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Ted Williams Award Named in honor of Ted Williams, an industry innovator, collaborator, and long-time member of the AIM Global Technical Symbology Committee, this award, created in 2007, is presented annually to a professor or student in recognition of innovative and exceptional contributions to the development of the Automatic Identification and Mobility industry that can further the growth of the industry through their work as a teacher, researcher or entrepreneur.  This year’s recipient is Dr. Pui Yi Lau (Anna), CTO and CEO of Laxcen Technology Inc/Laxcen Technology Pte Ltd. She is an expert on hybrid EM/RAIN RFID systems and antenna designs and holds a number of international/regional patents. Aside from her

Call for Nominations for IEEE Council on RFID Officer Positions (2022-2023). We are looking for the best people from a variety of backgrounds, with a strong desire, enthusiasm and willingness to serve the Council. We particularly encourage the suggestion of candidates who have previously served in roles that support publications, conferences, or membership and chapter activities.  As in previous years, we strive to balance the representation of elected members with regards to demographics and diversity. Diversity is important and please keep this in mind in terms of geography, gender, industry/Govt/academia, experience, young professionals, etc.   Nominations for the following officer positions are now open: President Elect VP Conferences VP Member Services

IEEE WPT Student Design Competition in the framework of WPW2022 which will be held in Bordeaux (France) on July 4-9, 2022 it is now opened the call for proposal for a student design competition. Please engage your students to team up and participate to this competition, we are still open to receive expression of interest. Purpose To encourage young generations to join the research and development of WPT (Wireless Power Transfer) technologies. To demonstrate the WPT capabilities for promoting public acceptance and practical applications of WPT systems. Participants Teams can include undergraduate and/or postgraduate students. High school students may also join in special cases. Staff members can only serve as advisors. Procedure

The digital twins (DT) and parallel intelligence recently play a central technological role in the emerging global scientific and research communities on intelligent systems. Taking place in Beijing, China, DTPI 2021 aims to bring together academic scholars and industrial practitioners to share in scientific and technological advances as well as to gain a deeper understanding of the digital twins generating real-virtual system interactions and resulting in parallel intelligence. DTPI’s particular topics also include various vertical applications of DTPI, including industrial Internet, transportation, energy, robotics, manufacturing, healthcare, etc. The conference program, scheduled from July 15 through August 15 in 2021, will showcase the state-of-the-art of the theoretical development and application practice

IEEE CRFID is proud to announce its role as technical media sponsor for the hybrid SpliTech 2021 conference (https://2021.splitech.org) in Croatia, 8-11 September 2021.  Select video content from the conference will be curated on the IEEE CRFID resource center and a special issue of IEEE JRFID will be offered for expanded works presented at the conference.  Check out their special workshop on RFID (https://2021.splitech.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/flyer1-1.pdf).   We look forward to continuing this valuable partnership with a conference working in the mutual areas of interest such as RFID, Smart Cities, e-Health, and IoT.