IEEE's TryEngineering program, now in its third year, ran educator professional-development sessions across the US and one in Cairo, Egypt, teaching 54 preuniversity teachers about artificial intelligence, semiconductor technology, and the engineering design process. Sessions were hosted at university and industry facilities, including the Florida Semiconductor Institute and a SkyWater Technology chip plant, and included lesson plans like Making of a Microchip and Working With Wind Energy. Additional workshops are planned this year in Greece and Guatemala.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-11-05
The IEEE Computer Society's Central Indiana Chapter has started a Tech Talk Series, a monthly live webinar program linking IEEE members, students, and engineering professionals across Region 4 with practitioners from companies including Apple, Tavant, and Zscaler. Topics so far have included AI governance, security, and agentic systems, with sessions available through the IEEE Region 4 virtual events calendar.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-11-03
Phil Belanger, a founding member of the Wireless Ethernet Compatibility Alliance, says the term "Wi-Fi" was invented in 1999 by branding agency Interbrand and does not stand for "Wireless Fidelity" or anything else. The alliance briefly used the tagline "The Standard for Wireless Fidelity" to explain the name to consumers, but Belanger says it was later dropped after being called a branding mistake.
techspot.com
· 2026-11-03
Freelance writer Benjamin Skuse tested IEEE's peer-review defenses by submitting AI-generated scientific papers, in one case simply running an automated 'run experiment' and 'write paper' process with no edits before submission. According to IEEE features editor Eliza Strickland, the combination of human reviewers and research-integrity software currently managed to catch these machine-made submissions.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-11-01
The IEEE Computer Society announced recipients of its 2026-2027 Emerging Technology Grants Program on October 30, 2026. The selected recipients will run targeted programs covering pressing topics in computer science and engineering, including artificial intelligence.
wpcms.computer.org
· 2026-10-30
An IEEE Computer Society post argues that the common assumption underlying autonomous security response—that defensive actions like isolating hosts, revoking credentials, or quarantining workloads carry essentially zero cost—is flawed. It contends that as organizations deploy machine-speed automated defenses to counter machine-speed attacks, those same defensive mechanisms can themselves become a new attack surface.
wpcms.computer.org
· 2026-10-30
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers announced on 28 October that it had retracted 1,417 conference papers in one batch on 23 October, after an external study linked them to paper mills selling authorship slots. The retraction notices state the papers 'may have been offered for sale,' and Nature's analysis found 1,622 of the 2,062 flagged papers have now been pulled, bringing IEEE's 2026 retraction total to nearly 3,000.
nature.com
· 2026-10-30
A commentary published by the IEEE Computer Society argues that as AI agents move from demos into production across cloud platforms, workflow tools, and business applications, they are increasingly able to retrieve customer data, call internal APIs, modify transactions, and delegate tasks to other agents. The piece makes the case that enterprises need a dedicated 'control plane' to govern and oversee this growing autonomy.
wpcms.computer.org
· 2026-10-29
The IEEE Computer Society, a co-sponsor of the CVPR conference, released a report examining whether GPU access and development time influenced which papers were accepted to CVPR 2026. The study was produced by the CVPR 2026 organizing team to look at resource disparities among authors submitting research.
wpcms.computer.org
· 2026-10-28
The IEEE Computer Society is organizing a virtual roundtable bringing together senior leaders from major technology companies to discuss AI adoption at scale. The moderated discussion will focus on moving AI initiatives from experimentation to enterprise-wide deployment, with an emphasis on responsible implementation.
wpcms.computer.org
· 2026-10-27
A former team member writing for IEEE Spectrum's careers newsletter describes leadership comparing engineers unfavorably to ChatGPT and weekend-built apps during 2024-2025, as Claude and ChatGPT adoption surged. The author argues AI demos create a false impression that software work is simple, leading some executives to question the need for full engineering teams, while ignoring legacy systems, legal and accessibility requirements, and deployment complexity.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-10-22
Software engineer Nikhil Jathar, CTO of AvanSaber, joined IEEE-USA's Congressional Visits Day in spring 2025 to advocate for federal support of technology education and research funding. He traveled to Washington, D.C. as part of a broader group of IEEE members invited to meet with congressional staff and push specific policy requests.
spectrum.ieee.org
· 2026-10-22
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