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How Microwave Radar Brought Direct Phone Calls to Millions
​The Trans-Canada Microwave System also made live TV possible
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Learn Who We Have to Thank for the Term Work-Life Balance
This award-winning industrial engineer's family was portrayed in the Cheaper by the Dozen movie
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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2
DSS-43 is the only antenna that can communicate with the probe
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How This Record Company Engineer Invented the CT Scanner
The machine, made to image the human brain, won him a Nobel Prize
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How USB Came to Be
Intel's 26-year-old plug-and-play tech made it easy to connect everything
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The Story Behind Pixar's RenderMan CGI Software
First used in Toy Story, the tools revolutionized animation
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35 Years Ago, Researchers Used Brain Waves to Control a Robot
The first EEG-controlled robot was developed in North Macedonia
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The Birth of Random-Access Memory
The Manchester "Baby" was the first electronic digital computer to store a program
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Before Ships Used GPS, There was the Fresnel Lens
This bright idea revolutionized lighthouses and saved lives
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Take a Trip Through Switzerland's Museum of Consumer Electronics
IEEE members get free admission and can help curate exhibits
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The Pioneer Behind Electromagnetism
Ampère's theory was fundamental to electronic inventions such as motors and generators
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The Superconducting Shields Behind MRIs' Triumph
Actively shielded magnets brought the machines from iron-walled rooms to the mainstream
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This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain
Alice Parker is working on how to mimic disorders such as schizophrenia
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Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
The technology has become the standard LAN worldwide
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Meet Roberta Williams, The Queen of Graphic Adventure Video Games
She was the mind behind King's Quest, Mystery House, and Phantasmagoria
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Jean Sammet: An Accidental Computer Programmer
The IBM programming language specialist helped develop Cobol in 1959
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The First Digital Camera Was The Size of a Toaster
Kodak's camera displayed photos on a TV screen
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Meet the "First Lady of Engineering"
Yvonne Y.Y. Clark blazed a trail for Blacks and women in STEM
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IEEE Foundation Celebrates 50 Years of Philanthropy
Events will highlight donor-supported STEM education and humanitarian programs
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The Portrait Artist
How Tekla S. Perry chronicles consequential careers
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