IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecture: Easy and Lazy Technical Writing: Solid logic to invoke an Aha-Experience

In this talk, organized by IEEE Signal Processing Portugal Chapter, IEEE Computer Portugal Chapter, IEEE IST Student Branch, Doctoral School of IST, IT, INESC-ID, Akihiko K. Sugiyama presents an easy and lazy way to write a technical paper for unexperienced authors. It incorporates unique features, namely, a slide-first principle and a three-point analysis. It is the key to success to build a good logical structure by presentation slides before drafting a paper. By analyzing the reviewers' task, three points, namely, the value of the paper, the trick to achieve it, and the solved problem are identified essential to a good logic. Three-point analysis is performed using a three-point analysis sheet specially developed for this purpose. The designated font size of 36 point forces the author to refine the essence repeatedly so that it fits in the designated space in the sheet. An illustration of "logical structure in research" is used to help three-point analysis. After successful three-point analysis, design of the paper title and the topic sentence of abstract are straightforward with the value and the trick. Examples demonstrate how the three-point analysis is performed.
Akihiko K. Sugiyama, has over 40 years of years of experience developing telecommunications, speech, and audio signal processing systems for consumer and network system products. In addition to proven record of technology adoption in products and international standards as well as publication and granted patents, marketing and sales experience to develop over 300 new contacts in the world in two years and proof-of-concept (PoC) evaluations with world-leading companies for technical licensing are unique as a research engineer.
Once representing Japan for ISO/IEC MPEG Audio standardization including an Interim Chair of the Audio Subgroup at the Angra dos Reis Meeting in Brazil, experiences extend to ITU and 3GPP standardizations as a delegate. Established a bridging career between industry and academia through 25+-year teaching experience at universities and supervision of 75 internship students. Delivered 239 invited talks in 107 cities in 31 countries, and received 25 awards including the 2024 Industry Innovation Award by IEEE Signal Processing Society. The sole inventor or a co-inventor of 273 registered patents in Japan and overseas. Fellow of IEEE as well as Honorary Member and Fellow of IEICE. A Distinguished Lecturer for Signal Processing Society (2014-2015) and Consumer Electronics Society (2017-2018), and a Distinguished Industry Speaker for Signal Processing Society (2020-2021), IEEE. Recognized as a Renowned Distinguished Speaker (The Rock Star) in 2020 by Consumer Electronics Society, IEEE.