What's New @ IEEE for Libraries

VOLUME 7 NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 2005

CONTENTS:
1. Get Ready for IEEE Xplore 2.0: Free Online Training from IEEE
2. Speech Technology Pioneer to Receive IEEE Medal of Honor
3. Web Metadata Standards: Observations and Prescriptions
4. VoIP Focus: Free Papers Address Upcoming Challenges
5. Awards Honor Great Engineering Educators
6. Engineering Dream Jobs: IEEE Spectrum Reports
7. New Proceedings Address Latest in Communications
8. Backscatter: All in A Day's Work
9. IEEE Press Book First to Examine Automotive Black Box Debate
10. Tracking Technology Trends: An Online Approach

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1. GET READY FOR IEEE XPLORE 2.0: FREE ONLINE TRAINING FROM IEEE
The launch of IEEE Xplore 2.0 is just weeks away. To help your team prepare for the new design and features of the new system, IEEE is offering free, half-hour online seminars for information professionals at subscribing institutions. The seminars require a high-speed Internet connection and a voice line. Session dates for March have just been announced; space is limited and advance registration is required, so sign up now at: www.ieee.org/products/onlinepubs/form/free_training_form.html

For more about IEEE Xplore 2.0, please visit: www.ieee.org/products/onlinepubs/news/0105_01.html

2. SPEECH TECHNOLOGY PIONEER TO RECEIVE IEEE MEDAL OF HONOR
IEEE has announced that James L. Flanagan, Vice President of Research for Rutgers University in New Jersey, USA, will receive the 2005 IEEE Medal of Honor for his sustained leadership and outstanding contributions in speech technology. The IEEE Medal of Honor recognizes individuals like Flanagan who have had exceptional careers or made contributions in any IEEE field of interest. Flanagan's research career is internationally recognized for his contributions to voice coding, speech analysis and synthesis, hearing and electroacoustics. For more information, visit: www.ieee.org/portal/pages/newsinfo/flanagan.html

Which other innovators will receive IEEE medals this year? Find out here: www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/2005medalrecips.html

3. WEB METADATA STANDARDS: OBSERVATIONS AND PRESCRIPTIONS
Metadata helps to make the meaning of a Web page's data formal and explicit to facilitate processing by software tools. But how effective are current metadata standards? A new article from IEEE Software magazine and IEEE Distributed Systems Online says that lessons learned in fields such as software engineering, library science, knowledge representation, and especially artificial intelligence offer new possibilities and questions for Web metadata standards development. What changes do the authors prescribe? Read on: dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.6dd2a408dbe4a94be487e0606bcd45f3/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1_article&TheCat=1005&path=dsonline/0502&file=s1bod.xml&

This article is also available to subscribers through IEEE Xplore: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=30054&puNumber=52

4. VoIP FOCUS: FREE PAPERS ADDRESS UPCOMING CHALLENGES
IP telephony has experienced tremendous growth in the last several months, but it still has a way to go. To help address upcoming challenges with the technology, the IEEE Communications Society has made more than 20 journal and conference papers on VoIP available for free online for a limited time. The papers include topics like voice quality measurement and predication in the VoIP environment, VoIP network admission control, and VoIP network reliability. Visit: www.comsoc.org/tech_focus/index.html

5. AWARDS HONOR GREAT ENGINEERING EDUCATORS
From General Motors Corp. to teachers in Alabama and Rhode Island, the IEEE Educational Activities Board Awards recently honored nine recipients found to have made a difference in engineering education. The General Motors Technical Education Program received the IEEE Educational Activities Board Employer Professional Development Award, while the IEEE Boston Section and IEEE Florida West Coast Section were recognized for major contributions to members in the areas of lifelong learning, continuing education, and professional development. For more about these and other recognitions, visit: www.theinstitute.ieee.org/portal/pages/tionline/legacy/inst2005/jan05/1w.educationaward.html

6. ENGINEERING DREAM JOBS: IEEE SPECTRUM REPORTS
Engineering is sometimes seen as a stodgy profession, practiced in drab settings by dull people. Yet many engineers find both fun and excitement in their jobs, in locales ranging from glaciers to Hawaiian observatories. Case in point: Bill Woodcock, who circles the globe building Internet exchanges. Read about the strange career path that led Woodcock and other engineers to their current "dream jobs" in the February issue of IEEE Spectrum: www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/publicfeature/feb05/0205djob5.html

7. NEW PROCEEDINGS ADDRESS LATEST IN COMMUNICATIONS
In 2004, the IEEE 2004 International Conference on Communications (ICC) featured a unique set of technical symposia disseminating the latest research and development results in communications and networking. The proceedings of ICC 2004 are now available from IEEE. The program also included tutorials and workshops by internationally recognized experts, and a technical program geared towards researchers from academia and engineers from industry, network operators, and service providers. For more information, or to purchase these proceedings, visit: shop.ieee.org/ieeestore/product.aspx?product_no=CH37577

Institutions with subscriptions to IEEE online collections may have access to these proceedings, depending on their access rights: ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isNumber=29122

8. BACKSCATTER: ALL IN A DAY'S WORK
An engineering career can provide excitement and even drama, but how can we convince young people who might be considering studying engineering in college that the profession is every bit as interesting and exciting as we believe it to be. Don Christiansen thinks Tracy Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine" might be a good place to start. In the latest edition of IEEE-USA Today's Engineer: www.todaysengineer.org/2005/Feb/backscatter.asp

9. IEEE PRESS BOOK FIRST TO EXAMINE AUTOMOTIVE BLACK BOX DEBATE
Thomas M. Kowalick has been in the center of the international debate over the use of "black box technologies" for more than seven years, and has been a key player in the IEEE-SA Global Project 1616: Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorder Standard. Now, Kowalick brings his expertise to the first and only book on the subject, "Fatal Exit: The Automotive Black Box Debate," now available from IEEE Press and John Wiley & Sons. The book briefly traces the history of the debate from 1974 to 2004, and presents opposing viewpoints for and against the widespread use of emerging Motor Vehicle Event Data Recorder (MVEDR) technology. For more information, or to purchase this title, please visit: www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471698075.html

10. TRACKING TECHNOLOGY TRENDS: AN ONLINE APPROACH
As technology changes and more companies extend their reach internationally, it becomes vital to teach students how to conduct market research using the Web. This month's issue of the IEEE Professional Communication Society Newsletter provides some research resources, as well as some exercises instructors can assign their students: www.ieeepcs.org/newsletter/pcsnews_think_global.php

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