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The article focuses on the highlights of the 36th annual European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) held in Turin, Italy in September 2010. The goals of ECOC include the dissemination of new research results, the education of engineering and business leaders and the exhibition of optical fiber communication and networking products. Speakers at the event included Masataka Nagazawa of Tohoku University in Japan, who discussed developments related to optical communication technologies.

The August President's Page is devoted to a description of the IEEE Future Directions Committee by Roberto Saracco. Roberto Saracco is the President of EIT ICTLABS Italy and Italy Node Director (European Institute of Innovation and Technology). His background is in math and computer science. Up to December 2011 he was the Director of the Telecom Italia Future Centre in Venice, looking at the interplay of technology evolution, economics, and society. At the turn of the century he led a World Bank-Infodev project to stimulate entrepreneurship in Latin America. He is a senior member of IEEE, where he has served in various positions in ComSoc, and he currently leads the Future Directions Committee. He has published over 100 papers in journals and magazines and 11 books. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article focuses on the High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR) workshop, which took place in Torino, Italy during June 24-27, 2003 under the technical co-sponsorship of IEEE and was financially supported by a number of other organizations. The workshop is the flagship meeting of the IEEE Communication Society's Technical Committee on Communication Switching and Routing. One hundred thirty participants from 24 countries attended the workshop. The technical program covered a wide spectrum of research topics, such as switch architectures, wavelength- division multiplexiing networks, scheduling algorithms, quality of service issues, metro ring networks, optical burst switching networks, resilience, protection and restoration, traffic engineering, packet lookup, classification and forwarding and routing. A lot of attention was devoted in HPSR 2003 to switch architecture. Traffic engineering is a hot topic that is tightly related to routing. Multipoint-to-point label switched path trees has been proposed as a technique to reduce label space usage.

The article presents the statement of the IEEE Communication Society presidential candidate Michele Zorzi. According to Zorzi, he is concentrating in improving the quality of publications and conferences of IEEE Communication Society. He also mentions that he is willing to promote student participation. Zorzi studied and became the professor of University of Padova, Italy. He became the editor-in-chief of "IEEE Wireless Communications" and "IEEE Transactions on Communications." It is mentioned that he is interested in wireless communications research and networking in the area of protocol analysis and design.

Highlights the 2003 High Performance Switching and Routing Workshop, which was held in Torino, Italy on June 24-27, 2003. Number of papers submitted for the conference; Keynote speeches delivered during the event.

This article presents a calendar of events, related to the telecommunication industry. SIP 2004--6th IASTED International, the conference on Signal and Image Processing, is to be held from August 23-25, 2004, in Hawaii. CSIMTA 2004--Complex Systems, intelligence and Modern Technology Applications, will be held from September 19-22, 2004, in France. Allerton Conference 2004--42nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, will be held from September 29- October 1, 2004, in France. ISITA 2004--International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications, will be held from October 10-13, 2004. ISSSE 2004--International Symposium on Signals, Systems, and Electronics, from August 10-13. SOFTCOM 2004--International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, will be held from October 11-13, in Italy. WNCG 2004--Wireless Networking Symposium, from October 2004. NCSBB 2004--Technology for Life,--North Carolina Symposium on Biotechnology, from October 13-15, 2004, in North Carolina.

A calendar of events for the electronic and electrical engineering community is presented including the IEEE Consumer and Communications and Networking Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada from January 9-12, 2011, the 8th International Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Service in Bardonecchia, Italy from January 26-28, 2011 and the International Conference on Communications and Information Technology in Aqaba, Jordan from March 28-31, 2011.

The article discusses the highlights of the 16th European Wireless Conference which took place in Lucca, Italy in April 2010. It was hosted by the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies and co-sponsored by IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc). A total of 12 sessions was held which focused on a wide set of topics in wireless networking like physical layer aspects and networking layer. A keynote speech focused on the next generation of high-performance wireless networks was presented by Andrea Goldsmith from Stanford University.