Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589677
Allison Marsh
In 1993, well before Google Glass debuted, the artist Lisa Krohn designed a prototype wearable computer that looked like no other. The Cyberdesk was an experiment in augmented reality, fusing fashion with function to extend the user's senses. The four circles along the breastbone are a four-key keyboard with a large trackball at the top center. A small microphone lies against the throat, and an earpiece hooks into the left ear. Krohn imagined the yellow tube in front of the right eye as a retinal scan display that would project a laser beam directly onto the back of the eye, creating a screen centered in the user's field of view. Krohn never built a working version of the Cyberdesk. Rather, she viewed it as “strategic foresight, speculative technology, predictive design, or design fiction.” And it's yet another case where art, like science fiction, has the uncanny ability to anticipate the future.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589701
Willie D. Jones
The latest buzz in biomimetic robots is a robotic bee like this one. The BionicBee, produced by the automation-technology company Festo, based in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, is an order of magnitude bigger than a real bee. For a sense of a BionicBee's size, imagine a bluejay or an oversized hummingbird, albeit one whose wings flap forward and back (closer to the movements of a real bee) rather than up and down. The company says its swarm technology will enable the drone to operate autonomously while it coordinates its flight path with other “bees,” using ultrawideband beacons whose signals let it keep track of its position in space and avoid midair collisions.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589684
John Boyd
As Intel, Samsung, TSMC, and Japan's upcoming advanced foundry Rapidus each make their separate preparations to cram more and more transistors into every square millimeter of silicon, one thing they all have in common is that the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography technology underpinning their efforts is extremely complex, extremely expensive, and extremely costly to operate. A prime reason is that the source of this system's 13.5-nanometer light is the precise and costly process of blasting flying droplets of molten tin with the most powerful commercial lasers on the planet.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589678
David Schneider
Birding is booming. You may realize your local nature spots are especially busy during seasonal migrations, when birds move between their summer and winter grounds. Species that you had been noticing disappear may have been replaced by ones that hadn't been there before. Or you may have seen migrating birds on the wing—say, a flock of geese flying in their famous V-formation. Even if you're not a dedicated birder, you've probably made such observations throughout your life. So it might come as a surprise to learn that you've been missing out on most of this action, which takes place at night. But, as I discovered, with some simple electronics and the right software, you can identify nocturnal migrators with ease!
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589679
Edd Gent
When it comes to motorsports, the need for speed isn't only on the racetrack. Engineers who support race teams also need to work at a breakneck pace to fix problems, and that's something Aakhilesh Singhania relishes.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589682
Mark Liu;H.-S. Philip Wong
In 1997 the IBM Deep Blue supercomputer defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was a ground-breaking demonstration of supercomputer technology and a first glimpse into how high-performance computing might one day overtake human-level intelligence. In the 10 years that followed, we began to use artificial intelligence for many practical tasks, such as facial recognition, language translation, and recommending movies and merchandise.
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Pub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2024.10589686
Rahul Rao
Today's cryptographic protocols rely on mathematical techniques like finding the prime factors of very large numbers. But large enough quantum computers would have a powerful tool called Shor's algorithm, which can quickly factor colossal integers.
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