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Members of the German Chapter remain busy organizing
the Third Bieleschweig Workshop on Systems Engineering,
to be held February 12-13 in Bielefeldon. Additional
events that are being organized include:
1. The Rail Automation conference
2004, which focuses on innovative operational
and technical concepts in railway signaling,
to be held in Braunschweig (Brunswick) on June
2-4
2. The conference on Investigation
and Reporting of Incidents and Accidents (IRIA
2004), to be held in Braunschweig on September
15-16, 2004
3. The Fourth Bieleschweig Workshop on Systems
Engineering, which will be co-located with IRIA
2004
The Bieleschweig Workshops
are a Chapter activity, and the Chapter anticipates
that IRIA 2004 will become one also. The current
IRIA series has around 60 participants and Bieleschweig
has 40. A preliminary Web site has been launched
at http://www.rvs.uni-bielefeld.de/SysSafe/,
which will soon move to http://www.system-safety.de.
The German Chapter mailing list currently has
23 members, including 8 from Germany and 15 from
other European countries, and continues to grow.
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New England Chapter
ISSC 2004 continues to be the main focus of activity
for the New England Chapter. Niles Welch has announced
the appointment of Ann Boyer as Conference Co-chair.
She will oversee most of the Conference planning
and administration while Niles will focus on the
technical program. Both are determined to make
the Providence Conference the best ever. The Conference
Web site is up and linked from the SSS Web site.
The site will be updated continually as new information
becomes available.
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, of Sudbury,
Massachusetts, hosted the Chapter’s fall
general meeting in November. The Chapter provided
pizza and refreshments. At this meeting, the members
were given an update of the software safety process
that is being developed by NAVSEA. Norman Gauthier
and Ann Boyer presented a report on what took
place at the Software Safety Summit meeting hosted
by NOSSA in April of 2003, and led a group discussion
of the draft methodology produced at that meeting.
In keeping with its tradition of adopting Chapter
projects that benefit the entire Society, the
Chapter has begun the groundwork for the production
of a new brochure promoting the SSS. The brochure
should prove valuable in promoting the Society
to corporations and potential members.
Northwest Chapter
John Hinckley reports that the Northwest Chapter
recently co-hosted a one-day safety symposium
in Richland, Washington. Ninety people attended.
The Chapter has also held several meetings and
issued several newsletters.
Singapore Chapter
The Singapore Chapter held its first
full meeting on the evening of November 17, 2003,
at the Founder’s Hall of Singapore Technologies
Kinetics. Fifty participants attended, including
persons from local defense industries, private
entrepreneurs, government agencies and academia.
The program began with a welcome speech by the
Chapter President, Ms. Onn Eng Ling. This was
followed by a presentation entitled "System
Safety is Good for You" by Mr. Tan See Heng,
Director of Quality and System Safety at Singapore
Technologies Kinetics. The presentation aptly
captured the importance of system safety in today’s
environment, reinforced with numerous personal
experiences.
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Mr. Tan Yeong Meng, an engineering
manager at the Defence Science and Technology
Agency, gave a second presentation entitled "Interesting
Topics from the 21st ISSC." Having attended
the Conference in Ottawa, he collated some of
the more interesting topics/tutorials and shared
his experiences with those Society members who
were unable to attend the Conference.
The final presentation was a video that showed
the lessons learned from the Challenger Space
Shuttle tragedy.
The evening was rounded off with a sumptuous buffet
dinner provided by Singapore Technologies Kinetics.
The next Chapter event is planned for the middle
of 2004 and will include the inauguration ceremony
for the Singapore Chapter.
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