Volume 6 Number 6 -- December 2003 IEEE Communications Society News, The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Communications Society This is the abbreviated version - for faster download and more rapid scanning. The full text can be viewed at www.comsoc.org/e-news/ 1. WELCOME to the December 2003 issue of IEEE ComSoc e-News. This is the last Issue by your current editor, Tim Moors; the new editor will be Nelson Fonseca. 2. ANNOUNCEMENTS Of special importance in Communications Magazine, the Optical Communications Supplement CFP, and the Radio Communications initial Issue CFP. See also MilCom key note presentations, in January CCNC, and "Tutorials Now" program. As always, you can send in comments and items of news by email to enews-ed@comsoc.org Happy New Year! Tim Moors, IEEE ComSoc e-News Editor University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia 3. RECENT EVENTS Milcom 2003 Keynote presentations are on-line http://www.afcea.org/pastevents/default.htm 3.1 AWARDS http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/operation/awards/index.html 3.2 SOCIETY NEWS If you are not already a member, you can join at: http://www.comsoc.org/join/index.html 3.3 CHAPTER NEWS Latest on ComSoc chapters http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/org/chapters/index.html 3.4 TECHNICAL COMMITTEE NEWS ComSoc technical committees, see http://www.comsoc.org/ socstr/org/operation/techcom/committees.html 3.5 STANDARDS NEWS 6 Oct.: IEEE 488.1-2003 IEEE has increased the speed of its IEEE 488.1 standard from 1 Megabyte per second (MB/s) to 8MB/s. 19 Sep.: 802.11h IEEE has approved an amendment to the IEEE 802.11 wireless local area network std. 3.6 PUBLICATIONS NEWS 3.6.1 NEW BOOKS 3.6.2 PERIODICALS: Recent special reports in IEEE Spectrum: This section of e-News provides links to the contents of current issues of ComSoc journals and magazines. 3.6.3 EDITORIAL NEWS The following new editors start their role as Editor In Chief for the respective publications on January 1, 2004: Publication New Editor-in-Chief IEEE Transactions on Communications Ender Ayanoglu IEEE Network Magazine Chatschik Bisdikian IEEE Communications Letters Ezio Biglieri IEEE Communications Society e-News Nelson Fonseca 4. IMMINENT EVENTS 4.1 IMMINENT CONFERENCES: Globecom, CCNC Additional: http://www.comsoc.org/confs/index.html. 4.2 IMMINENT SPECIAL ISSUES Communications Magazine 4.3 IMMINENT CALLS FOR PAPERS 4.3.1 CONFERENCE CFPs 4.3.2 JOURNAL CFPs 4.3.3 MAGAZINE CFPs New: IEEE Radio Communications: Components, Systems, and Networks: A quarterly supplement to IEEE Communications Magazine. Supplement Editor: Dr. Joseph Mitola III. See http://www.comsoc.org/pubs/commag/commagradiocfp.htm 5. ANNIVERSARIES 6. COMMUNICATE WITH E-NEWS You are receiving e-News as a free bi-monthly service provided by the IEEE Communications Society. Redistribution: The newsletter may be distributed freely to any non-subscriber to whom the material may be relevant and who may wish to receive the publication. Archives: The full text of this issue and archived back issues can be found on the e-news web site Advertising: To advertise in e-News, please contact Eric Levine, Advertising Sales Manager email: e.levine@comsoc.org Jobs: If you are looking for, or advertising, a communications engineering job, then please visit the ComSoc Career Center. Subscriptions: To subscribe to, or unsubscribe from either: email to Newsletter-request@comsoc.org with the word "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the body of the message, or follow the directions at http://www.comsoc.org/e-news/. If you experience problems with this procedure, please send email to mailmanager@comsoc.org for human intervention. Questions, comments, and newsworthy contributions? Please submit to enews-ed@comsoc.org. To unsubscribe from the IEEE Communications Society e-News mailing list send a blank email message to newsletter-remove@comsoc.org. To subscribe to the IEEE Communications Society e-News mailing list send a blank email message to newsletter-join@comsoc.org.