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[/] IEEE.org | IEEE Xplore Digital Library | IEEE Standards | IEEE Spectrum | More Sites Follow on: Advertisement Engineering Topics Special Reports Blogs Multimedia The Magazine Professional Resources Search At Work SUBTOPICS: Education Innovation Start-ups Tech Careers Test and Measurement Sort by Most: Recent Viewed Commented Layout Type: organic layout grid layout Gadgets Here Comes the 3-D Portrait Studio Lower-cost 3-D scanners and full-color 3-D printers combine to kick off a new kind of portrait photography 13 Aug At Work A "Sound Camera" Zeroes In on Buzz, Squeak, and Rattle Handheld sound-visualizing camera helps Hyundai engineers seek out and destroy acoustic irritants 11 Aug Advertisement At Work What Do Women in Engineering Want? Many women who leave engineering cite professional culture clash 11 Aug Robotics Robotics Company Prepares to Take Responsibility For Displaced Workers Momentum Machines aims to eliminate the burger boy—and retrain him to be an engineer 8 Aug At Work Silicon Valley Pay: CEO Salaries Range From Zero to $78 Million Intel CEO a bargain at $9.5 million compared with Zynga CEO’s $58 million salary; Tesla’s Musk gets enough to buy a car 6 Aug Gadgets Soon to Join the Internet of Things: the Quantified Cup On the Internet of Things, everything will be connected—but not necessarily dishwasher safe 1 Aug Semiconductors How to Catch a Memory Copycat In the competitive world of memory chip manufacture, how do you find a fraud? 31 Jul Computing A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World The Weissman Score, a compression algorithm metric created for HBO's Silicon Valley, is making its way into the real world 28 Jul At Work Mimicking the Super Hearing of a Cricket-Hunting Fly Researchers build a silicon version of nature’s most acute sound-location system 25 Jul At Work Start-ups: Better Beer and Coffee with Brewbot and Bonaverde Home brewing gets an upgrade 24 Jul At Work Mime Troupe Plays For Peace In San Francisco’s Tech Wars Left-leaning comedy group aims to teach well-meaning tech workers that there is no such thing as not political 23 Jul At Work How You File for a Patent Can Affect Your Bottom Line Pick the filing strategy that’s right for you 22 Jul Computing Top 10 Programming Languages Spectrum’s 2014 Ranking 19 Jul Advertisement At Work Drawing The Line Between “Peer-to-Peer” And “Jerk” Technology Airbnb: Peer-to-peer. Monkey Parking: JerkTech. But how do you tell the difference? 18 Jul At Work A Case Called Alice: Software Patents and the U.S. Supreme Court Intellectual property lawyer Linda Thayer discusses the implications for high-tech companies 17 Jul At Work Where The Jobs Are: 2014 The manufacturing and petrochemical industries need electrical engineers 17 Jul At Work Peer Review Scandal Takes Down Taiwanese Minister Second minister to fall to an academic scandal in a year 16 Jul Computing Taking Bitcoin for Payment in California is Now Legal Bitcoin’s fuzzy legal status hadn’t kept it off the streets of Silicon Valley 16 Jul Energy How Far Can Crowd-funded Nuclear Fusion Go? A net-roots campaign to finance alternative fusion research shoots for the moon 15 Jul Geek Life Elon Musk’s $1 Million Birthday Gift to Nikola Tesla Fans Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk pledges $1 million towards building a Nikola Tesla museum 11 Jul Semiconductors IBM Pours $3 Billion Into Future of Nanoelectronics IBM researchers reveal perspectives on future of nanomaterials and nanomanufacturing 11 Jul At Work Photographing Fearless Genius at NeXT, Apple, and Others Photographer Doug Menuez spent 15 years embedded in NeXT, Apple, Adobe, and other Silicon Valley tech companies and came away with a lifetime of stories 11 Jul At Work Uber, Lyft, Airbnb—How Did We Live Without Them? Seemed like this weekend everybody was Uber’ing, Lyft’ing, or Airbnb’ing (and it wasn’t just about the $30 coupons floating around). 9 Jul Gadgets Researchers Turn to Classic Videogames Stanford rediscovers Space Invaders and Pacman, other academics turn to Tetris and Super Mario 2 Jul Computing Interactive: The Top Programming Languages IEEE Spectrum’s 2014 Ranking 1 Jul Geek Life Help Us Find Today’s Unsung Engineering Heroes Know a hero? Then let us know 30 Jun Geek Life Where Are Today’s Engineering Heroes? By failing to celebrate its finest contributors, the profession risks far more than mere obscurity 30 Jun At Work Fixing San Francisco's Tech Bus Problem Maybe a little psychedelic paint could reduce the hostilities 27 Jun At Work US Government Regulators Take on Nanomaterials In separate announcements, two US government organizations offer regulation guidelines for nanomaterials 26 Jun Telecom Supreme Court Shoots Aereo Down A 6-3 decision says TV streaming startup Aereo's "personal antenna" model violates copyright 25 Jun At Work The STEM Crisis Is a Myth Forget the dire predictions of a looming shortfall of scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians 30 Aug 2013 At Work Start-up: Transatomic Power Wants to Build a Better Reactor Its “walk-away safe” nuclear reactor would run on spent fuel 20 Jun At Work The Coming Data Deluge As science becomes more data intensive, so does our language 26 Jan 2011 At Work Google Bets $50 Million on Inspiring Girls to Become Coders Google has unveiled a $50 million initiative to boost the interest of girls in computer science 24 Jun At Work No-Poaching Pacts Broke With Silicon Valley Culture Companies that hire each other’s employees are part of the valley’s magic 8 May At Work Exposing the Roots of the Perpetual “STEM Crisis” New book shows how the mythology behind the “crisis” developed, spread, and continue to thrive 12 May At Work The Top 10 Programming Languages They're mostly ones you'd expect—and then there's Lua 28 Sep 2011 Topics Aerospace At Work Biomedical Computing Energy Gadgets Geek Life Robotics Semiconductors Telecom Connect Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Google+ RSS IEEE Spectrum Contact Us About Newsletters Mobile Site IEEE Partners Advertising & Media Center IEEE Job Site Buyer’s Guide The Magazine Subscribe Now Digital Download © Copyright 2014 IEEE Spectrum Terms & Conditions | Privacy & Security | Nondiscrimination Policy About IEEE Conferences & Events Education & Careers Membership & Services Publications and Standards Societies & Communities