Backscatter
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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, that number exceeded 50 percent.
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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 clearly addictive.
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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 of doing so have varied significantly.
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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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IEEE-USA’s August Free E-Book Explores Design, Communications, the Engineering Gender Gap—and More!
Former Spectrum Editor, Donald Christiansen, welcomes readers to (in his introduction) to his latest anthology--Best of Backscatter—Book 5—IEEE-USA’s August free e-book for all IEEE members.
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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 objectives has been to avoid the exposure of military personnel in either offensive or defensive situations.
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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 1906 in New York.
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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 publishing experts were forecasting the demise of print books in favor of e-books.
