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This Startup Is Building the Internet of Underwater Things

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Billions of “intelligent objects” packed with sensors are connected to each other and to servers, capturing and exchanging, in real time, huge amounts of data. Well, not all of our planet: IoT does not connect us to seas and oceans. Today, the startup employs a staff of 50 people with offices located in Italy, U.K., and Norway.

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IEEE Humanitarian Program Sees Record Growth

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HAC’s IEEE SIGHT program, which helps connect IEEE members with underserved communities and local organizations for work on sustainable development projects, now has almost 25,000 members. In a survey HAC conducted after the event, more than 80 percent said they were satisfied with the event.

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IEEE Forms Board Dedicated to Its Humanitarian Activities

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The virtual event connects IEEE members from around the world who are using or want to use their technical expertise to address sustainable development challenges. Since its launch in 2011, more than 1,500 scholarships have been awarded to some 900 students from 200 colleges and universities in Canada and the United States.

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A Young Professional on the Power of Mentorship

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She also provides guidance to university students and young professionals through outreach programs at Dell such as STEM Aspire. She left after about a year to take a similar position at the European Commission ’s Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy. Zakrzewska helps judge the entries. After earning her Ph.D.

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A New Wildfire Watchdog

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In our always-on, sensor-laden, Internet-connected world, shouldn't technology have done better? The sensor equivalent of a sleeping dog is called an event-driven sensor. Using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology, we can make such event-driven sensors on silicon chips that are only millimeters in size.

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Your Robotic Avatar Is Almost Ready

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In 2018 , the XPrize Foundation announced a competition (sponsored by the Japanese airline ANA) to create “an avatar system that can transport human presence to a remote location in real time,” with the goal of developing robotic systems that could be used by humans to interact with the world anywhere with a decent Internet connection.

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

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Egbert Adriaan Kreiken , a professor of astronomy at Ankara University , convinced the teenager that electronics engineering was going to be the “next big thing.” He started selling the idea to me and even bribed me by promising an internship at Philips , where he had connections. That was in the late 1950s.

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