Globecom 1996 minutes of meeting

IEEE COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY
Signal Processing and Communication Electronics Technical Committee (SPCE)

Meeting at GLOBECOM'96, London.
19 November 1996

The meeting began at 5:00 pm and 11 members were present

1. Introductions; during the introductions, Professor Ray Steele was introduced to the committee. He was very active on the SPCE committee in the past.

2. The minutes at ICC+96 were approved

3. New officers. The term of office of the current officers expired. There was a move (Trevor Clarkson) to elect new officers). The move was supported (Horst Bessai). The following were nominated and elected

• Chair: Trevor Clarkson, Kings College, University of London, UK
• Vice Chair: Naohisa Ohta, NTT, Japan
• Secretary: Jaafar Elmirghani, University of Northumbria, Newcastle, UK

4. Recertification of SPCE

• SPCE has been recertified. Out-going chairman (Stamatios Kartalopoulos) reported to COMSOC on activities over the past three years and a copy of recertification document handed to new chairman.
• Stamatios Kartalopoulos reported to SPCE on a summary of recertification document, details available from Trevor Clarkson.

5. TPR reports

A. GLOBECOM+96, Nov. 18-22, 1996; Naohisa Ohata reported:

• I 120 papers have been received by SPCE TP representative.
• II SPCE has sponsored/cosponsored 5 full sessions and two half sessions

B. ISPACS+96, Nov. 25-29, 1996; Naohisa Ohata reported:

• I This will be held with ICCS+96
• II There are 120 papers
• III Advanced programme submitted to SPCE

C. ICC+97, 8-12 June, 1997; Stamatios Kartalopoulos reported

• I TPC to meet on the following day
• II ICC+97 received about 700 papers
• III SPCE reviewed about 100 papers

D. GLOBECOM+97, Nov. 4-8, 1997; Jaafar Elmirghani reported

• I TPC to meet on the following day
• II There will be 50-60 sessions with 5-6 papers per session, some long papers proposed. SPCE has put forward 10 session and 5 tutorial proposals. Organisers within SPCE identified

E. ICC+98

• I N. Ansari identified as SPCE TPR

F. GLOBECOM+98

• I J. Elmirghani, SPCE TPR

6. Workshop reports

• I Nothing to report

7. Communication Magazine, Liason J. Elmirghani reported

• I Magazine on web
• II Interactive electronic papers are to be published
• III Feature topics, special issue call
• IV Invitation extended to potential authors/guest editors

8. New Business

A. New ICC/GLOBECOM technical programme procedures

• I Shift to Mini Conferences. Technical Committees requested by COMSOC to sponsor/organise Mini Conferences. Proposals requested from membership
• II Exact details of new procedures not yet known

B. Hot topics

• I 3 D visual signal processing, Neural computing
• II Communication Electronics for Multigigabit systems
• III Signal Processing in Wireless Communication

C. ISPACS+97 will be held in Malaysia, 13-15 Nov., 97. For more information contact Naohisa Ohta

9. New Chairman thanked out-going Chairman

10. Meeting adjourned at 6:30 pm