Global Communications Conference

The Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) is an annual international academic conference organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Communications Society. The first GLOBECOM was organised by the Communications Society's predecessor in 1957, with the full name of "National Symposium on Global Communications". [cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/comsoc/5264.html|title=IEEE Communications Society History, 1952-1964|publisher=IEEE Communications Society|accessdate=2006-03-25] The seventh GLOBECOM, in 1965 was called the "IEEE Communications Convention" and after that the conference was renamed as the International Conference on Communications (ICC) and GLOBECOM was no longer organised. [cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/organizations/history_center/comsoc/6472.html|title=IEEE Communications Society History, 1964-1972|publisher=IEEE Communications Society|accessdate=2006-03-25] cite web|url=http://www.comsoc.org/socstr/documents/chapmanual/cm_1_2.html|title=History of the IEEE Communications Society|publisher=IEEE Communications Society|accessdate=2006-03-25]

By 1982, the need for a second annual international conference on communications was apparent, and so the IEEE National Telecommunications Conference was re-organised to be international in scope, and renamed to the "Global Communications Conference", resurrecting the GLOBECOM acronym. GLOBECOM has been held annually since.

Recent GLOBECOMs have been attended by about 1,500 people. [cite web|url=http://webapps1.ieee.org/conferenceSearch/details.do?tagNo=9126|title=GLOBECOM 2004 details|publisher=IEEE|accessdate=2006-03-25] [cite web|url=http://webapps1.ieee.org/conferenceSearch/details.do?tagNo=9421|title=GLOBECOM 2005 details|publisher=IEEE|accessdate=2006-03-25]

ee also

*Communications

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