What's New @ IEEE in Circuits

VOLUME 4 NUMBER 10 OCTOBER 2003

CONTENTS:

1. Industry Taking Experimentation to Production
2. Choose Your Candidate: IEEE Election Deadline Looms
3. IEEE Authors Win Nobel Prize in Medicine for MRI Development
4. 2004 IEEE Membership Renewal - Open for Business
5. Emerging Medical Imaging Technology Trends Revealed in IEEE Journal
6. New IEEE Journal Seeks Submissions
7. Wireless Chips Take Gaming on the Road
8. Saving the Space Station: IEEE Spectrum Reports
9. VLSI Symposia Publication Examines World's Industrial Capability
10. IEEE Job Site Offers Enhanced Features to Members
11. New Book Offers Designers Insight Into Verilog
12. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and... Engineering?

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1. INDUSTRY TAKING EXPERIMENTATION TO PRODUCTION
Solutions to improve CMOS performance will be discussed in the more than 200 papers scheduled to be presented at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM), coming this December. Industry leaders are looking to strained silicon, high-k oxides and on-chip silicon-crystal orientation to improve their products after finding the apparent limit to scaling silicon dioxide. EE Times looks at many of the papers and innovations scheduled to be presented at the conference:
eetimes.com/semi/news/OEG20030929S0046

The 2003 IEEE IEDM is scheduled for 8 to 10 December in Washington, DC, USA. Read more about this year's meeting, or register to attend at: www.his.com/~iedm/

Don't miss the next conference you need for your career. IEEE sponsors more than 300 technical conferences and workshops each year, highlighting the latest technological advances. Find events through the IEEE ConferenceSearch Web site at: www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/

2. CHOOSE YOUR CANDIDATE: IEEE ELECTION DEADLINE LOOMS
The deadline for votes to be counted in the 2003 IEEE election is 3 November. Ballots for the 2003 IEEE election were sent out to all voting members of the IEEE in September. Signed ballots must be returned in the pre-paid envelope included in the ballot package and received by Noon on 3 November in order to be counted. Unsigned ballots or ballots received after the deadline will not be counted. Eligible voters are member grade and higher. Find out more about this year's candidates at:
www.ieee.org/organizations/corporate/candidates.htm

3. IEEE AUTHORS WIN NOBEL PRIZE IN MEDICINE FOR MRI DEVELOPMENT
American Paul C. Lauterbur and Briton Sir Peter Mansfield this month received the 2003 Nobel Prize for medicine for their discoveries on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a non-invasive diagnostic technique used by doctors around the world to detect and treat diseases. Lauterbur, an IEEE author and past IEEE Medal of Honor winner, discovered the possibility of creating two-dimensional pictures by producing variations in a magnetic field -- the basis for the now-routine medical diagnosis tool. Mansfield, an IEEE author, developed the process by which signals the body emits in response to the magnetic field are analyzed. Lauterbur is at the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at the University of Illinois in Urbana; Mansfield is at the University of Nottingham in Britain. For more information on the 2003 Nobel Prize for medicine and its winners, visit: www.ieee.org/nobel

Lauterbur and co-author Zhi-Pei Liang penned "Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Signal Processing Perspective," a Wiley-IEEE Press title providing a comprehensive treatment of MR image formation principles. For more information on this Wiley-IEEE Press title, visit: www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0780347234
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4. 2004 IEEE MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL - OPEN FOR BUSINESS
IEEE membership renewal notices mailed to all active IEEE members at the end of September. In addition to the vast array of existing benefits and services, IEEE members may chose to add the new IEEE Product Safety Society or one of five new journals to their memberships for 2004. For a complete list of IEEE membership benefits and services, visit: www.ieee.org/memberbenefits

Renew online prior to 14 November for the chance to win a Dell notebook computer: www.ieee.org/renewal/

5. EMERGING MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNOLOGY TRENDS REVEALED IN IEEE JOURNAL
The October issue of Proceedings of the IEEE, the flagship journal of the IEEE, focuses on the emerging medical imaging technologies which are impacting healthcare today or are expected to in the future. Guest editors Christian Roux (ENST Bretagne-Inserm) and Jayaram K. Udupa (MIPG, University of Pennsylvania) have chosen 15 invited papers to provide an overview, coverage of image reconstruction advancements and the most recent processing and analysis methods. The articles range from an analysis of medical tomographic imaging systems evolution to a look at quantitative analysis of morphology and functionality of 3-D shapes. The special issue offers a comprehensive look at the growth and innovation of imaging technology. To read the guest editors' introduction, visit: www.ieee.org/pubs/proceedings/

IEEE Members may subscribe to Proceedings of the IEEE when they renew their membership at: www.ieee.org/renew

6. WIRELESS CHIPS TAKE GAMING ON THE ROAD
A new 32-bit baseband processor and an RF transceiver will take the hand-held GameBoy game system wireless, according to Motorola, Inc. The Texas-based company has entered into an agreement with game maker Nintendo Co. Ltd. to supply wireless chipsets for a new portable GameBoy system that will allow up to five people to play without being tethered together with wires. Read more at: www.eet.com/semi/news/OEG20030926S0008

7. NEW IEEE JOURNAL SEEKS SUBMISSIONS
One of the newest journals in the IEEE fold, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, is currently seeking submissions for publication. This journal will publish work in new application areas including: biotechnology, pharmaceutical and health care; home, service and retail; construction, transportation and security; manufacturing, maintenance and supply chains; and food handling and processing. The new journal is sponsored by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and will debut in July 2004. Find out more at: www.ieee.org/t-ase

8. SAVING THE SPACE STATION: IEEE SPECTRUM REPORTS
The report on the Columbia space-shuttle disaster has provoked a widespread debate about the future of space exploration. Meanwhile, a half-completed space station orbits above us with a skeleton crew. This month, IEEE Spectrum's special report on the International Space Station examines the state of the station and what needs to be done to ensure that it provides value for money. Recommendations include: "Stop pretending it's all about science" and "Start thinking about really long-duration space flight." Read more: www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/oct03/spac.html

9. VLSI SYMPOSIA PUBLICATION EXAMINES WORLD'S INDUSTRIAL CAPABILITY
Since its launch in 1981, the Symposia on VLSI Circuits has focused on what was seen as a revolution in the world's industrial capability. The 2003 symposia was no exception and covered topics ranging from advanced clock design; RF passive elements and low power design to high speed serial links; data converters; high speed serial links; and wireless transceivers. The proceedings of the 2003 Symposia are now available through the IEEE Online Catalog & Store: shop.ieee.org/store/product.asp?prodno=CH37408
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10. IEEE JOB SITE OFFERS ENHANCED FEATURES TO MEMBERS
The IEEE Job Site has been enhanced with an easier process for uploading resumes and profiles, improved navigation, and multiple job-search agents for different skills and career goals. The IEEE Job Site provides IEEE members with career resources that are pertinent in today's working world. IEEE members can search jobs by technical area, title and location, and through a profile feature members can match job postings with a self-created job profile. Visit: careers.ieee.org/

11. NEW BOOK OFFERS DESIGNERS INSIGHT INTO VERILOG
A new book published by Wiley-IEEE Press, "Design Through Verilog HDL" by T.R. Padmanabhan and B. Bala Tripura Sundari, offers designers new to the language an opportunity to become familiar with the language construction and real-life practical applications. Verilog is a hardware description language (HDL) that makes it possible to build hardware utilizing very sizable and complex digital circuits. Find out more about this tile at: www.wiley.com/remtitleinternational.cgi?isbn=0471441481
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12. READING, WRITING, ARITHMETIC AND... ENGINEERING?
Responding to legislative initiatives calling for greater emphasis on engineering in pre-college coursework, a handful of U.S. states have begun to incorporate pre-engineering courses into their K-12 curricula. But with unemployment among engineers at record levels, and with student interest in engineering courses waning, is such pre-college coursework doomed from the start? Hardy J. Pottinger takes a look at the issue in IEEE-USA Today's Engineer: www.todaysengineer.org/Sept03/education.asp

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