Ninety students applied for the Richard E. Merwin Student Scholarship during the fall 2018 cycle. The winners receive a $1000 scholarship and become ambassadors in their region. To apply, IEEE Computer Society student members provided substantial information on their IEEE involvement, awards they have received, non-IEEE activities, and their vision for their time as ambassador. Below is just a sampling of the Merwin Student Scholars’ qualifications. Continue…

The continued growth of smart applications and devices has created a demand for more local processing, and edge computing is here to answer it.

Earn CEUs/PDHs as you learn how to support this technology with Introduction to Edge Computing, a new on-demand training program from IEEE.

Taught by industry experts and thought leaders, this five-course program is designed for those investing heavily in edge in order to address the challenges of latency and bandwidth associated with cloud overhead. Course titles include: Continue…

In December 2018, Tencent research teams from China visited Waseda University in Japan for a one-day seminar organized by the IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS). IEEE CS connected these two groups as part of an ongoing effort to promote collaboration between industry and academia.

The meeting took place at the Waseda University Green Computing Systems Research and Development Center, which is led by IEEE Computer Society president, Hironori Kasahara, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and director of the campus’s Advanced Multicore Research Institute. Continue…