Stand together for a free Iran

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

We shall stand together for a free Iran. Join any events where you can gather together with people to show your support to a free Iran.

You may say, oh, dictators in Iran can't hear us. How do you know that? How do you governments and media are not passing our anger to Iranian dictators?

You may say, oh, our voice won't change. Let's read this poem carved on the New England Holocaust Memorial

They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jew, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trace unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.

20 years ago, in China, there was a great protest and the gov finally called tanks to suppress it. Thousands of people got murdered and more were sent to jail for even 15 or 20 years.

Remember, Martin Luther King. Jr. said, injustice in one place is a threaten to justice in one place. More free countries in the world, our freedom will be protected better. "Because freedom can't protect itself."

Reference:
1. First they came... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...
2. New England Holocaust Memorial, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_Holocaust_Memorial

It seems EMBC is not a bad conference + update on acceptance ratio

by Forrest Sheng Bao http://fsbao.net

Update on Jun 13, 2009: Acceptance ratio of IEEE EMBC 2009:

Total submission: 2108
Total accpetance: 1860, Total acceptance ratio: 88.24%
Oral presentation: 911, Oral presentation acceptance ratio: 43.21%
Poster presentation: 944, Poster presentation acceptance ratio: 44.78%

My paper was accepted as oral presentation. So it is not too bad. I really read a lot good papers in this fields from proceedings of this conference, in different years. So we can say this is the best congress in biomedical engineering - no other conference covers so many fields in biomedical engineering. But remember, most *awesome* conferences in electrical engineering or/and computer science, has an acceptance ratio around 25% to 30%, even below 20%.

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Recently, a paper of mine got accepted by IEEE EMBC'09, the 31st Int'l Annual Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.

I heard this conference has a high acceptance ratio. So I did some googling and found it wasn't that bad.

I encountered the CV of many people who published papers on KDD, SIGIR, ICML, etc., which are top conferences in computer science and electrical engineering. They also published papers on EMBC, not only once. So, EMBC is not very bad.

References:
http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/lsi/publications.htm
http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/diorio/MURI2003/publications03.html
http://ranger.uta.edu/~heng/publications.html
http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~dan/cv.pdf

Today is Jun 4, 20 years after Jun 4, 1989

I will never forget Jun. 4, 1989, the day when Communism Chinese government massacred thousand of peaceful students with tanks and machine guns on the Tiananmen square. Long live freedom!

Reference:
What happened on Jun 4, 1989: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989If you can not open that page, and a lot of websites, think about why.