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Communications
Society Activities
W. Ransom Silber, P.E.,
Shell Services International
2000 should be a great
year to explore emerging communications technologies and our
lunchtime meetings will give you an opportunity to survey these
technologies and exchange ideas with fellow engineers.
Whether you are engaged in communications engineering full
time or just need to know how it affects your specialty, we welcome
you to join us.
While the vast
majority of our programs address emerging communications technology
and its applications, at our January meeting we looked back at a key
invention that made long distance communication possible – the
vacuum tube. We thought
the first meeting of the year 2000 would be an appropriate time to
reflect on one of the key electronic devices developed early in the
20th Century. Programs
being developed for our future meetings will include such topics as
the US conversion to digital television transmission, updates on
space communications, and packetized voice in the public telephone
network. Our program
for the March meeting is still being finalized, but the date will be
Thursday, March 9, from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM.
Details are available
at our Houston ComSoc Web site: http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/chptrs/houston/.
Our officers for this year are:
Ransom Siler, Shell Services International,
Chapter Chair
Email contact: rsiler@ieee.org
Tom O’Brien, Shell Services International,
Vice Chair
Email contact: t.p.obrien@ieee.org
Joe Trevino, Jr., Southwestern Bell Telephone,
Treasurer
Email contact: jt5639@txmail.sbc.com
You are welcome to
contact one of us by email or call me at 713 245 4199 for more
information. We would
especially like to hear your ideas for program topics and speakers.
Please make plans to attend and learn with us.
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