With nearly 85,000 members, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) is the world’s leading organization of computing professionals. CS is dedicated to advancing the theory, and application, of computer and information-processing technology.

Established: 1946
Members: 85,000
2009 CS Member Dues: US$25.00*

Computer Society e-Learning Campus
The e-Learning campus provides free, easy access to online learning courses available to IEEE Computer Society members. Additional resources are either included in your membership or offered at a special discount price to members.

Online Courses
● Over 3,000 technical courses available online, representing more than 10,000 hours of professional development training.

Online Books/Technical Papers
● Over 1,000 premier books and papers to which CS members have free access to

Digital Library
● The Computer Society Digital Library provides decades of authoritative peer-reviewed research at your fingertips: magazines, journals, conference proceedings and more.

Certifications
● CSDP (Certified Software Development Professional)
● CSDA (Certified Software Development Associate)

Free access to selections from Safari Books Online

Safari’s Essential Tech and Business Library includes technical online books from O’Reilly Media (founded by Tim O’Reilly who is widely credited with coining the term Web 2.0) and other leading publishers such as Addison-Wesley and Cisco Press.

Available Wireless titles include:
● CCIE Professional Development Series Network Security Technologies and Solutions

● Broadband Network Architectures: Designing and Deploying Triple-Play Services

● RFID Security

● Wireless Communication Systems: Advanced

Participate in Standards Working Groups helping to advance the theory and practice of computing and information processing science and technology.

Active working groups in wireless technology include:

● IEEE 802.11 Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN)

● IEEE 802.15 Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN)

● IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access

● IEEE 802.20 Mobile Broadband Wireless Access

● IEEE 802.22 Wireless Regional Area Networks

The IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) is a leading global community with 45,000 members worldwide. ComSoc has become the premier international forum for the exchange of ideas on communications technologies and information networking.

Established: 1952
Members: 45,000
2009 ComSoc Member Dues: US$21.00* or US$13.00* with Communications Magazine digital delivery only.

Vendor-neutral and trans-national in scope, the IEEE Wireless Communication Engineering Technologies (WCET) certification program's focus is explicitly on the knowledge and on-the-job experience that a practicing wireless communications professional needs to clearly demonstrate expertise in today’s work force. Exams are given in the Spring and Fall.

ComSoc members receive discounted pricing.

Take your skill and knowledge to the next level with IEEE Communications Society professional education channels. The enhanced tutorial program presents a collection of tutorials given by international experts at recent ComSoc sponsored events. Special member pricing is available for half-day or full-day tutorials through the Communications Society website.

Recent Tutorials
● Commercial Wireless Networking: Creating a Tactical Internet Capability with Commercial Technology

● MIMO Systems for Wireless Communications IEEE 801.11n: Throughput, Robustness, and Reliability Enhancements to WLANs

ComSoc Digital Library

Designed for members who prefer online access to ComSoc's technical leterature. IEEE Wireless Communications magazine is one of 7 core IEEE Communications Society Periodicals. A bimonthly magazine, this covers technical and policy issues related to wireless, personal, location-independent communication in all media, and at all protocol layers.

With conference proceedings and periodical legacy data back to 1953, the ComSoc Digital Library contains over 60,000 papers.

Learn about cutting-edge technologies at IEEE Communications Society sponsored global conferences. ComSoc members receive the highest discounted registration fees to these key industry events.

● IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (IEEE WNCN)

● IEEE/AFCEA Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)

● International IEEE Conference on RFID

The Signal Processing Society is a dynamic organization that is the preeminent source of signal processing information and resources to a global community.

Established: 1948
Members:15,000
2009 SP Member Dues: US$14.50*

IEEE-SPS is working with the open-access repository project Connexions on a major initiative to develop a critical mass of signal processing educational modules and courses that will be available for free access by anyone, anywhere, at any time.

Available content on the wireless topic include:
● CSLS Workshop on Trends in Wireless Communication

● Wireless and Communication Technologies (Wimax, WLAN, ZigBee)

● The Capacity Demand for Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems

● The Capacity in Wireless Communication Systems

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

The Transactions on Signal Processing is an internationally-subscribed monthly journal which publishes advances in the theory and application of signal processing. Recent articles related to the wireless field include:

● Coded cooperation in wireless communications: space-time transmission and iterative decoding

● Zero-forcing methods for downlink spatial multiplexing in multiuser MIMO channels

IEEE Signal Processing Society sponsors global conferences aimed at bringing together some of the most extraordinary people in the field. SP members receive discounted registration fees to key industry events such as:

● IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communication (SPAWC)

● IEEE International Conference of Acoustics Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)

● IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)