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A New One-Stop Resource for IEEE Life Members

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The new IEEE Life Members website is a one-stop resource to keep the most experienced of members connected. Life members receive reduced registration fees at conferences for which IEEE is the sole sponsor. IEEE’s 35,000 life members provide professional and personal experiences and are an underutilized source of wisdom.” “As

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The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI

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So who was this unknown person? The identity of the person between Solomonoff and Shannon remained a mystery for some time. The Minsky Family Between Solomonoff and Shannon is the unknown person. He assured me that the unknown person was not his father. Grace Solomonoff So the unknown person must be Milner!

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Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis

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I did a lot of reading and studying on where computers might be used and where they could go wrong, as well as reading science-fiction books that explored those possibilities,” he says. He wrote a conference paper, The Internet Worm Incident , in 1989 to capture what had happened and the lessons learned.

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Volvo Car Corporation intends to lead in field of autonomous driving technology; targeting the next-generation of consumers

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Autonomous driving—the self-driving car—gives the human driver the ability safely to do something else besides drive, such as sending text messages or reading a book while the car drives itself. But being in a car that drives by itself while the driver reads a book is still quite a revolutionary thought for many people.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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These tools have been used to track forest characteristics in connection with carbon emission evaluation and forecasting forest evolution. She is also a member of the IEEE Conferences Committee. Piuri’s original research results have been published in more than 400 international journals, conference proceedings, and books.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

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For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The first real-world test came in 1975, connecting Stanford to BBN in Cambridge, Mass., universities.

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Ford Smart Mobility shifts from research to implementation; company announces new programs, next areas of focus

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In the opening keynote at Ford’s annual trends conference, 2015 Further With Ford, CEO Mark Fields announced the next phase of the company’s Smart Mobility plan, originally announced in January this year at CES ( earlier post ). Because what we are seeing is software and connectivity technology are driving vehicle innovation faster than ever.

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