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DESCRIPTION:Colloquium: ComSoc History and Evolution of Communication\n\nSa
 turday\, Dec 9th\, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM US-CST\n\nAn Online Complimentary Event
  of Galveston Bay Section and R5 History Committee\n\nRegistration ( on Vt
 ools ) required to attend\n\nAGENDA:\n\n9:00 AM:\n\nWelcome: Dr. Zafar Taq
 vi-IEEE Region 5 History Chair\n\nWelcome: Bob Becnel-IEEE Region 5 Direct
 or\n\nIEEE ComSoc History Committee Briefing: Dr Kit August\, V/C ComSoc H
 istory Committee\n\nPresentations:\n\n1- History of ComSoc: Gunther Karger
 \, Past Chair IEEE Canaveral Section(sole living founder of IEEE ComSoc)\,
  Author\, speaker\, Cyber Columnist and Aerospace Engineer\n\n2- Informati
 on Theory\, Coding and its Contribution to IT: Dr. Mathini Sellathurai\, I
 EEE Fellow -Prof &amp; Dean Heriot-Watt University\, Edinburgh\, U.K\n\n3- Evo
 lution of Turning Wireless Communication to Sensing: Dr. Yingying (Jennife
 r) Chen\, IEEE Fellow- Department Chair and Professor of Electrical and Co
 mputer Engineering and the Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar at Rutgers Un
 iversity\n\n4- Women Pioneers in Telecommunications: Jill Tietjen\, PE\, F
 ellow SWE\, and Margaret J. Lyons\, P.E.\, Fellow SWE\, Technically Speaki
 ng\, Inc.\, Colorado\n\n5- Digitization of Audio and Video: Dr. Victor B. 
 Lawrence\, IEEE Fellow\, Inventor/Researcher\, Bell Labs / Stevens Institu
 te of Technology\n\n6- History of the COMSOC Flagship Conferences: Tim Wei
 l\, SO 27001 CSMA Auditor\, Trainer SecurityFeeds LL\, Colorado\n\n2:00 PM
 : Thanks from NAR Team: Fawzi Behmann\, Director ComSoc/North American Reg
 ion\n\nSpeaker(s): GUNTHER\, MATHINI\, JENNIFER\, \, Victor\, Tim\, KIT\, 
 \n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/387238
LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/387238
ORGANIZER:ztaqvi@gmail.com
SEQUENCE:63
SUMMARY:Colloquium: ComSoc History and Evolution of Communication 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/387238
X-ALT-DESC:Description: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Colloquium: ComSoc History and Evo
 lution of Communication&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Saturday\, Dec 9th
 \, 9:00 AM-2:00 PM US-CST&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An Online Complimentary
  Event of Galveston Bay Section and R5 History Committee&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;
 &lt;strong&gt;Registration ( on Vtools ) required to attend &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;s
 trong&gt;AGENDA:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9:00 AM&lt;/strong&gt;:&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbs
 p\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;
 nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome:&amp;nbsp\; &lt;/strong&gt;Dr. Z
 afar Taqvi-IEEE Region 5 History Chair&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Welcome:&lt;/strong&gt; B
 ob Becnel-IEEE Region 5 Director&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IEEE ComSoc History Commi
 ttee Briefing:&lt;/strong&gt; Dr Kit August\, V/C ComSoc History Committee&lt;/p&gt;\n
 &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Presentations:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;1- &lt;stro
 ng&gt;&lt;u&gt;History of ComSoc:&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Gunther Karger\, Past Chair IE
 EE Canaveral Section(sole living founder of IEEE ComSoc)\,&amp;nbsp\;Author\, 
 speaker\, Cyber Columnist and Aerospace Engineer &amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;2-&amp;nbsp\;
 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Information Theory\, Coding and its Contribution to IT&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/str
 ong&gt;: Dr. Mathini Sellathurai\, IEEE Fellow -Prof&amp;nbsp\; &amp;amp\; Dean Herio
 t-Watt University\, Edinburgh\, U.K&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;3- &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Ev
 olution of Turning Wireless Communication to Sensing&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;:
  &lt;/strong&gt;Dr.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Yingying (Jennifer) Chen\, IEEE Fellow-&lt;str
 ong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;Department Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer En
 gineering&amp;nbsp\;and the&amp;nbsp\;Peter D. Cherasia Faculty Scholar&amp;nbsp\;at R
 utgers University&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;4-&amp;nbsp\;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Women Pioneers in Telecommun
 ications:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Jill Tietjen\, PE\, F
 ellow SWE\, and Margaret J. Lyons\, P.E.\, Fellow SWE\, Technically Speaki
 ng\, Inc.\, Colorado&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;5-&amp;nbsp\;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Digitization of Audio and
  Video&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Dr. Victor B. Lawrence\, IEEE
  Fellow\, Inventor/Researcher\, Bell Labs / Stevens Institute of Technolog
 y&amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\; &amp;nb
 sp\; &amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;6-&amp;nbsp\;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;History o
 f the COMSOC Flagship Conferences: &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Tim Weil\,&amp;nbsp\;SO 27001 
 CSMA Auditor\, Trainer SecurityFeeds LL\,&amp;nbsp\;Colorado&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbs
 p\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2:00 PM:&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp\;Thanks from NA
 R Team: Fawzi Behmann\, Director ComSoc/North American Region &amp;nbsp\; &amp;nbs
 p\; &amp;nbsp\;&amp;nbsp\;&lt;/p&gt;
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