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Celebrating 25 Years of IEEE Women in Engineering

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Finalists receive a plaque and a ticket to attend this year’s IEEE WIE International Leadership Conference , which is scheduled for 6 and 7 June. The winner gets to present his or her idea at the hybrid conference. Its in-person events are to take place at the San Diego Convention Center. Nominations closed in April.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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Believing that young generations have the responsibility, ability, and freedom to shape our future, Metra is focused on making IEEE an inclusive community through which all its members can find the knowledge and networking opportunities to foster their professional and personal growth. His work has kept U.S.

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The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys

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Much like jazz musicians improvising, engineers go with the flow at team meetings, he says: One person comes up with an idea, and another suggests ways to improve it. For that reason, Electrical Business magazine named him one of the 10 most influential executives in 2002, as well as its 2004 CEO of the Year.

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Finally, an eVTOL You Can Buy (Soon)

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Opener’s highly unusual, single-seat flier is intended for personal use rather than transporting passengers, which makes it almost unique. Previously, Moore led a team at NASA that designed a personal-use eVTOL and then served as engineering director at Uber’s Elevate initiative. It’s also a triumph of engineering. We love that.”.

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Help Build the Future of Assistive Technology

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AT, in its most basic form, is anything that helps a person achieve enhanced performance, improved function, or accelerated access to information. In addition to mechanical products and devices, the field is deeply involved in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and neuroscience. They're all assistive technologies.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Networks that link personal computers in offices. Some researchers say PARC was a product of the 1960s and that decade’s philosophy of power to the people, of improving the quality of life. The ideas developed at PARC found their way into a number of commercial products, companies, and publications, shown here as leafy branches.

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