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7 October 2016	James A. Jefferies Selected as 2017 IEEE President-Elect James A. Jefferies, AT&T and Lucent Technologies (retired) has been selected as the 2017 IEEE President-Elect.
18 August 2016	IEEE Xplore® Digital Library Reaches 4 Million Documents as Pace of Technical Contributions Accelerates The IEEE Xplore digital library, one of the world’s largest collections of technical literature in engineering, computer science, and related technologies, recently reached a milestone with a total of over 4 million documents now available in its vast repository.
1 August 2016	IEEE Publishes 2017 National Electrical Safety Code® (NESC®) IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) today announced the release of the 2017 National Electrical Safety Code (NESC).
26 July 2016	IEEE Journals Sustain High Rankings in Newest Citation Reports IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, has maintained its position as one of the top publishers of science and technology journals.
29 June 2016	IEEE Experts Driven by Unconventional Inspiration Advance Technologies to Benefit Humanity Members within IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, are incorporating outside technologies and ideas to drive innovation in a range of robotic fields such as disaster response and medical and biomechanical engineering.
3 June 2016	Celebrating the 2016 IEEE Honors Ceremony recipients The achievements of IEEE Life Fellow G. David Forney, Jr. will be recognized with the IEEE Medal of Honor during the IEEE Honors Ceremony on 18 June in New York City, NY, USA. The event will be streamed live on IEEE.tv beginning at 7:00 p.m. ET (19:00 UTC-04).
19 May 2016	IEEE Standards in Interactive HTML Now Available in IEEE Xplore^® IEEE Xplore Digital Library subscribers now have access to over 1,000 IEEE standards in HTML format, for a more engaging and interactive reading experience.
17 May 2016	A New Challenge for Makers, Inventors and Tinkerers: IEEE Announces Start of Annual Maker Project Competition A new opportunity for the innovative, creative, and curious maker to transform problems into technology solutions has opened. IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced the annual IEEE Maker Project Competition, welcoming innovators and tech enthusiasts to battle it out for great prizes and the chance to work with an IEEE member.
29 April 2016	IEEE Acquires GlobalSpec and the Engineering360 Platform from IHS to Create Powerful New Resource for the Global Engineering Community IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced the acquisition of GlobalSpec, a leading source of news, data and analytics for the global engineering and technical community including the widely known brand name Engineering360.
4 April 2016	Congratulations to IEEE President-Elect Karen Bartleson, Appointed to the US Commerce Department’s Digital Economy Board of Advisors IEEE congratulates IEEE President-Elect Karen Bartleson on being one of 17 industry experts appointed to serve on the US Commerce Department’s Digital Economy Board of Advisors, which will provide recommendations on ways to advance economic growth and opportunity in the digital age.
17 March 2016	It’s Not All About the Benjamins: IEEE Global Cybersecurity Survey Reveals Death of Cash by 2030 IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, today announced the findings of an online survey that detail more than 1,900 technology enthusiasts’ views on digital safety and the future of cybersecurity.
4 March 2016	IEEE Adds Altmetric Badges to IEEE Xplore^® Digital Library to Enable Authors and Editors to Track Online Attention for Research Articles Altmetrics data provider Altmetric and IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity, announce the integration of Altmetric badge visualizations and related data into the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, which is home to over 3.8 million scholarly documents.
29 February 2016	IEEE Access Accepted into Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded IEEE Access, an award-winning, open-access multidisciplinary journal published by IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization advancing technology for humanity, has been accepted into the Thomson Reuters Science Citation Index Expanded.
15 February 2016	IEEE and IP.com Collaborate to Launch Innovation Discovery and Analytics Tool: InnovationQ Plus IEEE, the world's largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, and IP.com, a global leader in intellectual property solutions, have collaborated to launch InnovationQ Plus.
15 January 2016	IEEE Survey at CES Reveals: I Can See Clearly Now That Viewers Are Gone At CES 2016, IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, conducted a survey that asked booth visitors to answer a range of questions regarding the future of AR/VR technology.