We read with considerable interest the story in the September 2022 issue of The Institute titled “IEEE’s Plan to Help Combat Climate Change.” As IEEE members and as co-principal investigators of the U.S. National Science Foundation initiative, the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance, we agree that engineers, scientists, and technical professionals have a critical role to […]
IEEE Life Fellow Thomas M. Coughlin has been elected as the 2023 IEEE president-elect. He is set to begin serving as president on 1 January 2024. Coughlin, who was nominated by the IEEE Board of Directors, received 10,908 votes in the election. Senior Member Kathleen Kramer received 10,769 votes, Life Fellow Kazuhiro Kosuge received 8,682 […]
Last week, the White House put forth its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. It’s not what you might think—it doesn’t give artificial-intelligence systems the right to free speech (thank goodness) or to carry arms (double thank goodness), nor does it bestow any other rights upon AI entities. Instead, it’s a nonbinding framework for […]
Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ROSCon 2022: 19–21 October 2022, KYOTO, JAPAN IROS […]
Update 14 Oct. 2022: The “Kindle” of license plates—Reviver’s connected, digital RPlate—is now legal for use by any California car-owner, following a 10,000-car pilot that started in 2018. The California Motor Vehicle Digital Number Plates bill that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed this month authorizes digital replacements for conventional license plates, stickers, tabs, and registration […]