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Prominent Universities Sign Open Access Agreements with IEEE

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The University of California and the Conference of Italian University Rectors (a consortium of state and non-state universities known as the CRUI) each recently signed what’s known as a read-and-publish agreement with IEEE. IEEE open-access articles are supported by article-processing charges instead of subscriptions.

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2021's Top Stories About AI

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Many of this year's top articles grappled with the limits of deep learning (today's dominant strand of AI) and spotlighted researchers seeking new paths. Here are the 10 most popular AI articles that Spectrum published in 2021, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them. Their article isn't a total downer, though.

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Testing Products for Consumer Reports

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We had an Instron universal testing machine , which does tensile and compression testing. For example, we’ve seen video doorbells and wireless home security cameras sending email addresses, IP addresses, lists of commands, network names, and even Wi-Fi passwords as unencrypted data. People’s thumbs aren’t calibrated.

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Northwestern team devises new computational design framework for optimized coatings for Li-ion cathodes to prolong cycle life

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Researchers at Northwestern University, with a colleague from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, have developed a new computational design framework that can pinpoint optimal materials with which to coat the cathode in lithium-ion batteries. Hegde, David Snydacker, Zhi Lu, Shiqiang Hao, Scott Kirklin, Dane Morgan & C.

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Chips to Compute With Encrypted Data Are Coming

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This article is part of our special report Top Tech 2024. I think this is the coolest technology of the last 20 years,” says Todd Austin , a hardware security expert at the University of Michigan, whose startup Agita Labs does a different form of secure computing in the Amazon and Microsoft clouds. “It

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Worldwide Campaign for Neurorights Notches Its First Win

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The United Nations’ Secretary-General is also interested; his ambitious agenda , published last September, stated that it’s time to “update our thinking on human rights,” and included neurotechnology in a list of “frontier issues” to be considered. This is something that affects the essence of what it means to be human,” he says.

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Craig Partridge Is Still Working to Improve Internet Traffic

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Later that year he joined Colorado State University in Fort Collins, as chair of its department of computer science. This article appears in the November 2022 print issue as “Craig Partridge.”. Partridge says it’s not uncommon for engineers to move from industry to academia later in their careers. It opened my eyes. “So