IEEE Spectrum Podcast show

IEEE Spectrum Podcast

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Podcasts:

 The Reality Behind “Halt and Catch Fire” | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Paul Carroll talks about the TV show’s technological background

 Nick Bostrom Says We Should Trust Our Future Robot Overlords | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Is artificial intelligence likely to make humans extinct, or are we smart enough to control it?

 Clark Gellings: The Future of the Power Grid | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Electricity expert Clark Gellings envisions an integrated, agile network to tie together millions of electricity producers and consumers

 Economists Predict the Next Century | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Ten of the world’s leading experts use the tools of economics to forecast the future

 How Women Got Through the Doors of Engineering Schools | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Amy Sue Bix describes how 20th-century pioneers began breaking down the gender barrier

 D-Wave Aims to Bring Quantum Computing to the Cloud | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Vern Brownell, D-Wave’s CEO, talks about the company’s ongoing efforts to prove the potential of its hardware and its plans for the future

 The Second Machine Age: Avoiding the Dark Side of the Digital Revolution | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Erik Brynjolfsson has some suggestions for avoiding the negative economic impacts of automation

 Identifying the Recipe for Literary Success | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Computer analysis can predict a book’s appeal

 Is the End of Net Neutrality Near? | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

The Federal Communications Commission may still be able to enforce open network regulations despite losing the latest court case

 Who Determines the Value of Patents? | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Kodak thought it had a reliable way to estimate what its IP was worth. It was sadly mistaken

 CES 2014 Trends: Wireless Networks Need to Learn to Cooperate | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

As the demand for bandwidth increases, wireless engineers are trying to figure out how to efficiently use all available networks, without sacrificing privacy and security

 Kepler Is Dead. Long Live Kepler | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft succumbed to mechanical failure, but there is more data—and perhaps some life yet—for the mission

 EV Evangelism Starts at Home | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Putting a public electric-vehicle charger in front of his house and changing local ordinances are just first steps for this passionate promoter of electric vehicles

 Matternet’s Package Delivery Drones | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

Amazon’s talk of package delivery drones may just be pie-in-the-sky, but start-up Matternet has already begun testing a delivery-drone network in developing countries

 NeuroPace: Controlling Epilepsy With a Brain Implant | File Type: audio/mp3 | Duration: Unknown

A smarter technology reduces seizures in epileptic patients by identifying dangerous patterns of brain activity

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