VDE ITG Introduction

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VDE ITG Introduction

• VDE Verband Deutscher Elektrotechniker
  (Organisation of German Electrical and
  Electronics Engineers)
• ITG Informationstechnische Gesellschaft
• (Information Technology Society)
• Presented by
• Dr. Heinrich Stüttgen
• General Manager, NEC Europes Network
  Laboratories at Heidelberg
• stuttgen_at_netlab.nec.de

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Informationstechnische Gesellschaft
ITGInformation Technology Society

• Main facts
• over 12.000 members
• more than 100 committees
• 1.200 honorary members
• founded in 1954
• oldest VDE-society
• member of 5 international informatics
  societies EUREL CEPIS IFIP ITU URSI
• publications ETT, ntz, it, dialog,
  ITG-newsletters

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Informationstechnische Gesellschaft
ITGInformation Technology Society

• Main tasks
• promote information technology in research,
  education and application
• improve professional standard of members
• promote exchange and sharing of professional
  experience
• facilitate an intensive transfer of technology
  knowledge
• organize national conferences, seminars or
  workshops
• host events in cooperation with other national /
  international professional societies

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Informationstechnische Gesellschaft
ITGInformation Technology Society

• Current Activities
• The expert activities are achieved in 9
  specialized divisions with about 40 technical
  committees and 60 work groups. Divisions are
• Information Society and Focus Projects
• Services and Applications
• Broadcasting, Film and Electronic Media
• Audio Communications
• Communication Systems
• Technical Informatics
• High Frequency Technologies
• Microelectronics
• Shared Concepts and Components

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ITG Organisation
ITG Members Assembly 11000 Membersout of 36000
VDE Members
ITG Board
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ITG Working Groups
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ITG Working Groups
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ITG Working Groups
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Major conferences of ITG in 2003 and 2004

• 5th International ITG-Conference on Source and
  Channel Coding SCC 2004, 14/01/04 16/01/2004
  in Erlangen (ITG / IEEE)
• 10th Triennial ITG-Conference on Displays and
  Vacuum Electronics, 03/05/04 - 04/05/04 in
  Garmisch-Partenkirchen (ITG / IEEE)
• EUSAR 2004 5th European Conference on Synthetic
  Aperture Radar, 25/05/04 27/05/04 in Ulm (ITG /
  IEEE)
• Networks 2004, 13/06/04 17/06/04 in Vienna (ITG
  / ÖVE / IEEE)

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Cooperation of VDE / ITG and IEEE ComSoc Plans
for the Future

• to assist engineers and scientists of both
  societies in achieving optimum personal and
  professional growth
• to strengthen exchange between both organizations
  and their members
• to cooperate in initiating, sponsoring,
  organizing conferences (VDE HQ has an experienced
  professional conference organization team)
• VDE/ITG is proposing to organize ICC2009 in
  Germany
• Contact infoDirector of OperationsDr. V.
  Schanz, itg_at_vde.com, Phone [phone]