IEEE Celebrates Its 125th Anniversary Presenting Emerging, World Changing Technologies During Its ‘Embracing Human Technology Interactions’ Media Event

PISCATAWAY, New Jersey - Event Features Panel Discussion on Technologies That Will Change the
Way Humans Interact with Machines, the World and Each Other

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional society, today
spotlighted seven technologies it believes will have world changing
implications on the way humans interact with machines, the world and each
other, in honor of its 125th anniversary.

On 10 March 2009 at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City, a panel of
technology experts, moderated by The New York Times senior editor and
technology reporter Steve Lohr, discussed emerging technologies in fields
ranging from biometrics, computing, wireless power, and others, that they
believe have the potential to change the world.

“For 125 years, IEEE and its members have influenced the creation of
nearly all the technologies we now cannot imagine life without,” said 2008
IEEE President Lewis M. Terman. “Today we take a glimpse into the future with
some of those who are driving the development of some of the emerging
innovations and technological advancements for the betterment of humanity.”

Featured panelists and the technologies discussed include:
— Dr. Katie Hall, IEEE Senior Member, Chief Technology Officer,
WiTricity - Dr. Hall is implementing a new technology that can
wirelessly transmit power to common consumer electronic devices within
several meters of its power source. It is designed to bring the
benefits of wireless power to consumer, industrial, medical, military,
and transportation markets, and in the process help to save lives,
energy and the environment.

— Dr. Rangachar Kasturi, IEEE Fellow, Professor, University of South
Florida - Dr. Kasturi’s team has established a framework that can
detect and track text, face, and vehicles in images and video. The end
goal will allow computers to detect and recognize vehicles, humans and
objects from great distances and in undesirable conditions leading to
quicker, more accurate detection of possible environmental, health or
security threats.

— Dr. K.J. Ray Liu, IEEE Fellow, Professor, University of Maryland,
College Park - Dr. Liu and his team have developed a model that, by
testing the interaction between an individual’s genomic and proteomic
signaling through a simple blood test, can determine if he/she is in
the transition stage to developing cancer, and identify the type. This
information will offer the earliest possible prediction of whether an
individual is in danger for developing cancer and allow for
preventative treatment.

— Dr. Dharmendra Modha, IEEE Senior Member, Manager, Cognitive
Computing, IBM Almaden Research Center - In a project funded by the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) called SyNAPSE, Dr.
Modha and his team are engineering computing systems that simulate the
brain’s abilities for sensation, perception, action, interaction and
cognition. This has the potential to greatly improve the functionality
and response-rate of everyday computers and provide limitless
practical applications, such as assisting financiers making
split-second decisions bases on constantly changing data.

— Dr. Miguel Nicolelis, IEEE Member, Professor and Co-director, Center
for Neuroengineering, Duke University Medical Center - Dr. Nicolelis
and his team have developed a microchip that allows human brains to
communicate with robots and enables the robot to send a return message
directly back to the brain, without use of sight/touch. Looking ahead,
he believes his work will allow communication from human brain to
human brain. The goal, by 2012, through his work and that of
scientists around the world, is to enable a completely quadriplegic
patient to walk again in a project entitled the Walk Again Project.

— Mr. Krishna Palem, IEEE Fellow, Professor, George Brown School of
Engineering, Rice University - Dr. Palem developed probabilistic chip
technology, a technology which trades off precision in calculations
for significant reductions in energy use allowing devices such as cell
phones to be recharged every few weeks rather than every few days.
Using this technology, Dr. Palem has created an LED roll-up “slate”
allowing access to educational materials to students in
impoverished/remote areas at a very low cost and utilizing very little
energy, providing an opportunity to assist with access of educational
materials globally.

— Dr. Roy Want, IEEE Fellow, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel
Corporation - Dr. Want is building a mobile solution called Dynamic
Composable Computing that will vastly improve the performance of
mobile devices and provide the capability of sharing multiple
resources between computers, including displays, networks, processing,
storage and peripherals. For example, if a mobile phone user does not
have a camera phone; one would have the ability to wirelessly access
the camera of another nearby device, assuming permission had been
granted.

For more information on these technologies, IEEE’s 125th anniversary or
to view a live Webcast of the event, please visit www.ieee125.org.

About IEEE 125th Anniversary

In 2009, IEEE is commemorating 125 years of ingenuity and innovation in
engineering and technology with events and activities supporting the
anniversary theme “Celebrating 125 Years of Engineering the Future.” The
year-long IEEE celebration includes local and global member and customer
events; the first IEEE Presidents’ Change the World Competition for students;
a global media roundtable and webcast featuring emerging, world-changing
technologies; IEEE Engineering the Future Day on 13 May 2009; and much more.
For more information on the IEEE 125th Anniversary, visit www.ieee125.org.

About IEEE

IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.) is the
world’s largest technical professional society. Through its more than 375,000
members in 160 countries, the organization is a leading authority on a wide
variety of areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and
telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer
electronics. Dedicated to the advancement of technology, IEEE publishes 30
percent of the world’s literature in the electrical and electronics
engineering and computer science fields, and has developed nearly 900 active
industry standards. The organization annually sponsors more than 900
conferences worldwide. Additional information about IEEE can be found at
www.ieee.org.

Source: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

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