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IEEE Life Members to Hold Their First Conference

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The IEEE Life Members Committee plans to hold its first conference from 14 to 16 April in Austin, Texas. The conference is expected to bring together technology professionals from across the globe to explore emerging technologies and how they impact senior citizens. To register, visit the conference website.

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Audi joins Spoke Safety, Qualcomm, Commsignia to help protect bicyclists through connected technology

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Audi of America is working with Spoke, a mobility platform for safety, connectivity, and rich rider experiences; Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.; Audi is also continuing to refine its C-V2X technologies for production-intent applications, allowing for a connected ecosystem between drivers and the world around them.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk en route to Norway to speak at 2022 Offshore Northern Shore conference

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Elon Musk is poised to speak at the 2022 Offshore Northern Shore (ONS) conference in Stavanger, Norway, which will be held from August 29 to September 1, 2022. Musk’s appearance at the 2022 ONS conference has been announced by the event’s organizers themselves. Musk is now en route to Norway.

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Inventor of AT&T’s Datakit, the First Virtual Connection Switch, Dies at 85

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AT&T named him chief scientist, and in that position he worked on developing architecture and protocols for a large-scale Internet so that customers could connect to it from their homes. In 1969 he was tasked with helping to build transmission lines in Bangladesh that connected the country’s eastern and western electrical grids.

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Toyota’s Collaborative Safety Research Center to study societal acceptance of connected and automated vehicle technologies

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The new CSRC Next research projects include: Organization. CSRC Next also supports ongoing research programs at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) and Toyota Connected (TC) to help accelerate the development of automated and connected driving technologies and services. Description. George Mason University.

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IEEE President’s Note: Let’s Get Practical

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Increasing student membership IEEE has many university student members but, like other professional organizations, the majority of these student members don’t continue as higher-grade members. To do so we must engage these new members in a way that encourages them to participate in our organization.

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IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn

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Together they make up the Internet’s core architecture and enable computers to connect and exchange information. He continued to work on the ARPANET and organized the first public demonstration of the network at the 1972 International Conference on Computer Communications , held in Washington, D.C.

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