Recent News
Jeff Norris, supervisor of the Planning Software Systems Group at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will deliver a keynote speech at the Third IEEE International Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology Conference (SMC-IT 2009) being held in Pasadena, California 17-23 July. Read more
The IEEE Computer Society’s technical magazines and journals saw their influence grow significantly over the last year, with significant impact factor increases reported throughout the Society’s stable of high-quality, peer-reviewed technical publications. Read more
The IEEE Computer Society next year will introduce a new journal covering affective computing, an active and growing field that embraces human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and signal processing. Read more
The IEEE Computer Society Career Center—http://careers.computer.org—has been selected as a Top 100 site by Weddle’s, the world’s largest publisher of print guides to the more than 100,000 job boards now operating on the Internet. Read more
IEEE Computer Society volunteers are gearing up to refresh the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK), adding new knowledge areas and revising others to align the guide with current curriculum and industry practices. Read more
Rice University computer scientist Krishna Palem, who also heads the Institute of Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, has won the prestigious 2008 W. Wallace McDowell Award for his pioneering contributions to the growing field of embedded computing. The W. Wallace McDowell Award has a list of past winners that reads like a who's who of industry giants. Read more
The IEEE Computer Society has launched an outreach campaign called Raise Your Standards targeted at technology professionals and the corporations who hire them. The initiative’s message will be communicated via nine video vignettes on You Tube, MySpace, and SecondLife, as well as via http://raiseyourstandards.org and a DVD distributed at conferences and tradeshows. Read more
The Industry Advisory Board has selected three new members and will be focusing on how the IEEE Computer Society can better serve high-technology companies. The new members include Tony Hey, corporate vice president of the External Research Division at Microsoft Research; Tirumale K. Ramesh, a Boeing Technical Fellow and Chief Technologist-AMSE Virtual Operations; and Henry Tirri, senior vice president and head of Nokia Research Center. Read more
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