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IEEE’s Honor Society Expands to More Countries

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There are now more than 270 IEEE-HKN chapters at universities around the world. There are now 30 chapters outside the United States, including ones recently established at universities in Ecuador, Hungary, and India. In October the Nu Theta chapter debuted at Purdue University Northwest in Hammond, Ind.

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12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2022

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There's a fair bit of talk about an AI race between China and the United States these days. When it comes to cross-country collaborations on publications, China and the United States produce more than twice as many as the next pairing, China and the United Kingdom. vs China Narrative Is Complicated.

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SpaceX and Dish’s Super-Shady War for the World

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Or—given the outsize personalities involved (including Elon Musk and Michael Dell) and the epic, five-year duration of the dispute to date—maybe more like a space opera. In 2018 the United States became the first to approve a spectrum-sharing setup in the Citizens Broadband Radio Service band (3.5 Ofcom, the U.K.

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Bionic Hand Gives Amputees Sense of Touch

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That was the first time he had met a person with a limb difference. The Ability Hand is available in the United States for patients age 13 or older. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2007 from Loyola University in Chicago. MAKING PROSTHETIC LIMBS ACCESSIBLE. The program allows students to earn both an M.D.

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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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IEEE Fellow Leila De Floriani Director, Division VIII Rosella Murgia De Floriani is a mathematician, computer scientist, and educator with academic experience in Europe and the United States. She is also a member of the IEEE Conferences Committee. She is a pioneer in data visualization and geometric modeling.

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Portable sensors enable monitoring of pollution on smart phones; inferring pollution maps with greater granularity

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Computer scientists at the University of California, San Diego have built a portable pollution sensors that transmit transmit their air quality readings to smart phones, allowing users to monitor air quality in real time. —Nikzad et al. Wireless Health 2012. Best Paper).

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Tech Leaders on 5G, Robots, and the Future of Work

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Trying to maintain strong cybersecurity for a hybrid workforce and protecting their systems from cyberattacks as more and more employees’ personal devices have been connected to the company’s systems. He is a robotics and automation expert at Salford University , in England. What are today’s tech leaders concerned about?

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