National Academy of Medicine Names Five NAM Fellows for 2019
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September 8, 2019
Engineering
Video Friday: Misty Robotics Begins Shipping Its Programmable Personal Robot
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!): IEEE Africon 2019 – September 25-27, 2019 – Accra, Ghana RoboBusiness 2019 – October 1-3, 2019 – Santa […]
Interactive: The Top Programming Languages 2019
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The Top Programming Languages 2019
Explore the Interactive Rankings Welcome to IEEE Spectrum’s sixth annual interactive ranking of the top programming languages. This year we’ve done a major overhaul, changing some of the underlying metrics and building a new streamlined interface. But our basic idea and methodology remains the same: combining data from multiple sources to rank the popularity of […]
Soft Self-Healing Materials for Robots That Cannot Be Destroyed
If there’s one thing we know about robots, it’s that they break. They break, like, literally all the time. The software breaks. The hardware breaks. The bits that you think could never, ever, ever possibly break end up breaking just when you need them not to break the most, and then you have to try […]
Epoxy Offers 5.5 W/(m•K) Thermal Conductivity
$(function () { $(‘.medium-top-ad’).hide(); }); $(function () { $(‘.medium-top-bottom’).hide(); }); Epoxy system EP30NG is a first rate thermal conductor as well as a low level electrical conductor. Master Bond EP30NG is a two component epoxy adhesive system developed for applications that require high thermal conductivity. It contains a specialty graphene filler which contributes not only […]
New Awareness Campaign Spotlights the Contributions of Experts In Robotics and Wireless Communications
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September 5, 2019
NAM President Delivers Lecture at Nobel Conference
National Academy of Medicine President Victor Dzau delivered a plenary lecture at the Nobel conference, which was held at the Nobel Forum in Stockholm, Sweden, about major medical breakthroughs and lifesaving therapies, such as penicillin and statins, that are the consequences of basic discovery research on nature. Read More
September 5, 2019
EngineerGirl Announces 2019 Class of Student Ambassadors
The National Academy of Engineering today announced the new class of the EngineerGirl Ambassadors program. The 16 selected will participate in a yearlong program designed to build leadership skills in female high school students by helping them promote engineering to younger students in their community. Read More
Strange Respiratory Disease Linked to E-Cigs and Vaping
Update: On 6 September, the U.S. CDC said it is now investigating 450 total possible cases of respiratory illness associated with e-cigarette use. In all cases, patients developed an illness after using e-cigarette products that contained THC, THC and nicotine, or nicotine only. Descriptions of the cases have been published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly […]