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09 May 2019
360 Video: Zoom Over Zanzibar With Tanzania’s Drone Startups
With 360-degree video, IEEE Spectrum puts you aboard drones that are flying high above the Tanzanian landscape: You’ll ride along as drones soar above farms, towns, and the blue expanse of Lake Victoria. You’ll also meet the local entrepreneurs who are creating a new industry, finding applications for their drones...
06 May 2019
360 Video: Go on a Mission With Zipline’s Delivery Drones
With 360 video, IEEE Spectrum takes you behind the scenes with one of the world’s first drone-delivery companies. Zipline, based in California, is using drones to deliver blood to hospitals throughout Rwanda. At an operations center in Muhanga, you’ll watch as Zipline technicians assemble the modular drones, fill their cargo holds, and...
17 October 2018
A Techie’s Tour of New York City
Do your travel plans include New York City? Are you a techie? If the answer to those questions is yes, let IEEE Spectrum be your guide! We've put together a list of some of our favorite places to visit, including important locations in the history of electrotechnology (New York was...
10 July 2018
Don Eyles: Space Hacker
In the early hours of 5 February 1971, Don Eyles had a big problem: Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell were orbiting the moon, preparing to land, but it looked like they were going to have to come home without putting so much as a single footprint on...
30 June 2018
We Grew Algae and Asked Spectrum Editors to Taste It
When was the last time you sipped algae? Chances are, you’ve never done that. But while working on a special report about potential climate-saving technologies, IEEE Spectrum decided to try to grow Spirulina, which proponents have pitched as a sustainable food, in a five-gallon plastic bucket in a back room...

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  • eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society – Issue 73, June 2022

    Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 72, March 2022 Editorial From Prof. Dongrui Wu, PhD Society News About the Society Board of Governors Newly elected/appointed Society Officials: BoG Members-at-Large, Dongrui Wu, 2022 IEEE SMCS Resource Center Launched Join the IEEE Brain Community for Free! TL Introductions: TC on...

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  • eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society – Issue 72, March 2022

    Summary of the Latest Issue of the eNewsletter of the IEEE SMC Society, Issue 72, March 2022 Editorial From Prof. Dongrui Wu, PhD Society News About the Society Board of Governors Newly elected ExCom members for the 2022-2023 term: Vice President, Publications, Shun-Feng Su, 2022 Secretary, Tom Gedeon, 2022 Treasurer, Vladik Kreinovich, 2022 BoG Members-at-Large, Yaoping...

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  • Article II. Field of Interest: 2022 Updates

    Article II. Field of Interest: 2022 Updates The Field of Interest (FOI) of the SMCS includes: Integration of the theories of communication, control, cybernetics, stochastics, optimization and system structure towards the formation of a general theory of systems; Development of systems engineering technology including problem definition methods, modeling, and simulation, methods of system experimentation, human...

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