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Orlando
Section Monthly
- SCOOP, January
2003
https://www.ieee.org/scoop
Published for IEEE Section
Chairs
Vicki Waldman, Editor; Tracy Hawkins, Manager
Section/Chapter Support
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- - 2003 Regional
Activities Board
- - IEEE Brussels Office
Has Closed
- - IEEE GOLD Leaders
Join Virtual Community
- - Merchandise Sales
Discontinued
- - IEEE Conferences Now
Highlighted On IEEE Homepage
- - IEEE Foundation
News, Awards And Proposals
- - IEEE-Standards
Association Launches Portal For The
Americas
- - Brain Teaser
Challenge, January 2003
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- 2003 REGIONAL
ACTIVITIES BOARD
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- The Regional Activities Board (RAB)
implements and upholds policy affecting Section
operations so, as a Section officer, it is
important to for you to know who is representing
your Section RAB. The following are members of
the 2003 Regional Activities Board (RAB):
- RAB Chair: W. Cleon Anderson
- Past RAB Chair: Maurice Papo
- RAB Treasurer: Joseph V. Lillie
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- Region 1 Director: Gerald Alphonse
- Region 2 Director: Moshe Kam
- Region 3 Director: James M. Howard
- Region 4 Director: Burton J. Loupee
- Region 5 Director: Jean M. Eason
- Region 6 Director: Evelyn H. Hirt
- Region 7 Director: Mohamed E. El-Hawary
- Region 8 Director: Anthony C. Davies
- Region 9 Director: Hugh Rudnick
- Region 10 Director: Jung U. Seo
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- RAB Vice Chair: Region, Section, Chapter
Activities: William Gjertson
- RAB Vice Chair: Member Activities: Marc T.
Apter
- RAB Vice Chair: Strategic Planning: Irving
Engelson
- RAB Vice Chair: Student Activities: Manuel
Rodriquez-Perazza
- GOLD Committee Chair: Anoop Alazhathu
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- Contact the Regional Activities Department
at regional.activities@ieee.org
- for more information.
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- IEEE BRUSSELS OFFICE
HAS CLOSED
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- The IEEE European Operations Center, located
in Brussels, Belgium has been closed, effective
31 December. The office was opened in 1985 by
the IEEE Computer Society and has been managed
by Jacques Kevers since 1989. Office support has
most recently been provided by Sonja
Verstraeten. The IEEE would like to thank
Jacques and Sonja for their service.
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- Beginning this month, IEEE member and
affiliate inquiries from Region 8 should be sent
to member-services@ieee.org.
Other inquiries about the office should be
directed to
- regional-activities@ieee.org.
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- IEEE GOLD LEADERS JOIN
THE SECTION-CHAPTER VOLUNTEER VIRTUAL
COMMUNITY
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- We are excited to announce that a new group
of IEEE leaders will be participating in the
Section-Chapter Volunteer Forum Virtual
Community. This GOLD leadership group will be
comprised of IEEE GOLD Affinity Group Chairs,
Region 1-10 GOLD Coordinators, and the 2003 GOLD
Committee Members. These GOLD leaders will be
utilizing the GOLD folders and subfolders in the
various areas of the Section-Chapter Volunteer
Forum virtual community to share information and
collaborate so the challenges of planning
activities and maintaining GOLD Affinity Groups
are minimized.
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- We encourage you to take a look at the
information that is posted in these areas so you
can remain updated and connected to your GOLD
leaders and activities in your respective
Section, as well as other IEEE Sections. Also,
we hope that through this effort, opportunities
for outreach and collaboration will be increased
between Sections, Chapters, and GOLD
- leaders.
-
- If you are not currently a member of this
community, but are interested in joining so that
you too can access the valuable information
described above and much more, then please
visit
- https://www.ieeecommunities.org/section-chapter_vol
and apply for membership. To preview the various
tools that will be available to you within the
Virtual Community and for how-to information for
using those tools, please see the "User Guide
for Virtual Communities," located at
- https://www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/vc/userguide.
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- For more information about GOLD, contact
Cathy Downer at c.downer@ieee.org. For questions
regarding IEEE Virtual Communities, contact
Marilyn Catis at mg.catis@ieee.org.
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- MERCHANDISE SALES
DISCONTINUED
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- The IEEE discontinued its merchandise
program on 31 December 2002. For questions
regarding merchandise for a meeting or
conference, contact Denise Maestri, IEEE
Regional Activities, telephone +1 732 562 5505;
d.maestri@ieee.org.
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- IEEE CONFERENCES NOW
HIGHLIGHTED ON IEEE HOMEPAGE
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- New to the IEEE homepage, https://www.ieee.org,
is a listing of four upcoming IEEE sponsored
conferences, offering to web site visitors a
broad exposure to the diversity of the annual
IEEE conference program. The four highlighted
conferences are extracted automatically from the
IEEE ConferenceSearch Database, https://www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/,
on a
- nightly basis. Each of the conference
listings includes the conference date, as well
as a link to its record within the IEEE
ConferenceSearch Database for those seeking
detailed information.
-
- Planned for future revisions of this
homepage feature are companion web pages showing
expanded listings of upcoming IEEE sponsored
conferences. To ensure that your IEEE sponsored
conference is included in this evolving
promotional tool, please be sure that you have
submitted your conference
- information to IEEE Conference Services, +1
732 562 3878;
- conference-services@ieee.org. Forms for
submitting required conference information can
be found online at
- https://www.ieee.org/organizations/tab/conflink.html.
-
- For additional information, contact John
Wettlaufer, IEEE Technical Activities, at +1 732
465 7809 or email j.wettlaufer@ieee.org.
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-
- IEEE FOUNDATION NEWS,
AWARDS AND PROPOSALS
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- The IEEE Foundation, the philanthropic arm
of the IEEE, has awarded grants in 2002 to a
variety of projects. For example, the IEEE
Foundation Board of Directors selected to
support at its November 2002 meeting projects
with goals that capitalize on the natural
curiosity children have for science and
technology; that generate ideas to improve
university educational
- programs in South-Eastern Europe; that
educate the public about the many contributions
engineers make to our everyday lives. To view a
full list of the grants awarded to date in 2002
please visit us on the web at https://www.ieee.org/organizations/foundation/html/2002grants.html.
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- If you have a project which you would like
to present for a possible grant in 2003, please
note the following deadlines: For consideration
at the Foundation's June meeting, abstracts are
due 14 March 2003 and proposals by 25 April
2003. For consideration in November, abstracts
are due by 15
- August 2003 and proposals by 26 September
2003.
-
- Proposals for projects should:
- * Improve education in mathematics, science
and technology from pre-college through
continuing education;
- * Preserve, study, or promulgate the history
of IEEE-associated
- technologies;
- * Recognize major contributions to these
technologies and their
- applications; or
- * Show promise of making a major
contribution to the worldwide communities the
IEEE serves or significantly advancing the
profession.
-
- To learn more about the IEEE Foundation and
obtain a copy of the grant guidelines, visit
https://www.ieee.org/foundation
or call +1 732 981-3435.
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- IEEE-SA LAUNCHES
PORTAL FOR THE AMERICAS
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- The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) has
launched
- StandardsAmericas(TM), a Web portal for its
standards community in North, Central and South
America. The portal supports those who want to
learn about, participate in and access technical
standards, especially in the fields of IT,
telecommunications, and power and energy. It
also integrates
- information on IEEE-SA's offerings with
relevant regional and global links related to
the IEEE and other standards development
organizations.
-
- The IEEE-SA launched its first geographical
portal, StandardsAsia(TM), in July. It will
publicly introduce StandardsEurope(TM) during
the first quarter of 2003.
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- Access StandardsAmericas at https://www.standardsamericas.net.
For more information, contact John Day, IEEE
Standards, at j.day@ieee.org.
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- BRAIN TEASER
CHALLENGE, JANUARY 2003 Butch
Shadwell
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- I have always been a big fan of the Larson
comics. I guess I flatter myself to think that
he and I share a similar sense of humor. One
cartoon in particular always comes to mind when
I think of the Larson stuff. He did one many
years ago where he portrayed some mad scientist
having emerged from his lab, after years of
intensive research, with a special helmet that
enabled the wearer to understand every thing
that dogs say. The complex
- collection of sounds and subtle cues that
dogs use to communicate were instantly
translated into English for the wearer. Then as
the scientist walks down the street amongst the
neighborhood dogs, in order to test his new
invention, he hears what we've all been dying to
understand. As it turns out, every bark, whine,
and whimper entered the wearer's ears as
the
- word "Hey". I found this to be incredibly
intelligent of Larson, for when one thinks about
it, by varying the intonation, one can express
just about everything dogs might want to say
with that one word.
-
- So, if you were interested in building the
contraption described by Larson, one might need
a simple constant current source with voltage
compliance from 5 to 20 volts DC (load
resistance varies from 10k to 40k ohms) at 0.5
mA (+/- 10%). And suppose you happened to have a
2N5457 (data sheet available at https://www.onsemi.com/pub/Collateral/2N5457-D.PDF).
I am
- looking for the simplest and cheapest
circuit configuration to meet this need. I would
like to see component values, and you may use
other semiconductors in addition if you wish.
And I don't own any stock in ON Semiconductor,
it was just the easiest place to find the data
sheet.
-
- Reply to Butch Shadwell by January 20 at
b.shadwell@ieee.org.
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