Topic: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Thought-based Computing? No Problem for Your Monkey Brain

It's well known that your brain can automate certain tasks like walking or playing the guitar. But new research out of the University of California, Berkeley demonstrates that our brains might be just as apt at controlling PCs. That ...READ»

Tech Unemployment Bad, but Not That Bad

Earlier this month, hard drive maker Seagate became the latest tech firm to announce layoffs: 1100 cuts, or 2.5% of its workforce. But while unemployment in the technology sector accelerated in the first quarter of 2009, according ...READ»

Electric Aircraft Symposium Aims To Get Electric Planes Off the Ground

With all the fuss about the environmental impact of fuel-guzzling cars and trucks, it's easy to forget that modern light aircraft often still use leaded gasoline, and to top it off, they pump out CO2 as they buzz through the ...READ»

WiGig is Another New Wi-Fi Standard, But At Least It's Fast

Gigabit speed Wi-fi--that's around ten times faster than current Wi-fi speeds--sounds all very groovy, and as everyone's file sizes rise while we all get used to HD video, faster Wi-fi is becoming a necessity. But the WiGig ...READ»

Six Unbelievable Things Online This Week

It's almost Memorial Day weekend--don't even pretend you're actually working. Here are six truly quizzical stories coursing across the social news sites today to get you through the final working hours. Who knows: you might even garner a little inspiration, and run out the door with an antler helmet on. Don't ask--just read.READ»

GM's Going Hydro

Everyone is being invited to test drive GM's Chevrolet Sequel, the automaker's hydrogen-fuel-cell concept car, except me. John Voelcker at IEEE Spectrum recently wrote about his test drive, as did Joel Makower over at ...READ»

Shape-shifing Robot Revealed, No Comment From Skynet

iRobot's new, blob-like robot prototype is able to roll around and squeeze itself through tiny holes.READ»

The Responsibility to Retrain

In a Web Exclusive interview with Fast Company, RIT professor Ronil Hira considers the arguments for and against offshoring, as well as who is responsible for the American workers left behind.READ»

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EPEAT-for-TV: A New Environmental Standard for TVs

With so many different TV options available--plasma, LED, and OLED in the near future--it's becoming increasingly difficult to sort out energy efficiency and environmental claims. A new standard, tentatively dubbed EPEAT-for-TV, ...READ»

Doug Schrandt - Focus on your finance

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ART STREIBER In 1989, Art Streiber left California for four years in Italy, where he and his wife ran the Milan bureau of Fairchild Publications, publisher of Women's Wear Daily and W magazine. Once back in L.A., he trained his eye ...READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 49

How big a problem is the telecom meltdown?READ»

Seven Mysteries Online This Week

Weird things happen, yes--but when technology is the cause, everything seems more confusing. Didn't we build these things? Don't we know how they work? Here are seven quiddities topping the social news sites this week. Amazon Steals ...READ»

Can You Build a Company from Free Code?

Hank Jones is a 23-year software and technology lawyer who's written widely about open source since 1999. Chip Rosenthal is an independent open-source software development consultant. Don Shafer, co-founder of the Athens Group, an ...READ»

Microsoft Building One-Mile Wi-Fi

Despite protestations from the Bush administration, the FCC succeeded last year in making a certain chunk of the nation's TV and radio spectrum--dubbed "white space"--available to unlicensed broadcasters. That meant that companies ...READ»

Unions? Not in this valley.

Why organizing white collar workers in Silicon Valley is hard slogging.READ»

Women Building the Future of Identity on the Web

Kaliya Hamlin aka Identity Woman, for the last five years has been a tireless evangelist for user-centric digital identity. She co-produces and facilitates the Internet Identity Workshop, Internet Identity Workshop the leading ...READ»

• The Most Influential Women in Technology

Nokia's Sad Augmented Reality

Yesterday, Nokia released a well-produced video demonstrating what they apparently believe to be the future of augmented reality apps. If you haven't been keeping up with AR, it's just used to denote an information layer placed ...READ»

Nokia's Sad Augmented Reality

Yesterday, Nokia released a well-produced video demonstrating what they apparently believe to be the future of augmented reality apps. If you haven't been keeping up with AR, it's just used to denote an information layer ...READ»