Harry Goldstein

3 weeks ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Harry Goldstein

Eight years is a long time in the world of patents. When we last published what we then called the Patent Power Scorecard, in 2017, it was a different technological and social landscape—Google had just filed a patent application on the transformer architecture, a momentous advance that spawned the generative AI revolution. China was just beginning to produce quality, affordable electric vehicles at scale. And the COVID pandemic wasn’t on anyone’s dance card.

3 weeks ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Harry Goldstein

Eight years is a long time in the world of patents. When we last published what we then called the Patent Power Scorecard, in 2017, it was a different technological and social landscape—Google had just filed a patent application on the transformer architecture, a momentous advance that spawned the generative AI revolution. China was just beginning to produce quality, affordable electric vehicles at scale. And the COVID pandemic wasn’t on anyone’s dance card.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Harry Goldstein

Mike Kelley vs. Trump: The Photo That Could Spark a Presidential Copyright WarEvery photographer dreads the moment their work gets stolen — but what happens when the President of the United States is the thief? Last night, …

1 month ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Harry Goldstein

I come from dairy-farming stock. My grandfather, the original Harry Goldstein, owned a herd of dairy cows and a creamery in Louisville, Ky., that bore the family name. One fateful day in early April 1944, Harry was milking his cows when a heavy metallic part of his homemade milking contraption—likely some version of the then-popular Surge Bucket Milker—struck him in the abdomen, causing a blood clot that ultimately led to cardiac arrest and his subsequent demise a few days later, at the age of 48.

2 months ago | spectrum.ieee.org | Harry Goldstein

In the three decades since Brewster Kahle spun up the nonprofit Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, it has scaled up to include government websites and datasets—many of which are essential to the engineering and scientific communities.