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Standards Development in a Virtual World

By ProductNEXT_Team - 10/22/2009 Can meeting in a virtual environment help facilitate the development of IEEE standards?

Standards for Dummies?

By ProductNEXT_Team - 10/14/2009 - 2 Replies Walk into any bookstore these days and you'll see several shelves full of books for "Dummies" and "Idiots" on just about every topic imaginable...

Help IEEE Standards Go Green

By ProductNEXT_Team - 10/7/2009 "Going green" means many things to different people: it means saving energy, saving money, manufacturing devices responsibly, branding devices that comply to environmental standards, and operating in an efficient manner.

Baby Standards?

By ProductNEXT_Team - 7/22/2009 - 1 Replies At the 2009 O’Reilly Media ETech Conference, IEEE-SA sponsored a fun, interactive seminar called "Redefining Standards for Emerging Technologies." Participants were encouraged to work together and share information as a way to examine who today's standards could be improved to address emerging technologies.

Everything is bigger in Texas -- even Nanotechnology

By ProductNEXT_Team - 6/16/2009 Despite a sluggish economy and fears of a swine flu outbreak, more than 250 exhibitors and 5,000 visitors from 67 countries filled the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston for NSTI Nanotech 2009, the largest event of its kind in the world. At the busy IEEE-SA ProductNEXT exhibit, discussion focused on the pressing need for new standards to enhance global research, collaboration and market development in what some experts are calling "the second industrial revolution."

What's the Most Important Standard for Your Job?

By ProductNEXT_Team - 4/29/2009 What standards are you using these days, and which ones are the most important to the work you're doing?

Come See IEEE-SA at NSTI Nanotech 2009 this May

By ProductNEXT_Team - 4/21/2009 The IEEE Standards Association will be exhibiting at the NSTI Nanotech 2009 Conference and Expo from 3 – 7 May 2009. Come by the booth for your chance to win prizes and influence the future of IEEE-SA products.

Follow IEEE-SA on Twitter!

By ProductNEXT_Team - 4/15/2009 Looking for a way to get the latest news from the IEEE Standards Association? Here's a new way to get the headlines...

Can Social Networking or Web 2.0 Tools Help in Standards Development?

By ProductNEXT_Team - 4/9/2009 - 2 Replies Many standards working groups already use online tools like wikis in the development of new standards drafts. What tools should we use next, and which ones aren't we using enough yet?

Aggregates & Mashups -- Right for Standards?

By ProductNEXT_Team - 4/1/2009 "Mashups" aren't just for videos on YouTube. In the standards arena, some end-users are looking for ways to create mashups that collect, combine and process standards content in novel ways.

Smart Standards?

By ProductNEXT_Team - 3/26/2009 - 1 Replies Sometimes a standard can't be implemented without a little extra help...