IEEE President’s Note: Connecting the Unconnected

IEEE President’s Note: Connecting the Unconnected

At IEEE, we know that the advancement of science and technology is the engine that drives the improvement of the quality of life for every person on this planet. Unfortunately, as we are all aware, today’s world faces significant challenges, including escalating conflicts, a climate crisis, food insecurity, gender inequality, and the approximately 2.7 billion people who cannot access the Internet. Bridging the divideThe COVID-19 pandemic exposed the digital divide like never before. The world saw the need for universal broadband…Source: IEEE SPECTRUM NEWS

This Stevens Institute of Technology Student Got a Head Start in Engineering

This Stevens Institute of Technology Student Got a Head Start in Engineering

Many teenagers take a job at a restaurant or retail store, but Megan Dion got a head start on her engineering career. At 16, she landed a part-time position at FXB, a mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering company in Chadds Ford, Pa., where she helped create and optimize project designs.She continued to work at the company during her first year as an undergraduate at the Stevens Institute of Technology, in Hoboken, N.J., where she is studying electrical engineering with a concentration…Source: IEEE SPECTRUM NEWS

Using a Low-Pass Filter to Clean Up Noisy Signals

Using a Low-Pass Filter to Clean Up Noisy Signals

Often, you’ll need to acquire signals at very high sample rates. Higher sample rates allow you to capture voltage transients, or events that occur in a very short period of time. And since all channels in WinDaq are sampled at the same rate, you might get the results you’re looking for on some channels, and Read MoreSource: DATAQ…

January 2023 Monthly National Climate Report

The January contiguous U.S. average temperature was 35.17 degress Fahrenheit, 5.05 degress Fahrenheit above the 1901-2000 average. The precipitation total was 2.85 inches, 0.54 inches above average.Source: State of the Climate Report …

Doomed to explode in a kilonova, rare star system is discovered by astronomers

“One in 10 billion” binary will one day shower the cosmos with heavy elements
The post Doomed to explode in a kilonova, rare star system is discovered by astronomers appeared first on Physics World.Source: Physics World …

8 Products That Excel at Protecting Children’s Digital Privacy

8 Products That Excel at Protecting Children’s Digital Privacy

A 2019 UNICEF study found that globally, about 1 in 3 Internet users is younger than 18. Parents let preschool children use their smartphones and tablets to stream shows and play games. School-age youngsters are online more lately because of remote learning that schools began offering during the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools have become accustomed to relying on technology, which in some cases has made teaching easier, more efficient, and more inclusive. In some schools, computers have replaced notebooks and textbooks.Some regulations…

Prominent Universities Sign Open Access Agreements with IEEE

Prominent Universities Sign Open Access Agreements with IEEE

The University of California and the Conference of Italian University Rectors (a consortium of state and non-state universities known as the CRUI) each recently signed what’s known as a read-and-publish agreement with IEEE. The agreement lets the institutions’ researchers access documents behind the paywall in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, like traditional subscribers. The agreement also allows them to publish their open-access articles in IEEE periodicals without paying out of pocket.IEEE open-access articles are supported by article-processing charges instead of subscriptions….