indicate that such manufacturing could cre- ate 60,000job opportunities in Egypt over a period of 6 to 7 years and increase Egypt’s Gross National Product by an estimated 3 to 5 percent per annum.

With these projections, IDSC directors believe there’s good reason to promote the PTV project. “The development of the high- tech sector in Egypt will contribute to the speedy economic and social development of the country,” said Dr. Hisham El Sherif, chairman of IDSC’s Advisory Board, “and the creation of an advanced industrial com- munity will spread public awareness of tech- nology and high-tech industries, which will advance the country into the ”Age of Infor- mation.” For more information on PTV, contact: Dr. Sameh Said, PTV Project Direc- tor, 11 CA Hassan Sabry St., Zamalek, Cairo, Egypt. Tel: +202 3412918. Telex: 93794 WAZRA.

7 st ICECS Conference Call for Papers The First International Conference on Elec- tronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS) will be held in Cairo, Egypt, December 19-22, 1994. The conference is organized by the Electronic Research Institute of the Egyp- tian National Research Center and co-spon- sored by the local IEEE Chapter and by the Analog Signal Processing Technical Com- mittee of the CAS Society. Professor Dr. Esmat A. Abdallah, the Director of the Insti- tute, will serve as the conference chairman; and Professor Dr. Nadia Hegazi of the Dept. of Informatics will serve as the conference co-chair. The conference will cover all as- pects of electronics, circuits and systems including (but not limited to) power elec- tronics, computers and informatics, micro- strip components, photovoltaic science and material technology, biomedical and con- sumer electronics, CAD and VLSI design, nonlinear and neural networks, and commu- nication and control systems. Invited talks by internationally renowned speakers will be given. Authors are invited to submit three copies of paper summaries not to exceed 4500 words typed on standard A4 paper, double-spaced. The first page should in- clude the paper title, authors’ names and affiliations, telephone, fax, email and ad- dress of a contact author as well as a brief abstract not to exceed 100 words. Authors should also indicate one or two categories or

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