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Management Versus Technical Track

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This article is part of our exclusive career advice series in partnership with the I EEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. To help you, this article covers some of the differences between the two career paths, as well as factors that might influence you. However, the specific considerations involved aren’t always obvious.

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The Creepy New Digital Afterlife Industry

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This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). You decide, after some months of interacting with the 4evru’s version of your father, that while you are somewhat glad to learn who your father truly was, you’re mourning the loss of the person you thought you knew.

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A Brief History of the Office Cubicle

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Henry Miller’s Acoustic Area Conditioner was a white-noise machine for corporate workspaces. meters for normal conversation. Throughout corporate America, economic realities collided with Propst’s vision as managers tried to jam more people into a defined space with little regard for worker or workspace needs. The moniker stuck.

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IBM’s Fall From World Dominance

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Census, the mainframe computer, legitimizing the person computer, and developing the software that beat the best in the world at chess and then Jeopardy. Joining me to talk about it—and IBM's other pivots, past and future—is a person uniquely qualified to do so. Steven Cherry Jim, IBM wasn't the first to personal computers.

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E-Waste is a Cybersecurity Problem, Too

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The conversation has been edited for length and clarity. You founded ERI because of the environmental concern, but you and your team quickly came to realize the cybersecurity risk as well: Many of these tossed-out devices contain sensitive personal and/or professional data. or hold corporate data for ransom. Comparatively.

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IEEE Leaders Are Planning Now for 2050 and Beyond

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It is critical that conversations around the future begin with IEEE leadership immediately and be expanded carefully and thoughtfully across the wider IEEE community.” Many of today’s meetings are hybrid events, with conference papers being available virtually and discussions taking place in person, the report notes.

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Should Right-to-Repair Laws Extend to Bionic Body Parts?

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When IEEE Spectrum published an article in February about blind people whose bionic vision systems had become obsolete and unsupported , it generated both attention and outrage. He also thinks that clinicians should have forthright conversations with their patients about bionic body parts.

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