Kathy Pretz
IEEE Spectrum
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Linda Doyle Blasts Through Ireland’s Academic Glass Ceiling
Trinity College’s first female provost is preparing for generative AI → Read More
How Remote Sensing Technologies Increase Food Production
A Purdue professor’s system helps make crops resilient against pests → Read More
The IEEE Mentoring Program Can Accelerate Your Engineering Career
Mentees can improve their research and soft skills → Read More
Connect with Engineers Worldwide Through the IEEE App
Join communities, meetups, and events based on interests and location → Read More
Advice and Resources for Tech Workers Coping With Job Loss
Tens of thousands of tech workers have been laid off by companies recently, including at Amazon, Dropbox, GitHub, Google, Microsoft, and Vimeo. Startups, too, have made cuts, according to TechCrunch. To help IEEE members cope with losing a job, The Institute asked Chenyang Xu for advice. The IEEE Fellow is president and cochairman of Perception Vision Medical Technologies, known as PVmed. The… → Read More
IEEE Foundation Celebrates 50 Years of Philanthropy
Events will highlight donor-supported STEM education and humanitarian programs → Read More
IEEE Spectrum Wins 11 Editorial Awards
The publication was recognized for its articles on bionic eyes and transistors → Read More
IEEE Leaders Are Planning Now for 2050 and Beyond
They are reviewing membership models, product offerings, and standards development → Read More
Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off
The power expert discovered ways to integrate renewable sources → Read More
The Maestro Behind Design-Software Behemoth Synopsys
CEO Aart de Geus created logical synthesis, which transformed how ICs are designed → Read More
5G and Metaverse are Crucial Technologies for 2023
Survey also finds that sustainability is a top priority for companies → Read More
Explore Pioneering Software at the Computer History Museum
Its director of curation on preserving Smalltalk and other source codes → Read More
IEEE’s Microwave Society Gets a New Name
The name is more relatable to young engineers and industry professionals → Read More
One Way to Stop the Social Spread of Disinformation
Owning your data is key, says wireless pioneer Siavash Alamouti → Read More
How This Startup Cut Production Costs of Millimeter Wave Power Amplifiers
In our pilot study, we draped a thin, flexible electrode array over the surface of the volunteer’s brain. The electrodes recorded neural signals and sent them to a speech decoder, which translated the signals into the words the man intended to say. It was the first time a paralyzed person who couldn’t speak had used neurotechnology to broadcast whole words—not just letters—from the brain. That… → Read More
Sophia Muirhead Is IEEE’s Next Executive Director
The struggle that most companies have maintaining code causes a second problem: fragility. Every new feature that gets added to the code increases its complexity, which then increases the chance that something will break. It’s common for software to grow so complex that the developers avoid changing it more than is absolutely necessary for fear of breaking something. In many companies, whole… → Read More
Stephen Welby: A Man on a Mission
The departing executive director steered IEEE through a pandemic and open access publishing → Read More
Climate Change is NSF Engineering Alliance’s Top Research Priority
Other focus areas include biology and cybersecurity → Read More
A New One-Stop Resource for IEEE Life Members
The website includes volunteer opportunities and continuing education materials → Read More
Nvidia’s CTO on the Future of High-Performance Computing
The company’s Earth-2 supercomputer is taking on climate change → Read More