The IEEE France Section celebrated its second Milestone of 2023 for MPEG Multimedia Integrated Circuits, on the STMicroelectronics site in Grenoble, France, on 28 September 2023. Silicon die of the STi3500, the first MPEG2 video decoder. As the Milestone plaque cites, subsequent MPEG-2 worldwide adoption made compressed full-motion video and audio inexpensive and ...
Professor Emeritus Jean-Daniel Nicoud of EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, turned 85, 10 years older than the transistor. Jean-Daniel Nicoud on his 85th birthday with Hugo Wyss, Swiss LMAG chair Swiss LMAG chair Hugo Wyss presented him with 10 early Germanium transistors manufactured before 1965 at a production pilot line at ...
The subject of the 2023 HISTELCON Conference was “Science and Technology or Technology and Science?”. In 2008, IEEE Region 8 promoted the first of a series of conferences on the history of electrical technology (HISTELCON), which took place in Paris and then continued, every second year or so, in various locations of Region 8 and ...
This is the first time an IEEE Milestone recognition was awarded to a Brain-Computer Interface achievement. After the application made by Stevo Bozinovski, supported by the IEEE Republic of Macedonia Section in 2018 and a presentation by IEEE North Macedonia LMAG Chair Goce Arsov at the LMAG Meeting in Prague in 2022, the IEEE History ...
The main project of LMAG Lebanon is SouqeTaqa, a renewable energy platform. A dinner meeting that included SouqeTaqa members. One female member could not attend. 12 April 2023 The original concept for the project, which was envisioned in the summer of 2019, aimed at creating an awareness campaign targeting educational pre-university students, public ...