ANNUAL CRC CHRISTMAS DINNER
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 17, 2003
The Friends of CRC are invited to the annual Christmas Dinner at CRC. Spouses and partners are encouraged to attend.
We have reserved the private dining room so that we may get together and chat. We advise you to come early, at 11:30 a.m. or shortly after, as this is a popular dinner for CRC and the lines get long.
Please let us know by calling 990-6673 or e-mail Jim Sawtell and leave a message with your name and how many will be coming with you. We would appreciate hearing from you by December 12, 2003. CRC's menu follows:
You are invited to share Christmas dinner with us Wednesday December 17 2003
Choice of homemade soup or tomato juice
Roast turkey with dressing potatoes and mashed turnip
roll and butter
dessert
coffee, tea or small milk
($6.85 tax incl.)
Or
Choice of homemade soup or tomato juice
Tourtiere with brown gravy, potatoes and fresh vegetables
roll and butter
dessert
coffee, tea or small milk
($6.75 tax incl.)
Or
Try our French Canadian Combo
Choice of homemade soup or tomato juice
Roast turkey, tourtiere with potatoes and vegetables
roll and butter
dessert
coffee, tea or small milk
($6.95 tax incl.)
What's New - November 2003
"The Challenge of Building a Plane that Flies"
by Joe McNally
Presented by the Friends of CRC
CRC Auditorium
Thursday, November 27th , 2003
1:00 p.m
" The Challenge of building a Plane that flies" is not about building an airliner at Boeing or Bomdardier. Joe and his sons have been building a light plane at Joe's home in Carp. They have logged over four flying hours to date so it is airworthy. His talk will cover the many challenges involved in assembling a plane. Some parts had to be made locally as they were not available commercially. Some creative redesign was necessary at times. Joe is known for his exact engineering so it should be a good talk
FRIENDS OF CRC NEWSLETTER
Friends,
Thanks to those who returned a completed Information Sheet. We are now correcting our data base which had a number of errors and omissions. The Annual Report was sent by mail during the summer and some were returned because we have the wrong address. If you have not returned your Information Sheet please fill it out and send it to us as we have only received 50 of the 300 sent out.
Future Events:
November 27th (Thursday), 2003 at 1:00 p.m. in the CRC Auditorium, Building 2: "The Challenges of Building an Airplane that Flies" by Joe McNally.December, 2003 Plans are still in progress. Hopefully CRC Christmas dinner and something else.
January 29th (Thursday), 2004 at 1:00 p.m. in the CRC Auditorium, Building 2: "The World of Venture Capital" by Denzil Doyle.
Request for HELP:
We Received the following request from E. B. Shaw, can anyone help?
Greetings CRC Friends,
I am writing the Shirley Bay story for Country Connections magazine and seek your help, please: Despite being a veteran of DRTE (early '60s Rocket Program), I know very little about Wilbur Smith's UFO activities. In the '50s, he had an "observatory" on the CRC site that I am told still exists. I would like to find out if this is so, where it is located and what it is used for. Alternatively, what happenend to it?
Another question I have not resoved is why the dyke across the bay was built and when?
Many thanks, Bernie Shaw shawsb@rogers.com
836-5533
Correspondence:
We received an e-mail from Menno Stoffels part of which follows:
I am now working in Toronto for a fabulous ASIC company. The work is extremely interesting, but the technology is leading edge and very exciting. Again, a Canadian team working on technology that most of us don't know exists here. I thought I would write you to tweak your thinking about this kind of stuff going on quietly without government input or finances. My thought for you would be to have one of our sales or marketing staff members give a lecture and demonstration of this technology. Once you see it, you would also see the other applications that video/graphics data processing can be used for. Anyway, please keep sending me the Friends of CRC letter if you don't mind.
Menno Stoffels stoffels@cyberus.ca
The following from Orest Dykyj indicates some of the work going on at CRC and may be of interest to Friends.
Canada-Japan agreement promotes ICT development OTTAWA, CANADA - November 14, 2003 - Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) and Japan's Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) announced today that they have signed a second agreement to collaborate on information communications technologies (ICT). The two national research centres signed a Memorandum of Understanding on October 16 during a reception of the Canada-Japan Joint Committee on Science and Technology Cooperation, held in Tokyo. The agreement further solidifies the cooperative relationship between CRC and CRL, who have partnered before on projects such as the first-ever demonstration of tele-medicine using high definition television technology. The organizations also hold a joint patent for an innovative, low-cost technique for generating high-frequency signals for new multimedia wireless communications systems. "CRC and CRL's collaboration has been excellent for Canada and Japan," says CRC president Gerry Turcotte. "It has led to an advancement of innovation and knowledge, and to technologies and applications that have tangible social and economic benefits." The new agreement between CRC and CRL will foster collaborative research and development in wireless and network technologies, including terrestrial wireless, satellite communications, monolithic microwave integrated circuits, multimedia services, next-generation networks and other ICT areas of interest to both parties. There will also be exchange opportunities for Canadian and Japanese researchers, as well as an ongoing sharing of information and expertise.
For more information, contact: Orest Dykyj Communications and Media Officer Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) (613) 990-4575 orest.dykyj@crc.ca
Backgrounder: Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) CRC is the Government of Canada's primary laboratory for research and development (R&D) in advanced communications technologies. Its collaborative R&D addresses rural and remote broadband access, spectrum issues, wireless and satellite communications systems, radio fundamentals, broadcast and multimedia technologies, broadband networks, network security and photonics. For more information, visit www.crc.ca. Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) CRL is the only national institute in Japan that promotes comprehensive research and development in the field of information communications based on radio and photonics research. For more information, visit
www.crl.go.jp/overview/index.html.
Deaths:
Todd Garrett, in BC No further details available.
That’s all I have time for this month,
Jim Sawtell sawtell@igs.net
