IEEE PELS/IES Spanish Chapter Holds WiE-IES Workshop [Society News]

About the Israeli Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society

The Israeli Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society has taken on the goal of promoting computer and software technology in Israel through study, research, and application. One of the distinctive features of the Israeli hi-tech industry is not only the sheer number of start-ups but also the large proportion of start-ups run by repeat entrepreneurs. It is instructive to compare America and Israel. I...

Workshop on Internet Economics ( WIE 2015 ) Report

On December 16-17 2015, we hosted the 5th interdisciplinary Workshop on Internet Economics (WIE) at the UC San Diego’s Supercomputer Center. This workshop series provides a forum for researchers, Internet facilities and service providers, technologists, economists, theorists, policy makers, and other stakeholders to inform current and emerging regulatory and policy debates. The FCC’s latest ope...

2017 IEEE Medal of Honor Awarded to CE Society Member [Society News]

Spanish broadcast news transcription

We describe the Sail Labs Media Mining System (MMS) aimed at the transcription of Castilian Spanish broadcastnews. In contrast to previous systems, the focus of this system is on Spanish as spoken on the Iberian Peninsula as opposed to the Americas. We discuss the development of a Castilian Spanish broadcast-news corpus suitable for training the various system components of the MMS and report o...

Spanish Society of Pharmacology Spanish Society of Pharmacology