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Remembering Former IEEE President Ken Laker

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In addition to sharing his time and talents with IEEE, he was a professor of electrical engineering for 35 years at the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia. In 2000 he helped found DFT, which manufactured test equipment for high-speed semiconductor interfaces. He co-authored four textbooks on microelectronic systems.

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Video Friday: Dronut

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ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. GITAI ] Here's an interesting design for a manipulator that can do in-hand manipulation with a minimum of fuss, from the Yale Grablab. ugo ] Robot, make me a sandwich.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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His initial designs, as described in a series of patents , were for a pendulum clock with a permanent magnet as its bob (that’s the weight at the bottom of the pendulum). There, Warren designed, built, and installed the instrument he dubbed the Warren Master Station Clock. In 1912, Warren established the Warren Clock Co.,