Category: Standards, IEEE & Computer Society

Standards and the Importance of Compatibility.

IEEE VLT 2014

Having participated in the IEEE Volunteer Leadership Training (VLT) was a great experience. The program was comprised from more than 20 sessions, covering IEEE Bylaws, Publications, Affinity Groups, Educational Activities, MGA and other relevant topics.

In a class with 32 graduates from 19 countries across all continents was a unique opportunity to make new friends!

Special thanks for running the program has to go to Maria Schneider, Cheryl Sinauskas, Loretta Arellano (Chair), Scott Tamashiro, and Ali Abedi

Volunteer Leadership Training 2014

January 3, 2015
IEEE Summit on Internet Governance #IEEEIGSummit

A few impressions from the IEEE Summit on Internet Governance. Simon Pugh attended as photographer and published more impressions at Flickr.

Videos of the event are available at the website. Twitter has the event under #ieeeigsummit.

At the end of the panel on the future of Internet Governance, asked for a perspective, Mark Raymond summed up the perspective ahead: “A long string of innovative and surprising ways to fail.”. Since Internet with all it’s cultural and societal relevance is considerably young, that statement nails the situation and work to be done ahead. And it underlines the importance of bringing together policy makers with academia and industry, to have an unbiased, open discussion. IEEE is the right platform to add unbiased, technical expertise to such discussions.

Pictures after the click. (more…)

December 26, 2014
IEEE members win #Nobel Prize

Congratulations to Dr. Isamu Akasaki, Dr. Hiroshi Amano and Dr. Shuji Nakamura:

Congrats to IEEE members Dr. Isamu Akasaki, Dr. Hiroshi Amano and Dr. Shuji Nakamura on their #Nobel Prize win! http://t.co/uq08GaVmNA

— IEEE (@IEEEorg) October 8, 2014

October 8, 2014
Detroit's IT Systems “Beyond Fundamentally Broken”

Detroit’s infrastructure is broken and so are their IT Systems. “Beyond Fundamentally Broken”

IEEE Spectrum.

September 16, 2014
Finally: The first IEEE Milestone in Germany

The first IEEE Milestone in Germany will be awarded to the Rheinfelden Power Plant on the 25th of September. Only 10 days from today.

via IEEE Germany Section.

September 15, 2014
IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative explains how to avoid Top 10 Software Security Design Flaws

The IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative published a document that shall help Software Architects avoid common security flaws. The document may be downloaded or read online.

Avoiding the Top 10 Software Security Design Flaws is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license.

Center for Secure Design | IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative.

September 2, 2014
Registration for IEEE CloudNet'14 is now open!

The 2014 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking, taking place in Luxembourg from October 8th till October 10th 2014, is open for registration.

via IEEE Communications Society.

August 28, 2014
New IEEE Journal Seeks Editor-in-Chief

New IEEE Journal Seeks Editor-in-Chief

via IEEE Communications Society.

August 28, 2014
Does “Net Neutrality” Need a Better Name?

Does “Net Neutrality” need a better name? Congresswoman Anna Eshoo says so and launches a Reddit Contest, trying to find a better name that doesn’t get into the way of the debate.

via IEEE Spectrum.

August 28, 2014
How I engineered #ieeesc2014

How I engineered #ieeesc2014

Disclaimer: Nothing of this was done with bad intentions, this has been transparent to most of the people named here. I consider it the “engineering approach”, which seems to be appropriate for the event. (more…)

August 27, 2014