Dear colleagues: In the first quarter of this year, IEEE Technical Activities continued its efforts to address the evolving needs of our technical communities, focusing on the global technical communities as well as their local … Continue reading A Message from Vincenzo Piuri, 2015 Technical Activities Vice President (May)
The field of cybersecurity is becoming increasingly diversified. As portable technology becomes more accessible, it extends to many different sectors: new advances apply not only to how quickly we can access email and from which … Continue reading Monique Morrow: A Call to Action on Cybersecurity
The ability to share photos and experiences instantly via social media platforms has undoubtedly bridged the lives of users around the world, allowing them to stay connected despite distance and other barriers. Social media users … Continue reading A False Sense of Privacy: Online Photo Sharing Concerns
Dear colleagues: This year, IEEE Technical Activities will take a strategic approach to satisfying the current and evolving needs of our technical communities. We will focus on the needs of our chapters, which link us locally to … Continue reading A Message from Vincenzo Piuri, 2015 Technical Activities Vice President (February)
Dr. Catherine Mohr did not plan to become an engineer, nor did she anticipate matriculating in medical school. Now an asset to both fields, Mohr, Director of Medical Research at Intuitive Surgical, evaluates new technologies … Continue reading Dr. Catherine Mohr: Disruptive Inventor & Surgical Roboticist
In recent years, Technical Activities has placed special emphasis on nurturing technical communities through the incubation and growth of its Future Directions technology initiatives. The IEEE Big Data Initiative, launched this year, is one of … Continue reading A Message from Dr. Jacek Zurada, 2014 Technical Activities Vice President (November)
Wanda Reder, IEEE Division VII Director and member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Governing Board, has held many roles within the IEEE, including becoming the first female president of the Society in … Continue reading Wanda Reder: Strengthening the Pipeline Through Collaboration
In recent years, much attention and interest has been devoted to teaching coding as a basic skill. Organizations such as Codecademy offer interactive online platforms boasting free coding classes in different programming languages such as … Continue reading Computational Thinking: A Necessary Foundation to Coding
Representatives from IEEE’s societies and councils joined this year’s IEEE Sections Congress in Amsterdam, the Netherlands in an effort to inform IEEE section leaders about Technical Activities’ (TA) exciting on-going activities and opportunities and increase … Continue reading A Message from Dr. Jacek Zurada, 2014 Technical Activities Vice President (September)