Good News in Difficult Times
Fred Schindler, General Chair of IMS 2009

Early indications are that IMS2009 in Boston will be a big success and will break some records. Boston has always been one of the top sites for the IMS, and typically we break every IMS record. These are challenging times so I can't predict that we'll break all the records, but we will certainly break some.

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Paper Submission Guidelines

The paper submission and student competition deadline of December 8 has quickly come and gone. Thank you for submitting your technology papers for this symposium. The flood of last minute papers went right up to the last hour of the deadline. Read this month's Technical Program Update for stats on the received papers. The deadline for final manuscript submission will be March 20, 2009.
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A Look at the IMS 2009 Paper Selections
Mark Gouker & Larry Kushner, TPC Co-Chairs

The Technical Program Committee has met and made decisions on which papers to accept. We are in the process of finalizing the times and rooms for the presentation of the papers and will make this information available in a future edition of the Insider. In this issue we will describe the workshops and short course to be held at the Symposium. These have just as many attendees as the IMS technical program, but the workshops and short courses don't always get the same publicity. Follow the link the get the "Inside" story on these important elements of the IMS.

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MTT-S: The Industry's Marketing Opportunity
Jim Assurian,
Director of Business Development
Reactel, Inc.

We at Reactel view the MTT-S show as the high point of our marketing season. We use this industry leading show as the lever to launch new products, introduce new product catalogs, and meet with our customers in a non-traditional business setting.

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International Puts the "I" in IMS
David Vye,
IMS Insider Editor and Steering Committee Member

IMS Insider readers know that the "I" in IMS stands for "international" and that means this conference of microwave engineers reaches out to a global audience and attracts presenters from around the world. Based on the origins of submitted papers, this year will be no exception. By the "Call for Papers" deadline, the technical program committee received papers from 45 countries.

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