MIT Technology Review: We can print untraceable guns. Should we?
MIT Technology Review writes today: Overnight, a Las Vegas shooting killed 50 people and wounded 200, making it the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history, according…
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IEEE Long Island Section is building a solid membership base
Our Section has hit the IEEE membership retention goal for the 2017 membership year! The membership development goals were developed based on the Section’s three-year…
Long Island’s Electrical and Electronic History – September 2017
Our Section was happy to learn that its Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Chapter received the 2017 Best Chapter Award from that Society. Our Chapter…
The Net Neutrality protest day
Google, Facebook, and other technology companies joined over 70,000 organizations to promote the benefits of net neutrality. Today is the Internet-wide day of Action for…
Nikola Tesla and Electric Dream Expo
Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe marked Nikola Tesla’s 161st birthday and the 100th anniversary of the dismantling of his famous wireless transmitter by hosting a…
Autonomous Vehicles: not so fast
The Long Island Consultants Network (LICN), an affinity group within the IEEE, holds monthly meetings that are usually devoted to lectures on technical topics that…
Refer a Colleague, Get Great Merchandise
Have you encouraged someone who has your interest in advancing technology to join IEEE? Now is a great time to do so. Refer a colleague to…
Long Island’s Electrical and Electronic History – June 2017
Image credit (Editor): Computer History Museum; 1986: IBM releases the first commercial RISC-based workstation – The IBM PC-RT had 1 MB of RAM, a 1.2-megabyte…
Chair’s message, June 2017
Dear Colleagues, I am delighted to report that we are starting another round of volunteer solicitation to feel the officers position for the Long Island…
Call for IEEE Long Island Officer 2018 Nominations
Dr. Marjaneh Issapour, the Chair of the IEEE Long Island section, announced the Call for Nominations for the Section’s 2018 officer positions is now open,…