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Get the new IEEE ComSoc App. Connect Instantly with the Community.

Instantly connect with IEEE ComSoc - the world's largest technical community of communications professionals with the new IEEE ComSoc app.

The IEEE ComSoc app is available for iPad, iPhone and Android from the Apple App Store and Google play. It provides notifications for important news, events and promotions, and direct access to blogs, eNews, online tools, and more. It's your mobile connection to the ComSoc community at the fingertips.

ComSoc's vast resources, publications, networking events, technical committees, local Chapters, global Sister Societies, Awards Categories, have been increasingly bringing members to the community. The new IEEE ComSoc app conveniently brings the community members closer, globaly and locally. It integrates social features, with easy access to ComSoc Facebook page, Instagram, Video. It has built in icons directing to free online benefits such as ComSoc Technology News (CTN), Publications Digest, Article of the Month, Best Readings. The app also features Calendar, photos, Contact center, Career Center in addition to the Portfolio Events, publications, and membership.

Other apps currently at the IEEE ComSoc's Mobile Apps website are: IEEE WCET - Focusing on Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies Certification and Training courses; and the IEEE Communications Magazine on iPad.

Experience the new IEEE ComSoc App and see how it can instantly connect you with the ComSoc community.

The IEEE ComSoc app is brought to you by IEEE ComSoc Marketing & Creative Department. Special thanks to staff member Max Loskutnikov for his great contributions.

Visit the IEEE ComSoc Mobile Apps site at: http://www.comsoc.org/comsoc-mobile-apps or download directly from Apple App Store or Google play right from your mobile device!

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Long-time IEEE ComSoc Member Hisashi Kobayashi Receives the C and C Prize

Hisashi Kobayashi, the Sherman Fairchild University Professor Emeritus of Princeton University and a long-time member of the IEEE Communications Society (Fellow 1977, Life Fellow 2003), received a 2012 C&C (Computer and Communications) Prize. Kobayashi was awarded for his “pioneering and leading contribution both to the invention of high-density and highly reliable digital recording technology and to the creation and development of a performance-evaluation methodology for computer and communication systems.”

The other C&C Prize went to a group of Osamu Yamada (Waseda University), Toru Kuroda (NHK Research Lab) and Masayuki Takada (NHK Research Lab) for their “outstanding leadership in the research and development of the ISDB-T digital terrestrial television broadcasting system.

The award ceremony was held on at ANA Intercontinental Hotel Tokyo on November 28, 2012.

The C&C Prize, established in March 1985 by the NEC C&C Foundation, is given annually to no more than two groups in recognition of their outstanding contributions to research and development and/or pioneering work in the fields of semiconductors, computers, and/or telecommunications and in their integrated technologies (C&C).

Here's the link to view the past recipients of C&C Prizes.

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IEEE ComSoc Best Readings Illuminates the Entire Green Communications

Experts in the green communications field formed a team and prepared the best set of references for IEEE Communications Society members and colleagues, bringing the scope of green communications into focus.

Green Communications attract increasing attention - Green Internet of Things, Green Cognitive Communications, Green Smart Grids, Green Software and Hardware, Green Data Storage, Life-Cycle Analysis for Green Communications, Architecture, Strategies, Algorithms, Protocols. Best Readings is where you discover hard to find technology research resources.

Best Readings - a unique, free service for the professional communications community - assists researchers, innovators, and subject matter experts discover resources on specific communications topics.

Green Communications covers a surprisingly wide range of technologies, and spans several decades of intensive research by groups from all over the world. The Best Readings compiles a set of focused references to technical papers, survey papers, and books.

Special Issues cover topics such as "Quantum Electronics, Special Issue on Green Photonics", "Energy-Efficient Wireless Communications", "Green Radio Communication Networks," Energy Efficiency in Communications," "Green Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for Eco-Sustainability."

Overview Books such as David JC MacKay's "Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air", provides a tutorial level introduction to issues around energy provision; E. Hossain, V.K. Bhargava, and G. P. Fettweis (Eds.), "Green Radio Communication Networks," the very first book in this field of green communications presents the state-of-the-art research on green wireless communications. J. Wu, S. Rangan, H. Zhang's "Green Communications: Theoretical Fundamentals, Algorithms and Applications," provides comprehensive coverage in an all-inclusive panoramic style on the broad areas of green communications.

Feature Topics help readers delve deep into specific areas in green communications.

The launch of Best Readings in Green Communications would not be possible without the dedications of experts. We acknowledge their dedication and research spirit:

Jinsong Wu, Bell Laboratories, China
Vijay K. Bhargava, University of British Columbia, Canada, current IEEE ComSoc President
John S. Thompson, University of Edinburgh, UK
Honggang Zhang, Université Européenne de Bretagne (UEB) & Supelec/IETR, France
Ekram Hossain, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Daniel C. Kilper, Columbia University, USA
Rodney S. Tucker, University of Melbourne, Australia

Best Readings in Green Communications website:
http://www.comsoc.org/best-readings/green

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