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As part of the IEEE day, Ottawa Section will be holding a local event at Algonquin College Staff Lounge (D building) on October 6, 2010 (5pm-7pm). All IEEE members and well-wishers are invited to this wine and cheese event. This is also a great networking opportunity for the ones who are interested. There will also be a seminar on “Based Management of Optical Networks for Next Generation Disaster Recovery Networking Solutions with WDM Systems” and “Cloud Computing and Security” by Andrew MacKay (for more information please visit: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc/upcomingevents.html ).
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Those who are not familiar with Battle Royale, is the biggest LAN party from Ottawa is to be held on November 6th, 2010 at Carleton University. There are special discounts available for early birds and IEEE members. Available games tournaments will be on CS: Source, Starcraft 2, Left 4 Dead 2, League of Legends, Rock Band 2, Smash Brothers Brawl, Super Street Fighter IV (yeyy!!!), Team Fortress 2. Besides these games organizers are expecting local game making companies to participate and demonstrate their latest creations.
For more information please visit http://www.battleroyale.ca . The website also has a gamers’ community! Feel free to join in!
This event is a jointly brought to you by student branches from IEEE Carleton University, IEEE University of Ottawa, IEEE Algonquin College, Carleton Computer Science Society, CSSA-AEI, Carleton Student Engineering Society.
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IEEE Canada has established a new committee to support humanitarian initiatives in Canada. We are calling on the Ottawa Section members to help on a few of the initiatives underway: helping prepare a demo of a battery recharging service for presentation at EPEC 2010, helping create process for shipping and receiving equipment for humanitarian initiatives, design of open source Lithium Ion battery charger, organization of Canada-wide student competition of open source hardware for humanitarian projects.
For more information on HIC initiatives, please visit www.ieee.ca/hic.
[Originally published in IEEE Ottawa News by Alfredo Herrera.]
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Recently I have joined IEEE Ottawa Section as the Vice Chair of their Membership Development Committee for 2010. I will be helping the section to understand their members better and thus serve them with appropriate events, promotions and so on. Looking forward for some fun. I will try to update my activities as much as I can. 
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It was a great pleasure for me to talk about Eclipse IDE today at Carleton. This was a warm up for IEEE Computer Society Carleton University SB Chapter’s new Lecture on Demand series. Technically it was the first lecture, but students will be offered a lot more topics to choose from in future.
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By now, IEEEXtreme 3.0 should be over. This year there were about 700 teams participated in the contest- which means about 2100 competitors. In terms of number, it was a great success- I believe it was beyond organizers’ expectation. I was worried if the server will be able to handle the huge traffic. Eventually it did. Problem set was pretty standard – well defined and organized. The contest went very smooth. However, talking about the organization, I felt the contest could be better. So here are some feedback from me:
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I am to share an exciting news I just received from IEEE Region 7 (Whole Canada) RSR: “I am pleased to announce that Carleton University Student Branch’s website has won first place in Canada’s IEEE SB website competition.”
I will like to thank every one of the website design team: Abhinav Shukla, Vefa Bicakci, Imran Hossain, Junzhe Zou (Davy), Laura Mutu, Laxman Pradhan, Manuanand Muruganad and Mohammad Farhan. Special thank to Farhad Khan and Keyur Hindocha for providing us with a concrete platform in the previous years and Jieyi Rong or guiding us throughout the time. Every one in the executive team some how contributed in the site. All the features were completely written by us. I will talk details about the site’s interesting design in another post.
Thanks every one again!!!
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I found there are some informal information could be there in IEEE Extreme website. So here, I am trying to sum up as much information as I can. This will cover information for both organizers, and participants.
IEEE Extreme is a 24-hour programming contest for IEEE student members (assumably college/university students). It is an international contest, thus prestigious for the winners. For 2009, the contest is planned to be held on 24th October at 00:01 GMT. To participate, you need to contact your local university/college IEEE Student Branch. They are supposed to organize this contest preferably using university labs and other facilities.
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