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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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Rahman is the founding editor in chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He served as the 2018–2019 president of the IEEE Power & Energy Society (IEEE PES). National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering from 2010 to 2013.

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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.

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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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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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He has held several leadership positions in IEEE including 2019. He served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the 2016–2017 Region 5 director and the 2019 vice president of. IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. He served as the 2018–2019 president of the.

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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. Just how revolutionary was that for IBM? And then convince everybody they did it.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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As government influence declined, some alums from the first period who had worked at government research institutes also took corporate jobs. And in 2019, he was named a Person of Distinguished Service to Science and Technology, one of the nation’s highest honors. Favorite periodical: TIME magazine. Legend and Legacy.

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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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