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Get to Know the IEEE Board of Directors

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As a full professor and deputy president of the School of engineering at the University of Bologna in Italy, Metra specializes in design for test and reliability of integrated circuits and systems. He is also a PES distinguished lecturer and editor in chief of the Spanish version of the PES Power & Energy Magazine.

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Punching above its weight

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Folks here already know what’s going on with the environment and how EVs fit into the big picture.” Lightning formula Erb is a professor emeritus at University of North Carolina Asheville , where he taught mechatronics engineering. A guy with pictures of his car in hot rod magazines understands.”

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10 Lessons From the Legacy of Apple’s Steve Jobs

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On its 25 October 2005 cover, Time magazine hailed Jobs as "the man who always seems to know what's next." Its physical design, the minimalist layout, the screen with playlists, and the easy-access buttons made it successful, and the iTunes store made it easier for people to discover and buy music and organize it into personal playlists.

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One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation

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Alma mater: University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. An article describing how the platform works was published in the September issue of IEEE Communications Magazine. “If He was assigned to figure out how to overcome a challenging propagation environment so that customers could receive their data reliably. Employer: Mimik.

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Inventing Postscript, the Tech That Took the Pain out of Printing

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It would have been quite different had Warnock and company not been in the right place at the right time to meet the right person. The time was right because of the imminence of three hardware developments: the first low-cost, bit-mapped personal computer, the first low-cost laser printer, and a decline in price of high-density memory chips.

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Quantum Technology’s Unsung Heroes

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IEEE Spectrum recently spoke with Lenahan and Hughes-Casteleberry about overshadowed genius, pre-medieval computer programs, and Claude Shannon’s Vogue magazine celebrity photoshoot. But as well, we bring in the personal stories. Lenahan : With credit often taken by the men in this environment. Could you describe him?

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Structured VLSI design, now taught in more than 100 universities. Networks that link personal computers in offices. And unlike university research laboratories, PARC had one unifying vision: it would develop “the architecture of information.” Colorful weather maps on TV news programs. Laser printers.

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