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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. awarded him its prestigious Ho-Am Prize in 1993 for “building a solid foundation for Korea’s semiconductor industry.”

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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He is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at the university, which helps faculty members get access to research funding, government laboratories, and industry research centers. Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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The four candidates share their plans for increasing student membership; expanding science, technology, engineering, and math education programs; and attracting more members from industry. This IEEE Life Fellow has more than 40 years of experience in the data storage industry and has been a consultant for 20 years. The annual.

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Rule of the Robots: Warning Signs

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In a December 2019 Wired magazine interview, Jerome Pesenti, Facebook's Vice President of AI, suggested that even for a company with pockets as deep as Facebook's, this would be financially unsustainable: When you scale deep learning, it tends to behave better and to be able to solve a broader task in a better way.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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He was therefore perfectly positioned to be the author of the definitive corporate history of the company he used to work for, in a book entitled IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon , which was published in 2019 by MIT Press. And sometimes you have less than six months or a year in this industry to do that.

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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. Its resolution was simply too low and the colors not bright enough for people who were used to the high resolution of tablet computers or print magazines.

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Remembering IEEE Spectrum Columnist Bob Lucky

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From 1982 to 2019 he wrote a bimonthly column, Reflections, for IEEE Spectrum , in which he told stories and shared his perspective on the engineering field as well as technology trends and milestones. “I I had the honor of being Bob’s last editor at the magazine,” says Stephen Cass , senior editor at IEEE Spectrum.