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What You Might Not Know About Connected Autonomous Vehicles

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Critical considerations pertinent to connected autonomous vehicles, such as ethics, liability, privacy, and cybersecurity, do not share the same spotlight as the CAVs’ benefits. Anything employing wireless connectivity is fair game for hackers and cybercriminals. In the Behind the Wheel: Who Is Driving the Driverless Car?

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IEEE President’s Note: Connecting the Unconnected

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The world saw the need for universal broadband connectivity for remote work, online education, telemedicine, entertainment, and social networking. As millions of classrooms moved online, the lack of connectivity made it difficult for some students to participate in remote learning. More than six percent of the U.S.

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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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He is a professor of power systems engineering in the Fulton program at Arizona State University , in Tempe. Vijay Vittal Employer Arizona State University, in Tempe Title Regents professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma mater B.M.S. in EE at Iowa State University , in Ames.

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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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Inside the Universe Machine: The Webb Space Telescope’s Ultra-Reliable Radio

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As previous articles in this series have noted, JWST is parked at Lagrange point L2. It’s an ideal location for JWST to observe the universe without obstruction and with minimal orbital adjustments. It’s a point of gravitational equilibrium located about 1.5

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Who Will Free EV Motors from the Rare Earth Monopoly?

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Ayman El-Refaie, Marquette University Now a sleeper option, synchronous reluctance motors , is getting a surge of interest, thanks to materials-science breakthroughs at GE Aerospace. GE Aerospace declined to make a researcher available to be interviewed for this article.) I am a believer that this type of material is a game changer.”

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Try This Brand New Analog Computer

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Engineers connected potentiometers and op-amps to set up representations of knotty differential equations and read the solutions as varying output voltages. 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.

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