IEEE TA/MGA Visits Program - 2008

24 May - 5 June (not including travel days)

1. Hong Kong, CHINA
2. Shenzhen, CHINA
3. Macau, CHINA
4. Bangkok, THAILAND
5. Ho Chi Minh City, VIETNAM
6. Hanoi, VIETNAM
7. Hoi An, VIETNAM

• Reports & Notes
  • by Khaled Ben Letaief
  • by J. Roberto de Marca
  • by Mary Ward-Callan

Please be sure to fill out the following and return:

• Registration Form (DOC, 92KB) * (for IEEE Delegation to fill out)
  • Includes hotel requirements, emergency information, etc.
• Schedule of Events Form (DOC, 44KB) * ( for Section Coordinators to fill out)
  • Information needed for each event during the visit

Schedule of Events - Contains Confidential Information (files will be emailed to Section Coordinators & IEEE Delegation)

• Calendar
• Detailed Itinerary, Hotel, Flights, etc.

Section Coordinators:

• Edward Cheung (Hong Kong, CHINA)
• Mang I Vai (Macau, CHINA)
• Andy Chen (Shenzhen, CHINA)
  • YW Liu (Assisting with Shenzhen & Hong Kong portion)
  • I Chih Lin (Assisting with Shenzhen & Hong Kong portion)
• Ekachai Leelarasmee (Bangkok, THAILAND)
• Son Thanh Nguyen (Ho Chi Minh City, VIETNAM)
• Minh Cao Ta (Hanoi, VIETNAM)

IEEE Delegation:

• Nim Cheung (Past President, IEEE Communications Society)
• J. Roberto de Marca (Vice President, IEEE Technical Activities Board)
• Cecelia Jankowski (Managing Director, IEEE Member and Geographic Activities)
• Khaled Ben Letaief (Chair, IEEE TA/MGA Visits Program)
• Joseph Lillie (+1) (Vice President, IEEE Member and Geographic Activities)
• Janina Mazierska (Regional Director, Asia & Pacific - Region 10)
• Alan Street (Future President, IEEE Reliability Society)
• Jeffrey Voas (Distinguished guest Speaker) 
• Mary Ward-Callan (Managing Director, IEEE Technical Activities)
• Cary Yang (Distinguished guest Speaker) 

  Biographies

• Nim Cheung
• J. Roberto de Marca (DOC, 28KB)
• Cecelia Jankowski (DOC, 28KB)
• Khaled Ben Letaief (DOC, 28KB)
• Joseph Lillie (DOC, 28KB)
• Janina Mazierska (DOC, 164KB)
• Alan Street
• Jeffrey Voas (DOC, 28KB)
• Mary Ward-Callan (DOC, 28KB)
• Cary Yang (DOC, 4MB)

Abstracts

• IEEE (J. Roberto de Marca & Joseph Lillie)
• IEEE and Roles of Engineers in Information Technology (IEEE Delegation)
• Role of failure analysis in the faible semiconductor environment (Alan Street)
• Ubiquitous Communications: The Next Wireless Frontier (DOC, 32KB) (Khaled B. Letaief)
• Carbon-based Electrical Interconnect and Thermal Interface Materials (DOC, 28KB) (Cary Yang)
• Jeffrey Voas able to cover following talks, (view all talks) (DOC, 52KB)
  • #1: The Physics of Non-Physical Systems
  • #2: A Baker’s Dozen: 13 Grand Software Engineering Challenges
  • #3: Creating Cyber-pandemics
  • #4: Software: The Great Enabler or Disabler?
  • #5: Software’s “Inoperable” Interoperability Problem
  • #6: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the “ilities”: Design in, Build in, or Glue on?
  • #7: Software Engineering Standards: Confusion, confusion, confusion
  • #8: Software Assurance's Trade-offs
  • #9: Software fault injection and its relationship to software testing
  • #10: Claims vs. evidence: Arguments vs. assurance

Presentations

• IEEE (J. Roberto de Marca & Joseph Lillie)
• IEEE and Roles of Engineers in Information Technology (IEEE Delegation)
• Role of failure analysis in the faible semiconductor environment (Alan Street)
• Ubiquitous Communications: The Next Wireless Frontier (Khaled B. Letaief)
• Carbon-based Electrical Interconnect and Thermal Interface Materials (Cary Yang)
• Jeffrey Voas able to cover following talks, (preferred talks listed)
  • #2: A Baker’s Dozen: 13 Grand Software Engineering Challenges (PPT, 52KB)
  • #6: Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) and the “ilities”: Design in, Build in, or Glue on? (PPT, 368KB)
  • #9: Software fault injection and its relationship to software testing (PPT, 7.2MB)