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Among the many challenges that blockchain technology is poised to solve, is ending poverty. While technological advancements have significantly reduced global poverty over the past century, it is still not gone. There are still more than 1.3 billion people in the world living in extreme ...

In 2016, the United States Department of Energy proposed an investment of $3.5 billion over the following decade to modernize our electric grid. Smart grid technology promises to better align energy consumers and suppliers through the use of two-way digital communication. Researchers are now experimenting with ...

Thanks to the Internet of Things (IoT) more and more devices are connected, including homes, heating systems, fitness trackers, vehicles and more. Gartner projects that IoT devices will climb to a total of 50 billion by 2020, up from 20 billion, and this demand will ...

The Internet of Things (IoT), is a vast and growing universe of connected products ranging from fitness trackers and smart TVs to self-driving cars and virtual assistants. It has the potential to disrupt a wide variety of industries. Consumer products are expected to be the ...

While the technology behind autonomous vehicles (AV) is progressing, some say public AV availability for general use is at least 15 years away. This is mainly due to the reliability of AVs, especially when it comes to the almost impossible moral and ethical decisions that ...

Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are thought to be one in the same, but they should not be mistaken as so. This valuable technology has implications that go far beyond finance. Blockchain can spur innovations that address some of society’s most glaring inefficiencies. Issues such as cutting ...

This is a sponsored post from Stevens Institute of Technology. Written by Gregg T. Vesonder, Ph.D.
Director, Software Engineering Program
Stevens Institute of Technology Why does a door need an instruction manual? Consider that most 30-year-olds have probably opened at least 100,000 doors throughout their ...

The IEEE eLearning Library is an excellent resource for continuing professional education, offering hundreds of hours of courses designed to keep engineers up-to-date on emerging technologies and trends. As a fast growing industry, the market growth rate for eLearning has been 900% since 2000. In ...

With the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI) is already part of our daily lives. It’s a key component of our smartphones, our GPS systems, our personal digital assistants and more. Future growth depends on reducing latency and increasing bandwidth and ...