IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - July 2017 - 3

Notes from the Editor

Information Security and
IP Protection Are Increasingly
Critical in the Current
Global Context
By Saraju P. Mohanty

will start with the big news for IEEE
Consumer Electronics Magazine: our
publication has been indexed in Clarivate Analytics (formerly Intellectual
Property and Science of Thomson
Reuters). This is a big achievement, and
it will attract further high-quality content. I am also glad to announce that our
magazine was a winner in the Regional
2016 Society for Technical Communications (STC) Technical Communication
Awards. The STC Technical Communication Awards competition was hosted
by the New York Metro, Philadelphia
Metro, Atlanta, and Rochester Chapters
of the STC. The STC Technical Communication Award continues to be the most
coveted award in technical communications today. It may be noted that IEEE
Consumer Electronics Magazine won an
Apex Grand Award for excellence in
writing in 2013. Overall, the magazine is
emerging as an excellent, globally visible
periodical for the IEEE through the IEEE
Consumer Electronics (CE) Society.
During the International Conference
on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) 2017
in Las Vegas, various awards were presented. I wish my hearty congratulations to all of the winners.
1) The Outstanding Service Award of
the CE Society: Peter Corcoran re-

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Date of publication: 14 June 2017

Our publication has been
indexed in Clarivate Analytics (formerly Intellectual
Property and Science of
Thomson Reuters).
ceived this award for serving as the
first editor-in-chief of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine.
2) The Chester Sall Memorial Award:
The CE Society presents the Chester
W. Sall Memorial Awards to recognize the best papers published in this
magazine's sister periodical, IEEE
Transactions on Consumer Electronics. The winners included:
▼ First Place Tie: "PVR System Design of Advanced Video Navigation
Reinforced with Audible Sound" by
Onno Eerenberg, Ronald M. Aarts,
and Peter H.N. de With, vol. 60,
no. 4, November 2014, pp. 681-689
▼ First Place Tie: "Robust Obstacle
Detection Method for Robotic
Vacuum Cleaners" by Mun-Cheon
Kang, Kwang-Shik Kim, Dong-Ki
Noh, Jong-Woo Han, and Sung-Jea
Ko, vol. 60, no. 4, November 2014,
pp. 587-595
▼ Third Place: "Obstacle Avoidance
Routing Scheme Through Optimal
Sink Movement for Home Monitoring and Mobile Robotic Consumer

Devices" by Prasenjit Chanak, Indrajit Banerjee, Jin Wang, and R. Simon
Sherratt, vol. 60, no. 4, November
2014, pp. 596-604.
3) The Ibuka Award: This award, for
"pioneering contributions to highspeed wireless LAN technology,"
was given to John O'Sullivan, Taggle
Systems, Everleigh, Australia; David
Skellern, Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC)
Ltd., Sydney, Australia; and Terence
Percival, Broadband and the Digital
Economy, National ICT Australia
(NICTA), Northbridge, Australia. The
award, which is conferred by the IEEE
for outstanding contributions to CE
technology, was named in honor of
the cofounder and honorary chair of
the Sony Corporation, Masaru Ibuka.

CHOICE OF CONFERENCES
In the January 2017 issue of the magazine, I expressed my opinion on various
forms of publications such as periodicals
and conference proceedings. In this issue,
I will discuss IEEE financially sponsored conferences versus IEEE technically cosponsored conferences in the
interest of researchers. It is important for
authors who are interested in publishing
and presenting their results in these conferences to be aware of this distinction. A
conference can be financially sponsored,
technically cosponsored, or not sponsored by any professional Society (like
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