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Life sciences
The overall objective of the Life Sciences New Initiative is to make IEEE a major and recognized player in the life sciences, in particular in the disciplines that are at the intersection between the organization's traditional fields—electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science—and the life sciences.
Of interest are challenges that require computational techniques and algorithms; mathematical modeling; simulation; visualization; signal processing and image processing; sensing and actuation; instrumentation; machine learning; robotics; ultrasonics, bioinformatics; and nuclear-related disciplines.
Smart Grid
The "smart grid" has come to describe a next-generation electrical power system that is typified by the increased use of communications and information technology in the generation, delivery and consumption of electrical energy.
The societies within IEEE help guide the evolution toward the smart grid, by holding several events, publications and standards within their area of focus. On the IEEE Smart Grid Web portal, all these activities and assets converge into a single place where users can explore and understand all the different and particular aspects of the smart grid, and how they are connected to the overarching smart grid framework.
Cloud Computing
Cloud Computing has become a scalable service consumption and delivery platform in the modern IT infrastructure. The technical foundations of Cloud Computing include the "as-a-Service" usage model, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Virtualization of hardware and software. The goal of Cloud Computing is to consolidate infrastructure, and share resources among the cloud service consumers, cloud partners, and cloud vendors in the cloud value chain.
Transportation Electrification (TE)
An electric vehicle (EV), also referred to as an electric drive vehicle, uses one or more electric motors or traction motors for propulsion. Three main types of electric vehicles exist, those that are directly powered from an external power station, those that are powered by stored electricity originally from an external power source, and those that are powered by an on-board electrical generator, such as an engine (a hybrid electric vehicle), or a hydrogen fuel cell. Electric vehicles include electric cars, electric trains, electric lorries, electric aeroplanes, electric boats, electric motorcycles and scooters and electric spacecraft.
IEEE Future Directions Committee
The primary working objective of the IEEE Future Directions Committee:
- Incubates emerging technologies and new applications of current technologies.
- Identifies opportunities to engage the engineering community and the general public.
- Works with IEEE members and staff to focus on emerging technologies through technical, professional, and educational activities.
- Serves as a catalyst for new conferences, publications, standards, educational products, forums, white papers, grants and projects to support new technologies.
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