Al Gore to Keynote 22nd Annual Supercomputing Conference (SC09)
SC09, the 22nd annual event in the SC conference series, recognized
globally as the premier international conference on high performance
computing, networking, storage and analysis, has selected former U.S.
Vice President Al Gore to deliver the conference keynote address.
SC09 has adopted the theme of “Computing for a Changing World,” and
will present a special focus on initiatives related to Sustainability,
Bio-Computing and the 3D Internet.
Gore will deliver the keynote presentation on Thursday, 19 November
for the anticipated crowd of 11,000 attendees made up of leading
computational scientists, researchers and supercomputing experts from
around the globe, many of whom work on High Performance Computing (HPC)
platforms and supercomputers researching life-changing issues such as
disease understanding, drug discovery, renewable energy and global
climate change.
Gore has been an evangelist on global climate and energy-related
issues since the 1980s. He has lectured around the globe and his
climate change documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” won an Academy
Award and was instrumental in his selection as the recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
“Al Gore has been a champion of applied computing technology for
more than two decades,” said Dr. Wilfred Pinfold, General Chair of
SC09. “The High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991,
often referred to as ‘The Gore Bill’ was undoubtedly a milestone in
Internet history. That bill led to formation of the National
Information Infrastructure (NII), which Gore labeled the Information
Superhighway. We are honored to name Al Gore as our SC09 keynote
speaker.”
Visit the SC09 Web Site
Show IEEE How You Engineer Your World
IEEE invites you to celebrate our 125th Anniversary by participating in
the video competition. The contest asks people from across the globe
to submit short videos demonstrating their use of science, engineering
and technology to make their living spaces more livable, fun,
convenient or futuristic. Have you rigged your alarm clock to make you
a pot of coffee in the morning? Or fashioned a virtual whiteboard in
your car for convenient problem-solving on the go? Similar to IEEE's
125 years of innovations, there are no boundaries to Engineering Your
World, just possibilities. Visit the IEEE 125th Web site to see examples and submit your own video
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IEEE Intelligent Systems Seeks Papers for Special Issue
IEEE Intelligent Systems is seeking papers on mobile information retrieval (mobile IR) for a special issue. Mobile IR is concerned with the indexing and retrieval of information such as text, graphics, animation, sound, speech, image and video, and their possible combinations for use in mobile devices with wireless network connectivity. The proliferation of wireless and mobile devices such as personal digital assistants and mobile phones has created a large demand for mobile information content as well as effective mobile IR techniques. New technologies are needed for representing, modeling, indexing and retrieving mobile data.
This special issue will focus on contributions that expand the state-of-the-art of building intelligent systems for mobile IR. To be considered for this special issue, submissions related to information retrieval on the mobile Web and mobile Internet must address issues specific to mobile IR.
Original papers that address the following topics are desired:
* Automatic summarization and personalization in mobile information
* Content adaptation for small display devices
* Content-based extraction, indexing, annotation and retrieval of mobile data
* Context-aware information processing
* Data mining of query logs, clicks and Web traffic on mobile devices
* Efficient retrieval models and query processing of mobile information from distributed databases
* Extraction of useful semantics in mobile information for indexing and retrieval
* Knowledge discovery through content and keyword fusion in mobile summarization, indexing and retrieval
* Location-based search for mobile devices
* Mobile learning and user profiling for mobile information retrieval
* Mobile peer tagging and knowledge propagation
* Mobile retrieval across multiple media types, network conditions and user preferences
* Multimodal user interface technologies
* Scalable browsing algorithms for large mobile databases
* Spatial data management, mining spatial data generated by mobile users
Submissions are due 13 July. Learn more
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IEEE Computer Society Launches Corporate Initiative
The IEEE Computer Society has launched an outreach campaign called Raise Your Standards to raise awareness of the global organization. Targeted at technology professionals and the corporations who hire them, the Raise Your Standards campaign communicates how the society’s products and services can help them grow.
The initiative’s message will be communicated via nine video vignettes on You Tube, MySpace and SecondLife, as well as via Raise Your Standards Web Page and a DVD distributed at conferences and tradeshows around the world.
“Whether you’re a hardware or a software engineer, in academia or industry, or just trying to understand the gap between business and technology, we are here to make your life a little easier,” said Susan K. (Kathy) Land, the IEEE Computer Society’s 2009 president and principal software systems engineer with MITRE Corp.
The Computer Society is offering human resources and training professionals opportunities to partner and attract, develop and retain top talent. The Computer Society also offers custom webinars and podcasts that can be used as training vehicles in these cost-conscious times.
Learn more
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2009 Honors Ceremony to be Streamed Live Through IEEE.tv
For the first time, the IEEE Honors Ceremony will be broadcast live on
the Web through IEEE.tv. The 2009 Honors Ceremony will take place
Thursday, 25 June at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles,
California, USA at 6 pm Pacific Time.
Robert H. Dennard, IEEE Life Fellow, will be presented with the IEEE
Medal of Honor for inventing dynamic random-access memory which
fostered faster and more reliable computers. Other honorees include
individuals whose work has enabled deep-space exploration; improved
digital storage technologies and advanced radar detection, among
others. The ceremony also will honor IEEE student members who were
selected as winners in the inaugural IEEE Presidents’ Change the World
Competition. These students developed solutions to problems that
benefit humanity. This is the first time students will be recognized at
this annual event.
A URL for viewing the Ceremony will be provided on the Awards Web site.
Learn more about the 2009 IEEE Honors Ceremony.
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CSDA Gets New Learning System
The IEEE Computer Society has partnered with ElementK to launch a new CSDA e-Learning System. The new e-Learning System is a comprehensive, self-paced, online system that covers all 15 Knowledge Areas of the CSDA in 4 learning modules, supplemented with 6 assessments totaling 500 questions; delivering an effective e-learning experience. Learn more
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Milestones Get Their Due
IEEE recently commemorated three noteworthy advances in technology with ceremonies recognizing them as IEEE Milestones in Electrical Engineering and Computing.
A ceremonial plaque was unveiled on 14 April at Hewlett-Packard’s laboratories in Palo Alto, California, USA, to commemorate the development and commercial introduction in 1972 of the HP-35, the world’s first full-function scientific calculator small enough to fit in a shirt pocket. But perhaps a ceremonial chalk outline in the shape of a slide rule also should have been drawn nearby to indicate that the labs were the place where the death knell was sounded for that centuries-old device.
Within a year of the HP-35’s March 1972 introduction, engineers and students had bought more than 100,000 of the $395 devices. The handwriting was on the wall, and in another couple of years or so the scientific calculator had replaced the venerable slide rule.
The IEEE Milestone plaque will be displayed in the lobby of the building where much of the design work for the electronic slide rule was carried out.
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IEEE Spectrum Updates Web Site
A redesigned IEEE Spectrum Online was launched earlier this month,
providing visitors with a better web experience and easy access to the
latest news on a variety of key technology topics. Special coverage for
June 2009 includes articles on billion-year carbon nanotube memory,
launching a human mission to Mars and a prediction system for epileptic
seizures. Visit IEEE Spectrum’s new Web site!
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