Category Archives: Announcements

New eLearning Standard Bundles Available

The IEEE Standards Association has released 11 new eLearning Standard Bundles: Computing Foundation and IEEE Standards Bundle The topic of this course is Computing Foundations that support the design and construction of software products. This area also includes knowledge about the transformation of a design into an implementation, the tools used during this process, and [...]

The 8th IEEE International Conference on Standardisation and Innovation in Information Technology (IEEE-SIIT 2013) Call for Papers

Standardisation research is a multi-disciplinary field. Contributing disciplines include, but are by no means limited to, Business Studies, Computer Science, Economics, Information Systems, Management Studies, History, and Social Sciences. While standards and standardisation research is an emerging research area it is of considerable interest and relevance to a large non-academic constituency that includes practitioners from [...]

Standards are Making the Internet of Things Come Alive

It’s predicted that by the year 2020, 50 to 100 billion things will be electronically connected in the Internet of Things (IoT), fueling technological innovation by creating the means for machines to communicate many different types of information with one another. The IoT is a future where people and objects communicate in unprecedented ways. It [...]

IEEE Smart Grid Expert Sam Sciacca to Hold an “Ask Me Anything” Session About Cyber Security on LinkedIn

According to the US Department of Homeland Security, more than 40 percent of reported infrastructure cyber attacks in 2012 were directed against the energy sector, including utilities and natural gas pipelines. Smart Grid cyber security remains a broad, complex, and highly dynamic challenge. And with the continued increase in frequency, duration, and intensity of cyber [...]

Dozens of New, Revised and Reaffirmed Standards and Development Projects

IEEE-SA has announced dozens of new, revised and reaffirmed standards and standards-development projects. Detailed information on the standards and projects recently approved by the IEEE Standards Association Standards Board is available at the IEEE-SA Standards Board Approvals Web page. IEEE 1793™-2012 “Guide for Planning and Designing Transition Facilities between Overhead and Underground Transmission Lines” is [...]

Revised IEEE 1800™ Standard Specifying SystemVerilog Approved

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) Standards Board has approved IEEE 1800™-2012 “SystemVerilog—Unified Hardware Design, Specification and Verification Language.” The revised standard is intended to enhance and improve the efficiency of electronic-system design and verification. IEEE 1800-2012 is now available at no charge via the IEEE GET Program, which grants the public free access to view [...]

IEEE-SA to Feature the IEEE 11073™ Family of Standards at HIMSS 2013

The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) announced today that it will be exhibiting at the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 3-7 March 2013. IEEE-SA will feature the importance of enabling personal health-device communications by demonstrating medical devices powered by the IEEE 11073™ family of standards, including blood pressure monitors, glucose [...]