the attachment and transmit to Ramon and me any comments, questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., that you may have. We would like to reach closure fairly soon, preferably by our self-imposed deadline of Nov. 1, 2004, if not earlier. In parallel, the commitments of ACM and IFIP to LANC 2005 should be addressed. While the organizational burden clearly rests on the Organizing Committee of CLEI, the anticipated contributions of ACM and IFIP (in particular, sending/financing speakers, supporting publication of the proceedings, etc.) need to be clearly defined. In this context, I would like to know whether the deadline for receipt of camera-ready papers is early enough for the publication process (hardcopy, rather than CD-ROM); if not, it would have to be changed appropriately. I hope this provides some indication of how LANC 2005 is shaping up. With best regards Ernst Leiss

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Delegate from Sysria
by Otto Spaniol 18 Oct '04

18 Oct '04

Dear all, IFIP GA delegates begin to wake up. We got a new nomination for Syria (see below). I've invited Dr. Sabouni for our upcoming meeting. Best regards Otto --------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Mr. Otto, For TC6 (Communication System) we nominate from Syria, Dr. Imad Sabouni who is General Manager of Syrian Telecommunication Establishment, and he is expert in Telecommunication Sector. His e-mail address is : ste-gm(a)net.sy Best regards, Nibal Idlebi

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Singapore delegate now officially nominated
by Otto Spaniol 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Dear all, things can go quite quickly: The new delegate from Singapore has already been officially nominated. See below. Thgis procedure could become a god example for nonbureaucratic actions. Welcome to the club! Best regards Otto ---------------------------- >Dear Otto, > >I am pleased to inform you that I have been cleared to represent as a >national rep to IFIP TC 6. > >Cheers, >Boon Sain >----- Original Message ----- >From: Jennifer Ong >To: Boon Sain Yeo ; Lee Kwok Cheong >Cc: Chak Kong Soon >Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 4:10 PM >Subject: Re: national delegate for IFIP > > >Dear Boon Sain > >Thanks for coming forward to represent as a national rep to the IFIP TC 6 >and also joined the SCS. On behalf of the Society, we welcome you into >the SCS' family. > >There is no further procedure and you may proceed to inform the TC6 chair >as a national delegate. > >Besides your involvement in TC6, we also look forward to your >participation at our SCS events. > >Best regards > >Jennifer > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Boon Sain Yeo > To: Lee Kwok Cheong > Cc: Jennifer Ong ; Chak Kong Soon > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 3:46 PM > Subject: Re: national delegate for IFIP > > > Hi Mr. Lee, > > Now that I have successfully signed up as a SCS member, I would like to >know if there are any more procedures that I need to fulfil before I >could be made known to IFIP TC6 chair as the national delegate for Singapore. > > Cheers, > Boon Sain

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Delegates from Australia and Singapore
by Otto Spaniol 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Dear all, a new TC6 delegate has been nominated for Australia (see below). >I regret very much that you were not informed of the appointment of Prof >Doan Hoang as the Australian IFIP TC 6 representative. > >His contact details are dhoang(a)it.uts.edu.au and his home page is at >http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~dhoang/ > And we "almost" got a new delegate from Singapore (many thanky to Guy Omidyar). It is Boon Sain Yeo <yeobs(a)i2r.a-star.edu.sg> (remaining address coordinates will have to be provided). Boon has stil to finalize some details, he should first become a member of the Computer Science Society in Singapore etc. Unfotunately he will not be able to attend our Bangkok meeting despite the fact that it so near to his office location. But he promised to come to Canada next year. Best regards Otto

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meeting
by Farouk Kamoun 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Dear Otto Sorry to inform you that I will not be able to attend the next TC6 meeting. regards Farouk

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SenSys'04: Online Registration is Open! (Deadline: October 25)
by Chenyang Lu 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

Dear Colleagues: The ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) is a premier conference in the emerging area of wireless networked sensors. SenSys'04 will be held at Baltimore on November 3-5, 2004. Highlights of SenSys'04 include a highly selective single-track technical program, hands-on demos of the state-of-the-art sensor networks, and research posters. Please go to http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/sensys04/ for information about online registration, hotel reservation, and the advanced program. *** Please note that the registration deadline is October 25, 2004. *** We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore! Best regards, Chenyang Lu SenSys'04 Publicity Co-Chair

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Call For Proposals NAB 2005
by Allison, Art 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

NAB2005 will host the 59th NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference on April 16-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference addresses the most recent developments in broadcast technology and focuses on the opportunities and challenges that face broadcast engineering professionals around the world. Each year hundreds of broadcast professionals from around the world attend the conference. They include practicing broadcast engineers and technicians, engineering consultants, contract engineers, broadcast equipment manufacturers, distributors, R&D engineers plus anyone specifically interested in the latest broadcast technologies. The NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference is a highly technical conference where presenters deliver technical papers ranging over a variety of topics relevant to the broadcast and allied industries. Presentations are limited to thirty minutes in length, including five or ten minutes for questions from the audience. The conference rooms are equipped with audio visual equipment that will accommodate standard computer presentations. Presenters must bring their own computers. We invite you to submit a proposal to present a technical paper at our conference by accessing http://www.nabshow.com/forms/beccallforpapers.asp. Proposals should be clearly written and be no more than 200 words in length. Your proposal should explain precisely what conference attendees can be expected to learn from your paper. Papers promoting company products or services will not be accepted. However, papers explaining the underlying technologies used in broadcast products or services will be acceptable. The deadline for submitting your proposal is October 15, 2004. The selection process will begin at that time. You can expect to be notified if your paper proposal has been accepted by November 19, 2004. After receiving your acceptance, you will have until January 31, 2005 to submit your completed paper to us. Your paper will be published in the NAB Broadcast Engineering Conference Proceedings and you will receive a complimentary copy. We will consider all topics related to broadcast engineering, such as: Television Engineering · Data Broadcasting Technologies and Applications · Distributed Transmission · Television Transmission Systems and Maintenance · 8VSB Enhancements · Systems Integration · Storage and Networking · Broadband Technologies · Automation Systems · Camera Technology · Film Transfer · Archival Technologies · Set-top Box Technology · Test and Measurement Techniques · Media Asset Management · Television Receiver Developments · Optimizing RF Coverage · Design and Building Studio and Transmission Facilities · Security and Emergency Preparedness · Broadcast Technical Standards · Remote Broadcasting · Remote Systems Control · Centralcasting · Interference Concerns · Digital Television Developments Around the World Radio Engineering · Digital Radio Developments Around the World · In Band On Channel DAB Implementation · Test and Measurement Techniques · Automation Systems · Centralcasting · New Receiver Technologies · Data Broadcasting Technologies and Applications · Security and Emergency Preparedness · New Transmitter Technologies · Optimizing RF Coverage · AM Directional Antenna Systems · Broadband Technologies · Interference Concerns · Audio Coding Advancements -- We are also soliciting speakers for other conferences. See http://www.nabshow.com/technologypapers.asp, Thank you for your bandwidth. Art ::{)> Arthur W. Allison Director, Science & Technology National Association of Broadcasters 202 429 5418

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Chilean Delegate to TC6
by Otto Spaniol 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

Dear all, our delegate from Chile (Jose Piquer) has communicated his address coordinates. They are: Jose M. Piquer Dept. Computer Science - Universidad de Chile Blanco Encalada 2120, 3 piso Santiago Chile Phone: +56-2-689-2736 Fax: +56-2-940-7701 Mobile: +56-9-309-8695 email: jpiquer(a)dcc.uchile.cl Web Page: http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~jpiquer The new list of delegates is attached. Please make use of it! (Sometimes I get some emails such as "I would like to discuss something by phone with you. Please give me your phone number". By checking the delegates addresses such questions are not really necessary). Another tedious story (which shows that IFIP GA doesn't work very well - at least partly): I have contacxted all the IFIP member countries (i.e. the GA delegates) who don't have a TC6 delegate - from Botswana to Syria. Several times! Almost no reaction at all - apart from Finland who nominated Olli Martikainen and from Ireland who promised to think about a nomination (but nothing happens). This is really frustrating! On the other hand I learned from our (former?) delegate from Australia, Harry Dutton, that "Council at its last meeting in 2003 appointed Prof Doan Hoang of the Faculty of Information Technology at UTS as the TC 6 representative for 2004/5" and that he, therefore, would not be a committee member any more. I was never informed about that! And I got the following message from IFIP secretariat no so long ago: >In the TC6 report dated August 2004 Mr. Sunil Dutt JHA is listed again as >Indian Representative. According to our records he has already been replaced >by N. Chandrasekhar in Nov. 2003. Please advise whether we should put him on >the TC6 membership list again and delete Mr. Chandrasekhar. Needless to say that I was not informed about such a change. We always believed that S V Raghavan would be (re-)installed as Indian TC6 delegate. All of that shows that IFIP GA (and secretariat!) are not in perfect shape! Best regards Otto

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Conference on Convergence of Sciences (Trento, 16-17 December 2004)
by Convegni Unitn 12 Oct '04

12 Oct '04

The University of Trento and Microsoft Research are pleased to announce the joint organization of the "CONVERGING SCIENCES" Conference which is going to take place at Teatro Sociale - via Oss Mazzurana 19, 38100 Trento (Italy) on December 16 and 17, 2004 www.unitn.it/consci.html ********************* Contacts Scientific Committee Prof. Corrado Priami University of Trento (Italy) Department of Information and Communication Technology Phone: +39-0461-882085 Email: corrado.priami(a)unitn.it Prof. Luca Cardelli Prof. Stephen Emmott Microsoft Research Cambridge Phone: +44 1223 479 854 Email: luca(a)microsoft.com semmott(a)microsoft.com ------------------------- Organizing Committee Dr. Elisabetta Nones Events and Meetings Office University of Trento (Italy) Phone: +39-0461-883216/3215/3225 Email: convegni(a)unitn.it Dr. Andre Hagehuelsmann Microsoft Research Ltd. External Research Office Roger Needham Building 7 JJ Thomson Avenue Cambridge CB3 0FB United Kingdom Email: andrehag(a)microsoft.com

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Joint IFIP/IEEE events
by Otto Spaniol 10 Oct '04

10 Oct '04

Dear all, [this is a very personal and probably highly controversal note - and I would like to get your comments on the topic] I receive more and more proposals for joint IEEE/IFIP organisation of conferences. Interestingly enough this initiatives come very rarely or never from the IEEE side but only from IFIP. Apparently the organisors of these (former) IFIP events expect a very positive outcome by means of the good name of IEEE, the better visibility, increased distribution,.. Very often a cheaper publishing with a better inclusion in digital libraries etc. is assumed. To my (personal) opinion this development is risky. There is a danger that the following will happen: 1. Joint organisation IFIP/IEEE with IFIP as main sponsor (but not any more as full sponsor) 2. Publication by IEEE with reduced royalties for IFIP 3. IFIP only as a co-sponsor or "in cooperation with" 4. The event disappears from the IFIP calendar. This sequence has already happened for some of our (former) events. If things continue to go like that then where is the remaining need for IFIP? I just received a ballot slip where I'm asked to vote for a dissolution of ICCC (and I don't even believe that this is a joke)!!! Some of the explanations for this proposal read as follows: "The organisation has served its original purpose admirably and with considerable consequence... Meanwhile, countless other organisations have been formed or have expanded to occupy the field first opened by our organisation. Those organisations have come to dominate in industrialised nations, including Europe and the United States. In many instances their technical, policy or business objectives are broader than our own and have expanded to cover topics traditionally addressed by ICCC. ...." To my opinion, this is nothing but a declaration of bankruptcy. The formulations might, however, just be repeated (replacing ICCC by IFIP or by IFIP TC6) if we continue to give up our major strength, namely the organisation of high-class events with full responsibility. Best regards (and please comment!) Otto

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