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March 2020 Issue

The CMOS image sensor has dominated cameras for nearly 20 years, but quantum dots may take its place

50 years ago, artists and engineers staged one of the most ambitious and expensive multimedia events—and infuriated their corporate backers

Self-driving vehicles can already work well on campuses where traffic moves slowly

Despite the hype, artificial intelligence will take years to significantly boost economic productivity

Teachers can train robots to help students with autism spectrum disorder with this programmer's code

Energy recovery linear accelerators could be more efficient and less expensive to operate than their predecessors

With new cathodes and electrolytes, potassium batteries are starting to catch up to lithium and sodium varieties

Deep-time Digital Earth will link hundreds of bespoke scientific databases in one easy-to-search network

The Seattle-based company received an ARPA-E grant to test and scale its technology

Cruise unveils the Origin, a fully autonomous SUV designed for app-controlled urban transportation

A new software program attempts to recognize students’ emotions to aid teachers, but faces aren’t so easy to read

It took over the world’s infrastructure in a remarkably short time. Now China consumes more of it in any two years than the United States used throughout the entire 20th century

Through self-reflection and bold choices, you can revitalize your career

Forget higher data rates or lower latencies, network slicing is where 5G really shines

With just a photocell, a touch sensor, and two vacuum tubes, the robo-tortoise mimicked the way real animals move

Stop attacks with a SparkFun cryptographic breakout board

The ballot includes IEEE president-elect candidates, IEEE Technical Activities members-at-large, and IEEE-USA president-elect

The Life Fellow brought transistors into the third dimension

Toshio Fukuda lays out the plan for 2020

The candidate elected will serve as president in 2022

He leads an IEEE project that links remote health centers

The company’s smart traps and mobile app automate the fight against the Mediterranean fruit fly

They have installed LED lights, introduced a recycling center, and built a rain water harvesting system

IEEE SIGHT and Light Up the World volunteers teamed up to provide electricity

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Stop attacks with a SparkFun cryptographic breakout board 