IEEE SpectrumPub Date : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918581
Dina Genkina
{"title":"5 Questions: Amanda Stein: She's Finding the Perfect Application for Defective Diamonds","authors":"Dina Genkina","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918581","url":null,"abstract":"Quantum sensors take the biggest road-block for quantum computers-unwanted interference, or noise-and turn it into a strength. Noise wrecks quantum computers because the quantum states they use for computation are affected by the slightest disturbances from the environment. But quantum sensors use those disturbances to detect minuscule changes in magnetic and electric fields.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"17-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10918581","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570608","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 : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918572
Dmitry Kireev
{"title":"A Graphene Biosensor Tattoo: A Flexible Stick-on Patch Could Monitor Blood Pressure, Stress, and More","authors":"Dmitry Kireev","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918572","url":null,"abstract":"Imagine it's the year 2040, and a 12-year-old kid with diabetes pops a piece of chewing gum into his mouth. A temporary tattoo on his forearm registers the uptick in sugar in his blood stream and sends that information to his phone. Data from this health-monitoring tattoo is also uploaded to the cloud so his mom can keep tabs on him. She has her own temporary tattoos–one for measuring the lactic acid in her sweat as she exercises and another for continuously tracking her blood pressure and heart rate.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"24-29"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570733","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 : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10990329
Allison Marsh
{"title":"Past Forward: This Robot Was the Fall Guy for British AI","authors":"Allison Marsh","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10990329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10990329","url":null,"abstract":"Meet FREDERICK Mark 2, the Friendly Robot for Education, Discussion and Entertainment, the Retrieval of Information, and the Collation of Knowledge, better known as Freddy II. This remarkable robot could put together a simple model car from an assortment of parts dumped in its workspace. Its video-camera eyes and pincer hand identified and sorted the individual pieces before assembling the desired product. But onlookers had to be patient. sorting and assembly typically took about 16 hours, and that was after a day or two of “learning” and programming. Freddy II was one of a series of research robots developed by Donald Michie and his team at the University of Edinburgh during the 1960s and '70s. The robots became the focus of an intense debate over the future of AI in the United Kingdom. Michie lost, his funding was gutted, and the ensuing AI winter set back U.K. research in the field for a decade.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 5","pages":"56-56"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10990329","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143918649","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 : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918585
Harry Goldstein
{"title":"The Coming Quantum Boom: A Century After Quantum Mechanics Was Described, a Vibrant Industry Blooms","authors":"Harry Goldstein","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918585","url":null,"abstract":"Why build an industry around a scale that cuts across established verticals? This question occurred to me on a long flight to Paris, to attend the opening ceremony of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, at UNESCO headquarters last month. I was part of an IEEE delegation led by 2025 IEEE President Kathleen Kramer. The event celebrated the 100th anniversary of several seminal quantum-science publications including Wolfgang Pauli's paper on his exclusion principle and Werner Heisenberg's “Quantum-Theoretical Re-interpretation of Kinematic and Mechanical Relations.”","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"2-2"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10918585","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570761","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 : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918570
Gwendolyn Rak
{"title":"Careers: Thesetech Jobs Are In Demand: Despite Recent Layoffs, Big Data and AI Roles are Growing","authors":"Gwendolyn Rak","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10918570","url":null,"abstract":"In 2024, the technology sector saw yet more lay-offs after massive cuts in 2022 and 2023. Though the pace was somewhat slower last year, more than 150,000 employees were laid off across hundreds of companies, according to Layoffs.fyi, a site started during the COVID-19 pandemic to track tech layoffs around the world. The largest single cut came in August, when Intel cut 15 percent of its workforce-roughly 15,000 roles-by, for example, consolidating its sales and marketing team. To start the new year, in January 2025, tech companies announced another 5,000 layoffs. More than half of these are from Meta's 5 percent workforce cut.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 3","pages":"15-16"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10918570","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143570762","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 : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10991982
Emily Waltz
{"title":"The Data: Putting AI's Energy Use in Context","authors":"Emily Waltz","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10991982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10991982","url":null,"abstract":"The world is collectively freaking out about the growth of artificial intelligence and its strain on power grids. But a look back at electricity load growth in the United States over the past 75 years shows that innovations in efficiency continually compensate for relentless technological progress.","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 5","pages":"14-15"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143918574","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 : 2025-03-07DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10991973
Dan Garisto
{"title":"Supercollider Engineers Are Trying to Break Physics: If They Do, We May Finally Understand Dark Matter","authors":"Dan Garisto","doi":"10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10991973","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10991973","url":null,"abstract":"In Particle Physics, the smallest problems often require the biggest solutions. • Along the border of France and Switzerland, around a hundred meters underneath the countryside, protons speed through a 27-kilometer riung-about seven times the length of the landy 500 circuit-until they crash into protons going in the opposite direction. These particle pileups produce a petabyte of data every second, the most interesting of which is poured into data centers, accessible to thousands of physicists worldwide. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), arguably the largest experiment ever engineered, is needed to probe the universe,s smallest constituents. In 2012, two teams at the LHC discovered the elusive Higgs boson, the particle whose existence confirmed 50-year-old theories about the origins of mass. It was a scientific triumph that led to a Nobel Prize and worldwide plaudits. Since then, experiments at the LHC have focused on better understanding how the newfound Higgs fits inti the Standard Model, particle physicists' best theoretical description of matter and forces-minus gravity. “The Standard Model is beautiful,” says Victoria Martin, an experimental physicist at the University of Edinburgh. “Because it's so precise, all the little niggles stand out.”","PeriodicalId":13249,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Spectrum","volume":"62 5","pages":"30-37"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143918575","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}