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30 Apr 23

Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

It was June 1973. For the past three months, Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn had been working together on a problem Kahn had been pondering for some time: how to connect ground-based military computers seamlessly to communications satellites and mobile radios. The ARPANET and the way it handled communications was…

20 Mar 23

How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case

Biotechnology & Biomedical

Dead, and in a jacket and tie. That’s how he was on 1 December 1948, when two men found him slumped against a retaining wall on the beach at Somerton, a suburb of Adelaide, Australia. The Somerton Man’s body was found on a beach in 1948. Nobody came forward to…

29 Jan 23

Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm

Biotechnology & Biomedical

What could you do with an extra limb? Consider a surgeon performing a delicate operation, one that needs her expertise and steady hands—all three of them. As her two biological hands manipulate surgical instruments, a third robotic limb that’s attached to her torso plays a supporting role. Or picture a…

14 Jan 23

The Inner Beauty of Basic Electronics

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation

Eric Schlaepfer was trying to fix a broken piece of test equipment when he came across the cause of the problem—a troubled tantalum capacitor. The component had somehow shorted out, and he wanted to know why. So he polished it down for a look inside. He never found the source…

29 Nov 22

The Transistor at 75

Electrical, Electronics & Instrumentation, Metallurgy & Material Science

Seventy-five years is a long time. It’s so long that most of us don’t remember a time before the transistor, and long enough for many engineers to have devoted entire careers to its use and development. In honor of this most important of technological achievements, this issue’s package of articles…

09 Feb 22

Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

Metallurgy & Material Science

Andrew Ng has serious street cred in artificial intelligence. He pioneered the use of graphics processing units (GPUs) to train deep learning models in the late 2000s with his students at Stanford University, cofounded Google Brain in 2011, and then served for three years as chief scientist for Baidu, where…

Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case

Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm

The Inner Beauty of Basic Electronics

The Transistor at 75

Andrew Ng: Unbiggen AI

Electronic skin can self-heal after a cut, researchers find

IEEE President’s Note: Connecting the Unconnected

3 stories of founders building apps for the LGBTQ+ community

5 ways you can personalize your smartwatch with Wear OS

Here’s how Unilever is harnessing AI to innovate your favourite products