Report of Industry Liaison Committee 1/5 Member List:

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Report of Industry Liaison Committee 1/5
Member List
Delegation of Name E-mail Affiliation
(Chair) Isao Shirakawa sirakawa_at_ai.u-hyogo.ac.jp Professor, University of Hyogo
Australia David Skellern david.skellern_at_nicta.com.au CEO, National ICT Australia
China Jiunn Carl Hsu jcarlhsu_at_yahoo.com Professor, Peking University
Hong Kong S W Cheng sw.cheung_at_hkstp.org Vice President, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park
India S. Sasi Kumar sasi.kumar_at_nestgroup.net President, NeST Group Company
Japan Ikuo Nishioka nishioka_at_mickk.com President CEO, Mobile Internet Capital, Inc.
Korea Byung-Chang Kang bckang_at_samsung.com Lab Director, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
Singapore Fan Ma Fan-Yung.Ma_at_infineon.com Principal, Infineon Technologies
Taiwan Bao-Shuh Paul Lin bplin_at_itri.org.tw Vice President, Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan
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Report of
Industry Liaison Committee 2/5

• Visions
• Promote IEEE activities of the industry.
• Enhance academia-industry collaboration to
  perform real-time knowledge-sharing dedicatedly
  for R D.
• Create benefits for academia-industry partnership
  to achieve innovations.
• Activities
• Establish awards for companies and
  academia-industry partnership
• - IEEE Region 10 Milestone Award
• for outstanding technical achievement.
• - IEEE Region 10 Academia-Industry
  Partnership Award
• for outstanding academia-industry
  collaboration which has
• contributed to revolutionary technology
  progress.

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Report of Industry Liaison Committee 3/5

• (1) IEEE Region 10 Milestone Award
• The IEEE Milestones in Electrical
  Engineering and Computing Program recognizes
  achievements in all IEEE fields. Currently there
  are more than 60 Milestones around the World,
  among which the number of Milestones in Region 10
  is only six, as follows. 

Sendai Section Directive Short Wave Antenna, 1924 (June 1995)
Tokyo Section Mount Fuji Radar System, 1964 (March 2000)
Nagoya Section Tokaido Shinkansen (Bullet Train) 1964 (July 2000)
Tokyo Section Electronic Quartz Wristwatch, 1969
Tokyo Section Development of VHS, World Standard of Home VTR, 1976
Kansai Section Pioneering Work on Electronic Calculators, 1964-1973
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Report of Industry
Liaison Committee 4/5

• The necessity for an achievement to be an IEEE
  Milestone is
• - it must be at least 25 years old,
• - it must have involved a unique solution to
  an engineering problem, and
• - it must have had at least regional impact.
• The necessity for the Region 10 Milestone Award
• will be
• - it must be at least 20 years old,
• - it must have involved a unique solution to an
  engineering problem, and
• - it must have had at least regional impact.
• Budget 1,500 US

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Report
of Industry Liaison Committee 5/5

• (2) IEEE Region 10 Academia-Industry Partnership
  Award for outstanding academia-industry
  collaboration which has contributed to
  revolutionary technology progress.
• Although our Committee is now discussing
  the details of this Award, we would like to
  encourage Sections and Councils to seek such
  candidates.
• Budget 1.500 US