Pub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074434
Edd Gent
Music and engineering might seem like career paths that are almost diametrically opposed. But for Javier Orman the transition from professional violinist to a machine learning engineer at LinkedIn was a surprisingly natural one.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074406
Eliza Strickland
Estonia has a reputation as one of the most digitally advanced nations in the world, thanks to its efficient digital platforms for government services and its startup-friendly culture. Its citizens' prowess is largely due to a program called Tiger Leap that the government launched in the 1990s to bring computers and Internet into all Estonian schools. Now, the government is launching AI Leap 2025, which will bring AI tools to an initial cohort of 20,000 high school students in September. Siim Sikkut, a former Estonian government official and part of the launch team, told IEEE Spectrum the AI Leap program goes beyond just providing access to new technology. Its goal is to give students the skills they need to use it both ethically and effectively.
由于其高效的政府服务数字平台和对创业友好的文化，爱沙尼亚被誉为世界上数字化最先进的国家之一。爱沙尼亚公民的能力很大程度上要归功于政府在上世纪90年代启动的一个名为“老虎飞跃”（Tiger Leap）的项目，该项目旨在将计算机和互联网带入爱沙尼亚所有的学校。现在，政府正在启动“人工智能飞跃2025”，该计划将于9月份向首批2万名高中生提供人工智能工具。前爱沙尼亚政府官员、发射团队成员Siim Sikkut告诉IEEE Spectrum， AI Leap计划不仅仅是提供对新技术的访问。它的目标是给学生提供他们需要的技能，既道德又有效地使用它。
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Pub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074433
Harry Goldstein
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, in Chile, saw its first photon a few months ago, a monumental event almost three decades in the making. Senior Editor Evan Ackerman's journey to see the observatory and talk with the team about the multiple and massive engineering challenges they overcame itself took more than a year to plan.
几个月前，智利的维拉·c·鲁宾天文台（Vera C. Rubin Observatory）看到了它的第一个光子，这是一个历经近30年才形成的里程碑式事件。资深编辑埃文·阿克曼（Evan Ackerman）花了一年多的时间来计划参观天文台，并与团队讨论他们克服的多重和巨大的工程挑战。
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Pub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074460
Stephen Cass
Solid construction, elegant design, and high-precision output. Once upon a time, Hewlett-Packard made test-and-measurement equipment that was be-loved by working engineers. Sure, drop one of those babies on your foot and you were looking at a broken toe. But that's a small price to pay for reliability and some character building. So when I recently came across an early 1970s HP 7041AX-Y recorder while clearing out my parents' attic, I knew that Ijust had to see if I could get it up and running again.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074452
Glenn Zorpette
Benchmarking large language models presents some unusual challenges. For one, the main purpose of many LLMs is to provide compelling text that's indistinguishable from human writing. And success in that task may not correlate with metrics traditionally used to judge processor performance, such as instruction execution rate.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074430
Julianne Pepitone
TAKE A LOOK around the airport during your travels this summer and you might spot a string of new technologies at every touchpoint: from pre-arrival, bag drop, and security to the moment you board the plane. • In this new world, your face is your boarding pass, your electronic luggage tag transforms itself for each new flight, and gate scanners catch line cutters trying to sneak onto the plane early. • It isn't the future—it's now. Each of the technologies to follow is in use at airports around the world today, transforming your journey-before-the-journey.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074431
Allison Marsh
These days, most homes have more display screens than people. But back in 1945, TV screens were scarce. Households that did hav a TV often fought over what to watch, even though there were at best only a handful of stations to choose from. Allen B. DuMont, who pioneered the first commercial television sets in the United States, thought he had a solution: a console with side-by-side receivers and two sound systems, so that husband and wife could watch separate shows together. Sadly, DuMont's prototype never made it into production. Consumers would have to wait several decades for the proliferation of cheap screens to finally end the “what to watch” debate.
如今，大多数家庭的显示屏比人还多。但在1945年，电视屏幕还很稀缺。有电视的家庭经常为看什么而争吵，即使最多也只有几个电视台可供选择。艾伦·b·杜蒙特（Allen B. DuMont）是美国第一台商用电视机的先驱，他认为自己有一个解决方案：一个带有并排接收器和两个音响系统的控制台，这样丈夫和妻子就可以一起看不同的节目了。遗憾的是，杜蒙的原型机从未投入生产。消费者将不得不等待几十年，直到廉价屏幕的普及，才能最终结束“看什么”的争论。
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