IEEE REGION 6 News and Announcements - April 2015
Contents
Message from the Director: Capturing the Best
Extended: Call for Papers: 2015 IEEE Global
Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC)
2015 IEEE/IBM Watson Student Showcase Deadline 15-April
Corporate Matching Gifts for IEEE Volunteers
Call for Presenters - IEEE Region 6 Career and Talent
Expo
Students: Announcement of CE Society Mobile Power
Design Contest
High Impact One Day IEEE 5G Summit, Princeton
University, Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Tom Coughlin
IEEE Region 6 Director
Have you ever missed an interesting technical chapter
meeting in your IEEE section because you weren't in town? Do you have a
hard time getting to meetings because they are far away from you? Does
your section have a hard time attracting interesting speakers to give
presentations in their section? If any of these are true for you, Region
6 members, and in the future IEEE members all over the world, may soon have
access any time of day or night to some of the most interesting technical talks
in the world. The best thing about this is that you have that access
because you are an IEEE member and because IEEE volunteers captured this
content for you.
The volunteers of Region 6 have a unique opportunity to
capture their technical chapter meetings and share them with other IEEE
members. Region 6 and Region 4 have embarked upon a project in 2015,
funded by an IEEE New Initiatives Committee (NIC) grant, to provide local
sections and their chapters with the tools and training to record their
technical chapter meetings on the laptops used to make the speaker
presentations.
Once captured, these recordings are uploaded by the
volunteer to a website with other information on the talk, including the date,
section and chapter as well as the talk title, talk abstract and speakers
biography. IEEE members can access the web site with the collection of
recordings after they authenticate their IEEE membership and search, watch,
comment and share interesting talks with their colleagues. They can watch
the content streaming over the Internet or download the video file for viewing
later.
There are over 228 chapters in Region 6. Many of
these chapters have monthly meetings. If these chapters record their
meetings we can have hundreds of recordings in only a few months time and
thousands in a few years time. This would be a valuable resource to IEEE
members all over the world since local technical meetings can be interesting
briefings on the latest development in a field, advice on how to develop your
career and help others, or a real insightful tutorial or inspirational talk on
some topic. While IEEE members can have access to this content as part of
their membership, non-members can buy access to these recordings.
Check with your Section to see when they will start offering
this service or to help make this happen. You can find Section contacts on the Region
website: http://ieee-region6.org/region-6-info/
Dates: October 8 - 11, 2015
Location: Seattle, WA USA
Web: http://www.ieeeghtc.org
Abstracts Due Date: Extended to April 14, 2015
The Global Humanitarian Technology Conference
(GHTC) is the flagship IEEE conference for presenting, discussing, and
developing technological solutions to global humanitarian challenges. GHTC
invites presenters and attendees who work to meet the needs of populations
affected by poverty, disaster, conflict, environmental change, and other
impacts resulting in their needs being unmet or underserved.
The conferences focus is to create and promote
appropriate, sustainable, and holistic solutions to humanitarian challenges by
integrating technical science with broader disciplines such as economics,
policy, culture, and environment. GHTC encourages practice and research
oriented engineers, scientists, and practitioners with both technical and
non-technical backgrounds.
Authors may submit content in the form of a
technical paper, poster, or special session (panel, workshop, or
demonstration).
The Conference theme of Technology for the Benefit of Humanity
is presented in eight focus areas:
1. Energy
2. Health
3. Disaster Management
4. Connectivity & Communication
5. Humanitarian Challenges & Opportunities
6. Water & Sanitation
7. Agriculture
8. Education
We are seeking proposed technical challenge statements
for this years hackathon. Visit www.ieeeghtc.org/hackathon-2015.
Submission Schedule:
April
14 (Extended!): Abstract submissions (for all entries) and
hackathon challenge statements
May
27 Complete draft submission for review (papers only)
July
16 Final copy-ready submission (papers only)
Visit www.ieeeghtc.org
for more information on session submission requirements and deadlines,
registration for the conference, hotel reservations and exhibiting is available
on the GHTC website.
Exercise your skills and creativity by creating a
cognitive app using IBM Watson.
IEEE and IBM and are in search of creative,
forward-thinking students to participate in an exciting team-based showcase! Do
you want an opportunity to work with IBM's Watson to develop an innovative App?
Do you want to develop your cognitive computing skills while earning a chance
to win cash prizes? The deadline for registering your team has been
extended to 15 April 2015, so dont miss this opportunity!
The IEEE/IBM Watson Student Showcase is open to
college/university students from all geographic locations. Student teams should
have two to five team members in any year of university study. At least one
team member must be an IEEE member.
To learn more about this exciting opportunity and
register your team, visit: http://goo.gl/52WU1h.
If you have any questions or would like additional
information, please email smartplane...@ieee.org.
Does your company provide matching gifts for your
volunteer time contributions? If you are an IEEE volunteer you may be able to
have your volunteers hours matched as a donation to the IEEE Foundation. Volunteer
grant programs are a fairly common program especially at medium to large
companies. For instance, 40% of Fortune 500 companies offer volunteer
grant programs.
The IEEE Development Office is the group within IEEE
manages volunteer hours as matching gifts to IEEE and the IEEE Foundation. If
the employer allows the employee/IEEE volunteer to add a comment about what
part of IEEE should benefit, the gift can be routed to the appropriate unit.
See http://ieeefoundation.org/matching-gifts
Dates: June 1-30, 2015
Info: http://sites.ieee.org/r6careerexpo
Region 6 is hosting a web-based Career and Talent Expo
June 1-30, 2015. This virtual event will link IEEE members and non-members to
companies looking for individuals with unique skills and talents within the
IEEE fields of interest. The Career and Talent Expo will provide participants
the opportunity to match not only their technical experience but also their
personal skills, with companies with appropriate jobs to fill.
Like a Face-2-Face conference, the Career and Talent
Expo will provide career related and professional development presentations to
attendees. Sessions will have relevant and informative information
provided by the speakers regarding all aspects of career and technical
guidance.
The Expo schedule is:
June 1-9 Expo begins. On-line sessions are
open. Professional development video and session materials will be available.
June 10-12 Live Expo.
June 13-30 Expo continues.
All video presentations and presentation materials will
be placed on the Expo web site and available to all registered attendees.
Video presentations will be recorded in time blocks. Each time block is a
maximum of 15 minutes in length. A speaker may use multiple time blocks to
complete a presentation (labeled Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, etc.). All
presentation materials, both video and text based, must be provided no later
than Wednesday, May 20th, 2015 to assure content is placed on
the web site by Friday, May 29th.
Speakers will be responsible for recording and editing
their own content. The recording and editing process must assure that the
video content is of excellent quality, consistent sound levels, limited
background distractions and provided in an MP-4 format.
Each speaker must agree to allow their images and
recording of their presentation be perpetually available, at no cost, for the
Expo, the IEEE and Region 6 use.
Full details are on the web at http://sites.ieee.org/r6careerexpo
Can you design a more efficient mobile application?
If so we want you to participate in the 2015 IEEE Mobile
Power Design Contest.
We will have two to three mobile application competitions
in the Fall of 2015. The first will be in in the San Jose, CA area and will be
associated with a follow-on workshop on the Safe Advanced Mobile Power
Initiative. The second is going to be in November in Dublin, Ireland
associated with our second SAMP workshop. We may announce a third location
later. The competitions will be open to higher-level undergraduates and
graduate students.
There will be prizes for the top three winners of each
design contest and recognition of the winners from the three contests at the
2016 IEEE ICCE Conference in Las Vegas in January 2016. The first, second and
third prize in each design contest will be $2,000, $1,000 and $500
respectively.
Students who wish to participate in the Mobile Power
Design Contest must submit a participation form by June 30, 2015. All
contestants will be responsible for their own travel to participate in the
contest.
The contest application form can be downloaded from:
http://cesoc.ieee.org/images/files/pdfs/call_for_student_designers.pdf
To engage Industry and academic communities with high
value and innovative technologies, IEEE Communication Society will hold a
series of high impact one day summits in the emerging technology areas (e.g., SDN/NFV,
5G, IoT, Big Data, and Cybersecurity).
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2015
Location: Friend Center at Princeton University, 35
Olden Street, Princeton, NJ
Website: www.5gsummit.org
Lodging: Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village
This one day summit will provide a platform for the
industry leaders, innovators, and researchers from the university and academic
community to collaborate and exchange ideas in this emerging technology that
will help in driving standards development and rapid deployment.
IEEE 5G summit's speakers include key industry leaders
and eminent personalities from AT&T, China Mobile, Cisco, Columbia
University, Google, Huawei, Intel, Keysight Technologies, Princeton University,
Rutgers WINLAB, Qualcomm, NIST, and Verizon Wireless.
Registration: Advanced: $50 (IEEE members) / $75
(non-IEEE members) by Sunday, May 10, 2015.
Regular: $75 (IEEE members) / $100 (non-IEEE members)
after May 10.
Full-time students $25. Life members $30.
Lodging: Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village, a
short drive from the Friend Center. The conference room rate, good for
Monday, May 25 and Tuesday, May 26, 2015, is $109/night. Shuttle service
to/from the hotel and Friend Center will be provided.
Additional information on registration, housing,
sponsorship and other conference logistics is available at http://www.5gsummit.org.
IEEE 5G Summit is sponsored by the IEEE Communication
Society and the IEEE Princeton / Central Jersey Section with technical
sponsorship from IEEE Region 1, IEEE North Jersey Section, IEEE Coastal Jersey
Section and CTIF-USA. Please follow us on Twitter
(@5GSUMMIT_COMSOC), like us on Facebook (search for 5GSUMMIT), email us at ieee5g...@gmail.com,
and visit us at our conference web site.
