IEEE: Trade Restrictions Should have Minimal Impact on IEEE Members
“Compliance with U.S. Trade Restrictions Should have Minimal Impact on IEEE Members Around the World” – Read the full statement by IEEE The article below was published at Techcrunch The IEEE’s ban on Huawei following new trade restrictions in the United States has sent shock…
2019 IEEE Educational Activities Board Awards
Celebrating Brilliant Minds and a Bright Future! IEEE is widely known for its contribution in technology development and science progress. However it also has a great impact in the educational field. IEEE offers a wide range of learning and career-enhancement opportunities within the engineering sciences,…
IEEE Educational Activities’ part in the forming of the future teachers in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Tryengineering.org lesson plans are now part of a University course thanks to Dušanka Bošković, an IEEE Region 8 member Teacher In Service Program (TISP) is a well known program of IEEE Educational Activities where tryengineering.org lesson plans are demonstrated to educators all around the globe….
The 112th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting
A successfully held meeting by the IEEE Malta Section The IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting is being held twice a year within Region 8, hosted by an IEEE Region 8 Section. This is one of the most demanding meetings being held, in terms of preparation…
IEEE Blockchain Initiative @ ANON Blockchain Summit Austria, Vienna, April 2-3, 2019
The IEEE Blockchain Initiative was launched in January 2018 to pursue a comprehensive set of projects and activities through various committees focused on community development, conferences, education, publications, standards, and special projects. As part of the community development, over 14 IEEE blockchain community groups have…
IEEE Panel on Blockchain for Social Impact, Davos, Switzerland, January 21st, 2019
The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum that brings together world leaders was held at Davos, Switzerland, January 22-25, 2019. During this week, several prominent events not associated with the WEF are organized in Davos. IEEE Blockchain Initiative partnered with Emerging Technologies (EmTech) Investment…
Educational Activities Acceleration Contest
As 2018 approaches to it’s end, we all are looking back in order to self evaluate and readjust our goals. Some of us may feel nostalgic about 2018’s moments, some others may feel relaxed and successful, but some may feel incomplete and disappointed. IEEE Region…
Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit
On 27 November the eyes of the tech world will focus on Warsaw, which will host an international congress for women in technology, the “Perspektywy Women in Tech Summit.” The biggest event in Europe intended for women in the IT and TECH industry will be…
Election Results of the new IEEE Region 8 Officers
The results of the 2019-2020 IEEE Region 8 Officers, Secretary, Treasure and 2019 Vice-Chair Member Activities, Vice-Chair Student Activities, Vice-Chair Technical Activities, were announced on the 20th of October 2018 during the 1st day of the IEEE Region 8 meeting happening in Belgrade, Serbia. After…
IEEE European Public Policy Committee calls for new working group (WG) members.
In a previous article, Marko Delimar, the chair of IEEE European Public Policy Committee (EPPC) noted that, the EPPC expands the dialogue between the European engineering community and European public authorities to enable technologists to more easily share their expertise and concerns and to enable European institutions and…
Election Results: IEEE Region 8 Director-elect 2019 – 2020
IEEE member Antonio Luque has been chosen as 2019 – 2020 IEEE Region 8 Director-elect. He will begin serving as IEEE Region 8 Director on 1 January 2021. Antonio, received 4993 votes in the election and Rafal Sliz received 4703 votes. The results are unofficial…
Is there clear evidence that radiation from mobile phones causes cancer?
On the 14th of July an article was published in the web page of The Guardian that was circulating all over the Internet. The article is titled “The inconvenient truth about cancer and mobile phones” and the authors state that even though the scientific peer…
A SYP 2018 Review
6:00 o clock on a Wednesday morning in Athens Airport. I was so excited to fly to Porto in order to share my experiences and knowledge with IEEE Students and Young Professionals from all over Region 8. You see, this year, the funded participants of…
IEEE European Public Policy Committee
In 2001 the IEEE Board of Directors made a strategic decision to make IEEE a truly international society. As a result of this Region 8 derived one of the primary priorities in 2011: “Cooperation with European Institutions and Agencies”. Like on the level of Region…
IEEE Africa Council’s Inaugural Meeting
It came to my attention that during the IEEE Future Innovations Summit in Tunisia, the 1st IEEE Africa Council meeting was held. It is a very fortunate and interesting event, so I asked Africa Council’s chair, Gloria Chukwudebe, for more information about it. She gladly responded…
A conversation with the candidates for IEEE R8 Director-Elect (Part B)
This is the second part of the conversation with the two IEEE Region 8 Director-Elect candidates Antonio Luque and Rafal Sliz . In this part a few very interesting questions are answered by the two candidates that, we believe, will help you decide who to vote for. (You can…
A conversation with the candidates for IEEE R8 Director-Elect (Part A)
The elections for the next IEEE Region 8 Director-Elect are approaching. To help you decide who to choose we interviewed the candidates: Rafal Sliz and Antonio Luque. They shared their vision about IEEE Region 8’s future and also aspects of their background that make them…
This is what happens to your body during a flight
Do you know what happens to your body during a flight? Dehydration Loss of taste You’ll expand (literally) Ear pain Have a look at the following video. Make sure you drink a lot of water and move when it is allowed to. Source: Tech…
IEEE launches task forces for high-speed electronic interfaces, 400G over multimode fiber standards development
The IEEE launched two task forces at its May 21–25, 2018, interim meeting in Pittsburgh. The IEEE P802.3ck 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s Electrical Interfaces Task Force will specify electrical interfaces based on 100-Gbps signaling. The IEEE P802.3cm 400 Gb/s over Multimode Fiber…
The video of the airport clerk, that made a lot of people furious
IEEE volunteers travel a lot, especially in our huge Region, Region 8. We all know of cases where our volunteers have experienced a suitcase that has been damaged after a flight, don’t we? A twitter user, Vanessa Marsh, shared the following video on Twitter and can…
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