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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. New chapters in Ecuador, Hungary, and India Several chapters have been established in recent months.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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Twenty-one years later, in 2015, the IEEE member founded Psyonic , which designs and builds advanced, affordable artificial limbs. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. I loved everything about engineering, programming, and building things," he says. "I Akhtar is the CEO. and a Ph.D.

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A New Olympics Event: Algorithmic Video Surveillance

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You don’t have to identify the people,” says data scientist Jonathan Weber of the University of Haute-Alsace , in Mulhouse, France, and coauthor of a review of video crowd analysis. Videntis is already selling software that detects falls in buildings, or illegal dumping outdoors, neither of which requires identifying individuals.

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