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WASHINGTON, Sept. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Washington's National Press Club, on 4 October, will host an advance showing and panel discussion of "Codebreaker," an acclaimed new 53-minute film about Alan Turing's heroic life, tragic death and lasting legacy. Credited with "catapulting civilization into the digital age," Turing is one of the 20th century's greatest technologists, whose contributions to our modern world are only now being recognized and understood. As the...

NEW YORK, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Distinguished members of IEEE, the world's largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, have selected autonomous vehicles as the most promising form of intelligent transportation, anticipating that they will account for up to 75 percent of cars on the road by the year 2040. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120306/NY65270LOGO)(Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120905/NY67714-INFO)...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Median income for electrotechnology and information technology professionals continued to rise in 2011, but the increase was less than half what it was in 2010, according to the latest IEEE-USA Salary & Benefits Survey. Median incomes from primary sources -- salary, commissions, bonuses and net self-employment income -- for U.S. IEEE members working full-time in their primary area of technical competence (job specialty)...

NEW YORK, Aug. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization, announced that the latest issue of IBM Journal of Research and Development, a special issue on Technologies for Healthcare Transformation, is now exclusively available in the IEEE Xplore® digital library. Technologies for Healthcare Transformation examines how the healthcare industry is working toward developing centralized databases and advanced analytics to help...

NEW YORK, Aug. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) and NYU Professor Theodore (Ted) S. Rappaport, a leading researcher in wireless communication engineering, has been chosen the 2012 recipient of the IEEE William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Education Society. The prestigious award is presented annually to an IEEE Education Society member who has made...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Organizers of the 2012 IEEE Smart Grid for Practitioners Conference (SG4P) are seeking papers, presentations, panel sessions and keynotes focusing on Smart Grid systems, applications and technology. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: End-to-end Smart Grid solutions Generation, transmission & distribution Energy policy & practice Standards & interoperability Sensors & devices Systems &...

YEREVAN, Armenia, Aug. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc., a world leader in software and IP used in the design, verification and manufacture of electronic components and systems, today announced that the Seventh Annual International Microelectronics Olympiad of Armenia will be held on October 4, 2012 in Yerevan, Armenia. For the first time, the event will be held in cooperation with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Test Technology Technical Council...

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Avere Systems today announced that its CTO and co-founder Mike Kazar was named the recipient of the 2013 IEEE Reynold B. Johnson Information Storage Systems Award for his outstanding contributions to information storage systems. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090914/LA74693LOGO) For more than a century, the IEEE, the world's largest technology professional membership association, has sponsored various programs to honor...

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyera Inc., founded by an executive and engineering team with unsurpassed backgrounds in the solid-state, storage and networking arenas, today announced the formation of the Skyera Advisory Board. The first two members to join the Board are Tong Zhang and Ken Takeuchi, two electrical engineering academics with unbeatable talent in the design of VLSI circuits, signal processing and data storage devices, non-volatile memories and SSDs....

STRATHAM, N.H., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Visible Assets, today announced that RuBee (IEEE 1902.1) is the first wireless technology to be certified by the U.S. Department of The Navy with a zero Safe Separation Distance (SSD) for tags, portable handheld readers and base stations for HERO SAFE and HERO UNSAFE ordnance. The Report 8020/SER Q52/2250, "Hazards of Electromagnetic Radiation to Ordnance (HERO) Safety Evaluation Test Report for Near-Touching Use of RuBee (IEEE 1902.1)...