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March 2019 Issue

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How the Spectre and Meltdown Hacks Really Worked 

An in-depth look at these dangerous exploitations of microprocessor vulnerabilities and why there might be more of them out there

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China’s Ambitious Plan to Build the World’s Biggest Supergrid

A massive expansion leads to the first ultrahigh-voltage AC-DC power grid

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March 2019 Issue

To be useful around people, robots need to learn how to walk like we do

An in-depth look at these dangerous exploitations of microprocessor vulnerabilities and why there might be more of them out there

Perrone Robotics began by automating consumer cars. Now it’s focusing on niche applications instead

A massive expansion leads to the first ultrahigh-voltage AC-DC power grid

The proposed strategy relies on manipulating with high precision an unimaginably huge number of variables

Siam Cement Group hopes to win the first contract to install a 45-megawatt floating solar farm at Thailand’s Sirindhorn Dam

The wireless standard is already behind more than 100 low-power, wide-area networks around the world

Engineers aim to use “silicon interconnect fabric” to build a computer with 40 GPUs on a single silicon wafer

Remote human operators will still take the wheel in fiddly situations

Nobody really knows

Games, Computers, and Humans

Many leading scientists of the day vouched for the healing power of electricity

Batteries still can’t scale up to power the world’s biggest vessels

A techie turned photographer captures the heroes who launched a tech revolution

Give a French videotex terminal a stylish second life

IEEE mourns the loss of the following members

The life member had the opportunity to work with astronaut Alan Shepard

IEEE introduces IEEE DataPort, a platform designed to improve IEEE Xplore

Nominees are being sought for IEEE committee chairs

The Author Center has added a section that details all the steps

More than 290 senior members have been elevated

She has made several groundbreaking innovations to compact ultrafast lasers

IEEE Member Eric Becker develops poacher-detection systems for the World Wildlife Fund

Enhancing member value

Thanks to scholarships from these groups, students are able to learn about careers in STEM

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Batteries still can’t scale up to power the world’s biggest vessels 