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First of all, I am pleased to
be nominated by technical pioneer(s) in Japan and then appointed by the IEICE
as one of the present four Overseas Area Representatives, representing the IEICE
Singapore area. As one of the commitments to the professional societies, I would
try my best to do this work well to better serve our IEICE members in Singapore.
And I also wish to extend my service to Johore,
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Malaysia, one of my neighboring places, in my
best capacity. Although the number of IEICE members in Singapore area is not very
big, I wish the services extended to our members will be remarkable in the future.
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Being well
known internationally, the IEICE has become globalized after her fast growing
in the last several decades. In a similar fashion to IEEE, the IEICE has been
expanding her globalization or internationalization in many aspects. These include
a) the publications of various transactions in English, b) the establishment of
English Special Session in this year's IEICE annual meeting, and c) active participations
in, and even organization of, various international conferences and symposia in
the Asia-Pacific region. It is evident that the IEICE has been playing her more
and more important and leading role in the technical activities in the areas of
electrical, electronic, computer, and communication systems engineering. Due to
her fast growth, the IEICE has attract-ed many new overseas members (outside of
Japan) of many nationalities. It is my hope that the IEICE will continue
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to attract more and new members so as to maintain
the fast speed of growth, |
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to influence worldwide with high impacts to, and
even to pioneer, the science and technology development in the related areas,
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to further her globalization not only in language
but also in organization and management. |
As the first
Overseas Area Representative in Singapore, I hereby announce that we would provide
a few services within the IEICE allocated budgets, namely,
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Members can access to IEICE Transactions in both
Japanese and English in the form of either hard copy or CD-ROM. Members can approach
me for the materials, provided that the IEICE copy-right policy stands. |
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We will also have one or two meetings per year
subject to the necessity of both technical and social activities requirement. |
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In addition, we plan to have some technical talks.
We will invite a couple of Japanese professionals in frontier research & development
or so called =cd=b867IEICE Distinguished Lecturers" to deliver a seminar
series on common hot topics to local members of our Singapore area. |
I anticipate
your active participation and intensive involvement in our area activities and
look forward to meeting you soon.
Form the list
of the IEICE members in Singapore provided by the IEICE Headquarter (HQ), I realized
that some of you did not provide the HQ with your email address, and also some
of you have changed your email addresses but did not update them with HQ. In both
cases, please update your contacting addresses with HQ and send me your contacting
(including email) addresses at the following address:
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Professor Le-Wei (Joshua) Li
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore
10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260
Tel:(+65)
6874 6658 Fax:(+65) 6779 1103
Email:LWLi@nus.edu.sg
Web:
http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/lwli
You are welcome
to visit my personal home page for more information about myself. In addition
to the society management service, I could also offer the professional or technical
service to our members on behalf of the IEICE. In this connection, please feel
free to contact me for any IEICE related service. The IEICE Singapore Section
is one of a few small families out of Japan, based on the big family (i.e., the
IEICE HQ). Within this family, we need to understand, cooperate, and support to,
each other. Let us work closely together to make a strong and brilliant small
family in Singapore.
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