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IEEE et le logiciel libreJean-Gabriel
REMYIEEE Region 8 Director 2007 - 2008
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IEEE Organization
MEMBERS
Board of Directors
Assembly
PSPB
IEEE-USA
Standards Assoc.
Educational Act.
Regional Act.
Technical Act.
Executive Comm.
Regions Sections
Societies Tech. Councils
Staff Society Executive Directors
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Geographic Technical Unit Relationship
Geographic Unit Structure
Technical Activities Board
Parents - WIE, Consultants, GOLD, LMC
IEEE Societies
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IEEE, January 2007

• Over 365,000 members in over 150 countries
• almost 41 percent of whom are from outside the
  United States.
• Over 80,000 student members.
• Over 27,000 society affiliates.
• 319 sections
• Over 1,570 Technical Chapters
• More than 1,500 student branches in 80 countries.
• More than 390 student branch chapters.
• 252 Affinity Groups
• 39 societies and 5 technical councils

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IEEE Membership By Region31 December 2006
R7 16,020
R1 to 6 215,851
R10 67,442
R1 38,617 R2 33,054 R3 30,615 R4
23,982 R5 29,444 R6 60,139
R8 60,856
R9 14,598
TOTAL MEMBERSHIP 374,767
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IEEE Vision

• To Advance Global Prosperity By
• Fostering Technological Innovation
• Promoting IEEE Communities, World-Wide
• Enabling Members Careers

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Foster Technological Innovation

• IEEE conferences
• Over 350 conferences per year held worldwide
• 110,000 plus participants
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• Over 30 of the world's literature in electrical
  and electronics engineering and computer science
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• IEEE standards
• More than 890 currently active standards
  published under the IEEE Standards Board.
• IEEE Standards Association has more than 8,350
  individual and almost 60 corporate members

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Electronic ServicesMember/Customer

• Members can have a total electronic experience
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IEEE Publications

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• http//www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/pubs.html

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IEEE Standards Association

• IEEE-SA formed in 1996
• World leader in the development and dissemination
  of voluntary, consensus-based industry standards
  involving today's leading-edge electrotechnologies
  
• More than 880 active standards
• 30,000 volunteers in standards working groups
• Supports international standardization and
  encourages the development of globally accepted
  standards
• IEEE Standards Online
• Nearly 8,350 individual and 60 corporate members
• http//standards.ieee.org/

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Le logiciel libre proposé par lIEEE

• LIEEE soutient un standard logiciel POSIX
• POSIX est le nom d'une famille de standards
  définie depuis 1988 par l'IEEE et formellement
  désignée IEEE 1003. Ces standards ont émergé d'un
  projet de standardisation des APIs des logiciels
  destinés à fonctionner sur des variantes du
  système d'exploitation UNIX.
• Le terme POSIX a été suggéré par Richard Stallman
  en réponse à la demande de l'IEEE d'un nom
  facilement mémorisable. C'est un acronyme de
  Portable Operating System Interface, dont le X
  exprime l'héritage UNIX de l'API.

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Le logiciel libre proposé par lIEEE

• POSIX spécifie dans près de 15 documents
  différents les interfaces utilisateurs et les
  interfaces logicielles. La ligne de commande
  standard et l'interface de script est le Korn
  shell.
• Les autres commandes, services et utilitaires
  comprennent awk, echo, ed, et des centaines
  d'autres.
• Les services d'entrées/sorties de base (fichiers,
  terminaux, réseau) doivent être présents.
• POSIX définit aussi une API standard pour les
  bibliothèques de threading qui est prise en
  charge par la plupart des systèmes d'exploitation
  récents.

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Le logiciel libre proposé par lIEEE

• Une suite de tests pour POSIX accompagne le
  standard. Il est appelé PCTS (POSIX Conformance
  Test Suite, Suite de tests pour la conformité
  POSIX).
• Bien qu'il soit principalement implémenté sur des
  systèmes de type UNIX, le standard POSIX peut
  être utilisé par n'importe quel autre système
  d'exploitation. Par exemple, Microsoft Windows NT
  est conforme à POSIX.1, ce qui est suffisant pour
  des programmes POSIX relativement simples.
• Cependant, des programmes plus complexes ont
  besoin d'une compatibilité plus grande. Des
  logiciels supplémentaires tels que Windows
  Services for UNIX ou Cygwin peuvent apporter à
  Windows ce niveau de compatibilité.

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Le logiciel libre proposé par lIEEE

• Une grande partie des API de POSIX ont été
  définies à une époque où l'adressage des machines
  se faisait sur 32 bits au maximum. Pour cette
  raison, les fichiers POSIX ne pouvaient dépasser
  2 Go. En effet, le standard précisait que la
  position d'un octet de fichier par rapport à la
  position courante était contenue dans un entier
  signé de 32 bits.

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Le logiciel libre proposé par lIEEE

• Le consortium Linux Standard Base publie
  plusieurs extensions et des standards de fait
  pour les systèmes d'exploitation basés sur Linux.
  Malheureusement, elles sont peu susceptibles
  d'être reprises par les autres systèmes de type
  UNIX, qui respectent d'autres standards plus
  anciens, bien que dans de nombreux cas la Linux
  Standard Base reprenne ces derniers.

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Back-up and complements

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IEEE Divisions

• I Circuits and Devices
• II Industrial Applications
• III Communications Technology
• IV Electromagnetics and Radiation
• V Computer
• VI Engineering Human Environment
• VII Energy and Power Engineering
• VIII Computer
• IX Signals and Applications
• X Systems and Control

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IEEE Societies and Councils (1)

• IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems
• IEEE Antennas and Propagation
• IEEE Broadcast Technology
• IEEE Circuits and Systems
• IEEE Communications
• IEEE Components, Packaging, Manufacturing
  Technology
• IEEE Computational Intelligence
• IEEE Computer
• IEEE Consumer Electronics
• IEEE Control Systems
• IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
• IEEE Education

• IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility
• IEEE Electron Devices
• IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation
• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology
• IEEE Engineering Management Council
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
• IEEE Industrial Electronics
• IEEE Industry Applications
• IEEE Information Theory
• IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement

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IEEE Societies and Councils (2)

• IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems
• IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics
• IEEE Magnetics
• IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques
• IEEE Nanotechnology Council
• IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences
• IEEE Oceanic Engineering
• IEEE Power Electronics
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• IEEE Product Safety Engineering
• IEEE Professional Communication

• IEEE Reliability
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• IEEE Sensors Council
• IEEE Signal Processing
• IEEE Social Implications of Technology
• IEEE Solid-State Circuits
• IEEE Council on Superconductivitiy
• IEEE Systems Council
• IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
• IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency
  Control
• IEEE Vehicular Technology

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IEEE Conferences

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  (http//www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/)
• http//www.ieee.org/conferences/

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IEEEs POSIX

• POSIX or "Portable Operating System Interface for
  uniX" is the collective name of a family of
  related standards specified by the IEEE to define
  the application programming interface (API) for
  software compatible with variants of the Unix
  operating system
• Originally, the name stood for IEEE Std
  1003.1-1988, which as the name suggests, was
  released in 1988. The family of POSIX standards
  is formally designated as IEEE 1003 and the
  international standard name is ISO/IEC 9945. The
  standards emerged from a project that began near
  1985. The term POSIX was suggested by Richard
  Stallman in response to an IEEE request for a
  memorable name before that the standards effort
  was called IEEE-IX.

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IEEEs POSIX

• POSIX specifies the user and software interfaces
  to the OS in some 15 different documents. The
  standard user command line and scripting
  interface was based on the Korn shell. Other
  user-level programs, services and utilities
  include awk, echo, ed, and hundreds of others.
  Required program-level services include basic I/O
  (file, terminal, and network) services.
• POSIX also defines a standard threading library
  API which is supported by most modern operating
  systems.

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IEEEs POSIX

• Currently POSIX documentation is divided in three
  parts
•                      POSIX Kernel APIs (which
  include extensions for POSIX.1, Real-time
  Services, Threads Interface, Real-time
  Extensions, Security Interface, Network File
  Access and Network Process-to-Process
  Communications)
•                      POSIX Commands and
  Utilities (with User Portability Extensions,
  Corrections and Extensions, Protection and
  Control Utilities and Batch System Utilities)
•                      POSIX Conformance Testing
• A test suite for POSIX accompanies the standard.
  It is called PCTS or the POSIX Conformance Test
  Suite.

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IEEEs POSIX

•   POSIX.1, Core Services (incorporates Standard
  ANSI C)
• o                          Process Creation and
  Control
• o                          Signals
• o                          Floating Point
  Exceptions
• o                          Segmentation
  Violations
• o                          Illegal Instructions
• o                          Bus Errors
• o                          Timers
• o                          File and Directory
  Operations
• o                          Pipes
• o                          C Library (Standard C)
  
• I/O Port Interface and Control

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IEEEs POSIX

• POSIX.1b, Real-time extensions
• o          Priority Scheduling
• o          Real-Time Signals
• o          Clocks and Timers
• o          Semaphores
• o          Message Passing
• o          Shared Memory
• o          Asynch and Synch I/O
• Memory Locking

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IEEEs POSIX

• POSIX.1c, Threads extensions
• o   Thread Creation, Control, and Cleanup
• o   Thread Scheduling
• o   Thread Synchronization
• Signal Handling

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IEEEs POSIX

• These are POSIX compatible, they conform to it
  fully
•                      A/UX
•                      BlagOS
•                      BSD/OS
•                      AIX
•                      HP-UX
•                      velOSity
•                      INTEGRITY
•                      Irix
•                      LynxOS
•                      Mac OS X

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IEEEs POSIX

• These are POSIX compatible, they conform to it
  fully
•                      MINIX
•                      OpenVMS
•                      penOS
•                      QNX
•                      RTEMS (POSIX 1003.1-2003
  Profile 52)
•                      Solaris
• o                     OpenSolaris
•                      UnixWare
•                      VxWorks
•                      NT kernel (used in Windows
  NT, 2000, 2003 XP, Vista)
•                      

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IEEEs POSIX

• These are POSIX compatible, they conform to it
  fully
• o   Windows NT (except optional POSIX features)
• o   Windows 2000 Server or Professional with
  Service Pack 3 or later (When using Microsoft SFU
  3.5). To be POSIX compliant, one must activate
  optional features of Windows NT and Windows
  Server.
• o    Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 1
  or later (When using Microsoft SFU 3.5)
• o    Windows Server 2003 (When using Microsoft
  Windows Services for UNIX 3.5)
• o     Windows Vista (the Enterprise and Ultimate
  editions include a Microsoft Windows Services for
  UNIX subsystem for UNIX programs)

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IEEEs POSIX

• These are not officially certified as POSIX
  compatible, but they conform to it mostly.
•                      Nucleus RTOS
•                      FreeBSD
•                      Linux (most distributions)
•                      NetBSD
•                      OpenBSD
•                      SkyOS
•                      Syllable
•                      VSTa

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IEEEs POSIX

• These are not officially certified as POSIX
  compatible, but they conform to it mostly, by
  implementing POSIX support via some sort of
  compatibility feature, usually translation
  libraries, or a layer atop the kernel. Without
  this feature, they are usually noncompliant.
•                      eCos - POSIX is part of
  standard distribution, and used by many
  applications.
•                      Plan 9 from Bell Labs APE -
  ANSI/POSIX Environment
•                      Symbian OS with PIPS (PIPS
  Is POSIX on Symbian)

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IEEEs POSIX