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IEEE Standards Soon to be Available from Austrian Standards

admin — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 08:30:46 PDT

IEEE and Austrian Standards sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in Vienna. Austrian Standards, the Austrian competence centre for standards and rules, will soon offer its customers direct access to the standards of the globally active IEEE, as a result of negotiations and the subject of an agreement signed by top representatives of the two [...]

Bob Metcalfe Celebrates 40 Years of Ethernet with a Reddit AMA

admin — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:25:22 PDT

On 21 May, a day before the 40th Anniversary of Ethernet, Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, held an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) on Reddit.com. For two hours, the Reddit community jumped at the opportunity to do everything from share simple expressions of appreciation to ask complex technology questions. Bob was an instant sensation, attracting more than [...]

Charismatic Machines & Robot Comedy from SXSW 2013

admin — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 07:25:38 PDT

At the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival, IEEE presented the “Charismatic Machines & Robot Comedy” featuring Heather Knight, Electrical Engineer and Roboticist, and her robot, Data. Heather designs unique interfaces between people and machines that incorporate body language, personality, humor, temperament and spectacular stylings. Leveraging her research, Heather explores the ways psychology, expressive emotion, behavior system [...]

Insightful Reads – May 2013

admin — Thu, 30 May 2013 11:35:33 PDT

Here are some interesting standards-related articles that have crossed our desktops that we thought were worth sharing. Hope you enjoy! At the Intersection of M2M, Smart Energy and eHealth — How will machine-to-machine (M2M) communications and smart energy impact eHealth? The answers to that question figure to roll out in multiple directions over the next [...]

Bringing Standards To Life: Insulin Pump

admin — Fri, 24 May 2013 07:25:13 PDT

Did you know that IEEE standards are a part of monitoring your health? P11073-10419™ — Standard for Health informatics – Personal health device communication – Device specialization – Insulin pump IEEE 802.3™-2012 — IEEE Standard for Ethernet IEEE 802.11™-2012 — IEEE Standard for Information technology–Telecommunications and information exchange between systems Local and metropolitan area networks–Specific [...]

OpenStand Principles in Action at the IEEE-SA

admin — Mon, 13 May 2013 08:43:23 PDT

At the IEEE-SA standards participants work within a market-driven standards model that has gathered maturity in certain key technology spaces, including the Internet. This paradigm for global, open standards is encapsulated in the "OpenStand" principles, and it is proven in its ability to help level regional barriers in the contemporary age of borderless commerce. The [...]

Omnipresent: When Virtual Meets Reality – IEEE at SXSW 2013

admin — Thu, 09 May 2013 07:25:43 PDT

At the 2013 SXSW Interactive Festival, IEEE presented the “Omnipresent: When Virtual Meets Reality” panel where industry experts discussed Virtual and Augmented Reality. When the “virtual overlay” meets everyday life, everything changes, from the way we shop to the way we interact with the world around us. Today, augmented reality is moving beyond the virtual [...]