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New tutorials and transcripts expand IEEE training options for the IEEE Xplore® digital library IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, has launched 11 tutorials in 7 languages

as part of the organization’s online training and support program for the IEEE Xplore® digital library. The self-paced tutorials are presented on the IEEE client services Web page as voice-narrated Flash videos with complete downloadable transcripts in the following languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.

With great sadness, the SAM and SPTM TCs say farewell to our esteemed colleague and beloved friend Alex Gershman who passed away on August 12, 2011. Alex was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, in 1962. He studied Radiophysics at the Nizhny Novgorod State University and started his research career at the Gorky Radiotechnical Institute where he completed his PhD.