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Requicha to Head IEEE T-Nanotechnology
Ari Requicha will become Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology effective January 1, 2007. "My most important and immediate action will be to establish a new type of manuscript, called a Research Letter, which will be limited to 3 pages and published very rapidly, typically within 4-6 weeks of submission," Requicha said. " As nanotechnlogy is evolving swiftly, timely publication is essential to ensure that authors will submit their best work to the journal." Requic... read on »
Error in RAS AdCom Election Ballot-new ballots to be sent
One of the candidates for RAS Adcom was inadvertently omitted from the ballot which was mailed in October to RAS voting members (higher grade members and graduate students). Because of this error it will be necessary to send out new ballots. Votes made on the faulty ballots will be discarded, so even if you have already voted, please look for the revised ballot and submit your vote again. The revised ballotwill be printed on colored card stock to make it stand out and to avoid confusing the ... read on »
IEEE Robotics & Automation Field Award Nominations
Nominations for the 6th IEEE Robotics & Automation Technical Field Award are due at the IEEE by January 31, 2007. The award is presented for contributions in the field of robotics and automation. It can be presented to an individual or team of up to three in number. It includes but is not limited to: Manufacturing automation, Robotics and Automation in Unstructured Environments, Sensor Design, Integration and Fusion, Robot Design, Modeling, Planning and Control, Methodologies for Robot... read on »
George Nicholos Saridis November 17,1931-October 29, 2006
George N. Saridis, Founding President of the IEEE-Robotics and Automation Council/Society, died October 29 in his home in Athens, Greece. From 1981 until his retirement, Prof. Saridis was Professor of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was also Director of the Robotics and Automations Lab at RPI. Prior to coming to RPI, he taught for many years at Purdue University. He received the Dipomal in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the Na... read on »
RAS AdCom Election Ballots Mailed October 25
Ballots for Robotocs and Automation Society Admlinistrative Committee Electionswere mailed (by post) to all IEEE RAS voting members on October 25. Ballots must be returned by December 6 to be counted. See Candidate Statements to see bios and position statements by the candidates.... read on »
2007 RAS VP Elects
At the October 14, 2005 meeting of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Administrative Committee the following individuals were elected to serve as Vice Presidents-Elect of the Society during 2007. They will begin their terms as Vice President beginning January 1 2008. John Hollerbach, University of Utah, USA: Conference Activities Peter Luh, University of Connecticut, USA: Publications Activities Alicia Casals, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain: Membership Activities Alex Ze... read on »
Call for RAS Society Awards and Fellow Nominations
The RAS Awards Committee is soliciting nominations for seven IEEE Society Awards Nominations must be submitted to RAS Awards Chair Katsuchi Ikeuchi. by March 1, 2007. Two new RAS awards were approved by IEEE Technical Activities Board in 2006: IEEE Inaba Technical Award for Innovation Leading to Production. IEEE Invention and Entrepreneurship Award Nominations are also solicited for the following RAS Society Awards: Pioneer Award Early Government or Industry Caree... read on »
RAS 2006 AdComElections
RAS members will soon be receiving their ballots to elect six members to the RAS Admnistrative Committee. The slate of candidates to serve a three year term beginnin in January 2007 includes: Asama, Hajime Chatila, Raja Dillmann, Ruediger Fu, Li-Chen Fukuda, Toshio Henderson, Thomas Kumar, Vijay Laumond, Jean-Paul Orin, David Siegwart, Roland Snyder, Wes Wang, Michael For the bios and statements of the candidates, download report ... read on »
RAS Membership Survey
In January and February 2006 the RAS conducted an on-line survey. It included focused questions regarding RAS publications. Even though the survey was not limited to members, 98% of the 462 respondents reported that they were RAS members. The geographic distribution and reported professional experience (we didn’t ask age!) of the survey respondents mirrored the society’s actual membership statistics. Survey questions asked about respondents’ occupations and technical interests, the... read on »
IEEE Election Ballots in the Mail
Ballots for the 2006 IEEE Annual Election have been mailed to all eligible voting IEEE members. All ballots must be returned and received by the election vendor by 12 o'clock noon, Central Time U.S.A. (18:00 GMT) on 1 November 2006, in order to be counted. For information on any of this year's candidates or their positions, visit: http://www.ieee.org/elections. Videos of this year's IEEE president-elect candidates, Lewis Terman and John Vig, are now available online. One video features th... read on »
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