ISTO Blog Archives

IAN…the Path to IEEE Standardization for Today’s Industry Consortia

by Michelle Hunt, Director, Alliance Management Operations, ISTO As a federation of member programs consisting of consortia, alliances, and trade groups, ISTO offers world class support for collectives involved in standardizing technical solutions which aim to improve technology or development for industry ecosystems. From drafting standards development processes that are open and consensus-based to ensuring strict compliance to processes as a [...]

Donna Ceruto2022-06-23T15:36:07+00:00June 10th, 2022|ISTO Blog|

The Origins of the First Global Telecommunications Standards

Contributed by Bill Rubin, Senior Manager ISTO Every generation gets to interpret its history and technology advances. In the realm of technology, our current generation(s) see the Internet as one of the more transformational technologies humans have created, with the potential to bring widespread benefits across the globe in terms of peace, mutual economic development, and friendship. However, as Tom Standage [...]

Donna Ceruto2022-01-03T23:33:21+00:00December 3rd, 2021|ISTO Blog|

ISTO’s LaSAR Alliance article featured in IEEE Spectrum Magazine

Tiny Lasers Could Finally Bring Us Really Smart AR Glasses Post–Google Glass, a new alliance says it has the winning tech When Google Glass debuted almost a decade ago, augmented reality (AR) wearables seemed poised to take off. Smart glasses let users surf the Internet; access maps, calendars, and other apps; and even call up recipes. Users could simultaneously interact with [...]

Donna Ceruto2021-09-02T18:44:16+00:00September 2nd, 2021|ISTO Blog|

Recognizing Three Program Milestones: OpenCAPI, Zhaga and PWG

ISTO would like to formally congratulate the following programs for their continued success and efforts to develop technologies that remain current/relevant in today’s world. OpenCAPI Consortium – Cheers to 5 Years The OpenCAPI Consortium continues making great strides in releasing specifications. The Consortium released four new specifications and four new engineering notes in addition to two updated specifications. All these documents [...]

Donna Ceruto2023-12-19T18:30:19+00:00August 9th, 2021|ISTO Blog|

How Keyboard Shortcuts for Cut, Copy, and Paste Became Standards

Contributed by Bill Narin, Global Business Development, IEEE-ISTO Hundreds of millions—perhaps billions—of users around the world have the keystrokes command/control x, c, and v encoded in their muscle memories to perform cut, copy and paste operations. How did this happen? The nearly universal adoption of today’s cut, copy and paste keyboard shortcuts is the result of a combination of breakthrough innovations [...]

Donna Ceruto2021-07-06T14:07:43+00:00June 28th, 2021|ISTO Blog|