The Best of IEEE

What to expect from IEDM 2023 this December

Spinning mega-machines will safeguard the Baltic power grid as it desynchronizes from Russia

Studies will soon show whether electroceuticals outperform pharmaceuticals

The 2021 AI Index provides insight into jobs, publications, diversity, and more

Jan Leike explains OpenAI's effort to protect humanity from superintelligent AI

It’s hard to learn, but your code will produce fewer nasty surprises

It’s hard to learn, but your code will produce fewer nasty surprises

OpenAI says the problem’s solvable, Yann LeCun says we’ll see

This is a guest post by Chenming Wu. Wu, the researcher credited with inventing the FinFET. He says: "On the 75th anniversary of the invention of the transistor, I’d like to answer two questions: Does the world need better transistors? And if so, what will they be like?"

“Deep-speare” crafted Shakespearean verse that most readers couldn’t distinguish from human-written poems

The proposed strategy relies on manipulating with high precision an unimaginably huge number of variables

Quantum bits (aka qubits), the reader is assured, are somehow "entangled" such that they rely on one another. If more detail is needed, we're told entanglement links qubits no matter how far apart they are—so long as the qubits are “coherent.” This hardly helps! So let's try a different approach.

Having conquered Go and protein folding, the company turns to a really hard problem

Unused bandwidth in neurons can be tapped to control extra limbs

SQL dominated the jobs ranking in this year's IEEE Spectrum interactive rankings of the top programming languages. Normally, the top position is occupied by Python or other mainstays, such as C, C++, Java, and JavaScript, but we explain why SQL has soared to the top

The tech has long been stymied on how to scale it out of the lab

Condor Galaxy 1 is the start of a 9-system, 36-exaflop network

DNA, AI facial reconstruction, and sheer grit identified Somerton Man—75 years later

That may bode ill for nuclear deterrence and the peace of the world

In order to better understand how people will interact with mobile robots in the wild, we need to take them out of the lab and deploy them in the real world. But this isn’t easy to do.

Making virtual worlds as interconnected as the internet will be tough

«Online video games like Fortnite and Roblox are pitching themselves as precursors to the metaverse because of their large 3D environments where millions gather every day.»

According to the best measures we’ve got, a set of benchmarks called MLPerf, machine learning systems can be trained nearly twice as quickly they could last year. It’s a figure that outstrips Moore’s Law by quite a ways.