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How do you know if your online activities are secure, or if trouble is lurking around the corner? IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, has brought together its security expert members to evaluate the most substantial threats to personal information, and to advise the public on how to best protect against security compromises online.
IEEE’s vision is to help protect individuals’ personal and financial information, as well as help secure the vast amounts of information captured by large organizations.
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, today announced the launch of a substantial upgrade to the IEEE Xplore digital library. The new product’s intuitive user interface and customizable search tools make exploring IEEE’s more than two million documents of trusted research easier, faster and more productive. Users can now spend less time researching and more time developing better products and pioneering technology.
Today, Microsoft Corp. and IEEE announced a collaboration to empower students to reach their professional aspirations. The goal of the Microsoft-IEEE collaboration is to increase the number of students engaged in technical pursuits with the long-term benefit of strengthening business and society through the use of technology.
IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, today unveiled a tagline, Advancing Technology for Humanity. The tagline showcases the organization’s basic tenet that IEEE and its members across the engineering, computing and technology community worldwide advance innovation and technological excellence for humankind.
IEEE Spectrum’s annual Dream Jobs issue highlights 10 technologists who have jumped off a career path, made a change in direction, or took advantage of a stroke of luck to land their dream jobs. These range from a hacker for humanity, surgical robot designer or dive computer maker.
Viterbi Algorithm Used for Digital Cell Phones and Satellite Communications
Andrew Viterbi headshot9 December – IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional association, announced that IEEE Life Fellow Andrew J. Viterbi, co-founder of Qualcomm Incorporated and developer of wireless technologies that became the international standard for third-generation cellular phones, has been named the 2010 IEEE Medal of Honor recipient. The Medal of Honor, IEEE’s highest award, will be presented 26 June 2010 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as part of IEEE’s annual Honors Ceremony.
3 December – The IEEE Board of Directors has elevated 309 IEEE Senior Members to Fellow grade effective 1 January 2010.
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. The total number selected in any one year cannot exceed one-tenth percent of the total voting membership. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.
23 November 2009 – IEEE has launched its first mobile version of the IEEE Xplore digital library. You can now easily perform searches anywhere, anytime of over two million documents via any mobile device with Internet access. IEEE is actively searching for feedback of this new Beta service. Go to http://m.ieeexplore.ieee.org on any internet-enabled mobile device, try the new site, and provide your feedback via the link at the bottom of the Web page.
11 November – The First Humanitarian Technology Challenge (HTC) workshop was held 26-28 October in Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 70 people from 15 countries participated in a series of working sessions focused on defining plans for field tests to address the three selected challenges presented at the June HTC conference, sponsored by IEEE and the United Nations Foundation.
13 October – IEEE, the world's largest technical professional society, today discussed India’s energy scenario and India’s way to self-sufficiency using IEEE’s Power and Energy Society’s (PES) PowerCon 2008 as the backdrop. Experts attending PowerCon 2008 discussed and debated various topics under the theme "Technological advancements for the development of the power sector."