Share your Smart City story. Help us celebrate 2017 World Standards Day by submitting a short (15-60 seconds) video that explores how standards are helping to create the smart city of today and tomorrow. Based on the submissions, IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) will select up to three videos to...
Whether it is due to regulators, patients or providers, the medical industry faces constant pressure to do more with less. Other industries facing similar pressures are mostly running their work on ‘cloud,’ allowing their team on-demand access to shared computing resources. In order to m...
Virtual reality (VR), something to only dream about or experience in major movies not too long ago! Now you can go to a local store, or online, and pick up a VR headset within minutes, with prices ranging from anywhere between $5 to $1500 the quality and performance of your device will be very much
Q&A with Thad Starner, director/founder of Georgia Tech’s Contextual Computing Group What is your vision for how technology will benefit humanity? We work on intelligence augmentation in my group at Georgia Tech. We are trying to make intelligent assistants that are so fast to access and so conv...
Q&A with Konstantinos Karachalios, IEEE Standards Association managing director What is your vision for how technology will benefit humanity? “Advancing Technology for Humanity” is the IEEE tagline, and the word “for” is extremely important for us. It implies that technol...
What is your vision for how technology will benefit humanity? We have seen over the past 200 years that new discoveries have led to new products and services that empower humanity, augment our muscle and brain power, free up leisure time, cure diseases and repair broken bodies. In every case, the yi...
For the second year in a row IEEE-SA teamed with Korea Electronics Association (KEA) to present a joint workshop at Korea Electronics Show (KES). As a leading global standards development organization (SDO), IEEE-SA provides an open platform to global stakeholders to develop market-oriented standard...
Is 2017 the year for Virtual Reality (VR)? You don’t have to look far to see researchers, analysts, and bloggers sharing their ideas and forecasts for VR in 2017 and beyond. In fact, it is likely to see Virtual – Augmented – Mixed Reality (VAMR) become part of our everyday landscap...
Wearables are not just about counting steps or monitoring heart rates; the potential applications for wearables are truly amazing and widespread. Offering convenience, safety, and entertainment, these technological innovations have the ability to improve everyday life. In fact, researchers are worki...
Over the last decade demand has grown rapidly for innovative digital technologies and behavioral healthcare researchers and providers have not overlooked the opportunities these technologies, such as virtual reality (VR) afford. In fact, Clinical VR got started in the early-to-mid 90’s as clin...