Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10705376
Matthew S. Smith
IT'S HARD TO OVERSTATE NVIDIA'S AI DOMINANCE. Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers. But it's the company's AI chips, not PC graphics hardware, that vaulted Nvidia into the ranks of the world's most valuable companies. It turns out that Nvidia's GPUs are also excellent for AI. As a result, its stock is more than 15 times as valuable as it was at the start of 2020; revenues have ballooned from roughly US $12 billion in its 2019 fiscal year to $60 billion in 2024; and the AI powerhouse's leading-edge chips are as scarce, and desired, as water in a desert.
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Pub Date : 2024-10-04DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10705382
Evan Ackerman
The Boston-based startup Perceptive is pioneering the use of robots to perform common dental procedures like fitting crowns faster and more precisely than a human can. The technology relies on a new kind of high-precision dental imaging system akin to ultrasound but using light instead (called optical coherence tomography) to map the surface and interior structure of patients' teeth. The robot is physically attached to the patient's jaw to mirror their head movements, while the dentist stays in control of each procedure for safety. According to the company, procedures that would take hours over multiple visits can now be completed in a single, shorter visit.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10669247
Edd Gent
Few devices are as crucial to people's everyday lives as their household appliances. Electrical engineer Erika Cruz says it's her mission to make sure they operate smoothly. Cruz helps design washing machines and dryers for Whirlpool, the multinational appliance manufacturer.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10669242
Alan Boris
Over the last few years, I've added a fair amount of smart-home technology to my house. Among other things, I can control lights and outlets, monitor the status of various appliances, measure how much electricity and water I'm using, and even cut off the water supply in the event of a leak. All this technology is coordinated through a hub, which I originally accessed through a conventional browser-based interface. But scrolling and clicking through screens to find the reading or setting I want is a) slow and b) boring. I wanted an interface that was fast and fun—a physical control panel with displays and buttons.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10669251
Glenn Zorpette
By any measure, Richard Garwin is one of the most decorated and successful engineers of the 20th century. The IEEE Life Fellow has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, France's La Grande Médaille de l'Académie des Sciences, and is one of just a handful of people elected to all three U.S. National Academies: Engineering, Science, and Medicine. At IBM, where he worked from 1952 to 1993, Garwin was a key contributor or a facilitator on some of the most important products and breakthroughs of his era, including magnetic resonance imaging, touchscreen monitors, laser printers, displays, and the Cooley-Tukey fast Fourier transform algorithm.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10669240
Tekla S. Perry
It was December 2006. Twenty-nine-year-old entrepreneur James Park had just purchased a Wii game system. It included the Wii Nunchuk, a US $29 handheld controller with motion sensors that let game players interact by moving their bodies–swinging at a baseball, say, or boxing with a virtual partner.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10669143
Allison Marsh
In 1885, German engineer Paul Nipkow patented the idea of capturing and transmitting a picture by dividing it into lines, using a spinning disk with a spiral of perforated holes to scan the lines. The lines were turned into electrical signals, and a receiver then turned the signals back into light. Nipkow never commercialized his “electric telescope,” but decades later, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird took the idea much further. Baird's electromechanical system transmitted images using a spinning Nipkow disk fitted with glass lenses and a photoelectric cell. A companion Nipkow disk in the receiver re-created the lines of the image and projected them onto 26 January 1926, select members of the Royal Institution gathered at Baird's lab in London to witness the transmission of a small but clearly defined image of a ventriloquist dummy's face. The event is often heralded as the first public demonstration of television.
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