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hosted by Tom Coughlin, an IEEE WIE
workshop led by CE Society President
Peng, and a presentation by the VR
First group, chaired by Alexander Huhn.
VR First is an organization helping to set
up virtual reality (VR) laboratories in
universities by providing headsets (one of
the current limitations) and a development
platform so universities can supply industry with sufficient graduates qualified in
VR technologies.
A further special session consisted of papers contributed by the IEEE
Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)
Society, thanks to a collaboration between Stefan Mozar, the father of
ICCE-Berlin, and the EMC Society's
Matthias Tröscher.

INTeRDISCIPLINARY FLAVOR

One speaker gave a
tantalizing preview of
what the guests could
expect to witness on the
following day's excursion
to the TiME-Lab and the
3IT Innovation Center for
Immersive Imaging
Technologies.
President Peng then concluded the
speeches with thanks to all volunteers
who generously gave their time to serve,
and whose efforts were integral to the
success of ICCE-Berlin 2016.

CE comes into contact with almost every
other IEEE Society and Council, and the
CE field of interest has expanded at an
astonishing rate, with new areas-such
as connected and autonomous vehicles,
mobile devices and applications, medical
devices and health care-all contributing
to blur the boundaries of any one country
or region to create a global community
of users defined by CE. Therefore, we
were pleased to serve up plenty of crossdisciplinary flavor. For example, in her
keynote, Carolyn McGregor described
work at the intersection of signal processing, wearable technology, and the
life sciences, and Tom Coughlin's keynote on digital storage developments in
the automotive industry wove in relevant

SOCIAL AND NeTWORKING
ASPeCTS
In addition to regular networking breaks
between sessions, there were two elaborate social events. The first was a welcoming reception on the opening evening
in the conference venue, at which General Cochair Hepper addressed the delegates. He concluded his remarks with an
appeal to promote world peace through
understanding and mutual respect, suggesting that we in the CE community
could contribute to that goal by both welcoming and strengthening ties with our
international guests.
On the second evening, we were
treated to a delicious conference banquet
at the charming Seehof Hotel, close to
the Messe Berlin showground. This
allowed for time to mix and mingle with
other delegates and enjoy a good German meal washed down with delicious
local beer.
Then, General Cochair and Treasurer
Hans Cycon was handed the microphone
and asked to reflect on the 2016 conference. After thanking the student helpers
who had assisted him with local arrangements, Prof. Cycon drew our attention to
the fact that the ICCE-Berlin anniversary we were celebrating was number
six-a magic number, as it is both the
sum and the multiple of its primes 1, 2,
3. He speculated as to whether we would
celebrate anniversaries of the next such
magic numbers in this sequence (clue:
large numbers).

The banquet at the cozy Seehof Hotel.

(From left) Tom Wilson, José-María Flores Arias, Christian Brauers, and Wolfgang
Endemann step up to the podium during the Best Paper Award ceremony.

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