IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074434
Edd Gent
{"title":"Careers: Javier Orman: The Violinist Fell in Love with the “Magic” of Machine Learning","authors":"Edd Gent","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074434","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 7","pages":"19-20"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11074434","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074406
Eliza Strickland
{"title":"5 Questions: Siim Sikkut: Estonia is Bringing Educational Chatbots to Classrooms","authors":"Eliza Strickland","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074406","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 7","pages":"21-21"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11074406","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074433
Harry Goldstein
{"title":"This is How Far Engineers Will Go to Explore the Universe: And how Far we Went to Tell Their Story","authors":"Harry Goldstein","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074433","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 7","pages":"2-2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11074433","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074460
Stephen Cass
{"title":"Plotting a New Course: A 1970s HP X-Y Recorder Enters the Digital Age","authors":"Stephen Cass","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074460","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 7","pages":"16-18"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074452
Glenn Zorpette
{"title":"The Data: The Future of AI: LLMs at Warp Speed: By 2030, LLMs May Tackle Monthlong Tasks in Hours","authors":"Glenn Zorpette","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074452","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 7","pages":"14-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074430
Julianne Pepitone
{"title":"A Walk Through 7 New Technologies at the Airport: Scans Distinguish Bear Spray from Hairspray While Biometric Boarding Passes Get you on Your Way","authors":"Julianne Pepitone","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074430","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 7","pages":"38-41"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074431
Allison Marsh
{"title":"Past Forward: The 2-in-1 TV","authors":"Allison Marsh","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11074431","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 7","pages":"52-52"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11074431","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144581711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}