Monthly Archives: July 2012

IEEE Standards Association at the Zinnov Globalization Summit 2012 in India

On 12 July, IEEE-SA participated at Zinnov Globalization Summit 2012: “Industry Transforming Innovations by Leveraging the Ecosystem” in Bangalore, India. Pamela Kumar, a member of the IEEE-SA Board of Governors and director, India Systems and Technology Lab, with IBM, took part in two panel discussions. The first panel, “Accelerating Capability Development for Technology Innovation”, discussed [...]

Defining Camera Phone Quality— So You Don’t Have To Just Know It When You See It

What defines picture quality in a device such as a camera phone? Is it raw numbers of pixels and processing power? Or is it more intangible issues of color saturation, lifelike representation of flesh tones, clarity or depth of field? The answer is yes to all of these… in different ways under different picture-taking circumstances. [...]

Standard Gives Boost to Promising New Field of Psychotherapy

As a form of psychotherapeutic treatment, “neurofeedback is drug-free, it’s much more natural, yet it has an efficacy comparable to drugs with none of the side effects,” says Tom Collura, founder of BrainMaster Technologies. “But the field is so new—98% of the profession doesn’t know it exists—that it’s hard to gain acceptance for it. In [...]

Welcome to My Cloud: Making Interoperability Work for the Intercloud

“There are a lot of choices in how you construct a cloud,” says David Bernstein of IEEE. Some of it depends on what you intend to do with it—a high-performance computing cloud will be different in speed and robustness from a general hosting cloud, or an inexpensive backup and storage cloud. For now, that means [...]

What is the Industry Connections (IC) Program?

The core of IEEE-SA is our robust standards development process. Individual-based or entity-based, IEEE standards are developed using a time-tested, effective and trusted process, and adhere to the principles of due process, openness and consensus. The IEEE-SA Industry Connections (IC) program helps incubate new standards and related services by helping like-minded organizations and individuals come [...]

International Cooperation Unites IEEE and CCSA For New “Internet of Things” Workshop

On June 5, 2012, the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) collaborated with the China Communications Standards Association (CCSA) on a “Internet of Things” (IoT) standards workshop at the China World Hotel in Beijing, China, bringing together leading global industry experts to begin exploring how to achieve a common IoT architecture. Representing the next iteration of the [...]