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IEEE-USA Applauds House Plans for Innovation
Summit
WASHINGTON (12 May 2005)
— IEEE-USA
applauds Reps. Frank Wolf (R-Va.), Sherwood
Boehlert (R-N.Y.) and Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.) for
announcing plans for an Innovation Summit this
fall.
“We congratulate these members of Congress for
recognizing the importance of innovation and
technology to our nation’s continuing economic
well-being and national security,” IEEE-USA
President Gerard A. Alphonse said. “There’s an
urgent need to convene key stakeholders from all
sectors to better understand the challenges to
U.S. high-tech innovation and propose solutions
we can all work on together.”
IEEE-USA is an organizational unit of the IEEE.
It was created in 1973 to advance the public
good and promote the careers and public policy
interests of the more than 220,000 technology
professionals who are U.S. members of the IEEE.
The IEEE is the world's largest technical
professional society. For more information, go
to
http://www.ieeeusa.org.
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