2013-Nov

Karen Bartleson, Senior Director of Community Marketing for Synopsys and President of IEEE Standards Association delivered a keynote address at the IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Workshop on Tuesday, November 6th. Participants included distinguished executives from General Motors, Qualcomm, STMicroelectronics, Marvell, Cisco Systems, Siemens, EMC, Stanford, IEEE, ISTO, Echelon, Continua Health Alliance, GE Global Research […]

In a recent article, Gene Foxwell, a senior web developer for Envision Online, likens an Internet without standards to trying fit a square peg into a round hole. It’s frustrating, time consuming and a lost cause. Foxwell uses an analogy of a child trying to build a structure with both LEGOs and off-brand bricks. Though […]

From all of us at OpenStand, we hope you have a safe and fun Halloween!

IEEE Standards Association held its first annual Symposium on Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Interoperability in Santa Clara, California on October 24th. The one day session featured distinguished guests and speakers from IEEE-SA, Accellera, ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys and TSMC NA. Dr. Konstantinos Karachalios, Managing Director of IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) and Hillel Miller, […]

This week, the Computer & Communication Industry Assocation (CCIA) publicly endorsed OpenStand. The CCIA is an international non-for-profit membership-driven organization dedicated to innovation and enhancing society’s access to information and communications Here is an excerpt from their statement: “The Computer & Communications Industry Association has supported open standards since organizing a meeting among leading tech […]

The following release was issued today by the IEEE Standards Assocation. This release really underscores the importance of open standards and open technology development – principles upon which OpenStand was founded. On the observation of World Standards Day, now is an opportune moment to denote the importance of open standardization processes and the principles of […]

On 29 August 2012, the leaders of IAB, the IEEE Standards Association, the Internet Society, and the W3C signed a statement affirming the importance of a set of principles for the development of global, open standards. These principles have become known as the “OpenStand” principles.  A year later, in the face allegations of interference by some governments in the standards development process, […]

Today, we celebrate World Standards Day by standing with the global technology development community in support of open standards development principles.     This year’s theme, “Standards for a World at Work and Play”, focuses on how standards benefit businesses, governments, and humanity by helping create technologies that are more: – Performant – Efficient – […]

This week marks the celebration of the 2013 World Standards Week.  World Standards Week is dedicated to raising global awareness of the importance of global standardization to the world economy and to promote its role in helping meet the needs of business, industry, government and consumers worldwide.  The week includes World Standards Day on October […]

Next week, the discussion around the future of innovation moves to Europe during Knowledge4Innovation’s (K4I) 5th European Innovation Summit. The Summit will be held at the European Parliament in Brussels from September 30th to October 3rd. K4I writes, “The 5th European Innovation Summit will not only focus on the implementation of the new instruments, but also seek […]