Computers and Devices for Communication (CODEC 04).

The article provides information on the October 2005 issue of the journal "Proceedings of the IEE--Circuits, Devices and Systems," based on the papers selected from the CODEC 04. To discuss the current problems in computers, devices and communication, and to exchange ideas about how to overcome these problems among researchers in these disciplines, an international conference entitled "Computers and Devices for Communication" (CODEC 04), was organised by the Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics at the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, on January 1-3, 2004. The papers presented at the conference belong broadly to three categories, first, devices and VLSI circuits, encompassing both compound semiconductor nanostructures and CMOS based ICs; second, communication and electromagnetics; and, third, computer and information processing systems.