Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
     
        (IEEE) The world's largest technical professional society,
        based in the USA.  Founded in 1884 by a handful of
        practitioners of the new electrical engineering discipline,
        today's Institute has more than 320,000 members who
        participate in its activities in 147 countries.  The IEEE
        sponsors technical conferences, symposia and local meetings
        worldwide, publishes nearly 25% of the world's technical
        papers in electrical, electronics and computer engineering and
        computer science, provides educational programs for its
        members and promotes standardisation.  Areas covered include
        aerospace, computers and communications, biomedical
        technology, electric power and consumer electronics.
     
        {Home (http://www.ieee.org/)}.
        {Gopher (gopher://gopher.ieee.org/)}.
        {(ftp://ftp.ieee.org/)}.
     
        E-mail file-server: .
     
        { IEEE Standards Process Automation (SPA) System
        (http://stdsbbs.ieee.org/)},
        {telnet	(telnet:stdsbbs.ieee.org)} [140.98.1.11].
     
        (1995-03-10)