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How MIT’s Muriel Medard Pioneered the Universal Decoder

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As the head of the network coding group at the university’s Research Laboratory for Electronics , the IEEE Fellow led a team that created a silicon chip that eliminates the need for custom decoding hardware to spot signal errors. After graduating, she joined the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1998 as an assistant professor.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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This article features IEEE Board of Directors members Cecilia Metra, Eduardo Palacio, and Enrique Tejera. As a full professor and deputy president of the School of engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy, Metra specializes in design for test and reliability of integrated circuits and systems.

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MIT Looks Ahead to Hydrogen’s Aviation Future

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. John Hansman , an aeronautics and astronautics professor at MIT and director of the university’s International Center for Air Transportation. Hydrogen may be a good thing, but you gotta look at it from the full system level, right?,”

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This 1920 Chess Automaton Was Wired to Win

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Torres Quevedo invented his electromechanical device in 1912 and publicly debuted it at the University of Paris two years later. In 1914, Torres Quevedo laid out his ideas in the article, “Ensayos sobre automática. In the article, he updated Charles Babbage’s ideas for the analytical engine with the currency of the day: electricity.

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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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He presented his app at last year’s IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality during an event hosted in collaboration with Amazon Web Services. Reading articles published in Spectrum helped him discover that he wanted a career in technology, he says. The high school senior recently has been applying to colleges.

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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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It holds networking events, provides educational resources, and publishes career-related articles on its blog. The task force collaborates on organizing virtual and in-person events with IEEE groups including Women in Engineering and external organizations such as the International Renewable Energy Agency.

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IEEE President’s Note: Making IEEE a Force for Change

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These offerings include unparalleled networking opportunities at more than 2,000 international IEEE conferences—both face to face and virtual—as well as access to the finest technical literature, massive resources for upskilling, and innovative collaboration facilities with colleagues worldwide.