IEEE: What have they given society?

FIRST General Forum
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In response to the thread IEEE: A Call to Action from Dean Kamen, I am creating this thread with a question:

How has the IEEE changed society with out the public noticing?

Example: Fire Wire.

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well all wireless standards are approved by IEEE (802.11b, 802.11g) Firewire (IEEE 1394a, IEEE 1394b) just go to their website at www.ieee.org there are thousands of standards listed that i know 90% of the population has never heard of, they are not just about Wireless/input standards, they are about standards for almost everything, but you don’t see IEEE xxxx stamped on anything, you see FireWire or 11g, high-speed, top-speed…

Poke around on their website to see the things that they do that you have never thought of, or me for that matter, i had no idea they did all that because the only standards with IEEE that i know of are various wireless standards and Firewire…

Nastay
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jim

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Wow…
So, like, they’re the ones that standardize everthing that uses electricity?
Wow…
IEEE is my friend.

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And fyi. In the tech world, the correct way to say IEEE is not I-E-E-E like saying just the letters, but (eye triple E).

And IEEE has given me free pizza on multiple ocassions… That’s what I got from them. :wink:

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Free pizza? I’ll ask sometime…

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Ok, since it is almost 4 am and I am almost the only one on CD right now, I guess I have the bandwidth to step on my digital soap box for a moment.

No, IEEE never gave me free pizza, per say. But, since the IEEE Club meetings at my college had a few people from my Electric Hybrid Car Club as acting members including president, I dropped by the meetings every once in a while.
After their appointed speakers were finished, the meetings usually ended with a pizza and soda party, and since I was a poor college student, of course I hung around for the free food and soda (even if I knew was going to be few minutes late to one of my classes). :smiley:
A slice of pizza and a cup of soda was worth missing a few minutes of a class since I was usually at school for 12 hours a day (or more) anyways.

Oh, and the speeches and lectures were interesting at times too… :slight_smile:

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It’s amazing how much free food you can find at college if you look for it, isn’t it? :stuck_out_tongue: The best time is the fall “mass meeting” season when everybody’s holding big informational meetings with free food. You can go an entire week eating nothing but free pizza from all the mass meetings :stuck_out_tongue: