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The Hidden Costs of AI: How Small Inefficiencies Stack Up

Laurel Tweed — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:00:42 +0000

AI is having a major impact on society, from consumer technologies to driving businesses. But among all these large language models and deep neural networks, there are lurking inefficiencies that most people aren’t taking into account. Wasted computational power, hidden costs, the environmental footprint, and more. Whether these inefficiencies are big or small, they all […]

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The 2025 Low-Power Computer Vision Challenge: Spurring Innovation for Edge and Mobile Devices

Enrique Quezada — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:28:56 +0000

Imagine a downtown urban street on a traffic-heavy Saturday night. Now, add a severe snowstorm and an autonomous vehicle that safely navigates it all, despite fogged-up cameras, unpredictable pedestrians in oversized outerwear, streetlights throwing glare off a dozen wet surfaces, and the snow itself, which all but obliterates the visibility of traffic signs and lane […]

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2025 Presidential Candidate Town Hall

Kat Nguyen — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:16:31 +0000

With elections right around the corner, we encourage all voting members to take the time to understand who’s running and what their vision for the IEEE Computer Society is. Listen in to learn more about this year’s presidential candidates, Joaquim Jorge and Nils Aschenbruck. The town hall will be held virtually on Friday, 8 August […]

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Revolutionizing Compliance: The Promise of Graph RAG-Based Large Language Models

Joshua Roller — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:05:05 +0000

Ensuring regulatory compliance is a high-stakes challenge across industries. Banks, payroll processors, and legal firms alike grapple with complex rules and massive data — and the consequences of failure are severe. In 2024, U.S. regulators fined Citigroup $136 million for falling short in fixing data management issues flagged years prior [1]. In another case, nine […]

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Empowering Disabled Students Through Teaching Tech: The TechAble Training Initiative at KNUST

Jasmine Ang — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:45:12 +0000

What Is TechAble? The TechAble training initiative at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Ghana began in February 2025 and ran for eight weeks. Aimed at supporting students with disabilities, TechAble provided mentorship and high-quality instruction for three courses: web development, graphic design, and digital marketing. The teaching and mentorship demystified […]

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IEEE TCPP: 2025 Awards and Achievements in Parallel Processing

Enrique Quezada — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:57:40 +0000

The Role of TCPP in Advancing Parallel Processing The Technical Community on Parallel Processing (TCPP) serves as a global platform dedicated to advancing research and education in parallel processing while also contributing to the development of technical standards in the field. It focuses on a range of topics related to the design, analysis, and implementation […]

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Exploring the Complexity of Distributed Consensus Algorithms in Blockchain

Laurel Tweed — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:00:45 +0000

Consensus in blockchain isn’t just a technical problem—it’s an intellectual minefield. You’ve got decentralized nodes spread across the globe, each operating under different assumptions, with varying latencies, incentives, and potential motivations, and yet they’re all expected to come to the same conclusion about the state of a distributed ledger. No central authority, no fallback mechanisms, […]

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From Point Clouds to Photorealism: How PRoGS Advances the State of Neural Rendering

Enrique Quezada — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:34:42 +0000

What if a real-time automated decision-making process needs a computer vision system to produce photorealistic visuals in a mere fraction of a second? In many cases, this requires too much computational power — if it’s even possible at all. When computer vision uses 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS), it provides a photorealistic image, but the process […]

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Cybersecurity’s Unsung Heroes: Elevating Neurodiverse Talent in the Digital Age

Laurel Tweed — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 13:00:04 +0000

They aren’t your average hires. They don’t glide through job interviews or thrive in open-plan offices. But when it comes to pattern recognition, threat modeling, or zero-day hunting, neurodiverse individuals often outperform their peers. And yet, they remain largely untapped in the cybersecurity workforce. If we’re serious about fortifying digital defense systems, it’s time we […]

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Can Sensing Be Safe? Designing Privacy-Aware Wireless Systems

Laurel Tweed — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 13:00:22 +0000

Introduction From fitness trackers to smart speakers, mobile sensing has quietly become ubiquitous, embedding itself into our daily lives. These devices are capable of monitoring motion, detecting presence, identifying user activities, and even inferring health conditions, sometimes without any user interaction. As these applications grow and become central to smart environments, a critical question arises: […]

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