What's New @ IEEE in Communications

VOLUME 6 NUMBER 7 JULY 2005

CONTENTS:
1. First IEEE/CreateNet SecureComm Conference to be Held in Greece
2. View the Latest Communications Content Updates from IEEE
3. IEEE Magazine Examines QoS Provisioning in WLANs
4. Proceedings Papers from ConTEL Communications Conference Now Available
5. IEEE Memberships, Publications Offer Expires 15 August
6. IEEE Documents Searchable Through New Yahoo! Search Subscriptions Beta
7. Global Business Standards Trends Conference Announced
8. AT&T Legacy Persists Despite Breakup: IEEE Spectrum Reports
9. Student Team Creates New Internet-TV Software
10. Translation Device Improves Doctor/Patient Communication
11. Amateur Scientific Societies Grow by Communicating Online
12. Internet Access in China Offers Financial Advantages to Poor

WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK IN IEEE XPLORE?
Find the latest technical papers online:
ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/newinfo.jsp

1. FIRST IEEE/CREATENET SECURECOMM CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN GREECE
The First IEEE/CreateNet International Conference on Security and Privacy for Emerging Areas in Communication Networks will be held in Athens, Greece from 5 to 9 September 2005. This conference will focus on security and privacy in wireless, mobile, ad hoc, sensor, personal-area and RFID networks, and ubiquitous computing. Bill Cheswick, a Chief Scientist for Lumeta with over 30 years experience in operating system security, will present his keynote address entitled "Pondering and Patrolling Network Perimeters." The talk will describe technologies that help scope out the extent of intranets, and find perimeter breaks. For more information, or to register, visit: www.securecomm.org/

More essential IEEE conferences in telecommunications:

16th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor & Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 11 to 14 September, Berlin, Germany: www.pimrc2005.de/Conferences_en/pimrc+2005/

14th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, 18 to 21 September, Chania, Greece: www.ieee-lanman.org/

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. VIEW THE LATEST COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT UPDATES FROM IEEE
Last month, IEEE posted new content from over 100 publications to the IEEE Xplore online delivery platform. Recent additions in the communications field include:

IEEE Communications Engineer, April-May 2005

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, June 2005

IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, July 2005

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, July 2005

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL 2005)

The latest weekly content updates in IEEE Journals and Magazines, Conference Proceedings or Standards can be found by visiting: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/newinfo.jsp

3. IEEE MAGAZINE EXAMINES QOS PROVISIONING IN WLANS
The July issue of IEEE Network Magazine presents a special feature entitled "Wireless Local Area Networking: QoS Provisioning and Resource Management."

This special issue covers architectures, algorithms, and technologies for QoS and resource management in WLANs. Papers cover QoS issues in the IEEE 802.11 protocols, while articles deal with the sharing of radio resources and the study of performance evaluation in heterogeneous network environments. The guest editorial on the topic is now accessible to all readers at www.comsoc.org/livepubs/ni/public/2005/jul/index.html

4. PROCEEDINGS PAPERS NOW AVAILABLE FROM CONTEL COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE
The Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Telecommunications (ConTEL 2005), held in Croatia in June, are now available. The conference covers a broad range of topics including mobile agents, wireless communications, modeling and simulation, multimedia communications, network design and planning, measurements, experiences and solutions in IPv6 transition and deployment, as well as papers related to IPv6 applications. To purchase the complete proceedings of the conference from ShopIEEE, visit: shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/Product.aspx?product_no=EX1080C
***IEEE members save up to 60% off the list price for conference proceedings titles***

Individual papers from the conference are also accessible online via IEEE Xplore for IEEE Member Digital Library subscribers. Institutions with subscriptions to IEEE online collections may also have access to these proceedings, depending on their access rights: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=31386&isYear=2005

5. HALF-PRICE IEEE MEMBERSHIPS, PUBLICATIONS OFFER EXPIRES 15 AUGUST
Time is running out to take advantage of half-year, half-price dues on new IEEE memberships and additional IEEE Society memberships; subscriptions to IEEE publications are also half-price for IEEE members during this period, which ends on 15 August. Individual memberships and subscriptions become active upon payment and continue through the remainder of 2005. IEEE Societies focus on specific technologies such as communications and aerospace engineering or focus on general technology subjects. There are 122 publications that may be added to membership during this half-year cycle. To join IEEE, visit www.ieee.org/join. To add societies or publications to existing memberships, visit: www.ieee.org/addservices

6. IEEE DOCUMENTS SEARCHABLE THROUGH NEW YAHOO! SEARCH SUBSCRIPTIONS BETA
Yahoo! Inc. has rolled out the beta launch of Yahoo! Search Subscriptions, a service that enables users to search multiple online deep web subscription content sources and the Web at the same time. This deep web subscription content includes for-pay news and reference Web sites. IEEE is one of seven initial publishers whose content may be located through this service, which is currently available in the U.S. and the UK. For more information, visit: www.ieee.org/portal/pages/newsinfo/yahoo.html

7. GLOBAL BUSINESS STANDARDS TRENDS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED
In response to the changing dynamics of today's standards world, the Corporate Standards Program of the IEEE Standards Association will host a conference on global standards trends in Munich, Germany, on 26 and 27 September 2005. The conference, "Standards for Global Business: The European Conference on Collaborative Trends in Europe and Global Standardization," will explore standardization from the perspective of both standards development organizations (SDOs) and corporations. It will address such areas as the growing cooperation among international and other standards bodies and new models for standards development developed in response to the business and market needs of European and global industry. For more information, or to register, visit: standards.ieee.org/corpforum/europeconf/index.html

8. AT&T LEGACY PERSISTS DESPITE BREAKUP: IEEE SPECTRUM REPORTS
Although the fragments of AT&T's fallen empire remain in pieces, its legacy as one of the most powerful innovation machines of the past century persists, according to this month's issue of IEEE Spectrum. Among these innovations, the transistor, the laser, the solar cell, fiber optics, and satellite communications, have paved the way for some of the most successful and contributive technologies to the field of electrical engineering. Yet few realize that it was the company's ability to churn out such a long list of innovations that also led to its demise. IEEE Spectrum has more: www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/jul05/0705att.html

9. STUDENTS TEAM UP FOR INTERNET-TV
A team of students at the University of Texas at Austin will soon release a new software program called Alluvium, which employs peer-to-peer technology for streaming video to multiple users, according to an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Two of the team's students, Joseph Lopez and Brandon Wiley, plan to use the new program in their own Internet-TV station this month, which will broadcast more than a thousand videos created by the university's ACTLab students. To read more, visit: chronicle.com/free/2005/06/2005062401t.htm

10. TRANSLATION DEVICE IMPROVES DOCTOR/PATIENT COMMUNICATION
Student researchers at the University of Southern California have invented a two-way voice translation system that they say allows an English speaking person and a Persian speaking person to communicate. Although still in its infancy, the researchers believe that the system will one day be used to allow doctors and their non-English speaking patients to communicate without difficulty. The researchers claim that the system works by interpreting common phrases used in doctor-patient relationships rather than translating sentences word for word. Read more: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/uosc-vtm062805.php

11. AMATEUR SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES GROW BY COMMUNICATING ONLINE
Acc ording to a recent report from Worldchanging.com, amateur scientists in the 1800s were able to enjoy their shared knowledge on a particular subject through small societies, such as the Cooperative Observer Program, an organization for amateur phenologists. But as scientific research became more complex with the advent of certain new technologies in the mid-20th Century, research groups became smaller, more prestigious, and harder to join. According to the article however, the Internet is now giving amateur scientists who were once ostracized from professional societies access into global scientific communities, such as CornellUniversity's "Project Feeder Watch" and Canada's "Frogwatch," which now have thousands of members worldwide. To read more, visit: www.worldchanging.com/archives/002974.html

12. INTERNET ACCESS IN CHINA OFFERS FINANCIAL ADVANTAGES TO POOR
The spread of Internet access into small Chinese villages allows impoverished farmers to take advantage of an online finance program known as "Broadband for Barefoot Bankers," according to a recent report from Worldchanging.com. Among the program's main goals are permitting impoverished farmers to improve their businesses and local economies by taking out loans via the Internet, as well as pulling China's uneducated rural masses into the high-rise of global communication. To read more, visit: www.worldchanging.com/archives/002914.html

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