Welcome Messages
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society President’s Welcome Message
{img src=images/StephenDukes.jpg height=100 class=photo-left desc=Dukes} On behalf of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, I welcome each participant to the International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2012) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I am delighted you chose to join us ISCE 2012. The 16th Annual ISCE is sponsored by Chapters of the Consumer Electronics Society and IEEE CE Society each year. The conference offers a venue for engineers, scientists and researchers from academic institutions and industry to present papers on technology innovation and professional networking. Consumer Electronics is an exciting segment focused on the latest research and technology innovations associated with rapidly developing consumer electronics segment. This field is rapidly developing and delivers new technologies, products, applications, services and architectures for consumer electronics and entertainment each year, visible not only to professionals, but to the global community.
The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society continues to be one of the significant topics, within the IEEE public visibility campaign. Consumer Electronics converges and interfaces with many other fields, including communications, power grid and healthcare, that have enormous ramifications and value on humanity. Consumer Electronics products, such as, accessibility, high definition television, 3DTV, smart grid solutions, medical devices and mobile devices are technologies that blur the boundaries of any one country to create a diverse technical community reaching consumers around the world.
I want express my gratitude and thanks to Prof. Aldo Morales, General Chair of the ISCE 2012 Conference and Dr. Sedig Agili, Co-General Chair and Finance Chair, and Stefan Mozar, Vice President of Conference. I also want to recognize Prof. AB Shaffaye, Prof. Cheryl Ebel, Tim Wickard, Prof. Sung Jea Ko, Dr. SY Kulkarni, Prof. Fernando Pescador and Charlotte Kobert, Conference Coordinator serving on the Executive Committee. As with each conference, I have a great appreciation for the contributions of those who serve as administrative and session chairs, authors and each reviewer. We are dependent on numerous volunteers who expend countless hours to establish a successful conference and to them I express my sincere thank you. And finally, I wish to thank each participant for making this conference successful.
I invite you to consider other CE conferences being held in 2012, including the ICCE – Berlin 2012 to be held in Berlin, Germany, in September, the International Games Innovation Conference (IGIC) 2012 will be held in Rochester, New York, in September, GCCE 2012 will be held in conjunction with the CEATEC in Tokyo, Japan, in October, and ICCE – China to be held in Shenzhen, China in November.
Enjoy your participation, the conference sessions and the many other activities at the ISCE 2012 Conference in Harrisburg.
Stephen D. Dukes President IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
IEEE CE Society VP of Conferences’ Welcome
{img src=images/StefanMozar.jpg height=100 class=photo-left desc=Mozar} Welcome to the Sixteenth ISCE in Harrisburg!
This is the second time the ISCE is held in the United States. The first time it was held in the USA, was in 2007. That year it was held in Dallas, Texas. It is always a pleasure to have the ISCE in the USA. This year’s ISCE team, lead by Professor Morales, has worked hard to present an excellent program covering a wide variety Consumer Electronics topics.
The ISCE was started in Singapore, in 1997. Although there have been some other non IEEE ISCE Symposia before 1997, these have no association with our conference. The ISCE is originally an Asian symposium; and is the second major IEEE conference on Consumer Electronics. Being a chapter based conference has allowed the ISCE to move to different locations. The flexibility of moving the symposium around, allows attendees at regional centres, who can’t attend the ICCE in Las Vegas, to attend a high quality IEEE conference locally or close to home.
In order to serve our members better, the IEEE CE Society has established new conferences. The new conferences are located on site with the world’s most important Consumer Electronics Shows. Last year (2011) we held the first ICCE-Berlin, which is on site of the IFA show in Germany. This European based conference has been well received and was very successful. This year we have continued with our conference establishment. During April we held the inaugural ICCE-China, a bi-lingual conference where the working language is Mandarin and English. The Conference was held in Shenzhen, China. This conference was on site with China Electronics Fair. In November a second conference will be commence in conjunction with the China High Tech Fair. This event will also be held in Shenzhen.
October will see the first Global Conference on Consumer Electronics (GCCE). This will be hosted by Professor Hase in Tokyo, and will be on site with the CEATEC show. Our conferences are collocated with these world leading consumer electronics shows to not only provide our delegates with opportunities to take in what industry is doing, but because the value of our conferences is recognised by the organisers of these shows. The shows provide an opportunity to see what the current technology in the market is now, our conferences provide a glimpse of what these products will look like in the future.
In addition to the tradition consumer electronics conferences, we have identified Games as an important part of consumer electronics. This year’s Games conference (IGIC) will be held in Rochester New York during early September.
Our society has been working on delivering opportunities for CE professionals to get together and exchange ideas. But we also allow time to socialise and enjoy the local attractions. I trust you will all enjoy Harrisburg, and bring some chocolates back home. I know I will. Stefan Mozar VP Conferences
IEEE CE Society
Welcome from the General Chairs to ISCE 2012 and SI Symposium
{img src=images/aldo.jpg height=100 class=photo-left desc=Aldo} It is our pleasure to welcome you to the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics and the 6th Symposium on Signal Integrity. This year’s theme is “The Connected World,” in tribute to the relationship between consumer electronics and the high speed connector industry in Harrisburg, PA, “The Connector Capital of the World.” As a result, several papers and tutorials are dedicated to this issue. The tutorials are from well-known companies such as Agilent, Ansys, Lecroy, and Tektronix. We thank them for their support. The rich tutorial topics include, “Jitter and Timing Analysis for High Speed Designs and Link Analysis for High Speed Serial Standards,” Frank Salvaggio, Tektronix; “High speed serial interconnect analysis software for next generation high speed digital standard,” Yoji Sekine, Agilent; and “Finite Element Practices for Causal and Broad Band Frequency Sweeps of PCBs and Interconnects,” Dr. Matt Commons, ANSYS. “Quality of Experience (QoE) evaluation in consumer electronics applications, devices and services,” by Dr. Ulrich Reiter, Norwegian University of Science and Technology; “GPU Programming and Architecture for Multimedia Signal Processing,” Dr. Saeid Nooshabadi, Michigan Technological University; and “New US Patent legislation,” by Brian T. Sattizahn.
We are also very proud of the impressive cadre of keynote speakers whom we have assembled for the symposium. Dr. Zachi Baharav, from Corning West Technology Center will present “A Day Made of Glass” – A vision for an enabled future: challenges and opportunities. Dr. Scott A. Snyder, President and Chief Strategy Officer of Mobiquity, will discuss innovative wireless solutions for enterprises. Dr. Anthony Vetro, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, Massachusetts, will talk about “3D Video Coding and Transmission Formats,” including blu-ray disc, cable and satellite transmission, terrestrial broadcast, and streaming and downloading through the Internet. David Helster, TE Connectivity, will deliver “Evolving Architectures to Support Next Generation Serial Data Rates,” including state of the art serial links from 12Gbps to 25+Gbps such as IEEE, Fibre Channel, Infiniband, and the OIF. Dr. Taechan Kim, Technical VP, Samsung, will present “Taking your camera from the drawer: Image Sensors Challenges for the Future,” emphasis will be given to today's Samsung System LSI's Semiconductor Hardware Sopast. “Connector Models: Past, Present and Future,” will be discussed by Jim Nadolny, Head of Global SI, Samtec. In addition, Howard Heck from Intel will convey “Signal Integrity in a Consumer World.” Finally, we have invited Dr. Robin S. Bradbeer, Director Pearl Technologies Ltd and Immediate Past Chair IET Hong Kong Branch, to talk about CES Society membership and chapter activities.
We would like to recognize the important roles of the members of the conference Executive Committee (ExCom) and Technical Program Committee (TPC) who worked very hard to produce an interesting conference program. We offer special thanks to all of the researchers who submitted their work, which we are certain, will enlighten the rest of us.
Finally, we take this opportunity to invite all ISCE and SI 2012 participants to submit suggestions for enhancement of future conferences.
Welcome again to our Conference, and we hope you enjoy your stay in beautiful Central Pennsylvania!!
Aldo W. Morales Conference Co-Chair
Sedig Agili Conference Co-Chair