News of 2000

• [December] The 6th Winterschool on Coding and Information theory was held in the Reisensburg Castle (Germany) on December 17-20, 2000. Han Vinck offers you a report.
• [December] The 2001 WIC Midwintermeeting was held on January 8, 2001 in Eindhoven.
• [December] Dr. Vladimir Balakirsky (TU/e) wrote a short report on the 2000 International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (ISITA2000).
• [October] Tijdens de Algemene Ledenvergadering van het NERG is besloten om prof.dr.ir. K.A. Schouhamer Immink tot erelid van het NERG te benoemen. Meer dan 30 jaar was dhr. Shouhamer Immink verbonden aan het NatLab van Philips. Zijn contributies aan codeersystemen zijn fundamenteel voor de Compact Disc, CD-ROM, CD-I, Minidisc, CD-Video, DVD, DCC en magnetische en optische videorecorders. Hij heeft ca. 40 patenten op zijn naam staan. Momenteel is hij deeltijdhoogleraar aan de Universiteiten van Essen en Singapore, en directeur van Turing Machines. De feestelijke uitreiking zal plaatsvinden op vrijdag 8 december 2000 in het Academisch Genootschap Eindhoven, adres: Parklaan 93, 5613 BC Eindhoven, tijd: 13.30 -16.45 uur.
• [October] On Friday January 12, the WIC and the IEEE Benelux Chapter on Signal Processing jointly organize a midwintermeeting at the Eindhoven University of Technology. The title of the midwintermeeting is "Content Protection and Watermarking".
  In five tutorial lectures, an introduction will be gtiven to the reasons and techniques for the protection of digital information like audio and video. The roles and operation of cryptography and electronic watermarking will extensively be discussed.
  Further information on the midwintermeeting will follow soon.
• [October] Proferssor Sergio Verdu will be visiting the European Space Research and
  Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency, in The Netherlands, on
  Wednesday November 22nd. A summary of his talk can be read here.
• [October] Han Vincks report on SITA 2000 can be read from his WEB pages.
• [September] Han Vinck has written a brief personal report of his visit to ISIT 2000, Sorrento, Italy. Maybe those WIC members who were present in Sorrento can add to this report. If so, please contact the editor.
• [July] Prof.dr.ir. Piet Schalkwijk is tijdens de laatste algemene ledenvergadering van de WIC benoemd tot erelid. Een korte beschrijving van de hand van de voorzitter van de WIC is hier beschikbaar.
• [July] As per August 1, 2000, prof.dr.ir. Peter de With will have a new assignment as a principal consultant for CMG Eindhoven and be a associate professor at the University of Technology Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
• [May] Prof.dr.ir. Kees Schouhamer Immink received a knighthood in the order of "Oranje Nassau". Congratulations!
• [February] Prof.dr.ir. Henk van Tilborg has been elected an to the IEEE Fellow grade in recognition of his significant contributions to Coding Theory.
• [February] Prof.dr.ir. Han Vinck has been re-elected for a three year period in the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society. The WIC currently has two representatives in the IT. Soc. Board because dr.ir. Frans Willems is also a member.