Technology
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How To Make Autonomous Systems More Transparent and Trustworthy
Highlights IEEE 7001 standard describes specific, measurable levels of transparency that can be assessed objectively, and identifies compliance that can be determined during system design.IEEE 7001 complements and extends the IEEE 7000 series, which focuses on various aspects of ethics in engineering to enable societal benefit.The IEEE CertifAIEd program was…
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Advancing Autonomous Robot Development and Adoption Through Standards
Autonomy is the ability to perform tasks without help. In the case of autonomous robots, obstacles may arise internally like an electrical short or a broken part or externally such as encountering debris. These instances can cause mission interruption or failure. Greater autonomy requires adaptive mechanisms to overcome disturbances that…
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Bringing Reliable, Universal Connectivity to Mexico
Paola Cicero was intrigued with India’s effort to understand their internet connectivity needs as part of the country’s effort to improve rural communications. As a volunteer at the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) contributing to the Connectivity and Telecom Practice, she soon realized that Mexico, where she currently lives and…
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Promoting Standardization in Smart Manufacturing and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications
Dr. Sha Wei knows from her decades of experience in the IT field, that artificial intelligence (AI) has the power to positively change lives—from helping doctors make the right medical decisions to save someone’s life, to designing fair loan-repayment terms. She’s also seen mistakes AI has made that have posed…
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Enabling Rural Access to Safe Electricity
Residents of many small villages in India no longer have to end their workday when the sun goes down. Because of the work of Rajesh Kunnath and other volunteers at the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE SA) designing installation rules for basic electricity supply from a renewable source such as an…
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Designing Inclusive, Human-Centered Products
When designing an application or system, Anmol Anubhai often feels lost if she doesn’t know exactly who will be using the end product. Her passion for understanding the needs of the user led her to pursue a career in human centered interaction (HCI) and design, and this focus has taken…
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A New Standard for a New Era in Space
The mapping applications on our smartphones and in our cars rely on signals from a constellation of navigation satellites to pinpoint our location. When these signals are reflected back into space, they are imprinted with data about the Earth’s surface features and conditions. The distortions and delays of the reflected…
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New IEEE Standard Advances Federated Cloud Computing
Computing increasingly is performed “in the cloud,” meaning that the necessary servers, data storage devices, software and related digital tools and services are not local resources, but rather they are utilized via a remote data center managed by a cloud service provider. Users turn to cloud computing-enabled applications to augment…
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Fostering Gender Equality and Social Inclusion with Technology Standards
Dr. Reihana Mohideen, a policy expert on how to factor social considerations into engineering systems and models in the power and energy sector, has firsthand experience of the obstacles faced by women in technology. Early in her career, during a job interview for an electrical engineering position at a utility…
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Rebuilding Trust: A Path Toward More Holistic Cybersecurity
Often, the general public thinks of cybersecurity as “IT security”, yet it covers much more than that. Data collection, transparency, trust, communication, and collaboration have become increasingly vital in a world exploding with ever more connected devices. IEEE addressed this topic during an Internet Governance Forum (IGF) 2021 Lightning Talk…