Wednesday 10 June 2015

New Technology Connections is your resource to emerging technologies within the IEEE. The IEEE Future Directions team has identified the technologies on this page as primary focus areas and has established them as formal initiatives to engage IEEE and the general public. For each initiative, you will find a wealth of knowledge, resources, and opportunities to participate. Visit each featured portal for access to upcoming conferences, news articles, technical papers, related standards, professional organizations, and academic programs. To get involved in the initiatives and to stay informed, please join our free technical communities available on each of the portals below. To learn more, contact Future Directions.

New Initiatives

Get involved in the current Future Directions Initiatives:
  • Big Data - Big data is much more than just data bits and bytes on one side and processing on the other. IEEE, through its Cloud Computing Initiative and multiple societies, has already been taking the lead on the technical aspects of big data. To provide increased value, IEEE will provide a framework for collaboration throughout IEEE. IEEE has launched a new initiative focused on big data. Plans are under way to capture all the different perspectives via in-depth discussions, and to drive to a set of results that will define the scope and the direction for the initiative.
  • Cybersecurity Initiative - Through outreach projects, workshops, experiments, and challenge competitions, the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative builds on IEEE’s long-standing and world-leading technical activities in cybersecurity and privacy to actively engage, inform, and support members, organizations, and communities involved in cybersecurity research, development, operations, policy, and education.
  • Green ICT - Green Information and Communications Technology is a key driver of sustainability when green metrics (energy consumption, atmospheric emissions, e-waste, life cycle management) are effectively coupled with its positive socio-economic impacts. IEEE is focused on achieving sustainability through greening ICT and promoting its awareness.
  • Internet of Things (IoT) - IoT is a self-configuring and adaptive system consisting of networks of sensors and smart objects whose purpose is to interconnect "all" things, including everyday and industrial objects, in such a way as to make them intelligent, programmable, and more capable of interacting with humans.
  • Rebooting Computing - IEEE seeks to rethink the computer, "from soup to nuts," including all aspects from device to user interface. This group works from a holistic viewpoint, taking into account evolutionary and revolutionary approaches.
  • Smart Cities - IEEE experts will work with local government leaders and city planners around the world to explore the issues and address what's needed to prepare for the ever-increasing urban population growth, including engaging and interacting with local inhabitants to increase awareness of their urban environment, leading to the formation of smart cities.
  • Software Defined Networks (SDN) - SDN and NFV (Network Functions Virtualization) are creating the conditions to reinvent network architectures. This is happening first at the edge of the network where "intelligence" has already started migrating, and where innovation is more urgently needed to overcome the "ossification" by improving networks and services infrastructure flexibility.
View the list of initiative chairs (PDF, 16 KB)
Have an idea? The IEEE Future Directions Committee is accepting proposals to explore new initiatives in emerging technologies. This is an open call to all IEEE Societies and Councils. Please see the form below for instructions.
IEEE FDC Society/Council Incubator Proposal Form (DOC, 79 KB)
 
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Future Directions events

Join Future Directions at the following events.
  • 1st IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization on SDN, 13-17 April 2015, University College London, London, UK
  • IEEE Smart Cities Workshop, 17-19 May 2015, Wuxi, China
  • IEEE Expert in Technology and Policy (ETAP) Forum, 18 May 2015, San Jose, California, USA
  • IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2-2015), 25-28 October 2015, Guadalajara, Mexico
  • 2015 IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (IoT) (Formerly 2015 IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things WF-IoT), 14-16 December 2015, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
 
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Graduated initiatives

These initiatives have reached maturity after following through a full life cycle within Future Directions. Visit their Web portals to continue to participate and learn about new volunteer opportunities.
  • Cloud Computing - This has become a scalable service consumption and delivery platform in the modern IT infrastructure. IEEE is advancing the understanding and use of the cloud computing paradigm, which currently has a significant impact on the entire information and communications ecosystem.
  • Life Sciences - The overall objective 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.
  • 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.
  • Transportation Electrification - IEEE seeks to accelerate the development and implementation of new technologies for the electrification of transportation which is manifested in the electric vehicles (EV) of today and the future.
 
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IEEE Future Directions Committee

The IEEE Future Directions Committee (FDC), in association with Societies, Councils, and OUs, anticipates and determines the direction of existing, new, and emerging technologies and related issues, and spearheads their investigation and development by IEEE. Taking a holistic view, the FDC emphasizes new, emerging technical areas and drives them to maturity within the IEEE infrastructure. Additionally, the FDC serves as a liaison to and fosters cooperative efforts among Societies, Councils, and industry to develop new products and services in emerging topics.
 
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.
     
FDC members, please access committee meeting schedule and documents on the Technical Activities Operations Board & Committees page (IEEE Account required). Presentations made during previous Future Directions Committee (FDC) workshops held at IEEE Meeting Series are available. You will find updates to all the current initiatives, latest report from Roberto Saracco to the TAB, and other interesting presentations.
 
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