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  • abbreviation Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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  • initialism Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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  • The Visible Light Communication Consortum has been investigating this for years, and also efforts in IEEE 802.15.7 and Ecma TC47 are under way to standardize this.

    Scientists Find Way to Turn LED Lights Into Wireless Internet Source | Inhabitat 2010

  • Engineering the Software for Understanding Climate Change Nov 19, 2009 (155 views) Our paper, Engineering the Software for Understanding Climate Change finally appeared today in IEEE ...

    Popular Posts | Serendipity 2010

  • The IEEE is also planning to use the spectrum for its next-generation high-throughput Wi-Fi effort, known as 802. 11ad.

    WiGig Alliance to Push 6 Gbps Wireless in the Home 2009

  • Babbage's microprogram mechanism, from Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1838, Bromley, Allan G., in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol. 20, No. 4, 1998.

    Babbage-Boole Digital Arithmetical and Logical Mill: Part 2 « The Half-Baked Maker 2009

  • IEEE is an international professional group, but is based in the U.S.

    The Shape of the Future 2006

  • Apple Computer developed FireWire which, under the name IEEE 1394, was then taken up by the electronics industry to become the standard device for transfer.

    We Blog A Lot 2009

  • Apple developed FireWire which, under the name IEEE 1394, was then taken up by the electronics industry to become the standard device for transfer.

    We Blog A Lot 2009

  • Apple produced FireWire which, under the name IEEE 1394, was then taken up bythe electronics industry to become the standard device for transfer.

    We Blog A Lot 2009

  • Apple Computer produced FireWire which, under the name IEEE 1394, was then taken up by the electronics industry to become the standard device for transfer.

    We Blog A Lot 2009

  • Apple Computer Inc. developed FireWire which, under the name IEEE

    We Blog A Lot 2009

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