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Revised Membership dues for 2005

The SMC Society is pleased to announce that 2005 membership dues for the SMC Society will be $4.50 after March 1st.

IEEE SMC Society warmly welcomes and congratulates its five new Members at Large. They are:

Ellen Bass
Department of Systems and Information Engineering,
University of Virginia
Dimitar Filev
Ford Motor Company
MuDer Jeng
Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan Ocean University
Stuart Rubin
SPAWAR Systems Center, San Diego, USA
Peter Wieringa
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,BioMechanical Engineering
Delft University of Technology

They will serve until December 31, 2007.

Congratulations to the following members of the SMC Society who were elevated to the IEEE Senior Member grade at the last meeting of the IEEE Admission and Advancement Review Panel on 19 February 2005 in San Francisco.

  • Farooq Azam
  • Timothy R. McJunkin
  • Ian P.W. Sillitoe
  • Joseph J. Simpson

The SMC Society has 13 Chapters:

5 in America (Chile, Milwaukee, North Jersey, Olando, and Philadelphia)
4 in Europe (United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland, France, Hungary, and
Bulgaria)
4 in Asia (Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and Taipei).

4 new Chapters are under preparation: Central & South Italy (organizer:
Maria Pia Fanti), Mexico (organizer: Ernesto Lo'pez-Mellado), Germany
(organizer: Gunnar Johannsen), and Portugal (organizer: Gaël Dias)

Volunteers are needed to chair the Chicago, Connecticut, and Santa Clara Valley chapters. If you are interested in being a chapter chair, please contact the SMCS Chapters Coordinator, Prof. MuDer Jeng jeng@mail.ntou.edu.tw for information.

The theme of IEEE Int. Conf. SMC 2005 is System of Systems Engineering. Several panel discussions and 6 keynote speeches have been planned for this years SMCS flagship conference. The keynote speakers are:

  1. Dr. Firouz Naderi, Manager, NASA Mars Program, JPL, Caltech, USA
  2. Prof. Jim Tien, RPI, USA
  3. Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, UC Berkeley, USA
  4. Prof. George Bekey, USC, USA
  5. Prof. Andrew Sage, GMU, USA
  6. Dr. Mike Lazaridis, President, Research in Motion, Ltd., Canada

Call for Papers:
Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part A
Special Issue on Collaboration Support Systems
Special Issue Secure Knowledge Management
Special Issue on Critical Reliability Challenges and Practices

Call for Papers:
Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part B
Special Issue on Memetic Algorithms

Call for Papers:
Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C
Special Issue on Interdependencies in Civil Infrastructure Systems

 

 



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