The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (CES) is a professional society of the IEEE that focuses on the "theory and practice of Electronic Engineering

Electrical engineering

Electrical engineering is a field of engineering that generally deals with the study and application of electricity, electronics and electromagnetism. The field first became an identifiable occupation in the late nineteenth century after commercialization of the electric telegraph and electrical...

 and of the allied arts and sciences with respect to the field of Consumer Electronics

Consumer electronics

Consumer electronics are electronic equipment intended for everyday use, most often in entertainment, communications and office productivity. Radio broadcasting in the early 20th century brought the first major consumer product, the broadcast receiver...

 and the maintenance of a high professional standing among its members".

History

In 1983, the IEEE Broadcast, Cable and Consumer Electronics Society was broken apart in to two societies, the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society.

Field of Interest

The society's Field of Interest includes "the consumer related aspects of leisure, video, and audio electronics; home information and communications systems, and interactive information and display systems. Products included in, but not limited to, these categories are receivers and video signal

Composite video

Composite video is the format of an analog television signal before it is combined with a sound signal and modulated onto an RF carrier. In contrast to component video it contains all required video information, including colors in a single line-level signal...

 generation and distribution, projection TV, still and motion electronics cameras, Advanced TV Systems, consumer computing hardware

Computer hardware

Personal computer hardware are component devices which are typically installed into or peripheral to a computer case to create a personal computer upon which system software is installed including a firmware interface such as a BIOS and an operating system which supports application software that...

 and software, home bus control/security systems, telephones and accessories, electronic games and toys, digital audio

Digital audio

Digital audio is sound reproduction using pulse-code modulation and digital signals. Digital audio systems include analog-to-digital conversion , digital-to-analog conversion , digital storage, processing and transmission components...

 systems, home health care

Home care

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 electronic devices, home and mobile audio/communications systems, and music electronics".

Publications

The IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers is a non-profit professional association headquartered in New York City that is dedicated to advancing technological innovation and excellence...

 CES produces a number of publications, including:

• IEEE Transactions of Consumer Electronics
• IEEE Transactions on Haptics
• IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games
• IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development
• Consumer Electronics Society's Newsletter

Conferences

The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society sponsors a number of internationally recognized conferences that focus on the consumer electronics field of interest.

• The International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) is the society's primary annual event. Every year the conference is hold in Las Vegas, just after the Consumer Electronics Show
  Consumer Electronics Show
  The International Consumer Electronics Show is a major technology-related trade show held each January in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Not open to the public, the Consumer Electronics Association-sponsored show typically hosts previews of products and new...
  
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• The International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE) is also an annual event typically organized by the society's international chapters.
• The International IEEE Consumer Electronics Society's Games Innovations Conference (ICE-GIC) aims to be a platform for innovative research in games technologies and to make thesetechnologies moreaccessible to academia and industry.

Councils

The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society is a proud member of two IEEE councils:

• IEEE Biometrics Council
• IEEE Technical Committee on RFID

Chapters

The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society currently has 20 chapters spread all over the world:

• Chicago
• Dallas
• Eindhoven(Benelux)
• Hong Kong
• Taiwan
• Ottawa
• Philadelphia
• Princeton(Joint Communications and Consumer Electronics Chapter)
• Russia Northwest (JointBroadcast Technology, Consumer Electronics and Communications Chapter)
• Seoul
• Silicon Valley
• Singapore
• Tokyo
• Kansai
• United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland (Joint Consumer Electronics and BroadcastTechnology Chapter)
• Malaysia
• Beijing
• San Fernando Valley
• San Diego
• Germany

Awards

The IEEE Consumer Electronics Society awards the following IEEE distinctions:

• The Ibuka Technical Field Award
• The Early Career Award
• TAB Awards:
  • Chester W Sall Memorial Awards
  • Outstanding Service Award
  • Significant Achievement Award