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Securing the Future of Connected Health on a Global Scale

On the dark web, health records are worth literally forty to fifty times more than credit card data. While you may be able to change your social security or fiscal identity number with significant amounts of effort or cancel your credit cards, you cannot change the genetic data, health conditions, biometric data that’s stored in your health record. Your genetic and health data is immutable. Once compromised or breached, you bear lifelong consequences.

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Guest Contributor5 April 2021

Building Customer Confidence in Artificial Intelligence Systems for the Financial Industry

The Importance of Applied Ethics in Artificial Intelligence Human data, the fundamental building block for artificial intelligent systems, is currently being accessed and shared in multiple ways across the world without unified policy, technology, or cultural guidelines. For industries like financial services — which is second only to the technology…
Technology

Guest Contributor24 March 2021

How Standards Help Make Smart Cities a Reality

Smart Cities in India India is expected to witness an increase in urban population from 377 million in 2011 to 600 million in 2031 — roughly twice the current population of the United States, according to a UN-backed report published in 2014. Given the growth, the country is expected to…
Connectivity & Telecom

IEEE SA Working Groups3 March 2021

Expanding Singlemode Fiber Capabilities in Ethernet Applications

The lifecycles of technology innovation and standards refinement are tightly entwined in a space as huge and long-lasting as Ethernet. For example, the new IEEE 802.3cu™, IEEE Draft Standard for Ethernet Amendment: Physical Layers and Management Parameters for 100 Gb/s and 400 Gb/s Operation over Single-Mode Fiber at 100 Gb/s…
Healthcare & Life Sciences

Maria Palombini23 February 2021

Securing the Future of Connected Health on a Global Scale

On the dark web, health records are worth literally forty to fifty times more than credit card data. While you may be able to change your social security or fiscal identity number with significant amounts of effort or cancel your credit cards, you cannot change the genetic data, health conditions,…
Power & Energy

Guest Contributor9 February 2021

Raising Safety Standards in Energy and Engineering

This post is an adaptation of the article by the University of Washington Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering. For those of us who have ever watched TV, talked on a cellphone, enjoyed listening to AM/FM radio broadcasts, or received an MRI scan, we can confidently do so with the…
Technology

Guest Contributor5 February 2021

Bringing New Voices to Nanotechnology Standards Development

When the renowned physicist Richard Feynman gave a talk titled There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom at a meeting of the American Physical Society in 1959, little did anyone know that his presentation would come to be seen as the world’s seminal talk on nanotechnology. In fact, the word…
Healthcare & Life Sciences

Guest Contributor3 February 2021

Driving Responsible Innovation of AI, Life Sciences and Next Generation Biotech

“We are making God obsolete,” declared the rockstar-like professor of synthetic biology in the recent Netflix hit show Biohackers. What happens when humans become creators of new forms of DNA, including our own? Who gets to decide? Who owns our genomic data? Who is it shared with? Who is accountable?…
IEEE SA News

Guest Contributor1 February 2021

2021 IEEE Standards Association Awards Nominations Are Open

IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) recognizes outstanding standards development participation through various award categories. Nominations for the 2021 IEEE SA Awards are now open until 31 July. Nominations can be made for the following awards: IEEE SA Standards Medallion For major contributions to standards development, e.g., leadership in standardization of new…
Technology

John C. Havens20 January 2021

Introducing the Measurementality Series on Artificial Intelligence Systems

Professor Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland speaks with John C. Havens of IEEE SA in the first official video interview for Measurementality, describing how our metrics of success need to include a more holistic set of Indicators than they do today. Sandy directs MIT Connection Science and previously helped create and direct…
Connectivity & Telecom

Guest Contributor15 January 2021

IEEE Standards Used in Your Everyday Life

Technology has become an integral aspect of our everyday lives. From the internet to smart grid, and health care to transportation, technology standards are used in a variety of ways. IEEE standards enable many of these technologies, as well as those that have helped people cope with the COVID-19 pandemic…