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Last year, we all heard at CES that 2010 was going to be the “year of the tablet”. This technology was developed mainly by and for the consumers market. Only upon the release and adoption of the new tablets by consumers (most notably Apple’s iPad),the business and the government sectors started to develop their own applicationsfor the tablet.

This new order is quite different from years ago whengovernment entities especially defense-related ones were the drivers of the development and adoption of new technologies(remember the Internet?) or even in the following years where business sector was the main driver.

The impact of this shift in invention, development, and adoption is big in business, but what does it mean to field of consumer electronics?The main impact, I think is the move from just single individuals to also large organizations. It might very well become the golden age of consumer electronics.

Hardware and software need now, for example, to be more robust so it would be suitable for specific business applications. These devices need to be able to satisfy security requirements and be easy to integrate with enterprise systems. In addition to these points, I will discuss with the audience what it all means for the field of consumer electronics as well for business and government large organizations (e.g., the use of personal mobile devices).

Bio

Nahum is a member of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society AdCom and a Senior Principal Scientist at the MITRE Corporation. He focuses on social media and real-time information delivery in mobile devices including how they relate to augmenting work environments and personal capabilities.

Nahum developsnew ways and strategies to strengthen the traditional aspects of consumer electronics and to broaden the impact and appeal of the field of consumer electronics to new groups of professionals and users. This emphasizes various aspects including those of new devices, networks, information delivery (any information, anywhere, any time), social computing, and human-device interaction.

He has chaired and organized many international and national symposia and meetings including the NATO RTO Symposia on “Battlspace Visualization” and the “Role of Humans in Automated and Robotic Systems”. He co-founded the IEEE Information Visualization Symposium and is the Chair of the Task Force on Human Centered Information Systems and a Member of the Technical Activities Operations Committee (TAOC) of the IEEE Computer Society.