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2 unusual facts about IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession


IEEE-USA Award for Distinguished Contributions Furthering Public Understanding of the Profession

Paula S. Apsell: For long-term efforts in promoting the understanding of science and engineering through NOVA programs.

Jon Katz (Montclair, N.J., Wired, Rolling Stone and Slashdot.org): For his book, Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet out of Idaho.


2013 in robotics

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation is scheduled to be organized in Karlsruhe, Germany in May.

25551 Drewhall

It is named after Drew Hall, a Stanford University student who won the IEEE "Change the World" competition in 2009 with Richard Gaster.

Alexis Leon

Leon is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the IEEE Computer Society, the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), the Modern Language Association (MLA), the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO), the Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE), and the Computer Society of India (CSI).

American Federation of Information Processing Societies

The IEEE Computer Society (IEEE-CS) became the sponsor of the Goode Award, and took over publication of Annals (renamed the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing).

Carl Landwehr

Carl Landwehr was interviewed by Gary McGraw of Cigital for the Silver Bullet podcasts on Security for IEEE discussing changing threats in cybersecurity.

Commodore 1571

Although this originally had been planned when Commodore first switched from the parallel IEEE-488 interface to a custom serial interface, hardware bugs in the VIC-20's 6522 VIA shift register prevented it from working properly.

Commodore 8280

They used a wide rectangular steel case form similar to that of the Commodore 4040, and used the IEEE-488 interface common to Commodore PET/CBM computers.

Comtrade

The IEEE Power Quality Subcommittee of the IEEE Power & Energy Society has also developed a file format called the Power Quality Data Interchange Format (PQDIF) that is similar to COMTRADE in structure but is used primarily to convey power quality data instead of transient disturbance data.

Constantine A. Balanis

Balanis is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of Sigma Xi, Electromagnetics Academy, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and Phi Kappa Phi.

David E. Blackmer

Blackmer was a Life Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society from 1976.

Denis Hall

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the IEEE, the UK Institute of Physics, the IEE, and the Optical Society of America.

Devavrat Shah

This is highlighted by the "Best Paper" awards he has received from top publication venues such as ACM SIGMETRICS and IEEE INFOCOM.

Erwin Marx Award

Named after a German electrical engineer, it was awarded for the first time in 1981 at the 3rd IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference.

GOLD

GOLD, an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) program designed to garner more student members at the university level (Graduates of the Last Decade)

Hassan Farhangi

Farhangi is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEG), and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

IAPP

Inter-Access Point Protocol, Inter-Access Point Protocol or IEEE 802.11F is a recommendation that describes an optional extension to IEEE 802.11 that provides wireless access-point communications among multivendor systems.

IEEE 1471

IEEE 1471 provides informative annexes that relate its concepts ito architecture concepts in other standards, including RM-ODP and IEEE 12207.

IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games

The IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) is a series of annual conferences on computational and artificial intelligence in games sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.

IEEE Sensors Council

The IEEE Sensors Council publishes the IEEE Sensors Journal, a widely read, peer-reviewed journal that focuses on the subjects of its Field of Interest.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The IEEE logo is a diamond-shaped design which illustrates the right hand grip rule embedded in Benjamin Franklin's kite, and it was created at the time of the 1963 merger.

J.B. Institute of Engineering and Technology

The technical student organizations include the Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) Students Chapter, SAE International Collegiate Club, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and The Institution of Engineers (India).

John G. Linvill

John Linvill was Chairman of the board of TSI, served on the boards of other Silicon Valley corporations, and led technical committees for the National Research Council, NASA, and the IEEE.

Junhyong Kim

He has been on the Steering Committee and the Conference Chair for Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics; program chair and program committee for Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology; and he is the longest running Associate Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

LattisNet

SynOptics' investor, Menlo Ventures explained its position on joining the IEEE for standardization.

M band

The modern M band intersects with the V (50–75 GHz) and W band (75–110 GHz) of the older IEEE classification system.

Michael C. McFarland

McFarland has articles published in the Proceedings of the IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the IEEE Transactions on Computers, the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, Formal Methods for System Design, the Journal of Systems and Software, Computer, and Technology and Society.

Miklós Vig

A nephew of Miklós Vig, Dr. John R. Vig, was president of the IEEE in 2009.

National Institute of Technology, Durgapur

Professors, scientific officers and students of this institute publish many of papers in journals of international repute from publishers like IEEE, Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, Taylor & Francis etc.

National University of Engineering

Mario R. Barbacci is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), he was the founding chairman of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Working Group 10.2 (Computer Descriptions and Tools) and has served as Vice-President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Computer Society, founding chairman of the Joint IEEE Computer Society/ACM Steering Committee for the Establishment of Software Engineering as a Profession.

Nicholas J. Phillips

D. Abbott, B. R. Davis, N. J. Phillips, and K. Eshraghian, "Simple derivation of the thermal noise formula using window-limited Fourier transforms," IEEE Trans. Education, 39(1) (1996) pp.

Nicolas Minorsky

In her memorial paper to Nicolas Minorsky published in the IEEE Transactions On Automatic Control, author Irmgard Flügge-Lotz stated that Minorsky's greatest contribution to the development of nonlinear mechanics in the U.S. was Minorsky's early recognition that important papers in the field were being published in the Soviet Union in a language that few American researchers could read.

Pickering Interfaces

Pickering designs, manufactures and markets a range of programmable switching, instrumentation and cabling products in the LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation, PXI, IEEE-488, PCI and VXI platforms.

Raj Senani

Professor Senani is an elected Member of Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society (USA), a Senior Member of IEEE (USA), a Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education (ISTE) and Life Fellow of Institute of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) India.

Ray O. Johnson

Dr. Johnson is a Full Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), a Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Phi Kappa Phi.

Rosetta-lang

The first approach ultimately resulted in SystemVerilog and extensions to VHDL while the second resulted in SystemC, all of which became Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) standards for the semiconductor industry.

Serial Bus Protocol 2

Original work on Serial Bus Protocol started as an attempt to adapt SCSI to IEEE Std 1394-1995 serial interface.

Simon Sunatori

He obtained a Master of Engineering (Engineering Physics) degree from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in 1983, and is a member of the Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a life member of the World Future Society (WFS).

Stuart Feldman

He has also served on the editorial boards of IEEE Internet Computing and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering.

The Science and Information Organization

The SAI Organization also organizes its annual academic conference Science and Information Conference in Cooperation with Springer and IEEE.

University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences

Lee Giles, (Ph.D.) David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University; Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and INNS.

Verilog-A

There was considerable delay (possibly procrastination) between the first Verilog-A language reference manual and the full Verilog-AMS, and in that time Verilog moved to the IEEE, leaving Verilog-AMS behind at Accellera.

Xplore

IEEE Xplore, an online database of IEEE research publications.

Yale Patt

2005 IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award "for fundamental contributions to high performance processor design"


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