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 asteroid orbits around the solar system and blocks the light of a distant star you’re viewing from…
Engineering the Substation Exit for Reliability, Capacity, and Expansion
This white paper gives distribution engineers and utility teams a practical overview of the substation exit, the short and high-consequence section where station capacity divides into individual feeders. It explains how covered, spacer-supported overhead construction can reduce common contact-driven faults while leaving room for future circuits.What you will learn about:Why a fault near the…
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 right now after the summer break. Mine are too.My kids range from 9 to 20 years old, and lately I’ve…
Universal Orchestration: The Foundation for the Next Era of Enterprise Automation
Originally published by ProcessMaker. Read the original at ProcessMaker →
Universal Orchestration: The Foundation for the Next Era of Enterprise Automation
Originally published by ProcessMaker. Read the original at ProcessMaker →
Spain’s First Astronaut, Pedro Duque, Named IEEE Honorary Member
Many youngsters fascinated by exploring outer space dream of becoming an astronaut, but few do. One who had the right stuff is Pedro Duque, who was Spain’s first astronaut. The aeronautics engineer flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery and the International Space Station.After retiring as an astronaut, he headed Spain’s Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities. Today he is the chairman…
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 pioneer of bioinspired robotics. Building on her knowledge of biology’s ability to solve a diverse…
The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers
This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company.Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves 75 kW of air load. The air cooling system needed to move it brings cost and complexity few operators will accept. The answer is near-total heat capture. Liquid takes effectively all the heat, air…
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 hundreds of bits per second. Peter BloomPeter Bloom is the founder of Rhizomatica, a nonprofit that…
What 3 new MIT Sloan professors have learned about AI
New faculty members are thinking about how AI can help decision-making, the value of adversarial AI agents, and the skills workers need in the AI era.