Globally, tech salaries climbed an average of 6.2 percent to US $138,000, with the San Diego area clocking the biggest jump, at 9.1 percent to US $144,000. The San Francisco Bay area registered a slight decline, though average salaries there still top the charts at $165,000. New York City tech salaries slipped slight as well, […]
“Growing up in the Bowie, Md., area, whenever we drove by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, I told my parents that I would work there someday,” recounts Proctor, who is now an associate chief at Goddard for NASA’s Electrical Engineering Division (EED). Originally, Proctor was focused on astronomy, but during high school at an engineering […]
Registration is now open for EVO 2.0, IEEE-USA‘s third and final virtual event of the year, taking place on 3 November. The free half-day conference features all-new speakers, with a continued focus on emerging technology, future perspectives, and career-enhancing tips. SNEAK PEEK Enjoy a fireside chat with Nichol Bradford, cofounder and executive director of the […]
The 2020 fire season in the United States was the worst in at least 70 years, with some 4 million hectares burned on the west coast alone. These West Coast fires killed at least 37 people, destroyed hundreds of structures, caused nearly US $20 billion in damage, and filled the air with smoke that threatened […]
Some three decades ago, a group of pioneering computer scientists—Gordon Bell, John Hennessy, Ed Lazowska, Raj Reddy, Andy Van Dam, and sometimes a few others—began a tradition of placing bets against each other. This week, these long-time friends and competitors gathered virtually at an event held by the Computer History Museum in honor of Reddy being named […]
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): RoboCup 2021 – June 22-28, 2021 – [Online Event] RSS 2021 – July 12-16, 2021 – [Online Event] […]
Edmon de Haro Ten years ago, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen proclaimed that software was eating the world. Today, the hottest features in the latest phones are software updates or AI improvements, not faster chips or new form factors. Technology is becoming more mundane, and ultimately, invisible. This probably doesn’t bother you. But even as technologies […]
For years, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been shuffling its way towards some semblance of regulation of the enormous number of drones now in the hands of recreational pilots in the United States. The fact that anyone can run out and buy a cheap drone at a nearby store, charge the battery, and […]
It’s well known that microplastics have infiltrated much of the world’s oceans, where these persistent pieces of garbage threaten the livelihood of marine life. But truly quantifying the extent of this problem globally remains a challenge. Now, a pair of researchers are proposing a novel approach to tracking these minute scraps of plastic in the […]
The white sailboat outside of Michelin Group’s Swiss office doesn’t have a sail at all. Instead, it has a wing. The puffy, inflatable structure towers over the vessel, resembling an enormous meringue with a spine of stiff peaks. At sea, it cuts through the wind like an airplane wing, sending the sailboat flying across the […]