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3 weeks 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.
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1 month ago | 
cyberera.com.ng | Harry Goldstein
Quantum Tech Isn’t Just About Going Smaller—It’s About Doing The ImpossibleBy Harry GoldsteinWhy build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? This question occurred to me on a long flight to Paris, to attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), at UNESCO headquarters last month. I was part of an IEEE delegation led by 2025 IEEE President Kathleen Kramer.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Harry Goldstein
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1 month ago | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Harry Goldstein
Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? This question occurred to me on a long flight to Paris, to attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology (IYQ), at UNESCO headquarters last month. I was part of an IEEE delegation led by 2025 IEEE President Kathleen Kramer.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | Harry Goldstein
1 day agoBasically, if you look in a time mirror, you’ll see your back instead of your face. For more than 50 years, scientists theorized that an electromagnetic wave could be reflected temporally—not just spatially. • Scientists have been unable to confirm the existence of time reflection due to the amount of …
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2 months ago | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Harry Goldstein
I first became aware of the looming transformer crisis in 2022, when IEEE Spectrum contributing editor Robert N. Charette was reporting on the infrastructure improvements required to make the transition to electrical vehicles possible. Modern power grids can’t run without transformers, which step voltages up and down for distribution from power plants to power stations and on to homes and businesses.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Harry Goldstein
Over the last year, Spectrum’s editors have noticed an emerging through line connecting several major stories: the centrality of technology to geopolitics. Last month, our cover story, done in partnership with Foreign Policy magazine, was on the future of submarine warfare. And last October, we focused on how sea drones could bolster Taiwan’s “silicon shield” strategy, which rests on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s domination of high-end chip manufacturing.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Harry Goldstein
Just before this special issue on invention went to press, I got a message from IEEE senior member and patent attorney George Macdonald. Nearly two decades after I first reported on Corliss Orville “Cob” Burandt’s struggle with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the 77-year-old inventor’s patent case was being revived.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Harry Goldstein
The majority of the world’s advanced logic chips are made in Taiwan, and most of those are made by one company: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). While it seems risky for companies like Nvidia, Apple, and Google to depend so much on one supplier, for Taiwan’s leaders, that’s a feature, not a bug.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Harry Goldstein
It pays to have friends in fascinating places. You need look no further than the cover of this issue and the article “IBM’s Big Bet on the Quantum-Centric Supercomputer” for evidence. The article by Ryan Mandelbaum, Antonio D. Córcoles, and Jay Gambetta came to us courtesy of the article’s illustrator, the inimitable graphic artist Carl De Torres, a longtime IEEE Spectrum contributor as well as a design and communications consultant for IBM Research.
