Happy New Year to all.
At Oman we still wish we can get some of your snow which we seen in the news
and weather channels!! But I guess only for an hour!!
Regards
Ahmed Al Naamany
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From: owner-ifip_tcchairs(a)ifip.or.at
[mailto:owner-ifip_tcchairs@ifip.or.at]On Behalf Of Klaus Brunnstein
Sent: terça-feira, 23 de Dezembro de 2003 13:22
To: IFIP-TC-Chairs (IFIP TC Chairs)
Cc: Klaus Brunnstein
Subject: [IFIP TC chairs] IFIP issues and Seasons Greetings
Dear TC chairs,
at the end of Y2003, I am glad to inform you that projects in 2003
have been mostly very successful:
World Computer Congress 2002: while the legal case concerning
open reimbursements are still not finally solved, the
issue of the open loan has been settled.
WITFOR-2003 was a great success, both concerning numbers
and level of participants (strong Lithuanian and UN
involvement, more than 10 ministers, >750 participants).
Vilnius Declaration was very well discussed both in
UNESCO General Conference (Paris, October 2003) and
in the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS-2003).
WSIS-2003: organised by Raymond Morel and Bernard Cornu (TC-3),
IFIP made very visible contributions in a roundtable
"Education and Knowledge Societies" and 2-day conference
"Engineering the Knowledge Society", and papers of the
latter will be published at KAP. Moreover, IFIP´s
WCC2-2002
Montreal "Youth Declaration" and WITFOR-2003 "Vilnius
Declaration" were ingrediences of UNESCO´s contributions
to the Summit´s final declaration.
Moreover, ongoing projects are well underway:
World Computer Congress 2004: IPC work is well underway,
thanx to Jean-Claude (OC chair) and Reino (IPC chair),
as you can see when visiting its website:
www.wcc2004.org
WIFFOR-2005 and beyond: thanx to Dipak, the WITFOR process
continues at high momentum, with WITFOR-2005 being well
in preparation. As more interest has been notified even
for WITFOR-2007, Dipak has prepared a draft document
guiding WITFOR future selection processes.
Publications: following the very good preparation, we received
6 applications including 2 separate ones from the future
"new Springer" formed from Kluwer and Springer.
Following
an evaluation process for which I wish to esp. thank
Basie
and Dewald who both invested much energy and
intelligence,
we have selected new Springer (KAP, Springer) and Wiley
for indepth discussions. For the new contract, our
strategic
goals are:
IFIP publications as IFIP book series,
built upon 250+ IFIP books
technical quality of publications
electronic distribution of material
towards an IFIP Digital Library
marketing IFIP as brand name
AND sufficient income from royalties.
With Basie and Prince as advisors, I have aksed Roger
and Leon
(representing TC chairs) to join me in contract
discussions
primarily with "new Springer". Our goal is to have a
draft
agreement ready for discussion in Council-2004.
Membership: a solution for the Spanish membership is underway,
and ongoing contacts may revive previous memberships
(Nigeria, Russia). More contacts may help to improve
numbers of members.
Secretariat: we had a first discussion with a potential
"head of secretariat". As this was not sucessful,
we will now publish a job description in a Viennese
newspaper and on IFIP website. Thanx to Roger as well
as to Dorothy and Brigitte, secretariat operations are
well underway but we hope to support our ladies
on-site very soon with a new "head of IFIP secretariat".
With my best wishes for a happy Christmas and a Healthy Year 2004,
I hope that IFIP´s progress in 2004 will be at least as good as
it was in 2003. Best wishes: Klaus (December 23, 2004)
I wish you all relaxed and peaceful holidays. I have mixed
emotions about the holiday greeting at
<http://holidays.blastcomm.com/>
It is a bit overdone but the wish, nonetheless sincere. More for
youngsters, perhaps!
All the best,
Harry
Dear TC6 members,
The end of my second mandate as TC6 chairman is approaching. I am preparing the final report of my chairmanship so that the present status of the Committee activities is updated as well as the pending points. I will send it at the beginning of January at the latest.
At this time let me tell you that it was a honour and a pleasure to be chairman of such a great group during these last six years. I really enjoyed it both from the personal and professional point of view. I hope also that I could help with some contributions for the running of TC6.
I would like to thank the great help that I got from all of you during this period and, in particular, let me thank the TC6 vice-chairman, Harry Rudin, the TC6 web master, Herbert Leitold and the IFIP Secretariat, Dorothy Hayden, Brigitte Brauneis and Plamen Nedkov, for the almost daily support that sometimes they gave me.
I look forward to the continuation of my activity in TC6, now under the leadership of Otto Spaniol, to whom I wish the best successes.
A nice Christmas to all of you
Augusto Casaca
For information,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
Guy
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Apologies if you have already received this email
Dear colleague,
You may or may not know that the IEEE Board of Directors has, for the
last two years, drastically restricted its services to IEEE members
from countries that are embargoed by the US government. The
acceptance of government interference in the running of our Institute
by the present IEEE leadership has angered many members, and there
have been a flurry of individual protests. However, it appears that
many if not most of the members are still unaware that the IEEE has
been discriminating against some of our fellow members on the basis
of their nationality or country of residence.
The issue has been discussed last week at the annual IEEE Conference
on Decision and Control. A number of us have decided that it was time
to organize an IEEE-wide reaction in order to express to the IEEE
Board of Dirrectors the depth of our concern and our strong
opposition to the use of discrimination on the basis of nationality
or country of residence in an international scientific organization.
As a former Vice-President for Membership Activities of the IEEE
Control Systems Society, in charge of internationalization, I am
particularly sensitive to this issue which threatens the future of
the IEEE as an international institute. Many IEEE members present at
the IEEE CDC have pressed me to take an initiative, and have helped
me initiate it. Thus, we have decided to start a petition action
against the decision of the IEEE Board of Directors to discriminate
against IEEE members from countries that are embargoed by the US
government. With the help of a few IEEE colleagues, we have written a
text that we are now proposing for signature to as many IEEE members
as we can reach.
May I thus ask you to go to the petition website:
http://www.csam.ucl.ac.be/IEEE_Petition.pl
and to sign the petition if you agree with it. On that website and
the IEEE pages to which it links, you will find full information
about the embargo.
Even though the petition was started at the initiative of a few
members from the Control Systems Society, it is important that it now
be disseminated to all Societies and Regions.
I would therefore very much appreciate if you could pass this email
on to IEEE colleagues from other societies. If you know colleagues
from other societies than CSS who have access to databases of IEEE
members, please send me their names and email addresses or ask them
to get in touch with me. If you send the text yourself to colleagues
who are willing to forward it to large numbers of IEEE members,
please let me know so that I can coordinate the distribution. If the
snowballing effect works well, we should quickly have thousands of
signatures.
Yours sincerely,
Michel Gevers
IEEE Fellow,
Former Vice-President, and Distinguished Member of the IEEE Control
Systems Society,
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TC6 national delegates of official members of IFIP and all WG6.x
Chairs are invited to vote.
Prepare an email to
"Dorothy Hayden" <dh(a)ifip.or.at>, "Radford, Peter"
<Peter.Radford(a)logicacmg.com>
with "TC6 chair election" in the subject line
Paste in the body of this email the form below included between the two
dotted lines.
Fill the form as suggested and send you vote as soon as possible.
The voting period will be closed on November 26 at 17H00 GMT
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Fill the form
- by ticking and completing the relevant fields or
- by completing the fields of interest and erasing the non relevant lines.
Name : .......................
O National delegate
O Chairman of the WG 6....
For the position of TC6 Chairman for years 2004 to 2006,
O I vote for Otto Spaniol
O I vote for Ramon Puigjaner
O I abstain
Your vote will be valid if and only if you select only one choice.
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The results will be emailed to each of us by Dorothy around December 5
Andre
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ANDRE DANTHINE andre.danthine(a)ulg.ac.be
INSTITUT D'ELECTRICITE MONTEFIORE, B28
UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE B-4000, LIEGE (BELGIUM)
25, rue Henri Fays B-4160 Anthisnes (Belgium)
Dear all,
I wish you Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
And again I thank you Augusto for the devoted work and I wish to Otto a lot of success as TC6 chairman. (I think my previous congratulating letter bounced back.)
Best regards
Sarolta
Dear colleagues,
all my best wishes for a merry X-mas and a very happy, successful and
healthy new year.
Best regards, Volker Tschammer
P.S. With all that work necessary at the end of the year, I envy Santa -
if he really has time for a rest.