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What kind of things do the people building the future of robots talk about when they're alone? IEEE Spectrum editor Evan Ackerman knows the robotics beat like no other journalist today: In Chatbot, he pairs up some of the world's best experts to ask each other the kind of questions no one else can.
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CROSSTALK, The EMC Society Podcast: Hear Us Above the Noise. The IEEE EMC Society Podcast discussing interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), signal integrity (SI), and power integrity (PI) for our technical community. The IEEE EMC Society is the world's largest organization dedicated to the development and distribution of information, tools and techniques for reducing electromagnetic interference. The society's fields of interest includes standards, measurement techniques, ...
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#66 CROSSTALK: The EMC Legacy Project with Dan Hoolihan
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6:43Unlocking Decades of EMC Innovation—Now at Your Fingertips What if you could access every groundbreaking EMC paper ever presented—instantly? In this episode of CROSSTALK, host Omar Webb sits down with Dan Hoolihan, EMC legend and Chair of the History Committee, to reveal the incredible story behind the EMC Legacy Project. From dusty archives to dig…
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#65 CROSSTALK Goodbye and Hello: Susanne and Omar
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6:04Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. This issue we mark a transition. Susanne will move on with other activities in the EMC-S and Omar will be taking over the helm of CROSSTALK. This episode introduces …
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#64 CROSSTALK Patrick DeRoy: IEEE EMC Socciety 2025 YP Ambassador Program and YP Events during EMC+SIPI
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14:21Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special issue we talk with Patrick DeRoy, IEEE YP Representative for the EMC Society. Patrick will share insights the YP Ambassadors Program and about the up…
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#63 Call for Papers 2025 IEEE EMC+SIPI Symposium
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10:46Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special episode, we chat with Sam Connor, Technical Program Chair, and Jacob Dixon, Technical Program Vice-Chair, of the 2025 IEEE International Symposium on…
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#62 CROSSTALK John LaSalle Celebrating Gratitute: A Thanksgiving Message from the EMC-S President
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3:59Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special issue we talk with EMC Society President John LaSalle, who is celebrating gratitute. May you celebrate the thanksgiving day with love in your heart, …
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#61 CROSSTALK Patrick DeRoy: 2024 IEEE EMC+SIPI Young Professional Events
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10:06Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special issue we talk with Patrick DeRoy, IEEE YP Representative for the EMC Society. Patrick will share insights about the two upcoming YP events during the…
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#60 CROSSTALK Ed Godshalk: Keynote 2024 IEEE EMC+SIPI: "The Story of the Transatlantic Telegraph and the World’s First Internet"
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7:45Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special issue we talk with Ed Godshalk, PhD, IEEE Fellow, Engineer in Residence at George Fox University (Newberg, OR), Senior Consultant with fjscaler and k…
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#59 CROSSTALK 2024 Women in Engineering During EMC Europe
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7:30Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special issue we talk with Anne Roc’h,Assistante Professor at Eindhoven University for Technology, Laura De Baets and Miriam Gonzalez-Atienza both PhD Studen…
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#58 CROSSTALK Karen Burnham: Standards Week and Standards Development During 2024 IEEE International Symposium on EMC+SIPI
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7:29Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special issue we talk with Karen Burnham, VP Standards of the EMC Society. She is hosting all the wonderful standards activities happening during the upcomin…
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#57 CROSSTALK: Eric Bogatin: Global University on SIPI during 2024 IEEE International Symposium on EMC+SIPI
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15:43Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special issue we learn about the Global SIPI University during the upcoming IEEE International 2024 IEEE EMC+SIPI symposium, held Augusat 5-9. We chat with P…
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#56 CROSSTALK Arturo Mediano: Global University on EMC during 2024 IEEE International Symposium on EMC+SIPI
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6:50Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special issue we lean about the Global EMC University during the upcoming IEEE International 2024 IEEE EMC+SIPI symposium, held Augusat 5-9. For that we invi…
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Gabriel Steinberg, co-founder of the nonprofit Demining Research Community and the startup Safe Pro AI talks with Spectrum editor Eliza Strickland about using machine learning to speed up demining operations in former Ukranian battlefields.By IEEE Spectrum
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#55 CROSSTALK Jan Hansen: Machine Learning and EMC
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12:37Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with Jan Hansen, Assistant Professor at TU Graz about Machine Learning and EMC. Listen to that insight talk. www.emcs.org https://www.linkedin.…
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Never Recharge Your Consumer Electronics Again?
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26:54Founder and CEO of Exeger, Giovanni Fili, talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass about Exeger's Powerfoyle flexible dye-based solar cells for consumer electronics, which can recharge devices even in indoor light, and how Exeger convinced major companies to incorporate its tech into their products.…
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The UK's ARIA Is Searching For Better AI Tech
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24:30The United Kingdom has created a new government agency, the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, or ARIA, similar to the United States' DARPA. ARIA's first foray is into creating new enabling technologies to make AI faster and more energy efficient, and the program director, Suraj Bramhavar spoke with Spectrum editor Dina Genkina about some of t…
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Zipline's Droid Brings U.S. Commercial Drone Delivery Closer
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20:16Zipline originally established itself delivering medical supplies in rural Africa. Now, Zipline cofounder and CTO Keenan Wyrobek talks with senior editor Stephen Cass about recent milestones in bringing commercial drone delivery to the United States, including the development of Platform 2 and its tethered mini-droid that makes precision drop-offs …
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#54 CROSSTALK Christian Schuster & Francesco De Paulis: Global SIPI University During 2024 IEEE EMC+SIPI
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25:00Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special issue we introduce the brandnew Global SIPI University during the upcoming IEEE International 2024 IEEE EMC+SIPI symposium, held Augusat 5-9. For tha…
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Governments in America and Europe are pushing the deployment of heat pumps to reduce the energy demands of home heating and cooling. Spectrum's power and energy editor Emily Waltz talks with Stephen Cass about her reporting on new advances that will let heat pumps work in colder climates than before, expanding their range considerably.…
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#53 CROSSTALK Vignesh Rajamani: 2024 IEEE EMC+SIPI - Reasons to Attend
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8:34Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this special issue we talk with Vignesh Rajamani, General Symposium Chair of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium in Electromagnetic Compatibility and Signal & P…
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The Cutting Edge of Integrated Circuits: Exploding Chips, How Meta's Stacking It Up For AR, and More
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29:21IEEE Spectrum's semiconductor expert, Samuel K. Moore, talks with Stephen Cass about his visit to one of the key conferences in emerging integrated circuit technology, ISSCC. We talk about Meta's new 3D chip-stacking tech for faster AR, faster AI through in-memory computation, and security technology that can cause a chip to self-destruct if anyone…
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#52 CROSSTALK Patrick DeRoy: Call for EMC-S Young Professional Ambassador Nominations
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7:23Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with Patrick DeRoy, IEEE EMC Society Young Professional Representative. This is a call for YP ambassador nominations! Learn more: https://www.e…
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Lean Software, Power Electronics, and the Return of Optical Storage
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36:21In this March roundup, IEEE Spectrum's editor-in-chief Harry Goldstein and senior editor Stephen Cass talk about some of the highlights of Spectrum's recent coverage, including a plea for programmers to stop producing bloated programs, a new transistor that could help make how we handle electrical power smarter, and the potential return of optical …
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The Autonomous Research System Lets Robots Do Your Lab Work
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30:15The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) recently released the open-source ARES_OS, a key software component of their Autonomous Research System. ARES_OS allows relatively simple robots to perform experiments, and develop new experiments based on the results. The AFRL's Benji Maruyama talks with IEEE Spectrum associate editor Dina Genkina about how…
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Figuring Out Semiconductor Manufacturing's Climate Footprint
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25:48The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a major expansion driven by the seemingly insatiable demands of AI, the addition of more intelligence in transportation, and national security concerns, among many other things. What this expansion might mean for chip-making's carbon footprint? Can we make everything in our world smarter without worseni…
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The Brain Implant That Sidesteps The Competition
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26:54We've all seen impressive demos of prototype brain implants being used by paralyzed patients to interface with computers, but none of those implants have entered general clinical use. Biomedical device company Synchron is close to actually coming to market with its stentrode technology, promising less spectacular results than some of its competitor…
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The Finnish Future of Sustainable Electronics
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23:56The EU Sustronics program aims to make creating, maintaining, and recycling electronics more sustainable. Liisa Hakola is a senior scientist and project manager at the VTT Technical Research Center in Finland. She talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Stephen Cass about VTT's role in the EU's program, helping manufacturers to develop flexible, pri…
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#51 CROSSTALK Vignesh Rajamani John LaSalle: EMC-S Presidents Passing the Baton
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12:00Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. This issue features Vignesh Rajamani, current EMC-S president and John LaSalle, president elect, whose term will begin shortly in January 2024. Vignesh is takes stoc…
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#50 CROSSTALK Karen Burnham: Feedback Needed on IEEE EMC Standards 299 and 299.1 by January 15th
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5:24Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with Karen Burnham, Vice President of Standards for the EMC Society. The EMC Society is starting an effort to renew two widely used standards, …
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Security researchers Bruce Schneier and Barath Raghavan believe it's time to stop trusting our data to the cloud, where it can be exposed by greed, accident, or crime. In the December issue of IEEE Spectrum, they proposed a plan for "data decoupling" that would protect our data without sacrificing ease of use, and in this episode Raghavan talks thr…
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New MEMS Tech Lets Watches Run For Over A Decade On A Single Battery
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18:19Co-CEO's of Silmach, Pierre-Francois Louvigne and Jean-Baptiste Carnet, talk about their new MEMS technology with IEEE Spectrum editor Glenn Zorpette. The tech has been used to create the first major upgrade to the movement of quartz watches in decades, a power efficient motor that is 50 percent smaller, allows fluid forward-and-back motion of the …
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SUSE, Oracle, And CIQ Create a New Linux Alliance
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17:04Alan Clark of SUSE talks with IEEE Spectrum editor Stephen Cass about the disruption in the enterprise Linux community caused by recent announcements by Red Hat over open source access to its codebase, and the formation of the Open Enterprise Linux Alliance (Open ELA) by SUSE, Oracle and CIQ in response.…
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#49 CROSSTALK - Mathias Magdowski: Units For EMC Engineers
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20:34Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with Mathias Magdowski,” who is Researcher, Lecturer and Motivator at Otto-von Guerike University Magdeburg, Germany. Mathias will talk about U…
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#48 CROSSTALK - 2024 APEMC - Japanese Version
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11:42Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with Prof. Toyota, general chair of the 2024 APEMC held in Japan. He will share the papersubmission deadline and invite you to beautiful Okinaw…
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Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with Prof. Toyota, general chair of the 2024 APEMC held in Japan. He will share the papersubmission deadline and invite you to beautiful Okinaw…
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Justine Bateman's Fight Against Generative AI In Hollywood
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27:12Justine Bateman is an author and filmmaker. She also holds a degree in computer science from UCLA and is the AI advisor to SAG-AFTRA, the actors' union currently striking against movie and television studios. In this episode, Bateman talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Stephen Cass about actors' demands for control and compensation over digital …
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Wendy H. Wong is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, and author of the just released book, We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. An excerpt from the book regarding the emerging prospect of digitally reanimating the departed is available on IEEE Spectrum's website. In this episode of Fixing The Future, Wo…
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#46 CROSSTALK - Mark Mifsud: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in EMC Testing
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11:25Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with Mark Mifsud, Boeing, Associate Technical Fellow. Resulting in his long experiences in EMC testing, he shares insights about the good, the …
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The Future of Moore's Law Is Inside This Willy Wonka Machine
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27:31IEEE Spectrum's resident semiconductor expert Samuel K. Moore talks with host Stephen Cass about ASML's enormous machine that's at the heart of chip manufacturing and explain the latest tricks with extreme ultraviolet that will keep Moore's Law going. In addition, new technologies from Edwards and Nvidia should make manufacturing chips greener and …
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Reducing our global carbon footprint by switching to electric vehicles means we need a lot more batteries. And that means we need a lot more copper, nickel, cobalt, and lithium to make those batteries. Josh Goldman of KoBold Metals talks to senior editor Eliza Strickland about using AI to decipher geological formations and find new deposits of thes…
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#45 CROSSTALK - Jim Drewniak: Introducing the New IEEE Transactions on SIPI
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11:02Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with Jim Drewniak, Professoir Emeritus from MST, Missouri S&T EMC Laboratory. He is one of the initiators of the new IEEE Transactions on SIPI.…
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IEEE Spectrum's Stephen Cass talks with Arun Gupta, vice president and general manager of Open Ecosystem Initiatives at Intel and chair of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, about Intel's contributions to open source software projects and efforts to make open source greener and more secure.By IEEE Spectrum
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Finding The Wisest Ways To Global AI Regulation
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30:17Around the world, legislators are grappling with generative AI's potential for both innovation and destruction. Russell Wald is the Director of Policy for Stanford's Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. In this episode, he talks with IEEE Spectrum senior editor Eliza Strickland about creating humane regulations that are able to cop…
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#44 CROSSTALK - Mariya Antyufeyeva: EMC-S Women in Engineering during EMC Europe 2023
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6:30Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with Mariya Antyufeyeva, Senior Scientific Researcher, Associate Professor of the Department of Theoretical Radio Physics, V. N. Karazin Kharki…
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#43 CROSSTALK - Tara Kellogg: EMC-S Women In Engineering
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4:00Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with Tara Kellogg, Global Director of Business Development with ETS-Lindgren and organizer of the Women In Engineering Events North America. Sh…
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#42 CROSSTALK - Jewels of the Final Program - 2023 IEEE International Symposium on EMC+SIPI
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11:15Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. This special issue we talk with Mark Steffka, General Chair, 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Signal & Power Integrity (EMC+SIPI) …
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Scott Shapiro is the author of Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age in Five Extraordinary Hacks. You can read an excerpt of Fancy Bear at IEEE Spectrum, but in today's episode of Fixing the Future, Shapiro talks with Spectrum editor David Schneider about why cybersecurity can't be fixed with purely technical solutions, …
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#41 CROSSTALK Standard Week and Standard Development During 2023 IEEE International Symposium on EMC+SIPI
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7:15Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. This special issue we talk with Karen Burnham, VP Standards from the EMC-S and chair of the Standards week during the 2023 IEEE EMC+SIPI. She informs us about all st…
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#40 CROSSTALK Young Professionals EMC Events During 2023 IEEE International Symposium on EMC+SIPI
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8:04Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. This special issue we talk with Patrick DeRoy and Pavi Radhakrishnan about the Young Professionals EMC Events during 2023 IEEE International Symposium on EMC+SIPI . …
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#39 CROSSTALK IEEE EMC Society Podcast 2023 –SIPI Short Course 2023 IEEE EMC+SIPI
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5:59Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. In this issue we talk with John Golding. He is sharing what to expect from the SIPI Shourt Course during the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on EMC and SIPI. For f…
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#38 CROSSTALK IEEE EMC Society Podcast 2023 - Vignesh Rajamani - Presentación del nuevo presidente y su visión de Sociedad de EMC del IEEE - Episode #8 en Espanol
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14:45Welcome to the CROSSTALK - the IEEE EMC Society Podcast. Hear us above the Noise! The Podcast to discuss interesting topics on electromagnetic compatibility to our technical community. This issue is a translated version of Episode #8. We talk with Vignesh Rajamani, EMC Society President, sharing his vision for the IEEE EMC Society during his presid…
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