Institute Of Electrical And Electronics Engineers

Better known as the IEEE; a professional society of (as the name suggests) electrical engineers. (The society has been around a while, the name suggests a dichotomy between those EEs which use semiconductors and those which don't; a dichotomy that hardly exists these days). Also includes many computer science professionals among its ranks.

http://computer.org/ (which you might think would lead you to the AssociationForComputingMachinery)

http://ieee.org/

Among the activities of the IEEE are publication of numerous academic journals on all sorts of topics; development and promulgation of technical standards, including

• the IeeeSevenFiftyFour floating point standard we all know and love, and the NumericalAnalysis community can't stand,
• the Centronics (IEEE-1284) and FireWire (IEEE-1394) interfaces,
• 802.11 wireless communication standards
• etc.

topics that you might not think of as "electrical"

IEEE has publications on

• biomedical engineering (engineering in medicine and biology)
• WWII http://ieee-virtual-museum.org/
• geoscience and remote sensing
• information theory, including source coding, data compression and quantization
• professional communication

Recent events

Recently announced a policy of refusing to accept papers from nationals of certain alleged "terrorist" states (including Cuba, which hasn't engaged in any terrorism that I can recall). This has, to put it mildly, been quite controversial. IEEE claims that this is necessary to comply with US laws; however, no other US-based standards body or professional society of IEEE's stature has followed suit. See http://www.shameonieee.org/.

As a shortcut to this page, you can use IeeeSociety.