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CCNC 2005 Demonstrates the Enabling of Pervasive Consumer Communications (16/7/2004)

IEEE 'Consumer Communications and Networking Conference' to Take Place Jan. 3-6, 2005 in Las Vegas

As the demand for networked consumer systems and devices at home, in mobile platforms, at work or at leisure continues to grow rapidly, consumers want on-demand, pervasive applications for wireless, wireline, and power line networked environments. The upcoming IEEE "Consumer Communications and Networking Conference" will address these topics with a special focus on Enabling Pervasive Consumer Communications.

The first "Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC)," held in Jan. 2004, attracted over 335 participants, and the directions taken in CCNC 2005 promise to attract an even greater number of participants!

The Conference will be held at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas from Jan. 3-6, immediately before the 2005 International CES trade show sponsored by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), also to be held in Las Vegas, so one can attend both events very easily. CCNC is an annual conference sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc).

"CCNC 2005 will be a pivotal event for individuals involved in research, development, and the business of consumer communications and networking, says Naohisa Ohta, Ph.D., CCNC 2005 General Chair and Research Director of Sony Corporation's Information Technologies Laboratories in Tokyo. "The directions taken by the Technical Program Committee are outstanding." Sony will be a Premier Patron of CCNC 2005.

Details about CCNC 2005, including announcements for panels, tutorials, posters, proposal submission information and demonstrations are available at http://www.ieee-ccnc.org/ . CCNC 2005's potential topic areas for presentation submission proposals include ad-hoc and sensor networks, body and personal area networks, middleware, networked appliances, and peer-to-peer applications and services.

Paper submissions are due on July 19. The deadline for panel proposals and tutorial descriptions is Sept. 15. Technical experts can present posters and demonstrate prototypes at CCNC 2005; the deadline to submit poster and demonstration proposals is Nov. 15. Don't miss this opportunity to meet and work with your peers, keep up to date, and push the state-of-the-art!

"Comsoc is sponsoring CCNC 2005 in light of the Society's vision and focus to foster and advance original work in communications technologies and to encourage the development of communications applications," added Mr. Ohta. "These consumer communications and networking technologies will focus on today's growing population of internet citizens and the developing strong market for integrated home-networked voice and consumer communications that can interoperate with entertainment devices, home security/surveillance systems, and kitchen appliances, within the mobile environment. A range of consumer networking applications -- from body to personal area networking, to home networking and wide area networking will be discussed."

The communications and consumer electronics industries are embracing this conference. A number of key research and development topics which represent what entrepreneurs, corporations, and universities are aggressively pursuing, will be presented in papers, discussed in panels, and explained in poster sessions and technology demonstrations.

The IEEE Communications Society has over 60,000 members and is the second largest of IEEE's 38 technical societies. Founded in 1952, the IEEE Communications Society has become the major international forum for the exchange of ideas on communications and information networking.

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