Congratulations to the winners of the IEEE Future Tech Explorers Challenge, the first IEEE Impact Challenge of my presidential year.
470+ entries from 39 countries responded, all designed to spark curiosity about technology in kids ages 5 to 17. I'm inspired by what you built.
The WITCH Computer has lived many lives over seven decades.
Built in the early 1950s using relays designed for telephone exchanges, it continues to run after a team of volunteers painstakingly restored it relay by relay. It now lives on at @tnmoc.
“We cannot audit code for ethics or bias; there is no scalable way to do that.” - Kayne McGladrey, IEEE Senior Member
When AI makes decisions about people, human oversight isn’t optional. Who’s responsible for fairness in the systems you build?
Long before modern computers existed, Ada Lovelace saw that a machine could work with symbols and not just numbers. Today, on #AdaLovelaceDay, we celebrate her and the women in STEM whose work has changed the world.
