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Cheap Earthquake-Warning
Systems
Crowdsourced networks of lowcost sensors and cellphones
could have provided life-saving
seconds in Nepal.
By Prachi Patel & Tekla S. Perry

Keeping Watch on Diabetes
A reverse engineered
blood-sugar monitor offers
freedom to children.
By John Costik

Health Care's Sweet Spots
Being our own health care nodes
goes beyond our data.
By Susan Hassler

Video: Electric Guns at Sea
It sounds like science fiction, but
the U.S. Navy is ready to test a
full-scale railgun on a warship.
Railgun missiles rely on electricity
instead of explosives, but the
projectiles have so much kinetic
energy that the results far surpass
conventional naval weapons.

17 Full-HD Voice Is Nearly Here
18 Smart Sewers
20 Giving Supercomputers a
Second Wind

23 Review: The Demo
24 Tools: Sproutling's Baby
Wearable
25 Careers: Predicting the Future
96 And Now This...
Stimulating Engineering

04 Back Story
06 Contributors
26 Technically Speaking: Beyond
the Wearable
28 Numbers Don't Lie:
Anthropocene? Not Yet

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Tech
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A New Method for Accurate OTA Production Testing of Wireless
Products-2 June
Simulating Graphene-Based Photonic and Optoelectronic
Devices-11 June
Accelerate Your Machine Vision Systems Design With the Xilinx
Smart Vision Development Kit and Silicon Software's Embedded
VisualApplets-18 June
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The
Institute
Available on 5 June 2015
neXt waVe oF wearaBLes This special issue of The Institute
describes what's needed to make wearable fitness and health trackers
more accurate, seamless, and better equipped to monitor vital signs-not to
mention more enjoyable to use. This issue also explores some of the many
career opportunities available for engineers in the life sciences.
Meet the candidates We interviewed the 2016 IEEE presidentelect candidates, Senior Member Karen Bartleson and Life Fellow
Frederick "Fred" Mintzer, about why they volunteer for the organization and
their goals for its future.
GuidinG internet PoLicy Learn about IEEE's new Internet Initiative,
a platform dedicated to bringing together the technical community with
policymakers to discuss Internet governance, cybersecurity, and privacy.

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