The Best of IEEE
20+ most popular IEEE articles, as voted by our community.
IEEE on Artificial Intelligence
15 Graphs You Need to See to Understand AI in 2021
The 2021 AI Index provides insight into jobs, publications, diversity, and more
OpenAI’s Moonshot: Solving the AI Alignment Problem
Jan Leike explains OpenAI's effort to protect humanity from superintelligent AI
IEEE on Computing
How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU
Advances in semiconductors are feeding the AI boom
IEEE on Functional Programming
Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software Development
It’s hard to learn, but your code will produce fewer nasty surprises
Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software Development
It’s hard to learn, but your code will produce fewer nasty surprises
IEEE on Future
ChatGPT's Hallucinations Could Keep It from Succeeding
OpenAI says the problem’s solvable, Yann LeCun says we’ll see
Salt-Sized Sensors Mimic the Brain
An array of tiny wireless nodes could someday find their way into brain-machine interfaces
IEEE on Gadgets
Their Bionic Eyes Are Now Obsolete and Unsupported
These early adopters found out what happened when a cutting-edge marvel became an obsolete gadget... inside their bodies.
IEEE on Quantum Computing
The Case Against Quantum Computing
The proposed strategy relies on manipulating with high precision an unimaginably huge number of variables
IEEE on Quantum Entanglement
What Is Quantum Entanglement?
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.
IEEE on Robotics
How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot
Having conquered Go and protein folding, the company turns to a really hard problem
Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm
Unused bandwidth in neurons can be tapped to control extra limbs
IEEE on Technology
At Last, Single-Photon Cameras Could Peer into Your Brain
The tech has long been stymied on how to scale it out of the lab
Cerebras Builds Massive AI Supercomputer
Condor Galaxy 1 is the start of a 9-system, 36-exaflop network
IEEE on Virtual Reality
The Metaverse Could Help Us Better Understand Reality
The killer app for ambitious virtual reality could be our world
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The Rise of SQL
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
How an Electrical Engineer Solved Australia’s Most Famous Cold Case
DNA, AI facial reconstruction, and sheer grit identified Somerton Man—75 years later
Wandering Robots in the Wild
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.
Will AI Steal Submarines’ Stealth?
That may bode ill for nuclear deterrence and the peace of the world
Q&A: Why the Metaverse Needs to Be Open
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.»
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