institute of electrical and electronics engineers, inc.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.

   (IEEE) The world's largest technical professional society,
   based in the USA.  Founded in 1884 by a handful of
   practitioners of the new electrical engineering discipline,
   today's Institute has more than 320,000 members who
   participate in its activities in 147 countries.  The IEEE
   sponsors technical conferences, symposia and local meetings
   worldwide, publishes nearly 25% of the world's technical
   papers in electrical, electronics and computer engineering and
   computer science, provides educational programs for its
   members and promotes standardisation.  Areas covered include
   aerospace, computers and communications, biomedical
   technology, electric power and consumer electronics.

   (http://ieee.org/).
   {Gopher (gopher://gopher.ieee.org/)}.
   (ftp://ftp.ieee.org/).

   E-mail file-server: <[email protected]>.

    IEEE Standards Process Automation (SPA) System
   (http://stdsbbs.ieee.org/),
   {telnet	(telnet:stdsbbs.ieee.org)} [140.98.1.11].

   (1995-03-10)