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This IEEE Society’s Secret to Boosting Student Membership

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The society recently launched several programs to engage them, including career fairs, travel grants, and networking opportunities with researchers. Student representatives also help organize conference workshops. The students had a hand in creating a welcome kit for conference attendees.

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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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His father suggested he think about ikigai , a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose. He presented his app at last year’s IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality during an event hosted in collaboration with Amazon Web Services. He was granted a patent in Germany last year.

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The 11 Commandments of Hugging Robots

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If we’ve learned anything over the past few years, it’s how important it is not to take physical contact for granted. Unfortunately, physical contact with humans is something that robots find especially difficult and occasionally dangerous, so that we cannot (yet) safely use them as a proxy for nuanced physical contact with another person.

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Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

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Personal computers in the late 1980s began incorporating CD-ROM drives, but initially these could read only from prerecorded disks and could not store user-generated data. This was granted to Amir Ban, Dov Moran, and Oron Ogdan in November 2000. The dot-com boom of 1995 to 2000 further increased demand for personal computing gear.

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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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She decided to give research a try and in 2009 became an intern at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. , She has been granted several patents, which have been commercialized. She signed up, she says, so she could publish a paper in one of IEEE’s conference proceedings. I couldn’t see myself as a lecturer,” she says.

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Letting in the Light

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All four men felt that LEVs could eventually be one of the most important forms of personal transportation, and had already been supporting that cause. Gerhardt has taught the course across Europe and the Americas, while Gerhardt, Martin, and Smith, have taken the class to International bike conferences in the US and India.

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Q&A: Ghost Robotics CEO on Armed Robots for the U.S. Military

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Last week, the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) conference took place in Washington, D.C. At AUSA, Ghost had a variety of its Vision 60 robots on display with a selection of defense-oriented payloads, including the system above, which is a remotely controlled rifle customized for the robot by a company called SWORD International.