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3 weeks ago | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Joanna Goodrich
I attended this year’s IEEE Vision, Innovation, and Challenges Summit and Honors Ceremony on 23 and 24 April at the Hilton Tokyo Odaiba hotel. The event celebrates pioneers in engineering who have developed technology that changes the way people connect and learn about the world. This year’s celebrants included the engineers behind the first digital cable set-top box modem chipset and the James Webb Space Telescope.
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4 weeks ago | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Joanna Goodrich
Aishwarya Bandla tries to center her work around passion, people, and purpose, following the Japanese concept of ikigai, or a sense of purpose. For the IEEE senior member, that involves transforming patient care through innovative health technology.
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Mar 27, 2025 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Joanna Goodrich
Marko Delimar has been a proponent of empowering the next generation of engineers, scientists, and technologists since he was an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Zagreb, in Croatia. The IEEE senior member now mentors undergraduate and graduate students at his alma mater, where he is a professor of electrical engineering and computing. IEEE has played a key role in his quest to provide students with the support they need, he says.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Joanna Goodrich
IEEE Fellow Henry Samueli, cofounder of Broadcom, is the 2025 IEEE Medal of Honor Laureate. He is being recognized for his “pioneering research and commercialization of broadband communication and networking technologies, and promotion of STEM education.” The news was announced on 20 February in New York City at a dedicated press conference. Samueli is the first recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor since its monetary prize was increased to US $2 million from $50,000. IEEE sponsors the annual award.
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Feb 18, 2025 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Joanna Goodrich
With NASA working on sending humans to Mars starting in the 2030s, colonizing the Red Planet seems more achievable than ever. The space agency is already leading yearlong simulated missions to better understand how living on Mars could affect humans. Because of the planet’s thin atmosphere, high radiation levels, and abrasive dust, people would need to live in specialized dwellings and use robots to perform outdoor tasks.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Joanna Goodrich
Wireless technology, such as cellphones, fitness trackers, and medical devices, has become ubiquitous. Before a wireless device is manufactured and sold, its technology is tested by compliance engineering laboratories to ensure it adheres to technical standards established by organizations including the IEEE Standards Association. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission oversees regulations for all wireless devices, while the focuses on medical technology.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
foodhq.world | Joanna Goodrich
Sometime next year, an autonomous robot might deliver food from an airport restaurant to your gate.
The idea for Ottobot, a delivery robot, came out of a desire to help restaurants meet the increased demand for takeout orders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ottobot can find its way around indoor spaces where GPS can’t penetrate.
Ottobot is the brainchild of Ritukar Vijay, Ashish Gupta, Hardik Sharma, and Pradyot Korupolu. The four founded Ottonomy in 2020 in Santa Monica, Calif.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Joanna Goodrich
The IEEE Board of Directors has nominated IEEE Senior Members Jill I. Gostin and David Alan Koehler as candidates for 2026 IEEE president-elect. IEEE Life Fellow Manfred “Fred” J. Schindler is seeking to be a petition candidate. The winner of this year’s election will serve as IEEE president in 2027. For more information about the election, president-elect candidates, and the petition process, visit the IEEE election website. IEEE Senior Member Jill I.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Joanna Goodrich
Land mines have been around in one form or another for more than a thousand years. By now, you’d think a simple and safe way of locating and removing the devices would’ve been engineered. But that’s not the case. In fact, up until World War II, the most common method for finding the explosives was to prod the ground with a pointed stick or bayonet. The hockey-puck-size devices were buried about 15 centimeters below the ground.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
spectrum.ieee.org | Joanna Goodrich
Like many innovators, Hagit Messer-Yaron had a life-changing idea while doing something mundane: Talking with a colleague over a cup of coffee. The IEEE Life Fellow, who in 2006 was head of Tel Aviv University’s Porter School of Environmental Studies, was at the school’s cafeteria with a meteorological researcher. He shared his struggles with finding high-resolution weather data for his climate models, which are used to forecast and track flash floods.
