Tuesday, November 28, 2006

DENGUE FEVER: A POSSIBLE THREAT TO OUR LIVES?

The Khwarzimic Science Society has organized a popular lecture on Thursday,30 November 2006:

The speaker will be Dr. Waseem Akram, Assistant Professor, Department of Agro-entomology, Agriculture University, Faisalabad. He is currently leading a researh group in Faisalabad conducting research on ways of counteracting and forecasting the outbreak of mosquito-related diseases, especially those protracted from the Asian Tiger mosquito: Asian Tiger Aedes albopictus/aegyptus. Dr. Waseem Akram is also the Associate Editor of the journal, "Entomological Research", published by the Blackwell Publishing Asia Pvt. Ltd.

I would request you to extend this invitation to your colleagues, friends and family members. This is an important topic that concerns our health and safeties. The numerous deaths reported due to dengue fever in our country are really a wake-up call to changing our societal lifestyles and pressing upon the government and non-government organizations to act swiftly and
soundly. Please do not miss out.


The time and venue for the lecture are 12 pm (noon), at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Quaid-e-Azam (New) Campus, Punjab University, Lahore. The date is Thursday, 30 November, 2006.


Best regards,

Muhammad Sabieh Anwar
Joint Secretary Khwarzimic Science Society, Lahore



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Establishment of a VLSI Center for Excellence

On November 16th, 2006 PakSEF endorsed an effort initiated by Saad Rahman on the ASIC-Pakistan e-list to establish a VLSI Center of Excellence in Pakistan. This effort has taking the form of a document which is being compiled by various contributors from around the world.

The document can be viewed at http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc23v8tg_0fcfxq9.

This is a collaborative effort by Pakistani and Pakistani expatriate Electrical/Electronic engineering professionals. Contact Saad Rahman if you or anyone you know would like to contribute to this effort.

PakSEF is a non-profit professional organization established in 2002 for the promotion and development of Pakistan's Scientific Culture. TO join PakSEF send an email to Abdulrahman Rafiq. Membership is USD 20 or PKR 1,200 per year made payable via PayPal.



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Monday, November 27, 2006

NED Seminar: Cell-Planning for Cellular Networks

A seminar has been arranged for the passing out final year students to facilitate them in preparing for the forth-coming interviews in the telecom companies. The seminar will enable you to acquire knowledge which is only gained by working experience and usually not covered in the text books or the curriculum.

Speaker:
Mr. Jahangir Ali, an NED graduate, has an 8 years experience of cellular nework planning and optimization with major operators/vendors in Europe. He has extensive experience of managing and optimizing the GSM/UMTS systems to achieve key performance indicators (KPIs) for the quality of service (QoS) and to support marketing plans. He has continously worked in multi-vendor environment like Nokia, Motorola, Nortel etc. He has toyed virtually with all the propreitary tools available for radio planning, frequency planning, drive test and peformance monitoring in cellular networks.

Mr. Jahangir has a Masters degree from well-known French school and a specialization course on comptuer netowrks from Supelec.

Date, Time and Venue:
30th November, 1400 to 1600 hours in the VLSI & DSP Lab.

Registration:
Only 20-25 interested participants will be registered. Go to the DSP & VLSI Lab for registration or contact Adeel Razi, razi_adeel@yahoo.com.

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Friday, November 17, 2006

Residency & Fellowship Seminar in Silicon Valley

RESIDENCY & FELLOWSHIP SEMINAR

FOR INDIAN & PAKISTANI YOUNG PHYSICIANS IN CALIFORNIA

Organized by AAPIO* & APPNA**

November21st 2006Time: 05:45 - 08:00 pm

VENUE:HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS

Newark, Ca. 94560

Phone: (510) 795-7995)

Guest Speakers: Program Directors from well reputed programs in CA including
Alameda County Oakland Hospital California Pacific Medical Center & Kaiser Permanente.

Come & get your questions answered. A unique opportunity for you to talk to the program directors face to face.

Spots are limited, so kindly RSVP latest by Sunday, Nov 19th 2006 to aifra.ahmed@gmail.com

For Details, contact: Aifra Ahmed

408-332-6153, aifra.ahmed@gmail.com

*AAPIO: American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (www.aapio.org)

**APPNA: Association of Physicians of Pakistani descent of North America (www.appna.org)

[CALL FOR PAPERS] IEEE Conference @ UET Lahore | 11 - 12 April 2007 |

Call For Papers: ICEEE 2007 International on Electrical Engineering


Dates to Remember:

Full Paper Submission: 30 December 2006
Camera Ready Papers: 15 February 2007
Registration Deadline: 15 March 2007
Conference: 11 - 12 April 2007

Conference Topics:

Telecommunication
Embedded Systems & Reconfigurable
Computing
VLSI System, Design for testabilit y
Digital Signal/Image Processing
Control Systems
Power Elec tronic s
Wireless Communication
Biomedical Engineering
Power Generation, Transmission and
U tilization
Computer Networks
A r tificial Intelligence
Data Mining

Contact:

Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore 54890, Pakistan
Ph: +92-42-6829229, Fax: +92-42-6827504, Email: icee2007@uet.edu.pk, URL: http://www.icee2007.org

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Monday, November 06, 2006

Modern Engineering and Science---Where did it all begin?





Part 2:







From the modern astrolab to modern optics, medieval Islamic civilization holds the answers to the beginnings of our present-day technological advance civilization.



The root of modern scientific methods, verifying theory with experiment, the concept that light indeed travels in straight lines was first confirmed by a Muslim Scientist name of Al-Hythem. The list is endless, numerous books and historical accounts have been written on Islamic civilizations contributions to present-day Science and Engineering.



This video merely scraps the surface of a vast array of historical knowledge that can shed a brighter on our present-day technological advancement.




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A not-for-profit professional organization, www.paksef.org/info.htm

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Lahore: Wireless Rural Connectivity Conference and Hands-on Workshop

Everyone is invited to the "Wireless Rural Connectivity Conference and
Hands-on Workshop" Nov 15, 2006 in Lahore. Registration is free and open to
all but nominations with name, contact address and phone; organization
should reach the President P@SHA Ms. Jehan Ara at jehan@cyber. net.pk or
jehan@wiredet. com as soon as possible. If anyone wishes to participate in
this initiative, we would welcome the support with the possibility of
identifying a town or village in Lahore that can be utilized for a hands-on
workshop. Please also inform as many people as you can so that we have a
good turnout and a larger number of people benefit. NGOs, technology people,
government reps, students etc all need to be a part of this.

READ BELOW THIS LINE:

Wireless Rural Connectivity Conference and Hands-on Workshop Nov 15, 2006 in
Lahore - Everyone is invited!

P@SHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) is planning a Rural Networking
conference and Hands-on Workshop on Nov 15, 2006 in Lahore in collaboration
with Cisco Systems and the Punjab IT Board. The intent is to have a one day
conference followed by a hands-on workshop and actually deployment in one of
the towns or villages close to Lahore if an effort can be identified that
will benefit and can benefit from local support for the first 3 months while
they are learning the ropes. BytesForAll Network South Asia is spreading the
word to all corners of the country.

INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS

Jim Forster
Co-author of the book "Wireless Networking for the Developing World" and
Cisco's 30th employee (they now number in the tens of thousands) is coming
to Lahore at our request for the Keynote address and to be part of several
panels.

Malcolm Maston
An entrepreneur in the telecoms and IT sectors. In the early 1980's he was a
pioneer of the UK broadband industry and eventually sold his interests to
the US RBOC, Pacific Telesis. As a result of this experience, he began to
develop and enunciate the principles for the emerging digital world of an
OPLAN (open public local access network) as the "4th Utility". He then
formed COLT Telecoms as an OPLAN - Europe's first all-fibre public
telecommunications network but exited the Company when it abandoned the
'open' strategy. Since then he has promoted the OPLAN concept consistently
around the world - doing so now in the name of the OPLAN Foundation
(www.oplan.org) which he founded in 2005 as a not-for-profit body dedicated
to 'opening minds to open networks'. In late 2004, The OPLAN Foundation was
appointed to advise the World Bank on the relevance of 'open access' for the
developing world. He is an advisor to various European cities developing
their own OPLAN strategies and has written widely on the topic for bodies
such as the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Technical University,
Delft, Netherlands. Educated at the University of Nottingham and the Harvard
Business School, he serves on the boards of various private companies
including OpenPlanet Ltd. (www.open-planet. net ) which partners cities and
communities to develop their own OPLANs - serving citizens above all others.

Bjarke Nielsen
An educational leader at DIIRWB (Djursland International Institute of Rural
Wireless Broadband) and he founded the DjurslandS.net, one of the World's
biggest non-commercial rural wireless networks, connecting rural schools,
-institutions, -firms and -up to now more than 5000 rural households to the
Internet.

DIIRWB
Is an institute for training builders of cheap rural wireless broadband,
based on the experience of establishing and running of the DjurslandS.net .
DIIRWB is a cooperation of the "Computer Support Community of Djursland" and
"the Grenaa Technical School".

Bjarke
Founded the Computer Support Community of Djursland in 1993 and has
been its chairman ever since. He is also the chairman of GrenaaS.net, the
area-network of Grenaa, the largest city on Djursland. He also chairs all
pilot projects on rural wireless networks in the EU-funded "Baltic Rural
Broadband Project" in the countries around the Baltic sea in Northern
Europe, and are also project-responsible for the Danish part called
"Networking Djursland". He is a member of the EU-funded think-tank or
advisory-board on "Broadband Access, Innovation & Regional Development" for
the North SeaArea. He is also one of the trendsetting coordinators of the
World Summits on Free Information Infrastructures.

Other speakers include:

Malcolm Bjarke - Open networks advocate from the UK

Corinna"Elektra" Aichele.
Elektra's main interests include autonomous power systems and wireless
communication (antennas, wireless long shots, mesh networking).
Shemadeasmall Linux distro based on slack-ware geared to wireless mesh
networking.

Sebastian Büttrich (http://wire. less.dk/) is a generalist in technology with
a background in scientific programming and physics. Originally from Berlin,
Germany, he worked with IconMedialab in Copenhagen from 1997 until 2002.
HeholdsaPh.D. in quantum physics from the Technical University of Berlin.
His physics background includes fields like RF and microwave spectroscopy,
photo voltaic systems, and advanced maths. He is also a performing and
recording musician.

Vickram Crishna & Dr. Arun Mehta
Internet activists and Community Radio specialists. They have helped set up
WiFi Networks in rural areas of India

LET'S BENEFIT TOGETHER

This is a team of individuals who each, in their own field, are actively
participating in the ever-expanding Internet by pushing its reach farther
than ever before. The massive popularity of wireless networking has caused
equipment costs to continually plummet, while equipment capabilities
continue to sharply increase. The following experts will be visiting
Pakistan for the conference and hands-on workshop.

By taking advantage of this state of affairs, people can finally begin to
have a stake in building their own communications infrastructure. This is
not only possible, but has been done. This team intends to provide the
information and talk about the tools that are needed to start a network
project in our local community.

Wireless infrastructure can be built for very little cost compared to
traditional wired alternatives. But building wireless networks is only
partly about saving money. By providing people in your local community with
cheaper and easier access to information, they will directly benefit from
what the Internet has to offer. The time and effort saved by having access
to the global network of information translates into wealth on a local
scale, as more work can be done in less time and with less effort.

Let's take advantage of this team being here and if any of you can identify
an effort close to Lahore where deployment can take place right away, these
people can actually show hands-on how it's done. We will also have local
Pakistani experts present who can help expand this initiative into a mass
effort.

If any of you wish to participate in this initiative, we would welcome the
support. Please also inform as many people as you can so that we have a good
turnout and a larger number of people benefit. NGOs, technology people,
government reps, students etc all need to be a part of this.

At BytesForAll, we are already spreading the word to relevant people and
wish all the success to this event.

ABOUT JEHAN ARA

Ms. Jehan Ara, President of P@SHA (Pakistan Software Houses Association) , is
an active Bytesforall. org admin member as well as part of Pakistan ICT
Policy Monitor Network. She is known to be always very keen on bringing ICT
revolution into mainstream development agenda and see it contributing for
people's good.

In an email conversation Jehan informed that for this event she took
advantage of a major connectivity Summit called AirJaldi Summit
http://summit. airjaldi. com/ held in neighboring country India (in
Dharamsala). At the summit, she was able to convince some globally renowned
leading experts in the field to spare some more time and make a side trip to
Pakistan for a wireless networking event to be organized in Lahore on 15-16
November 2006.

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