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Learn From the Best Minds in Commercial Robotics Development

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This sponsored article is brought to you by Robotics Summit & Expo. Learn from industry-leading speakers, build new relationships by networking, see demos from 150+ exhibitors showcasing enabling technologies to help build commercial robots. Use code IEEE25 at checkout to save 25% off your full conference pass!

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Try This Brand New Analog Computer

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In 2017, Yannis Tsividis wrote a feature article for Spectrum describing his research at Columbia University into the possibilities of digital-analog hybrid computer chips. When the article was published, I thought it made some compelling points, but as a casual experimenter I didn’t really have a good on-ramp to analog computing.

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High School Students Built This iPhone App for the Visually Impaired

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BUILDING THE TECHNOLOGY. To learn about which technologies to use, Ahn helped the students get access to research articles from a variety of IEEE publications including. MITRE and Columbia University demonstrated to him how easy it was for hackers to break into Internet-of-Things devices, he says. Atheia Demo.

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3 Challenges to Solve Before We Can Commute by Air Taxi

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All over the world, startup companies, government agencies, universities, and airlines are collaborating to launch an entirely new category of aviation based on electric aircraft capable of both vertical takeoff and efficient horizontal flight. These sensors will detect other aircraft, birds, buildings, and thick clouds.

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Flight Simulator Gave Birth to 3D Video-Game Graphics

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Microsoft Flight Simulator: A History youtube.com A passion for flight Bruce Artwick studied electrical engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, yet he found time to pursue a dream many teenagers think about but few fulfill: He learned to fly. This gave subLogic a cheat sheet to build on.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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This article was first published as “Inside the PARC: the ‘information architects’.” Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Legend has it that McColough then turned to Jack E.

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Standards Certification Testing: Bringing Order to the Internet of Things

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This is a sponsored article brought to you by Comarch. In 2007, Comarch began working with the UPnP Forum (now part of the Open Connectivity Foundation ) to certify Universal Plug and Play compliance for personal computers, Wi-Fi access points, routers, audiovisual, and other devices on home-scale networks.