In celebration of it's 50th anniversary year IEEE Spectrum has an article covering the 50 favourite articles of current executive editor Glenn Zorpette.
These articles, from 1964 onward, have not been available in the IEEE archive previously, and are provided as downloadable PDF's which contain scans of the original magazine copies.
We wrote about robots, the Internet, lasers and LEDs, code-breaking and compound semiconductors, wireless and weapons, transistors and trans-humanism.
We documented the moon landing and nuclear mishaps and breakthroughs, as well as the rise of China, India, and Japan as technology titans. And, to be honest, we predicted the imminent success of magnetic-levitation trains way more times than we should have.
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I’m [Executive Editor Glenn Zorpette] referring to outstanding feature articles that were written by friends or colleagues, or ones that were published before my time but that came to my attention because their legends lingered, like the memory of an adolescent kiss. There are of course far too many of these notable articles to acknowledge in a brief column such as this one. So my account will of necessity be deeply personal and seriously abridged, and restricted to articles that were published so long ago that they are not available in the archive on our website.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @07:57PM
The best IEEE Spectrum article that I've read is The Athens Affair [ieee.org] - an account of 007-style wire-tapping of cellphones belonging to muckety-mucks during the 2004 Olympics.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 27 2014, @08:06PM
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$!
They also paywall the IBM System Journals, and Bell Labs Technical Journals, which USED to be available on the web for free.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Thursday November 27 2014, @08:31PM
That sound like bad will.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 28 2014, @10:26AM
That sound like very bad, dave.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 28 2014, @07:24PM
And they publish gibberish. http://www.nature.com/news/publishers-withdraw-more-than-120-gibberish-papers-1.14763 [nature.com]