IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - July 2015 - 2

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eDItorIal boarD
EDITOr
Peter Corcoran
College of Engineering and Informatics
National University of Ireland, Galway
cesmagazine@gmail.com

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SEnIOr EDITOrS
Tom Coughlin
Coughlin Associates
tom@tomcoughlin.com

William Lumpkins
Wi2Wi Inc.
xillia@ieee.org

Stephen Dukes
Imaginary Universes, LLC
stephendukes@frontier.com

Katina Michael
University of Wollongong
katina@uow.edu.au

ASSOCIATE EDITOrS
Petronel Bigioi
FotoNation Ltd.
pbigioi@fotonation.com

Stefan Mozar
Dynexsys Pty Ltd.
s.mozar@ieee.org

Wen-Chung Kao
National Taiwan Normal
University
jungkao@ntnu.edu.tw

Columns & Departments
3 notEs from thE EdItor
8 PrEsIdEnt's mEssagE
11 soCIEty nEws
21 ConfErEnCE rEPorts
29 PuBlICatIons round-uP
31 futurE dIrECtIons
83 IP CornEr
86 BIts VErsus ElECtrons
90 thE art of storagE

Stu Lipoff
IP Action Partners, Inc.
stu@lipoff.org

aDVertIsInG sales
Mark David
Senior Manager Advertising and
Business Development
Tel: +1 732 465 6473
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Managing Editor

95 standards

Geraldine Krolin-Taylor
Senior Managing Editor

97 marKEt-BasEd analysEs

Janet Dudar
Senior Art Director

99 CEa InsIghts

Gail A. Schnitzer
Associate Art Director

101 ProduCt rEVIEws
102 maKEr ProjECts
104 CalEndar

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