Author: Perry

When San Antonio–based software engineer Nikhil Jathar first went to Washington, D.C., to advocate for federal support for technology education and research funding, he was in awe of the opportunity. It was spring of 2025, not long after Jathar settled in the United States from India, when he got an invitation to join the annual Congressional Visits Day organized by IEEE-USA.“My first reaction was, ‘Wow, I get to visit Congress,’ ” says Jathar, CTO of AvanSaber, a business software company he cofounded in 2014. At the time, he did not have a specific lobbying position on behalf of the company.…

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ZDNET’s key takeaways GridCraft is almost the MS Excel clone it intends to be. GridCraft is both free and open-source. The only thing missing is a strong template feature. ArtCraft, the development team behind PhotoCraft (and a number of other similar apps) reverse-engineered yet another de facto standard app: GridCraft, meant to mimic Microsoft Excel. ArtCraft’s collection is an important step forward for open source and the Linux operating system because some of the apps they’ve built have long been considered roadblocks to user adoption of Linux. With apps like WordCraft, DeckCraft, and PDFCraft now available, those roadblocks go away.…

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More Information Smart city deployments have historically relied on cameras, sensors, and dashboards that capture data without delivering timely insight. Edge AI changes this by letting inference happen close to where data is generated. This supports faster decisions, stronger data sovereignty, and lower operating costs than cloud-only designs. This guide traces the progression from automation and perception to prediction, agentic coordination, and physical AI, where urban systems continuously perceive conditions, reason about them, and act within a tiered edge architecture spanning far-edge sensors, regional infrastructure, and the cloud. It also outlines the durability, security, and interoperability requirements that production-grade edge…

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