Ten years ago, no one held a miniature portable computer in their hands. But today, much of the world uses mobile phones as their primary means of access to the internet, online business, online shopping, and social media. Twenty years ago, everyone was beginning to worry about Y2K and the potential...
By Lisa Morgan, Program Director, Content and Community, IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (A/IS) The world has become a very polarized place in the last decade, as reflected in modern datasets. Since data is literally the foundation of AI/S, the kind of data use...
By Lisa Morgan, program director, IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems Outreach Committee Members of the IEEE’s Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (A/IS) just completed the community review of its Ethically-Aligned Design (EAD) d...
By Lisa Morgan, Program Director, Content and Community, IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Automated and Intelligent Systems Outreach Committee Older Americans remember when they had a personal relationship with their family physician. That was before personal computers, computer networks, mobile ...
On 19 October 2018, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) will celebrate a century of service as the coordinating body for the US standards and conformity assessment system. As one of its five founding members, IEEE’s involvement with ANSI is not only historic, it has also been consistent...
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Seventeen young professional engineers attending the 2018 Young Professionals in Space conference, Barcelona, Spain, 17th – 21st July 2018 took part in the IEEE Standards University ‘Mars Space Colony: A Game of Standardization’ workshop. The purpose of the Mars Game is to educate ...
I was first introduced to the MyData community by my friends Sean Bohan and Katryna Dow, two of the smartest people I know working in the realms of personal data and identity. They went to the MyData conference in 2016 and raved about how many smart and forward-thinking people had assembled to talk ...
IEEE 802.11bb™ to define one medium access control (MAC) and several physical layer (PHY) specifications for light-based wireless connectivity for fixed, portable, and moving stations within a local area network In May 2018, IEEE announced the formation of the IEEE 802.11 Light Communications Task ...
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) is seeking short (15-60 seconds) videos that explore how standards support the emerging technologies that are beginning to impact our lives today and into the future. As part of its 2018 celebration of World Standards Day (WSD) and its theme of “International...