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Hoping to attract more women to careers in engineering, a coalition of engineering associations and societies including the IEEE, together with the WGBH-TV Educational Foundation in Boston, have established the Extraordinary Women Engineers Project. Read more at 2. Service Offers Access From Anywhere to Personal Information What happens if you're traveling abroad and lose your passport, or worse, get so sick you can't give the doctor a medical history? This is where a new document-storage service from the IEEE Financial Advantage Program can help. It stores copies of your important papers, including your medical records, for immediate transmission to wherever the information is needed. Find out more at 3. Virtual Museum Exhibit Shows How Big Small Is "Let's Get Small" traces the development of microelectronics starting with the invention of the transistor in the 1950s, tracks the miniaturization of electronics through integrated circuits and microprocessors, and ends with today's latest nanotechnology developments. This new exhibit, put together by the IEEE History Center and sponsored by the IEEE Foundation and the IEEE Life Member Committee also describes early vacuum-tube computers such as the ENIAC, which took up an entire room. Read more at ________________________________________________________ SPONSOR'S NOTICE: New battery-powered industrial PC's/instruments run for hours; run forever on hot-swappable LiIon batteries. The SideHand series from Dewetron are available as industrial computers with two PCI slots and a 15" display, and as several data acquisition instruments. 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ShopIEEE Has 25th Security and Privacy Symposium Proceedings Even after 25 years, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy continues to cover hot topics including electronic voting, cryptography, data integrity, anonymity and pseudonymity. The proceedings of the 25th symposium held 9-12 May 2004 in Berkeley, Calif., USA, have now been published and are available through ShopIEEE. For more information or to purchase these proceedings, visit ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPONSOR'S NOTICE: Need a mortgage? IEEE Financial Advantage is partnered with Wachovia Corporate Mortgage Services to provide IEEE members in the United States a competitive mortgage program. Members are eligible to receive competitive rates on mortgage products along with other great benefits. The process is easy, understandable, and fast. For more information or to apply, visit http://www.ieee.org/fap or call 866 762 4362 today. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 7. 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