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Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr

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Over the past week, The Institute has made contact with some of the 400 members of the IEEE Ukraine Section to help them share their experiences during the war. This personal account was written by Volodymyr Pyliavskyi , a senior researcher at the Odessa National Telecommunications Academy in Odessa, Ukraine.

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Using AI to Clear Land Mines in Ukraine

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Around the world, about 60 countries are contaminated with land mines and unexploded ordnance, and Ukraine is the worst off. Clearance happens one of three ways, usually, but it always ends up with a person on the ground basically doing extreme gardening. Really, it started ramping up in Ukraine.

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The Heart and the Chip: What Could Go Wrong?

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At the start of its war against Ukraine, Russia limited its citizens’ access to unbiased news and information in hopes of controlling and shaping the narrative around the conflict. Or, even simpler: swarms of flying digital projectors could have broadcasted the footage on the sides of buildings and walls for all to see.

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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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Her work at the plant, her academic research, and her involvement in IEEE have helped Ansari build her community within the global nuclear industry. student at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock, when she interned at Arkansas Nuclear One. Ansari entered the field of power engineering during her final semester as a Ph.D.

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Where to locate public chargers?

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Surge in EVSE essential EV sales are accelerating and are expected to grow exponentially , EV buyers taking personal action to fight the climate crisis , and/or discovering that EVs are safer, faster, more economical , and more fun to drive. not internet-connected) and networked (internet-connected). Level 3 charging networks.

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Drones That Can Fly Better Than You Can

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Davide Scaramuzza directs the Robotics and Perception group at the University of Zürich. Our basic goal is to build in the skills of an expert pilot into the drone itself, which involves a little bit of hardware. And so one of the things that we think a lot about in how we build our products—we’re a company.

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IEEE Spectrum’s Top Telecom Stories of 2023

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On the one hand, stories about Russia’s satellite jamming operations in Ukraine and stumbling 5G performance around the world attracted a lot of attention from our visitors in 2023. Can We Identify a Person From Their Voice? IEEE Spectrum ‘s readers gravitated to the extremes in the kinds of telecom stories they read this year.

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