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Paying Tribute to 1997 IEEE President Charles K. Alexander

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He fixed the cars and machines used on his family’s farm, according to a 2009 oral history conducted by the IEEE History Center. He significantly increased meeting attendance, he said in the oral history. In 1980 he moved to Tennessee and became a professor of electrical engineering at Tennessee Tech University , in Cookeville.

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Hi-fi, Radio, and Retro: The DIY Projects Spectrum Readers Love

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A third of the top 15 articles relate to wireless and radio tech, with one concerning a home-brew radio telescope (October 2019). The remaining articles are a potpourri of topics, but I think they all share that magic element of unexpected delight that engineers are always hoping for.

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Video Friday: Ingenuity’s 50th Flight

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NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter made history when it achieved the first powered, controlled flight on another planet on April 19, 2021. JPL ] Georgia Tech researchers have recently created a soft rotary motor using liquid metal, compliant magnetic composites, and silicone polymers.

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Steradian’s 4D Imaging Radar Aims to Make Self-Driving Cars Smarter

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“At the universities where I studied [the National Institute of Technology Calicut and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur], there was a history of faculty publishing in IEEE transactions or journals and referring to them to let us know what was new and trending. He holds more than 20 patents for RF technologies and integrated circuits.

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Will Robots Triumph over World Cup Winners by 2050?

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The Beginning A history of RoboCup from 1997-2011, by Peter Stone and Manuela Veloso. Middle-Size League The Middle-Size League final between Tech United and the Falcons at RoboCup 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Standard Platform League final between HTWK Robots and B-Human at RoboCup 2022 in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Tesla is revamping the Model 3, and it is about time

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The Model 3 is arguably the most crucial vehicle in Tesla’s history. Here is where tech tends to arrive much later than the hubs of American ingenuity. Interiors are a completely subjective topic, but I have personally felt minimalistic interiors are not a better option. ” In all honesty, it’s about time.

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Busting Five EV Charging Myths

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Second, topics awash in complex technical or scientific information. These mining practices also aren’t substantially better than the practices used to find and transport fossil fuels, which have a long history of environmental disasters. There are two qualities that tend to attract myth and misinformation.