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IEEE Spectrumby Harry Goldstein29 Aug 2026
One day in 1982, Joseph “Rod” Canion and two colleagues from Texas Instruments sat down at the House of Pies in Houston and used a napkin to sketch out what would become Compaq’s portable PC.
IEEE Spectrumby Joanna Goodrich28 Aug 2026
While walking to school as a child, Jernej Barbič would marvel at how beautiful his home was. He was born and raised in a picturesque village in northwestern Slovenia (formerly Yugoslavia), located...
IEEE Spectrumby James Brown27 Aug 2026
I never intended to join the cutting edge of electromechanical television. I just wanted to make a nice clock.
IEEE Spectrumby Amy Michael26 Aug 2026
The IEEE–Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN) honor society is preparing to host the Innovating the Future event on 6 November.
IEEE Spectrumby Kurt Polzin26 Aug 2026
A New NASA Design Turbocharges Nuclear Spacecraft The synchronal bimodal nuclear rocket could slash travel time to Mars The biggest threat to any crewed expedition to Mars is time.
IEEE Spectrumby Peter Capek25 Aug 2026
IBM Built the Cold War’s Most Powerful Code Breaker for the NSA It ran its jobs 200 times as fast as any other computer on Earth At the height of the Cold War, one very specialized computer was so...
IEEE Spectrumby Ollobot25 Aug 2026
This article is brought to you by Ollobot. From about 2017, individuals began to truly connect with the initial wave of companion robots.
IEEE Spectrumby Animesh Goyal24 Aug 2026
For most of my career, my IEEE membership sat quietly in the background—a line on my résumé, a discount code for a conference registration, and access to the IEEE Xplore digital library, which I...
IEEE Spectrumby Gwendolyn Rak24 Aug 2026
The AI boom has disrupted the way engineers work, introducing new tools to learn, raising expectations for what teams can achieve in a workday, and making it harder to get hired in the first place.
IEEE Spectrumby Ritu Favre24 Aug 2026
This article is brought to you by Emerson. I’ve spent much of my career as an engineer, including years in the semiconductor industry.
IEEE Spectrumby Danica Radovanović23 Aug 2026
How do I touch you across the ocean, across cold depths where light travels through glass. Not copper—fibers. Optical. Through liquid glass, through flickering light that carries you in fragments.
IEEE Spectrumby Julianne Pepitone21 Aug 2026
Balaji Ingole rarely saw televisions while growing up in Udgir, India. No one in the small Maharashtra village had computers or phones.
IEEE Spectrumby Alexander Brem19 Aug 2026
This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society.
IEEE Spectrumby Dov Fine17 Aug 2026
About 16 percent of the global population—more than 1 billion people—live with some form of disability, according to the World Health Organization.
IEEE Spectrumby Andrej Zdravkovic17 Aug 2026
The impact of AI on software development has been both profound and ever-evolving. Last year, I wrote about AMD’s plans to use AI not just for generating new lines of code, but also for other steps...
IEEE Spectrumby The Liu Family14 Aug 2026
Bede Liu, a digital signal processing pioneer, died on 7 May. He was 91. Liu was widely regarded as one of the founders of modern digital signal processing, a field that applies mathematical...
IEEE Spectrumby WIPL-D14 Aug 2026
Download this complimentary White Paper today! This White Paper shows engineers and researchers how to predict, by simulation, the coupling between antennas mounted on electrically large platforms...
IEEE Spectrumby Brian Jenney13 Aug 2026
If you haven’t already seen a job listing for a “product engineer,” you probably will soon. The job everyone’s suddenly hiring for, this role is like a cross between a product manager and an...
IEEE Spectrumby IEEE11 Aug 2026
In collaboration with the Kingdom of Bhutan government, IEEE recently introduced its Engineering Education, Research, and Innovation Summit.
IEEE Spectrumby Ariel Bleicher11 Aug 2026
Zap Rocks. Add Water. Get Clean Hydrogen Startup wields subterranean lightning strikes to conjure the gas In a tranquil Boston suburb, on the far edge of a horse farm, where pasture gives way to...
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