Call for Papers: The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'10), USA, July 12-15, 2010

WORLDCOMP'10 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer/computer architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer/VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Anousheh Ansari (CEO, Prodea Systems & first female private space explorer), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2009 delegates photos can be viewed at: www.pixagogo.com/8658134154

IMPORTANT DATES:

Jan. 16, 2010: Proposals for organizing sessions/workshops
March 1, 2010: Submission of papers (about 5 to 7 pages)
March 25, 2010: Notification of acceptance
April 22, 2010: Final papers + Copyright + Registration
July 12-15, 2010: The 2010 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'10)

LOCATION OF CONFERENCES:

See: www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp10/ws/location

IEEE emeritbadges.org Launches Updated Web Site

22 November 2009 - The IEEE emeritbadges.org project has updated its web site, www.emeritbadges.org, featuring hands-on, pre-college technology educational materials for boys and girls. The updated site will feature information on the program’s sponsorship of the Electricity and Electronics Merit Badge booths at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree, to be held from 26 July to 4 August, 2010, at Fort A.P. Hill, in Caroline County, Virginia.

IEEE emeritbadges.org, which volunteers have developed and run, provides instructional materials based on the Boys Scouts’ Electricity and Electronics Merit Badge requirements. Materials are under development for the Computer Merit Badge. A team of emeritbadges.org Jamboree volunteers, recruited from across the United States and around the world, will teach Scouts the basics of electricity and electronics at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree. Scouts also will learn about technical careers and build a microprocessor-based kit that they can take home. During the 10-day long-event, approximately 100 volunteers will be manning these two booths, using the emeritbadges.org-developed materials to help 1,500 to 2,000 boys learn about electrical fundamentals, simple electronic circuits and microprocessors. The course materials and tests reinforce and supplement the Boy Scout Merit Badge Pamphlet requirements and provide the necessary knowledge for the boys to earn these two badges.

Any student, boy or girl can use the program to enhance technical literacy and learn more about viable engineering and other technical career options.

Similar to its counterpart, the IEEE GirlsGoEngineering.org mission is to energize girls toward careers in engineering, mathematics, and the physical sciences. A major component is a volunteer developed and run web site, www.GirlsGoEngineering.org, which provides science and engineering career and instructional programs, activities, materials and web resources of interest to girls, educators, and adult leaders. Other planned activities include participation in Girl Scout events and similar organizations to enlighten girls about careers in science and engineering.

To foster an interest in the engineering profession, IEEE serves students, members and colleges around the world. IEEE realizes that high school student exposure to the accomplishments of engineers is critical to increase engineering enrollment significantly at the university level. Thus, the IEEE created and sponsors the IEEE Scouting program, primarily through the Boy Scout organization and local Girl Scout groups. The program is designed to reach pre-university students and educators to “enhance the level of technological literacy of pre-university educators and students worldwide.”

For more information, contact:
emeritbadges.org – email Neil Durbin or call (216) 780-0172
GirlsGoEngineering.org – e-mail Lynn J. Simms

IEEE Hampton Roads and CHROME

The Hampton Roads Section, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Cooperating Hampton Roads Organizations for Minorities in Engineering (CHROME), announce a new collaborative program to bring together practicing engineers and students in the 4th through 12th grades, encouraging minority and female students especially to explore their interests and skills in electrical and electronics engineering disciplines. In this new collaborative program, coordinated by the IEEE section Education Committee and CHROME leaders, volunteer engineers will entertain and enrich students attending CHROME club meetings at schools throughout the Hampton Roads area. Volunteer presentations will include personal introductions to the practice of electrical and electronics engineering, but focus largely on age-appropriate hands-on student experience building practical electronics circuits using commercially available electronic learning kits.
The effort has evolved following the success of one volunteer engineer's efforts visiting various CHROME clubs with popular off the shelf learning kits purchased and made available through grants from local industry and universities. Additional fund raising is planned to purchase more kits with the intention of expanding the program. It is hoped that the program can be a model program for other professional engineering societies to bring together their practicing engineers and CHROME students to help stimulate interest in a variety of technical careers among minority and female students in the Hampton Roads area.
For further information or to volunteer, contact Education Committee Chair Dawn Ostenberg@ieee.org at IEEE Hampton Roads. For more information about CHROME go to www.chrome.org.

November 2009 Excom Minutes

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Brain Teaser Challenge - "November"†

by Butch Shadwell
Fred Jones was in his last term as an EE undergrad at Whatsamatter U. For his senior project he decided to build a codec that would send 8 bit PCM audio at 2.5 kilobytes per second. It seemed to work pretty well on most male voices, but there was weird distortion with music and some women. Fred may have fallen asleep in his DSP class. What do you think could be his problem? Fred often preferred to be called Stanley Smith for some odd reason, but I am not sure why I am telling you his alternate identification. I have to stop with the clues.

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† Our friend Butch volunteers a bit too much, he never quite catches up to the current month.