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
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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
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
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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
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
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>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
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
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
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
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Arthur W. Allison
Director, Science & Technology
National Association of Broadcasters
202 429 5418
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
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
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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
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