If this had only come out last week, everyone who heard me in the keynote interview at S4x23 would have a more ready answer to "Who is that dude?"

This will appear in the March edition of IEEE Spectrum, and is online now:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/eugene-h-spafford-profile-cybersecurity

"In the fall of 1967, Sharp debuted the R-1000, a commercial microwave with a new feature that’s still more or less with us: a bicycle bell that dinged when the cooking time ended." From a delightful #IEEESpectrum article on classic microwave ovens. https://spectrum.ieee.org/microwave-oven

Electric-vehicle batteries may help store renewable energy to help make it a practical reality for power grids, potentially meeting grid demands for energy storage by as early as 2030, a new study finds https://spectrum.ieee.org/electric-vehicle-grid-storage by @cqchoi for #IEEEspectrum

New by me at #IEEESpectrum: The Panopticon vs the Capitol Rioters. I read and analyzed over a thousand January 6 charging documents to discover how heavily investigators of the deadly siege relied upon digital apps, technologies, and services in their hunt for attackers. https://spectrum.ieee.org/capitol-riot

#Memristors Run #AI Tasks at 1/800th Power - #IEEESpectrum

"#Memristive devices that mimic #neuron-connecting #synapses could serve as the hardware for #NeuralNetworks that copy the way the #brain learns. Now two new #studies may help solve key problems these components face not just with yields and reliability, but with finding applications beyond #neural nets."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/memristor-devices-ai

«Transformer Stockpiles—and Grids—Come Under Threat» via @ieeespectrum #IEEEspectrum #ElectricalGrid #UkraineInfrastructure #Infrastructure #ElectricalTransmission #ElectricalTransformers #Ukraine. «Even if there is no electricity, the light of our faith in ourselves will not be put out.» - Zelensky

https://spectrum.ieee.org/transformer-stockpiles

#Europe Gets an #Exascale #Supercomputer - #IEEESpectrum

"Through a €500 million pan-European effort, an exascale supercomputer called #JUPITER (Joint Undertaking Pioneer for Innovative and Transformative Exascale #Research) will be installed sometime in 2023 at the #Forschungszentrum #Jülich, in #Germany."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/europe-s-exascale-supercomputer

Scaling Back a Catastrophic Quantum Compute Glitch Related to Cosmic Rays by Nearly 500,000x https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-computing-cosmic-rays by @cqchoi for #IEEEspectrum

Neural networks can achieve superhuman performance in many tasks, but these AI systems can suddenly and completely forget what they have learned if asked to absorb new memories. Now a new study reveals a novel way for neural networks to undergo sleep-like phases and help prevent such amnesia.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/catastrophic-forgetting-deep-learning

by @cqchoi for #IEEESpectrum

Quantum Computing Researchers Discover a New Quantum AND Gate -- new fundamental operation could dramatically slash overhead for quantum-computing applications: https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-and-gate for #IEEESpectrum