Activities Advancing Technologies
By Fred Schindler, IEEE Technical Activities Vice President, 2024 IEEE’s mission is succinctly stated in “Advancing Technology for the Benefit of Humanity.” This is more than a slogan; it is actually what IEEE is chartered to do.
IMS Project Connect – Broadening Participation One Cohort at a Time
For the last 11 years, the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS) has been the host event for the noteworthy outreach enrichment activity, Project Connect (PC). PC is a program that aims to broaden participation in the field of wireless/microwave engineering in partnership with the Education Committee of IEEE MTT-S.
The AI Coalition Meets and Presses Forward
There has been an explosion of interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent months – following the technical progress in generative AI. AI technologies now make it possible to generate professional-quality art, music, videos, news articles, and books – with only modest guidance from the app user. Furthermore, AI-powered chatbots are adept at answering questions […]
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Thanks in large part to all IEEE societies, IEEE DataPort currently has over 8.5 million global users and over 6000 datasets. IEEE DataPort is a global research data platform available to individual researchers and institutions enabling them to perform critical data management functions including storing valuable research datasets and accessing research datasets that can be […]
IEEE Data Descriptions Launches as First IEEE Journal Focused on Datasets
IEEE Data Descriptions, an open access journal sponsored by all IEEE Societies and Technical Councils, publishes peer-reviewed articles detailing datasets…
VTS 75th Anniversary
So why are cellphones ‘vehicular technology’? Simple: early mobile phones used to need a vehicle to carry them about. When IEEE Vehicular Technology Society started, as the sixth professional group of the Institute of Radio Engineers in 1949, it was the ‘Vehicular and Railroad Communications Group’. Broadcast radio dispatch to police vehicles started in Detroit […]
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The most value from membership
By: Fred Schindler
I’ve found great value in my IEEE membership. Yet I frequently hear the complaint that members don’t get much in return from joining. Sure, Spectrum and The Institute are included with membership, and they are great. But is that all?
Synthetic Biology Sensing Systems for Tackling Global Challenges
Antimicrobial resistance is a rapidly increasing and deadly global health threat that is undermining progress toward achieving UN Sustainable Development Goals related to health, food and water security, and economic growth.