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The Factory: It Comes, It Goes
Only about 8 percent of U.S. workers are employed in manufacturing jobs today. At the height of the Industrial Revolution,…
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Smart Machines and Artificial Intelligence
It is in evaluating real-life situations that AI faces its greatest challenges, including financial, legal, ethical, and moral issues.
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Online Addiction
The usage figures about our increasing time spent online are indisputable, and many psychologists have concluded that the situation is…
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The New Vocationalism
Keeping pace with the increasing demands on vocational education has not proven easy for the educational establishment, and the ways…
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Peer Review Under Stress
Qualified peer reviewers are harder to find as our profession continues its division into deeply complex specialties.
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The Future of Automated Warfare
The concept of automated warfare is not new. Nor is its limited use for specific purposes. One of the principal…
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What Happened to the Engineering Societies Library?
Once considered to be the major library of engineering publications worldwide, the Engineering Societies Library (ESL) had its origins in…
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Focus on Lithium-ion Batteries
Lithium-ion batteries have made headlines for cell phone fires, but recent woes do not signal their demise, says Don Christiansen.
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Read Any Good Tweets Lately?
So what are you reading today? A print book? An e-book? Something else? It was not that long ago that…
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Cyber Gridlock
What are the chances of a cyberattack shutting down one of the three North American electrical power grids? Or even…