Paying Tribute to Computer Science Pioneer Frederick Brooks, Jr.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a prolific computer scientist and longtime professor of computer science, died on 17 November at the age of 91. While working as a project manager at IBM in the 1960s, the IEEE Life Fellow led the development of the System/3.....»»
Video Friday: Liquid Metal Bubble Actuator
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.CoRL.....»»
Hello, ChatGPT—Please Explain Yourself!
A new AI-powered chatbot released by OpenAI called ChatGPT has taken the Internet by storm. More than one million people have signed up to try out the free service since it was launched last week, and it has wowed users with its ability to engage i.....»»
Latest Tech Layoff Trends in Three Charts
“Twitter slashes nearly half its workforce.” “Meta lays off more than 11,000.” “Amazon reportedly plans to lay off about 10,000.” The November headlines were full of tech companies announcing layoffs. And only the biggest tech employers.....»»
How PostScript Kickstarted Desktop Publishing
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A World-Class Tech MBA on Your Own Schedule
This sponsored article is brought to you by Purdue University’s online MBA program.A Master of Business Administration degree can be a passport to broader career horizons—especially for ambitious young (and young-ish) engineers.While 80 percent.....»»
Poll: Would You Want to Work a Shorter Week?
When I worked for a company in Texas a few years ago, one of the benefits I enjoyed was a four-and-a-half-day workweek. The system enabled my colleagues and me to run some personal errands, see our doctors, and pick up our kids from school, among.....»»
Introduction to the 5 Pillars of Data Acquisition
Join Teledyne SP Devices for a live webinar about the foundations of data acquisition. Explore digitizer fundamentals and learn more about analog front-end (AFE), triggering, clocking, signal processing, and the use of general-purpose input/output (.....»»
Video Friday: Uncrewed
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.ANA A.....»»
Nominate a Colleague for an IEEE Major Award
Each year IEEE pays tribute to technical professionals whose outstanding contributions have made a lasting impact on technology and the engineering profession for humanity. The IEEE Awards program seeks nominations annually for IEEE's top awards—M.....»»
Can Autonomous Weapons Be Compatible With International Humanitarian Law?
This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. The IEEE Standards Association is looking for your feedback on this topic, and has invites you to answer these questions. The real world is anything but binary. It is fuzzy and indis.....»»
What Does “Human Control” Over Autonomous Systems Mean?
This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. The IEEE Standards Association is looking for your feedback on this topic, and has invites you to answer these questions. Two Boeing 737 Max planes crashed in 2018 and 2019 due to sen.....»»
How Can We Make Sure Autonomous Weapons Are Used Responsibly?
This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. The IEEE Standards Association is looking for your feedback on this topic, and has invites you to answer these questions. International discussions about autonomous weapons systems.....»»
How Can We Talk About Autonomous Weapons?
This article is part of our Autonomous Weapons Challenges series. The IEEE Standards Association is looking for your feedback on this topic, and has invites you to answer these questions. Lethal autonomous weapons systems can sound terrifying, but.....»»
Innovative Shins Turn Quadrupedal Robot Biped
The word quadruped means, technically, “four feet.” Roboticists tend to apply the term to anything that uses four limbs to walk, differentiating it from bipedal robots, which walk on two limbs instead. But there’s a huge, blurry crossover th.....»»
Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Transistor With IEEE
The transistor, the basic building block of the electronics industry, was developed in 1947 by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, N.J., to replace the vacuum tube. The three honorary IEEE members rec.....»»
Eat This Drone
Drones have the potential to be very useful in disaster scenarios by transporting food and water to people in need. But whenever you ask a drone to transport anything, anywhere, the bulk of what gets moved is the drone itself. Most delivery drones c.....»»
DRAM’s Moore’s Law Is Still Going Strong
Memory and storage chip maker Micron Technology says it is shipping samples of the most bit-dense DRAM memory chips yet. Compared with its own previous generation, the 16-gigabit DRAM chip is 15 percent more power efficient and 35 percent more dense.....»»
Video Monday: IROS 2022 Award Winners
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NYU Biomedical Engineering Speeds Research from Lab Bench to Bedside
This is a sponsored article brought to you by NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering.When Andreas H. Hielscher, the chair of the biomedical engineering (BME) department at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, arrived at his new position, he saw raw p.....»»