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June 5th, 2008

SIGMA: Masters in Applications of Signal Processing in Communications

This Masters Degree, adapted to the new configuration of university education within the framework of the EEES will train professionals with a high qualification in the field of the signal processing in communications. It has been prompted by the Group of Signal Processing in Communications of the University of Vigo, and counts the participation of teaching staff of the Departments of Theory of Signal and Communications, Telematics and Electronic Technology Engineering of the University of Vigo..

Duration: 1 year, 60 ECTS
Language: Spanish / English
Format: Presential and online
Orientation: Professional / Academic		 Capacity: 20 students

Degree
 The Universidad de Vigo will grant the degree of Masters in Applications of Signal Processing in Communications to all students, who have a university degree, and pass all tests and evaluations laid down for the masters degree.

Continuing Education
 However, any one of the courses that make up the masters course can also be taken as an individual course or a Continuing Education course, whenever positions are available. In this case the University of Vigo will issue the corresponding certificate of studies.

For more information please visit this website:
http://webs.uvigo.es/mastersigma/presentacion.html
Call for Submissions
2008 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware

NEEDS, John Wiley & Sons, Microsoft Research, Techsmith and Autodesk are pleased to announce the 2008 Premier Award competition. The Premier Award recognizes high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering education. Beyond just recognizing outstanding courseware, the Premier Award evaluates and acknowledges exceptional learning experiences. Since 1997, twenty-eight outstanding courseware packages and learning experiences have been rewarded. If you or someone you know has developed non-commercial courseware or exceptional web sites designed to enhance engineering education, please consider submitting for the Premier Award.

Please visit our website for information regarding submissions, 		prizes, past winners, sponsors, etc.
http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/premier/

You may download the Premier Award call for submission flyer here. The winner(s) will be announced and prizes awarded at the 2008 Frontiers in Education Conference on October 22-25, Saratoga Springs, NY.

Important Dates:
July 11, 2008 - Submissions Due by 5 PM MT
October 22-25, 2008 - Winner(s) Presented at the FIE 2008 Conference http://fie.engrng.pitt.edu/fie2008/

For More Information:

Please contact, Joe Tront, jgtront@vt.edu, (540) 231-5067 or
Brandon Muramatsu, brandon.muramatsu@usu.edu, (435) 797-2703.
Colombian Digital Library is now one step closer


During the second semester of 2006, Colciencias called for the presentation of research, technological development and innovative projects that used the National Network of Advanced Technology (RENATA).

Due to this call, different universities and research groups related to library sciences, information technologies, digital contents, scientific information and e-learning assisted in the creation of the Digital Colombian Library, which will allow different universities in the country to publish in the same environment their own digital contents online for review by the academic community.

After the evaluation, the project was approved at the end of last year, which represented a great goal, an opportunity to demonstrate that 12 universities can work jointly and be committed to the project.

The project started in February and hopefully will end by the middle of next year (18 months); and consequently achieve the following benefits through their objectives for the Colombian academic community, and the world in general, due to the fact that the digital Library networks can connect on a global level:

• A framework of agreements, policies and standards for the shared used of digital documents between all the Colombian universities.
• Digital Libraries or databases in most of the higher education institutions that connect with the project and thus share their contents in a decentralized way.
• An integration pilot project of those Digital Libraries and databases 		• A management pattern that allows continuity to this initiative and connects between other higher education institutions and scientific and academic organizations.
• An online training course about Digital Libraries.
• A web site to look up information about the project and digital libraries.

This is the first step closer to a Digital Colombian Library. These are the universities and research groups with a commitment who are in charge of the project:

Universidad EAFIT:
Research Group on Networks and Distributed Systems (GIRSD).
Universidad de Antioquia:
Research groups about Knowledge Management, Information Technologies, Terminology and Documentation.
Universidad ICESI:
Research Group in Resources and Technologies for the Apprenticeship (IRTA).
Universidad del Norte:
Educational Information Technology Research Group .
Universidad de La Salle:
Libraries, Information and Society Research Group.
Universidad Autónoma de Occidente:
Education and New Technologies Research Group .
Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario.
Universidad de Medellín.
Universidad de la Sabana.
Universidad Autónoma del Caribe.
Universidad de Santiago de Cali.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia.
Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios.

To know more about the project you can visit the following web site: www.bdcol.org
INFOLAC 2008
2nd Argentine Medical Information Technology Congress
3rd Latin-American Medical Information Technology Congress
2nd Argentine Symposium on Nursing Information Technology

October 30 and 31 and November 1st 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina October 29
Workshops / Tutorials

Invitation
The Argentinean Association of Medical Information Technology (AAIM) and the Latin-American Federation of Societies of Health Information Technology (IMIA-LAC) have the pleasure to invite you to the 3rd Latin-American Medical Information Technology Congress (INFOLAC 2008), which will be held from October 30th to 31st and November 1st in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

INFOLAC 2008 will offer to the participants, conferences from renowned specialists in the main themes that the Congress includes, tutorials, workshops, presentations on the scientific works and posters corresponding to the ten themes and areas that the Congress encloses.

We invite all people involved in health systems who wish to participate in the Congress to send scientific assignments and projects on the topics that will take place during the Congress.
 Call to Participation for INFOLAC 2008
The reception for proposals of presentations of scientific works and projects (oral/posters) will continue. There have arrived a large number of works and projects from Latin America that will be evaluated by the scientific committee of the Congress. The call for participation as well as the schedules for the reception of assignments can be downloaded from the Web page. All the proposals must be uploaded to the following Web page
http://www.infolac2008.com.ar/openconf

Theme Areas for the presentation of works
• Health and Clinical Management
• Medical Records
• Information Systems on Health
• Information Technology on Health and Multimedia
• Support on the decision making, Representation and Administration of knowledge on health
• Information Technology and Education centered on the patient
• Bio-information
• Standers, Interoperability and Regulations
• Information Technology on Nursing
• Change Management

The official languages of the Congress are Spanish, Portuguese and English. There will be simultaneous translations in all the presentations.

For registrations and more information:
http://www.infolac2008.com.ar info@infolac2008.com.ar
“Education Institutions facing the challenge of New Technologies in the Knowledge Society”

The Knowledge Societies arise from the use from new information technologies, wich when increasing the forms in which that information is transmitted, modify the development of human activities. The Knowledge Society is an ideal to which the present information era is headed, by means of the humanization of the technological media used at the present time, in such a way that these technological media become an instrument for the integral development of the human being.

This Congress looks to approach the participants to the analysis and discussion of the form in which the new technologies are used in the duties of the education institutions in Ibero-America, within a Knowledge Society. The Congress will also discuss the challenges that the new technologies raise to humankind, considering that such technologies are powerful instruments of communication, which being well used, can contribute to the enhancement, the development, and the extension of the culture and the total education, among other aspects of vital importance in the modern society.
 General Objectivess

1. To create a space of analysis and discussion about the impact of the new technologies in the institutions and educative processes in the Knowledge Society.
2. To promote virtual and real working environments for the elaboration of innovativeLatin American proposal, in relationship to the use of the Communication and Information Technologies (TIC) in the institutions and educational processes in the Knowledge Society.

Congress Phases

VIRTUAL: Internet Platform, coordinated by University of Granada (Spain), from April 15 to July 30 of 2008.

PRESENTIAL: National University, Heredia (Costa Rica), from September 17 to 19 of 2008. Main venue : National University of Costa Rica (Campus Omar Dengo), Heredia, Clodomiro Picado Auditorium.

For more information, the following link:
www.educacion-sc.una.ac.cr
EU-LA ICT RESEARCH Weather Forecast Newsletter

We invite you to read the third issue of the EU-LA ICT RESEARCH Weather Forecast newsletter, produced by the SOLAR-ICT and the WINDS-LA projects with the support of the European Commission, presenting reflections, news and events related to Europe-Latin America cooperation in ICT research.

Table of Contents

- SOLAR-ICT News
- WINDS-Latin America News
- Seven Research Framework Programme (FP7) News
- Insight on ICT Research in Latin America: Mexico, Paraguay and Peru
- Living labs for Latin America? By Susana Finquelievich, WINDS-LA Argentina
- Upcoming events

Enjoy your reading,

"The SOLAR-ICT and WINDS-LA partners"
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