• Share with a friend Dr. Ning-Cheng Lee, Vice President of Technology, Indium Corporation, is a world-renown soldering expert and an SMTA Member of Distinction. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the development of fluxes and solder pastes for SMT industries. He has extensive experience in the development of high temperature polymers, encapsulants for microelectronics, underfills, and adh...

AI’sHall of Fame In 2010, as the part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of IEEE Intelligent Systems magazine, our editorial and advisory boards decided to launch the IEEE Intelligent Systems Hall of Fame to express our appreciation and respect for the trailblazers who have made significant contributions to the field of AI and intelligent systems and to honor them for their notable impa...

“15 seconds of fame” is an interactive installation which every 15 seconds generates a new pop-art portrait of a randomly selected person from the audience. The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol’s ironical statement that “In the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes”. The installation detects human faces to crop them from the wide-angle picture of people who are standing in fron...

BACKGROUND Rock and pop stars are frequently characterised as indulging in high-risk behaviours, with high-profile deaths amongst such musicians creating an impression of premature mortality. However, studies to date have not quantified differences between mortality experienced by such stars and general populations. OBJECTIVE This study measures survival rates of famous musicians (n = 1064) f...

IN THE FIRST DECADES of the 20th century, American scientists studying and working overseas outnumbered foreign scientists working in the United States. But after World War II, the United States began its rise toward global scientific leadership, partly because of an influx of scientists fleeing Nazism or Communism and partly because the country largely escaped the ravages of war. The United St...