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ComSoc Election Results 2012
Thank you for all your participation in the 2012 ComSoc Election. This year, 17.5% of our membership voted in this election, up 2% over last year. And thanks to everyone who participated in our first-ever President-Elect Debate Blog. We appreciate your active interest in our ComSoc election process and hope it was helpful to you in making an informed decision as you prepared to vote.
Congratulations to the following winning candidates!
President-Elect 2013
Sergio Benedetto
Members-at-Large
Nirwan Ansari
David G. Michelson
Stefano Bregni
Hans-Martin Foisel
Visit the 2012 ComSoc Election page for more details.
Best wishes,
Doug Zuckerman, Chair - Nominations and Elections Committee
Merrily Hartmann, Debate Moderator
Top 3 Strategies to Help You Future Proof Your Career: Part 1
No matter where you live in the world today, when you turn on your local news station it's clear that the economy is strained. Maintaining your current position if you have one, is not enough; going above and beyond is expected and necessary to stay viable in your career. If you are looking to secure a position, demonstrating your commitment to continued professional development can aid your efforts. Essential steps to building your career start with the pursuit of continued professional development. Consider making a concentrated effort to:
1. Take courses - learn new things in familiar and unfamiliar technical areas
2. Attend conferences, workshops, and local technical meetings
3. Read journals, transactions, books, and magazines regularly
Upcoming Training Course:
Introduction to Professional Wireless Communications
25 September 2012
9:00am - 4:30pm EDT - online
Instructor: Lee Vishloff
$300 non-member; $250 IEEE/ComSoc member
Register by 17 September.
The objective of this training is to provide the student with an adequate system level understanding of key wireless terms, technologies and products. The focus would be threefold:
1. Understanding of the Cellular/Wireless/Mobile Techniques
a. A bit of history: from smoke signals (Greece 150 BC) to 5+Billion mobile users (2011)
b. RF aspects: propagation, antennas, base stations, and wireless vs. mobility
c. Key industry drivers (KPIs): capacity, bandwidth, coverage, latency, speed and throughput.
2. Understanding of the prevalent Products and Standards
a. Cellular: GSM, UMTS, LTE, WiMAX, etc.
b. Broadband and Satellite systems
c. WLAN/PAN: WiFi, Bluetooth, RFID, NFC, home RF, sensors
3. Understanding Devices, Services and Applications
a. Services and applications: from SMS/Voice to Mobile Multimedia video/gaming/browsing/location
b. Devices (mobile phones, tablets, embedded modules
c. Wireless web and wireless platforms (Android, iOS, ..)
Review the ComSoc Training calendar for a complete list of upcoming courses.
Another way to stay ahead of the curve is the tried-and-true, meet and greet. In today's virtual climate we have the ability to connect with individuals we normally would not in our day to day work flow but with that, placing a name with a face, is somewhat lost. Attending a conference has various benefits. Checking out the tradeshow floor it's fun to see what the competition is doing as they show off their latest products and talk about their new services. Sure you can watch youTube to learn about it -- but there's something fun about actually touching the product and learning directly from an expert what the answers are to your questions. That's true on the tradeshow floor as it is in the classroom if you attend workshops or technical sessions. Two places you are sure to find ComSoc Staff this fall are 4G World taking place 29 October - 1 November 2012 in Chicago, IL, USA and Globecom which will run from 3-7 December 2012 in Anaheim, CA, USA. Getting active with your local section if you are an IEEE ComSoc member is a great way to meet other professional in your area.
Reading is fundamental. Use your IEEE account information to log in to the Digital Edition of the IEEE Communications Magazine for latest reading materials on communications.
Congratulations to the IEEE 50 Year Members
IEEE Communications Society congratulates all the 9400 IEEE members recognized by the IEEE History Center as the First 50 Years Members. They have received IEEE “Member 1st 50 Years” pins.
IEEE was founded on 1 January 1963, through the merger of the AIEE (founded 1884) and IRE (founded 1912). This year is IEEE's 50th year.
The following 444 loyal members are from the IEEE Communications Society. Please join us in congratulating our fellow IEEE ComSoc members. Search the colleagues you know from the following list and write your greetings in the Comment Section below.
IEEE History Center invites the first 50 years members, who have not done so already, to contribute The 50 Year Member First Hand Histories. Share some of their great memories by following this link.
IEEE Communications Society 50 Year Members
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Aagaard, J |
Grindle, Carl |
Palmer, Laurence |
IEEE Communications Magazine to feature Smart Cities
Green technologies, machine-to-machine, city data storage, new models of business, service, billing, privacy issues. The area of smart city technologies and architectures take us to a whole new level. The future is right here.
Urban living is commencing to take a central role in the direction humanity evolves. Today, more than 1 in 2 is living in urban environments with related efforts to facilitated viable living conditions becoming tremendous. Urged by these observations, city halls and political decision makers have become very alert, calling for urgent solutions to the growing problems. Quickly advancing ICT technologies may just be the answer, which has triggered global ICT players to have launched various smart city initiatives. This corroborates that suitable technologies are a cornerstone to a sustainable development of a city. This is facilitated by means of smart services that use networked sensors and actuators deployed in the city, allowing the authorities to monitor the environment in real-time, to react immediately and just in time if needed and to establish automated control processes with less or even without human intervention. These services, on the other hand, rely heavily on appropriate technologies, be they in the field or in the cloud.
The special issue in the IEEE Communications Magazine, the first of its kind, thus focuses on ICT technologies, allowing for Smart City rollouts, deployments and growth. Part of the gamut of technologies have been researched and developed for years already, others are new. However, their composition and application in the area of smart cities is unprecedented and accounts for the tremendous upsurge in work in this area, which is mainly attributed to the unique timing between the undeniable need for making cities more efficient, and an enormous set of ICT technologies having become available and affordable. As of today, however, some major issues remain to be tackled, which pertain to technologies, their integration and interaction, architectures, applications, services, privacy, to name a few.
In the light of the above, the main purpose of this special issue is threefold:
- to obtain a coherent and concise synthesis from the abundance of recently emerged material in the area of smart city technologies and architectures,
- to promote unprecedented approaches in analyzing, designing and optimizing smart city technologies and architectures, and
- to identify open issues which remain as a challenge towards using ICT technologies in smart city markets.
The technical topics of interest in the area of ICT for Smart Cities include, but are not limited to:
• green technologies (energy scavenging, low silicon footprint, low EM exposure, etc.)
• license-exempt technologies (reliable, robust, secure, delay-constraint, miniaturized, etc.)
• machine-to-machine technologies (low-power, impact onto macro cells, etc.)
• architecture designs (heterogeneous technologies, enormous data streams, etc.)
• smart city control platforms (use of diverse data streams, sensing/control/notification, etc.)
• city data storage, ownership and access methods (crowdsourcing, cloud approaches, etc.)
• business, service and billing approaches (business models, exploitation approaches, etc.)
• privacy issues (escrow-type approaches, ensuring citizens, etc.)
• innovative applications (unprecedented use of smart city streams, new applications, etc.)
Guest Editors:
Mischa Dohler, CTTC & Worldsensing, Barcelona, Spain
Carlo Ratti, Director MIT SENSEable City Laboratory, USA
Jurij Paraszczak, Director Industry Solutions and Smarter Cities, IBM, USA
Gordon Falconer, Director Urban Innovation IBSG, Cisco, Singapore
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