Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”

Major benchmarks measure what AI can do.…

• None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what …
• We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient.
• There’s often a gap between one person’s request and another’s underst…

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The Computer That Helped Win World War II

One summer day in 1941, a British radio operator was monitoring German military frequencies and heard something unexpected in her headphones.…

• A later report called it “strange new music.
• ” Sounding unlike the familiar Morse dit-dit-dah of enciphered message…
• Germany’s wartime engineers had developed a radically new encryption a…

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2022 IEEE President K.J. Ray Liu Honored for His Leadership

Unlike many budding engineers, K.J.Ray Liu wasn’t inspired to enter the field by tinkering with electronics or following in the footsteps of a family member.…

• Growing up in Taichung, Taiwan, he answered his government’s call for …
• “Students who were good in math, science, and physics all wanted to be…
• “That’s how I got into engineering.

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Poetry for Engineers: A Martian Rover Sends a Postcard Home

Already, I’ve almost forgotten rain;I know I will never know that again.I move forward with the powers you gave meto live up to my name, Curiosity.…

• This is a land without leaves, fronds, or spines.
• If there are plants, they are small and supine,dust hidden, like light…
• Shadows, few andfar from here, I know I must go to themto see if they …

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Why AI-Driven Cognitive Systems Are Redefining Radar and Electronic Warfare

An overview of how mode-agile threats challenge static library radar/EW systems, and how AI/ML cognitive architectures enable adaptive, real-time countermeasures.…

• What Attendees will LearnWhy mode-agile threats render static library …
• How AI/ML techniques power cognitive radar/EW systems — Understand the…
• The architecture of a cognitive radar/EW system — Examine the function…

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Negotiating Your Salary Is About More Than Money

This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter.…

• Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategi…
• Scroll through LinkedIn right now and you may find the same advice rep…
• Take the offer.

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A Remote Indigenous Community Built One of Canada’s Fastest Fiber Networks

In February 2024, a young man lay somewhere on the frozen shore of James Bay, Canada, surrounded by snow and darkness, succumbing to hypothermia.…

• When he failed to get home on time, his frantic mother sent a Facebook…
• Kataquapit used Facebook to alert the community’s search-and-rescue sq…
• Before dawn, they returned with the dazed man, who told rescuers he’d …

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Detect Dark Matter’s Mark From Your Backyard

If you’re wondering what dark matter is, you’re not alone.Astronomers don’t know.…

• But they’ve determined that this invisible material must be far more a…
• They’ve surmised as much from observing the gravitational effects of a…
• I recently learned that it is possible to sense the presence of dark m…

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IEEE Publishing Ethics Team Upholds Research Integrity

Given a rising number of publishing misconduct allegations, IEEE in 2022 created the Publishing Ethics Team as a centralized department to assist in handling claims.…

• The group also works to increase the organization’s visibility in the …
• Here are some highlights of the team’s activities last year.
• New detection toolsIEEE conducted a pilot program in 2024 to integrate…

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Fridays With Bob

When I started at Spectrum 25 years ago, a senior editor suggested that I find a “rabbi,” by which he meant someone who could mentor me in how EEs approach problems and evaluate potential solutions.…

• I didn’t find one right away.
• Then in 2005 we decided to do a special report, focusing on the challe…
• I suggested we invite IEEE Life Senior Member Robert N.

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Predict Antenna Coupling on Electrically Large Platforms Before Building Hardware

Learn how full-wave simulation predicts very low antenna coupling on aircraft-sized platforms, and which three modeling techniques deliver accurate results with fewer computational resources.…

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Bring a Product Manager Mindset to Your Next Engineering Job

If you haven’t already seen a job listing for a “product engineer,” you probably will soon.…

• The job everyone’s suddenly hiring for, this role is like a cross betw…
• And it’s a hiring trend worth paying attention to.
• Companies are opening more of these roles every single month, but they…

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Cars Communicating Badly Is an Already-Solved Problem

The history of networking is full of tools that repurposed solutions to very different kinds of problems first.…

• Wi-Fi’s origins trace back, in part, to a team of Australian radio ast…
• But the data-processing tools they’d developed also proved capable at …
• Echoes are echoes, after all, whether from distant star systems or fro…

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Navigating the Pivot From Tech Expert to Organizational Leader

The transition from a purely technical expert or individual contributor position to a broader leadership role is one of the most challenging phases in a STEM career.…

• It requires moving away from relying solely on technical excellence to…
• To help mid-career professionals navigate the shift, the inaugural IEE…
• The ILC event is scheduled for 3 and 4 October in Budapest.

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Zap Rocks. Add Water. Get Clean Hydrogen

In a tranquil Boston suburb, on the far edge of a horse farm, where pasture gives way to woods, a crane lowers an enormous electrode into a borehole.…

• The electrode, a half-meter-long cylinder with copper-tipped arms to e…
• Here the rock is tight; there are few cracks for water or gases to flow.
• But that’s about to change.

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IEEE Engineering Summit Supports Bhutan’s Digital Transformation

In collaboration with the Kingdom of Bhutan government, IEEE recently introduced its Engineering Education, Research, and Innovation Summit.…

• Held on 9 and 10 June in Paro, in the eastern Himalayas, the event was…
• The summit brought together global academic leaders, technology expert…
• Discussions focused on how to build high-value research capabilities i…

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Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI

A survey of over 700 professionals examines how visual and physical AI teams build systems, why models fail, and where data work drives production.Download this free whitepaper now!

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