In the afternoon of Friday, March 17, 2000, the Fiscal 1999 General Assembly and Lecture Session of the Tokyo Section was held in the Basement Auditorium of the NEC Head Office, located at Shiba, Minato-ku. A Sociable Gathering was held in the Multipurpose Hall of the same. At the Section General Assembly, the Fiscal 2000 Business Plan and Budget Proposal were discussed and approved. Following the customary introduction of New Fellows, the Section- recommended winners of the 3rd Millennium Medal were introduced.

Following the Annual Meeting, Year 2000 Fellows were introduced with Citations. Upon the introduction of the citations by Dr. Hajime Sasaki, Section Vice Chair, each Fellow was presented a framed certificate by Dr. Shigeo Tsujii, Chair of the Tokyo Section. Customary speeches given by New Fellows were blessed by the double enjoyment of one recipient who celebrated his distinction with the birth of his new baby.

In commemoration of the year 2000, ceremonies were held for the presentation of IEEE 3rd Millennium Medal, which is given to 3,000 people in total worldwide. Thirty-seven people were selected from the Tokyo Section as recipients, and Section Chair Tsujii presented the medals.

The presentation by Professor Yasuda of Tokyo University on state-of-the-art image encoding was enthusiastically given, running into overtime without the departure of anyone in the audience.

Thanks to the goodwill of Professor Yasuda, we have uploaded the materials used in the presentation. Interested parties may find them below:

Dr. Bruce Eisenstein, President of IEEE, visited Japan in early March and attended separately a Social Gathering on Wednesday, March 8, with the key members of the Tokyo Section and the Japan Council, as well as the heads of renowned Japanese academic societies.

The IEEE has designated the meteorological observation radar built on the summit of Mt. Fuji in 1964 by the Meteorological Agency as an IEEE Milestone for being representative of electronic technology supporting state-of-the-art applications of our time. On March 6 at the Meteorological Agency, a ceremony was held for presenting a plaque commemorating the IEEE Milestone.

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