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IEEE’s Honor Society Gave This Boston University Student Tools to Succeed

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As a member of the Kappa Sigma chapter at Boston University , he learned leadership and communications skills while accepting different roles. candidate in computational imaging at BU, Greene continues to be involved with the honor society by mentoring grad students and organizing events to engage alumni. Now a Ph.D.

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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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The honor society also holds networking events including its annual international leadership conferences, where student leaders from across the world collaborate on how they can benefit the organization and their communities. IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu There’s also the HKN Career Conversations podcast , hosted by society alumni.

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Video Friday: $2.6 Billion

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Recently, UBTECH’s humanoid robot Walker S was introduced into the assembly line of NIO’s advanced vehicle manufacturing center, as an “intern” assisting in the car production.

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You Lost Your Passport. Now What?

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While just about every other document is accessible online, a lost passport is one of the last analog emergencies that can derail an international trip. Swift, for example, can bring 10 applications a day to the Boston office, and five to the Chicago one. That, of course, costs both time and money.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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With direct funding plus prize money that reached into the millions, DARPA encouraged international collaborations among top academic institutions as well as industry. A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. Evan Ackerman. What was special about the Subterranean Challenge?

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Building the Future of Smart Home Security

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At SimpliSafe , an award-winning home security company based in Boston, Mass., Or what about having a video doorbell that could tell you if the backpacked teenager on your front stoop is your daughter returning home from school or a delivery person dropping off tonight’s takeout dinner?

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From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal's Journey

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Earlier in his career, he had cofounded Acorn Computers , which developed one of the first reduced-instruction-set personal computers and had spun off the chip-design company Arm. and international defense and intelligence agencies. One of Amadeus’s cofounders was Hermann Hauser. that funds information technology for U.S.