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SUMMARY:Occupational Health Exergames Applications
DESCRIPTION:October 1\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo\, Mechatronics Engineer from the Militar Nueva Granada University\, will be presenting “Occupational Health Exergames Applications”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Alvaro Joffre Uribe Quevedo\nMechatronics Engineer from the Militar Nueva Granada University\nMasters and Doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of Campinas\nPostdoctoral Fellow at the Games Institute \nDay & Time: Thursday\, October 1\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG106\, Ryerson University\n350 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nClick here to see the Map – Look for ENG \nOrganizer: Instrumentation & Measurement and Magnetics Chapters at IEEE Toronto \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour: maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Occupational health care issues affect more than 1.7 billion around the world and counting. Health care focuses on preventive\, corrective and maintainable physical activities that are subjectively monitored and poorly assessed without supervision\, as the patient may not perform the activities as expected. Among many reasons\, pain\, lack of interest\, cultural issues and even incomprehensive guides affect doing the physical activity. Didactic approaches to address such difficulties have resulted in interactive guides\, videos and physical trainers doing their best. However\, occupational health exercises are characterized to be very short\, repetitive and mandatory\, which causes demotivation and disinterred from workers. With the massif availability of affordable devices as a result of videogame evolution such as Wiimote\, Kinect\, etc.\, and open electronics and 3D printing\, with 3D tools such as Blender or Unity. Tailor exergames to specific scenarios can impact both physicians and workers with engaging and competitive activities with clear goals and monitoring to quantify the physical activity. In this talk I will address the development of motion capture occupational healthcare exergames for lower and upper limb\, and eye tracking\, challenges\, future work and trends. \nBiography: Dr. Alvaro is Mechatronics Engineer from the Militar Nueva Granada University\, with a Masters and Doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of Campinas. His main fields of work are in virtual reality towards the development of applications that take advantage of immersion and interaction using game elements in training and learning scenarios. Currently Dr. Alvaro is a postdoctoral fellow at the Games Institute working with the University of Waterloo and UOIT.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/occupational-health-exergames-applications/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University\, 350 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, ON
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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SUMMARY:Learning in Non-stationary Environments
DESCRIPTION:October 6\, 2015 at 11:00 a.m. Cesare Alippi\, IEEE Fellow & Professor of Information Processing Systems with the Politecnico di Milano\, will be presenting a distinguished lecture\, “Learning in Non-stationary Environments” at Ryerson University. \nSpeaker: Cesare Alippi\nIEEE Fellow\nProfessor of Information Processing Systems with the Politecnico di Milano \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, October 6\, 2015\n11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. \nLocation: George Vari Centre for Computing and Engineering\nRyerson University\nRoom: ENG287\n245 Church Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nClick here to see the Map – Look for ENG \nOrganizer: IEEE Signals & Computational Intelligence Toronto Chapter \nContact: E-mail: Lorenzo Livi \nAbstract: Most of machine learning applications assume the stationarity hypothesis for the process generating the data. This amenable assumption is so widely –and implicitly- accepted that sometimes we even forget that it does not generally hold in the practice due to concept drift (i.e.\, a structural change in the process generating the acquired datastreams). The ability to detect concept drift and react accordingly is hence a major achievement for intelligent learning machines and constitutes one of the hottest research topics for embedded systems. This ability allows the machine for actively tuning the application to maintain high performance\, changing online the operational strategy\, detecting and isolating possible occurring faults to name a few relevant tasks. The talk will focus on “Learning in a non-stationary environments”\, by introducing both passive and active approaches. The active approach will be deepened by presenting triggering mechanisms based on Change point methods and Change detection tests. Finally\, the just-in-time detect&react mechanism is introduced where\, following a detected change\, the system immediately reacts with a strategy depending on the available information. \nBiography: Cesare Alippi received the degree in electronic engineering cum laude in 1990 and the PhD in 1995 from Politecnico di Milano\, Italy. Currently\, he is a Full Professor of information processing systems with the Politecnico di Milano. He has been a visiting researcher at UCL (UK)\, MIT (USA)\, ESPCI (F)\, CASIA (RC)\, A*STAR (SIN).\nAlippi is an IEEE Fellow\, Distinguished lecturer of the IEEE CIS\, Member of the Board of Governors of INNS\, Vice-President education of IEEE CIS\, Associate editor (AE) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine\, past AE of the IEEE-Trans. Instrumentation and Measurements\, IEEE-Trans. Neural Networks\, and member and chair of other IEEE committees.\nIn 2004 he received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Young Engineer Award; in 2013 he received the IBM Faculty Award. He was awarded the 2016 IEEE TNNLS outstanding paper award.\nAmong the others\, Alippi was General chair of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) in 2012\, Program chair in 2014\, Co-Chair in 2011. He was General chair of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2014.\nCurrent research activity addresses adaptation and learning in non-stationary environments and Intelligence for embedded systems. \nAlippi holds 5 patents\, has published in 2014 a monograph with Springer on “Intelligence for embedded systems” and (co)-authored more than 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.\nHome Page: http://home.dei.polimi.it/alippi/
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/learning-in-non-stationary-environments/
LOCATION:Ryerson University\, Room: ENG287
CATEGORIES:Signals & Computational Intelligence
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SUMMARY:IEEE Toronto Section Annual General Meeting
DESCRIPTION:When: Saturday\, October 17\, 2015 from 6:30 to 10 pm \nWhere: 21 Old Mill Road\nToronto\, Ontario\nCanada\, M8X 1G5 \nThe Annual General Meting (AGM) of the IEEE Toronto Section is an occasion to celebrate our achievements\, made possible by its dedicated volunteers and members. This year\, the AGM will also include the elections for a new set of Section officers\, to serve in 2016-2017. \nProgram:\n6:30 PM: Reception and Cash bar\n7:00 PM: Sitting and Introductions\n7:30 PM: Dinner and Keynote Presentation on the Canadarm\, by Craig Thornton\, MDA\n8:30 PM: Section Report by Emanuel Istrate\n9:00 PM: IEEE Toronto Section Awards\n9:40 PM: IEEE Toronto Section Elections\n10:00 PM: Closing Remarks \nPlease notice the following:\n• Dress code is Elegant Casual.\n• Section members (and one guest) can purchase tickets by contacting olivier@ieee.org. The cost is CAD$50\,00 (Life Members) and CAD$70\,00 (Other Members).\n• Seats are limited; RSVP is mandatory. \nTo attend the AGM\, please register here: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/36247\nRegistration closes on October 9. \nBio for Craig Thornton:\nCraig Thornton is Vice President and General Manager of the Robotics and Automation Division within MDA’s Information Systems Group. Craig’s team was/is responsible for key Canadian signature programs such as the iconic Shuttle Remote Manipulator System (i.e.\, Canadarm) for the now retired Shuttle Fleet and the Canadarm2 & Dextre robotic systems for the International Space Station. The Robotics and Automation Division has also achieved many successes in the application of its space robotics heritage to “terrestrial” applications. These include the NeuroArm (now known by the trade name SymbisTM) neurosurgical robot\, inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in 2014\, as well as robotics and automation systems for other medical\, nuclear\, mining and security applications. Craig worked at Spar Aerospace for 10 years before its acquisition in 1999 by MDA\, where he held a variety of both technical and management positions\, including Director of Engineering and Manufacturing. In 1999\, he left MDA to grow and develop a small business (CIMTEK Inc.) in the field of automated\, electronic\, functional test equipment and services. During the next 9 years\, Craig and his partners built the business through several acquisitions in the UK and the US and the establishment of Greenfield operations in Monterrey\, Mexico and Suzhou\, China. After building CIMTEK to an attractive size\, Craig and his partners sold the business in early 2008. Following the sale\, he was involved in several small technology start-ups as an angel investor and senior manager until his return to MDA in 2010. Born and educated in Ontario\, Canada\, Craig holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Human Biology/Biomechanics from the University of Guelph and a Masters of Applied Science in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto. Craig has been happily married to Jane for 32 years. He has two sons\, Michael and Jason. Michael is a 4th year B. Comm. student at Ryerson University and Jason is a 3rd year Electrical Engineering Student at McMaster University. Craig is an avid soccer player and coach\, mountain biker\, skier and wind surfer. He has also been known to race Porsche’s from time-to-time. When he’s not doing any of these things he is likely sitting on the dock at his cottage with his family\, friends and a cold beverage.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-toronto-section-annual-general-meeting/
LOCATION:Old Mill Inn. Exact location to be announced.
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SUMMARY:Modeling Semantics of Content on Twitter (What did you mean when you said Yoyo!)
DESCRIPTION:October 22\, 2015 at 12:00 p.m. Dr. Ebrahim Bagheri\, Associate Professor and the Director for the Laboratory for Systems\, Software and Semantics (LS3) at Ryerson University\, will be presenting “Modeling Semantics of Content on Twitter (What did you mean when you said Yoyo!)”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Ebrahim Bagheri\nAssociate Professor and the Director for the Laboratory for Systems\, Software and Semantics (LS3) at Ryerson University. \nDay & Time: Thursday\, October 22\, 2015\n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. \nLocation: Kerr Hall West\n379 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\nRyerson University\nRoom: KHW057\nMap – http://www.ryerson.ca/maps – Look for KHW \nOrganizer: IEEE Systems Chapter – Toronto Section \nContact: E-mail: Alexei Botchkarev \nRegistration: Registration is free\, but space is limited. Please register via this link: http://tinyurl.com/systems-Oct-22 \nAbstract: The microblogging service\, Twitter\, has gained wide popularity with over 300M active users and over 500M tweets per day. The unique characteristic of Twitter\, only allowing short length messages to be communicated\, has brought about interesting changes to how information is expressed and communicated by the users\, i.e.\, the semantics of information when expressed on Twitter differ from when expressed on other medium. For instance\, the word ‘metal’ when observed on Twitter carries a different semantic meaning\, most likely referring to heavy metal music\, as opposed to when used in other contexts where its predominant sense is the metal material. In this talk\, I will discuss how the meaning and senses of words can be captured and modeled on Twitter to enable better and more efficient search\, retrieval and recommendation of content. \nBiography: Ebrahim Bagheri is an Associate Professor and the Director for the Laboratory for Systems\, Software and Semantics (LS3) at Ryerson University\, and has been active in the areas of the Semantic Web and Software Engineering. He was one of the research theme leaders of the national project on Radiation Emission Monitoring at the National Research Council Canada and was responsible for leading the development of the Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering components of that project. In 2011\, he co-chaired the Canadian Semantic Web Conference in Vancouver\, BC (http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-774/). His work on Semantic-Driven Information Extraction has resulted in two provisionally patented technologies namely Denote and Derive. Denote is a semantic annotation platform based on Linked Open Data and Derive is an extensible architecture for unsupervised knowledge extraction and object (concept and property-value pair) population from the Web. He has been involved in projects that encompass the use of Semantic Web technologies in the areas of e-commerce and business process modeling funded by NSERC\, AIF and IBM. Over the past 5 years\, he has led projects worth over $5M CAD including various NSERC research and development projects with over 12 industrial partners. He is a senior member of IEEE\, an IBM Faculty Fellow and a member of PEO.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/modeling-semantics-of-content-on-twitter-what-did-you-mean-when-you-said-yoyo/
LOCATION:Room: KHW057\, Kerr Hall West\, Ryerson University\, 379 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, Ontario
CATEGORIES:Systems
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SUMMARY:EPEC2015: Electrical Power and Energy Conference
DESCRIPTION:October 26th\, 2015 – EPEC2015 is an opportunity for electric power and energy systems experts from industry\, academia\, and other interested organizations to discuss the latest developments in the field: academic and industrial research\, industrial/business trends and challenges. This may include debate on the potential impact of these developments including discussions on regulatory and policy aspects. The conference provides an international forum for the presentation of peer-reviewed power and energy research and development. \nWhere: London\, Ontario Convention Center \nWhen: October 26th\, 2015 \nEarly Registration Fees Apply until Oct 1st\nRegister in tutorials now: http://epec2015.ieee.ca/tutorials/\nView Conference Fees: http://epec2015.ieee.ca/registration/ \nElectrical Power and Energy Conference Technical Tutorials now open for Registration: \n1. Power Flow Controllers\nKalyan K. Sen\, Chief Technology Officer\, Sen Engineering Solutions\nSession features a high-level overview of various power flow controllers and their features including voltage regulating transformers\, phase angle regulators\, shunt inductor/capacitor\, and series inductor/capacitor\, and Voltage-Sourced Converters (VSC). \nThe presentation will be of particular interest to all utility power engineering professionals with familiarity in power engineering terminology. The audience will hear from an expert who actually designed and commissioned a number of power electronics-based FACTS controllers. \n2. Developments in HVDC and FACTS for Power Transmission Grids\nErvin Spahic\, Head of Future Technologies\, Siemens\nJörg Dorn\, Head of R&D\, Technology and Innovation\, Siemens\nThis tutorial will reveal trends in Europe related to nuclear generator phase out and Integration of renewables. Technology\, theory and applications related to high voltage DC transmission and experience from actual projects in Canada and USA. \nThis session is for transmission system operators\, grid developers\, consulting companies\, universities and others interested in related new technologies. \n3. Microgrids Operation and Control – Theory and Practice\nAmir Hajimiragha\, GE Digital Energy\, Grid Automation\nThis session will cover microgrid challenges and potential opportunities including: DC vs. AC\, CERTS microgrid concept\, concepts and interactions among distribution management systems (DMS)\, energy management systems\, microgrid controllers and microgrid control\, communications systems and related standards. Included is a real-world microgrid example covering: conventional system configuration\, control and monitoring solutions\, challenges\, achievements and lessons learned. \nThe target audience for this session is engineers from utilities and local distribution companies\, managers and policy analysts\, and university graduate students. \n4. Grid Security\nDoug Houseman\, Vice President of Innovation and Technology\, EnerNex\nFrom NERC CIP to Privacy Regulation\, security is becoming a mandated item on the grid. For more than 100 years most people respected the electric grid and left it alone\, feeling that it was a shared public resource that needed to be provided. Now with the advent of Cyber warfare\, home grown terrorists\, black mail hackers\, and others the grid needs protection. Not just cyber security but physical security as well. \nThe target audience for this session is engineers from utilities and local distribution companies\, managers and policy analysts\, and university graduate students \n5. Smart Fault Monitoring and Protection\nAmir Mojtahed\, Managing Director\, Bender Canada Ltd.\nThis session is a comprehensive introduction to the electrical power considerations in Electrical Safety. It covers grounding\, fault current\, ground fault monitoring and protection systems\, smart protection in grounded system (HRG and solidly) and power quality applications and solutions. \nAt the end of the presentation\, people will have better understanding of ground faults in AC/DC systems and how to deal with these issues. \n6. Smart Grid Lab\nPratap Revuru\, Smart Grid Solution Architect\, Schneider Electric\nBala Venkatesh\, Professor and Director\, Centre for Urban Energy\, Ryerson University\nThis tutorial examines aspects of the smart distribution network and focuses on illustrating benefits of advanced distribution management system (ADMS) that provides intelligence\, a layer above the conventional SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition). The tutorial also illustrates a smart grid laboratory facility built at Ryerson as a path for process that enables smart grid technologies and its use in distribution systems. \nThis session is designed for academic professors\, researchers and students\, utility engineers and administrators as well as facility managers and architects. \n7. Introduction to Smart Grid and Distributed Energy Resources Standards (IEEE SCC21)\nTom Basso IEEE SCC21 and IEEE P1547 Committee Chair\nMark Siira IEEE 2030.2 Working Group Chair and IEEE P1547 Committee Vice Chair Charlie Vartanian IEEE 2030.2 Working Group Secretary and IEEE P1547 Committee Secretary and Treasurer\nThis session covers the IEEE Standards Coordinating Committee 21: SCC21 – “Fuel Cells\, Photovoltaics\, Dispersed Generation\, and Energy Storage” including an Overview of standards development by SCC21\, DER and Smart Grid interconnection and interoperability. A listing of IEEE 1547™ Distributed energy resources (DER) interconnection series. IEEE Std 2030™ Smart Grid Interoperability\, and IEEE P2030.2.1™ Design\, and operation and maintenance of Battery Energy Storage Systems.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/epec2015-electrical-power-and-energy-conference/
LOCATION:London\, Ontario Convention Center
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:SSCS Distinguished Lecture: Cognitive Radio Transceiver Chips
DESCRIPTION:Monday October 26\, 2015 at 10:10 a.m. Eric Klumperink\, Ph.D. and IEEE Respected Lecturer\, will be presenting “Cognitive Radio Transceiver Chips”. \nPowerpoint from the Presentation:   \nSpeaker: Eric Klumperink\, Ph.D. \nIEEE Respected Lecturer\nTechnical Proram Committee Member of ISSCC and RFIC\nAssociate Professor\, Twente University\, Enschede \nDay & Time: Monday\, October 26\, 2015\n10:10 a.m. – 11:10 a.m. \nLocation: Room RS 211\, Rosebrugh Building\, University of Toronto\n164 College Street\, Toronto\, ON \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto SSCS \nContact: Dustin Dunwell: dustin.dunwell@gmail.com \nRefreshments will be served. All are welcome. \nAbstract: A Cognitive Radio transceiver senses its radio environment and adaptively utilizes free parts of the radio spectrum. CMOS IC-technology is the mainstream technology to implement smart signal processing and for reasons of cost and size it is attractive to also integrate the radio frequency (RF) hardware in CMOS. This lecture discusses radio transceiver ICs designed for cognitive radio applications\, with focus on analog RF. Cognitive radio asks for new functionality\, e.g. spectrum sensing and more agility in the radio transmitter and flexibility in the receiver. Moreover\, the technical requirements on the building blocks are more challenging than for traditional single standard applications\, e.g. in bandwidth\, programmability\, sensing sensitivity\, blocker tolerance\, linearity and spurious emissions. Circuit ideas that address these challenges will be discussed\, and examples of chips and their achieved performance will be given. \nBiography: Eric Klumperink received his PhD from Twente University in Enschede\, The Netherlands\, in 1997. He is currently an Associate Professor at the same university where he teaches Analog and RF CMOS IC Design and guides research projects focussing on Cognitive Radio\, Software Defined Radio and Beamforming. Eric served as Associate Editor for TCAS-I and II\, and for the Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He is a technical program committee member of ISSCC and RFIC and is Respected Lecturer for IEEE. He holds several patents\, authored and co-authored more than 150 international refereed journal and conference papers\, and is a co-recipient of the ISSCC 2002 and the ISSCC 2009 “Van Vessem Outstanding Paper Award”.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/sscs-distinguished-lecture-cognitive-radio-transceiver-chips/
LOCATION:Room RS 211\, Rosebrugh Building\, University of Toronto
CATEGORIES:Solid-State Circuits
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