The activities of Korea Section(Electronics) in 2008 are summarized as following:

In the year 2008, the IEICE Korea Section(Electronics) organized two workshops.

The first workshop was “Colloquia on Recent Advances in Brain-Information Technology, Nanotechnology & Nanodevices” which was held on May 14, 2008 at EXCO Daegu, Daegu Korea and sponsored by the related institutions including KEA(Korea Electronics Association), Daegu City, IEEK and IEICE Korea Section(Electronics). The workshop was held with KES(Korea Electronics Show) Spring which was the first KES event held in local area.

The workshop was constructed by Keynote speech session and two parallel sessions; Brain IT & Nano Technology

In keynote speech session,  Prof. Takao Someya, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan gave a lecture on "Molecular Nanotechnology & Ubiquitous Electronics World" and Prof. Soo-Young Lee, KAIST, Korea gave a lecture on "Artificial Brain : A Brain-Inspired Intelligent System Based on the Integration of Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Science and Information Technology"

In Brain IT session, three international and two Korean scholars were invited as Prof. Kunihiko Fukushima, Kansai University, Japan, Prof. Daniel D. Lee, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA, Prof. Ren-Jye Dzeng. National Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan, Prof. Eung-Je Woo, KAIST, Korea, and Prof. Soo-Young Lee, KAIST, Korea. The topics of their talks were "Neural Network Model for Completing Occluded Contours," "Biologically-Inspired Sensorimotor Processing," "Ecology-City,  Network Platform for Lifestyle of Healthy and Sustainability," "Electrical Impedance Imaging for Biomedical Applications," and "Unsupervised Feature Extraction, Supervised Feature Selection and Adaptation for Efficient Classification," respectively.

In Nano Technology session, three international and two Korean scholars were invited as Prof. Takao Someya, The Univ. of Tokyo, Japan, Prof. Moon-Ho Jo, POSTECH, Korea, Prof. Huei Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Prof. Juin Liou, Univ. of Central Florida, USA, and Prof. Jong Ho Lee, KNU, Korea. The topics of their talks were "Organic transistor integrated circuits: Towards ambient electronics," "Bottom-up semiconductor nanowires," materials syntheses and device developments," "Current Status and Future Trends for Si and Compound MMICs in Millimeter-Wave Regime and Related Issues for System on Chip(SoC) and/or System in Package(SiP)," “ESD Protection for nano CMOS devices," and "Nano CMOS/Nanowire FET & 3D Device Modeling," respectively.

The second workshop was a Joint Seminar on Linear Drive and Its Application at Kyungpook National University, Daegu Korea which was held on January 16, 2009 and was sponsored by IEICE Korea Section(Electronics), IEEE Taegu Section, and IEEK Daegu-Gyeongbuk Branch

Professor Takafumi Koseki, The University of Tokyo, Japan was invited for giving a lecture on “Technical Trend and Activity of International Standardization of Rail-guided Public Transportation Driven by Linear Induction Motors” at the workshop.

Three other Korean scholars were also invited and they were Dr. B. Shin, KIMM, Professor J. Chang, Yeungnam University, and Professor S. Yeom, Daegu University.

The topics of three Korean scholars’ talks were “Development of Korean Urban Maglev Train,” “Development of High Efficiency GaN-based Light-emitting Diodes for the Realization of Various LED Applications, ” and “Low Resolution Facial Image Recognition Using Photon-counting Linear Discriminant Analysis,” respectively.

At the workshop, the introduction of IEICE and the Section was given by Prof. Kim, Section Representative, about those organization, activities and membership benefit, and visiting homepage was also encouraged.

Above two workshops were organized and steered by the committee chaired by Prof. Duk-Gyoo Kim, the representative of IEICE Korea Section(Electronics).

Fig. 1. Front page of the proceedings for first workshop.

Fig. 2. Prof. Koseki is giving a lecture at second workshop.