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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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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. He is also a PES distinguished lecturer and editor in chief of the Spanish version of the PES Power & Energy Magazine.

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AI Is Helping to Stop Animal Poaching and Food Insecurity

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For Fang’s work in the field, she was named one of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine ’s “ AI’s 10 to Watch in 2020.”. Although she enjoyed coding, she decided to pursue a degree in biology at Tsinghua University , in Beijing. She eventually changed her major to electrical engineering because, she says, she found it more interesting.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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He has held several leadership positions in IEEE including 2019. I believe that IEEE should be open to all technologists and that we should create a safe environment that supports our members to be their best selves. University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. Saifur Rahman. Virginia Tech.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) assumed top posts in the industry as well as coveted positions teaching or researching semiconductors at universities and government institutes. Although his family pressed him to join his father in the textile industry, he instead chose to pursue electrical engineering.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He's currently a senior research fellow at the University of Minnesota's Charles Babbage Institute , where he specializes in the history of technology. James Cortada It became a commodity business not only because of the chips and the operating system, but because other companies were able to put it all together at a lower cost than IBM.

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How E Ink Developed Full-Color e-Paper

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Electronic-ink researchers had been pursuing color e-paper for years, as had other researchers around the world, in universities, corporate research labs, and startups. To produce an image, an ePaper device applies different voltages to the top and bottom electrodes to create an electric field. It’s not that people hadn’t been trying.

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Speech Processing Pioneer Sadaoki Furui Dies at 77

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He began his career in 1970 as a researcher at NTT’s Musashino Electrical Communication Labs , also in Tokyo. He was named director of the university’s library in 2009 and became director of the Contents Utilization Center in 2011, when he was named professor emeritus. The SERC is an arm of the U.S. a nonprofit in Santa Monica, Calif.,