Abstract :
Shanghai Chapter — The Shanghai Chapter held an inaugural meeting on 22 March 2003 at the Hotel Equatorial in Shanghai. Seventy-eight people, including members, attended the meeting. The representative of the IEEE Beijing Section and CIE, Mingui Zhou, introduced the IEEE and SSCS activities. The Dean of the Information Science and Engineering School of Fudan University, Professor Liangyao Chen, congratulated the members on the foundation of the Shanghai Chapter. Shanghai Chapter Chair, Professor Ting-Ao Tang, reported the activity plan of the chapter: to recruit new members, to organize seminars, to hold the 5th International Conference on ASIC, and to cosponsor ASP-DAC 2005. Two seminars comprised the remainder of the agenda: Professors Sichang Zou spoke on the “Establishment of the Shanghai semiconductor industrial base” and Shoujue Wang spoke on “An analysis method of high-dimension space geometry and its application in the future digital world.” Both speakers are Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
