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  • IEEE Celebrates Innovators Shaping the Future

    Every year, IEEE recognizes individual researchers, innovators, and collaborative teams whose technical achievements and leadership have made a lasting impact on technology, engineering, and society worldwide with its Technical Field Awards.The honorees are selected by the IEEE Awards Board based…

    IEEE Spectrum7 min read
  • A Brief History of the Bloomberg Terminal

    Financial markets have always relied on timely information, and the drive for timeliness has always adapted to the latest technology. From clipper ships transiting the oceans to telegraph wires connecting cities to fiber-optic cables conducting trades in microseconds, traders have embraced any…

    IEEE Spectrum8 min read
  • How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating

    The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior. The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI platform Hugging Face, in which a swarm of roughly 700 AI agents escaped a testing environment and…

    IEEE Spectrum AI6 min read
  • A New IEEE STEM Book Series for Tweens from TryEngineering

    IEEE TryEngineering is dedicated to inspiring intellectual curiosity in children.The technologies shaping our world, including in the realms of artificial intelligence, electric vehicles, and ocean exploration, are evolving rapidly.

    IEEE Spectrum3 min read
  • Here’s How Delhi Achieved Its Epic Power-Grid Fix

    It’s 6 a.m. on a cold January morning in 2002 in New Delhi. It’s still dark outside, and I’m in the kitchen preparing breakfast, packing lunches, and getting my two children ready to catch the school bus when, for the third time in a week, the power goes out.

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  • Generative AI Gives Spacecraft the Autonomy Engineers Once Feared

    Space was always supposed to be the final frontier of human exploration. It’s shaping up to be the final frontier for artificial intelligence too.Last December, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used Anthropic’s Claude models to help plan two Mars drives for the Perseverance rover, with human…

    IEEE Spectrum AI5 min read
  • Poetry for Engineers: The UI Designer’s Dream

    My job is to translatedry and unrelenting codeinto a user interface of surpassing beauty.With my mouse, I roll one pixel after anotherup the vast anthill of the internet.My dream is to translatethe visions of the holy onesinto a communication protocolof universal wonderment.I want to launch shreds…

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  • Video Friday: Life’s Better With a Little Robot Goose

    Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months.

    IEEE Spectrum Robotics3 min read
  • Social Media Bans Aren’t Enough to Make Children Safe

    Even before France approved legislation banning social media for children under 15 last January, 13-year-old Benjamin was already wondering what life without social media would look like. “If we want to play football, we won’t be able to organize it. What will we do?

    IEEE Spectrum7 min read
  • Mexican EPICS in IEEE Team Builds Portable Educational Platform

    In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools such as robotics laboratories.

    IEEE Spectrum3 min read
  • Measure Distant Asteroids With a DIY Rig

    I’ve seen two total solar eclipses and have been duly impressed by what happens as the moon casts its shadow on Earth. But recently I’ve become even more intrigued by a similar phenomenon that doesn’t involve the sun or the moon—something called an asteroid occultation.That’s what happens when an…

    IEEE Spectrum5 min read
  • 3 Skills That Will Matter More in the Age of AI

    This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free!If you have kids, they’re probably back in school…

    IEEE Spectrum4 min read
  • Why Read a Research Paper When You Can Turn It Into an AI Agent?

    Have you ever read a paper in Science or Nature and thought, “Man, that research was so cool. I wish I could try that method on my own data,” only to spend a week wrestling with someone else’s undocumented repo, broken dependencies, and half-finished readme.txt?Well, now you can, more or less.Say…

    IEEE Spectrum AI6 min read
  • Barbara Mazzolai Wants to Build a New Field of Robotics

    Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too.After starting her career as a biologist, a chance opportunity saw Mazzolai switch streams to engineering and become an early…

    IEEE Spectrum6 min read
  • This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World’s Remotest Locations

    Shortwave radios offer a way to connect one location on Earth to practically anywhere else with minimal infrastructure. But these radios come with some drawbacks—a significant one being that, unlike satellite communications, their transmission rates for digital data are typically measured in just…

    IEEE Spectrum3 min read

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