Green Mountain IEEE News
- Nominations are now open here for the 2024 IEEE Green Mountain Section awards. The deadline is Friday, October 21. The awards meeting will be held November 15 at the Doubletree, South Burlington.
- Congratulations to the Green Mountain PES Chapter, which won a 2023 IEEE PES High Performing Chapter award!
- If you’re an IEEE member with at least 10 years of professional, consider trying to elevate to senior membership. See requirements here.
- Interested in the history of the IEEE in Vermont? Willing to do a bit of digging to find out more? We’re looking for a section historian to gather information and help us tell the story. Contact section chair Josh Burroughs if you’re interested.
- Check out Inspiring Technology: 34 Breakthrough, an online book highlighting key milestones from the IEEE’s 140 year history.
- The 2023 Green Mountain IEEE Section annual awards meeting was held November 17, 2023 at the Essex. Awardees can be found here.
- Congratulations to Joshua Burroughs and Amritanshu Pandey, elevated to IEEE Senior members in August, 2023.
- Recordings of some IEEE GM meetings are now available on our programs page.
IEEE Spectrum
- Stories of the War in Ukraine: Volodymyr March 17, 2022Over the past week, The Institute has made contact with some of the 400 members of the IEEE Ukraine Section to help them share their experiences during the war. This personal account was written by Volodymyr Pyliavskyi, a senior researcher at the Odessa National Telecommunications Academy in Odessa, Ukraine. “For so long I was planning […]
- Stories of the War in Ukraine: Hanna March 17, 2022Over the past week, The Institute has made contact with some of the 400 members of the IEEE Ukraine Section to help them share their experiences during the war. This personal account, entitled “Real War,” was written by Hanna Porieva, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky […]
- A Russian Perspective on the War in Ukraine March 17, 2022The Institute reached out to Russian IEEE members to get their views regarding the war, as citizens, engineers, and IEEE members. Here we share the thoughts of Roman L. Gorbunov, a member of the Siberia section. As our regular readers might know, we sometimes publish opinion articles. These should not be interpreted as official positions […]
IEEE Spectrum news
- Engineering Students Innovate Accessibility Technology September 17, 2024More than 15 percent of the world’s population—greater than 1 billion people—live with disabilities including hearing loss, vision problems, mental health challenges, and lack of mobility. EPICS in IEEE has engaged students’ ingenuity worldwide to address accessibility issues through adaptive services, redesigned technology, and new assistive technologies during its 2023 Access and Abilities Competition.The competition […]
- How and Why Gary Marcus Became AI's Leading Critic September 17, 2024Maybe you’ve read about Gary Marcus’s testimony before the Senate in May of 2023, when he sat next to Sam Altman and called for strict regulation of Altman’s company, OpenAI, as well as the other tech companies that were suddenly all-in on generative AI. Maybe you’ve caught some of his arguments on Twitter with Geoffrey […]
- Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown September 16, 2024It’s hard to overstate Nvidia’s AI dominance. Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers. But it’s the company’s AI chips, not PC graphics hardware, that vaulted Nvidia into the ranks of the world’s most valuable companies. It turns out that Nvidia’s GPUs […]
- In 1926, TV Was Mechanical September 16, 2024Scottish inventor John Logie Baird had a lot of ingenious ideas, not all of which caught on. His phonovision was an early attempt at video recording, with the signals preserved on phonograph records. His noctovision used infrared light to see objects in the dark, which some experts claim was a precursor to radar. But Baird […]
- Amazon's Secret Weapon in Chip Design Is Amazon September 15, 2024Big-name makers of processors, especially those geared toward cloud-based AI, such as AMD and Nvidia, have been showing signs of wanting to own more of the business of computing, purchasing makers of software, interconnects, and servers. The hope is that control of the “full stack” will give them an edge in designing what their customers […]