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IEEE Life Fellow Sergio Benedetto Vice President, Publication Services and Products Sergio Bregni Benedetto is a professor emeritus at Politecnico di Torino, in Turin, Italy. He has received numerous international awards throughout his career, including the 2008 IEEE Communications Society Edwin Howard Armstrong Award.

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As a full professor and deputy president of the School of engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy, Metra specializes in design for test and reliability of integrated circuits and systems. Currently, he reviews technical documents for conferences, prizes, and international publications.

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And more articles are now submitted from authors in China, India, and Italy than from North America. “We IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference. Since 2012, the society has increased the number of female members by more than 60 percent. We tackled one diversity factor at a time,”. iStockphoto/IEEE.

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To survive, help is needed from Italys Fiat but, as negotiations with the Italian automaker bog down and the two week deadline to hammer out a partnership approaches, the companys future - as well as its aspirations for an electric hot rod - are increasingly in doubt. Terms under which this service is provided to you.