Show your mobile application development skills with IEEE madC
Lee Crudgington IEEE UK and Ireland Student Activities | IEEE Humanitarian Activities Committee | IEEEmadC The application deadline for this annual mobile application development competition IEEE madC 2018 is on October 10th. 2017 was a hugely successful year for the IEEEmadCprogramme, an annual mobile application development…
David Patterson Says It’s Time for New Computer Architectures and Software Languages
Moore’s Law is over, ushering in a golden age for computer architecture, says RISC pioneer David Patterson—University of California professor, Google engineer, and RISC pioneer—says there’s no better time than now to be a computer architect. That’s because Moore’s Law really is over, he says: “We…
What Programming Language Skills Do Employers Want?
Java tops Indeed’s latest list; Python, JavaScript rank high What programming language skills do employers want? Online job-search firm Indeed took a look at three months (18 May to 18 August) of 2018 job listings in its tech software category to find out. The company ranked programming…
Tomorrow’s Doctors Must Be Engineers Too
The medical profession is changing, and so must medical education When King Li went to medical school 40 years ago, he sometimes felt like he was trying to memorize the human body. “I’d see these curves in the textbook, and have to memorize: ‘If the patient’s kidneys…
Is there clear evidence that radiation from mobile phones causes cancer?
On the 14th of July an article was published in the web page of The Guardian that was circulating all over the Internet. The article is titled “The inconvenient truth about cancer and mobile phones” and the authors state that even though the scientific peer…
Flexible Loudspeaker Made of Nanowires Will Stick to Your Skin and Play Music
Researchers in South Korea made a tiny loudspeaker, and then used it to play a violin concerto A variety of nanomaterials have been used over the years in loudspeakers and microphones. Nanoparticles have replaced permanent magnets in loudspeakers and a thin film of carbon nanotubes has done pretty…
IEEE Blockchain Initiative Helps to Advance the Decentralized Ledger
Members are developing standards and e-learning courses, and forming local groups Blockchain has become a buzzword in the past couple of years, but many people still don’t know what the technology can do. Best known as the foundation of cryptocurrency transactions, the decentralized ledger has the…
New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone in Sweat
Cortisol is key to tracking stress, but it’s tough to measure in an instant; Stanford researchers say they’ve figured out how Stress. We all know it can be bad for us. It affects blood pressure, metabolism, immune response, and memory. Over time, it can contribute…
Humans Show Racial Bias Towards Robots of Different Colors: Study
Do people display different racial biases towards black robots and white robots? A new study says yes The majority of robots are white. Do a Google image search for “robot” and see for yourself: The whiteness is overwhelming. There are some understandable reasons for this; for example, when…
Haptically Controlled Robots Will Take On Tasks Too Dangerous for Humans
With its sense of touch, Stanford’s OceanOne android can assist with recovery efforts on sea and land A diving android invented by IEEE Life Fellow Oussama Khatib could someday take over jobs too dangerous for humans. OceanOne [above] was built at Stanford where Khatib is…
Google Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page Named Recipients of the IEEE Computer Society 2018 Computer Pioneer Award
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 11 July 2018 – Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have been selected to receive the IEEE Computer Society’s 2018 Computer Pioneer Award. This award acknowledges significant contributions to early concepts and developments in the electronic computer field that have clearly advanced…
Services Like Echo and Uber Can Help the Elderly Live Independently
They can set reminders to take medication and arrange for rides to doctor appointments Many of us assume that Blue Apron, Echo, and Uber are primarily for busy young professionals, but their services also are becoming popular among senior citizens, allowing older people to maintain…
Flying Dragon Robot Transforms Itself to Squeeze Through Gaps
DRAGON can change its shape to move through complex environments and even manipulate objects DRAGON is able to autonomously decide how to transform when given the constraints of the space it needs to pass through. There’s been a lot of recent focus on applications for…
Your Guide to the GDPR
The European Union (EU) initially introduced the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2016 to help people assert control over their personal data on the Internet. Fast-forward two years, and GDPR takes effect worldwide on 25 May 2018, sending a cold shiver down the…
Get Ready: All Our Devices Will Be Able to Talk to One Another Soon
IEEE Standards Association is working to make personal area networks interoperable and secure Soon enough, all our devices will be talking to one another. Whether it’s your refrigerator asking your personal digital assistant to place an order with an online grocer or your car getting…
Alphabet’s DeepMind Makes a Key Advance in Computer Vision
Researchers at Alphabet’s DeepMind today described a method that they say can construct a three-dimensional layout from just a handful of two-dimensional snapshots. So far the method, based on deep neural networks, has been confined to virtual environments, they write in Science magazine. Natural environments are still too hard for current algorithms and hardware to handle. The article…
Malta Pilots Blockchain-Based Credentials Program
Malta, an island nation in the Mediterranean Sea, is completing the first ever attempt by a nation state to tie citizen records to the blockchain. If successful, a scaled-up version of the pilot program will give Malta’s 400,000 residents the ability to retrieve and share…
IEEE launches task forces for high-speed electronic interfaces, 400G over multimode fiber standards development
The IEEE launched two task forces at its May 21–25, 2018, interim meeting in Pittsburgh. The IEEE P802.3ck 100 Gb/s, 200 Gb/s, and 400 Gb/s Electrical Interfaces Task Force will specify electrical interfaces based on 100-Gbps signaling. The IEEE P802.3cm 400 Gb/s over Multimode Fiber…
Tiny Robots in Disguise Combat Bacteria in the Blood
Researchers have come up with all sorts of ways to propel tiny robots deep into the human body to perform tasks, such as delivering drugs and taking biopsies. Now, there’s a nanorobot that can clean up infections in blood. Directed by ultrasound, the tiny robots, made of gold nanowires with a…
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