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  • Battlestar Galactica vs. the IoT

    Battlestar Galactica vs. the IoT

    “Out of the box is where I live.” – Lt. Kara “Starbuck” Thrace Remember in the opening episode of Battlestar Galactica when a PR minion…

  • The Coming Disintegration

    The Coming Disintegration

    It’s an idea rooted in the very identity of the products that the semiconductor industry puts out: the integrated circuit (or IC). For decades, our…

  • FPGA FAE Redux Paradox

    FPGA FAE Redux Paradox

    Recently, a colleague sent me a note on LinkedIn asking about an article I wrote over a decade ago called “Renaissance FAEs” – celebrating field…

  • Three Radicals Walk Into a Bar…

    Three Radicals Walk Into a Bar…

    “The young always inherit the revolution.” – Huey Newton Karl Marx, Charles Babbage, and Adam Smith walk into a bar.  After ordering drinks, the fathers…

  • Sensor for Shipping-Container Forensics

    Sensor for Shipping-Container Forensics

    Industrial internet-of-things (IoT) applications have a better track record of providing solutions to real problems than consumer IoT applications have. So, today, as part of…

  • Interdependence Day

    Interdependence Day

    The United States celebrates Independence Day today. There will be fireworks, brass bands, barbecues, and all of the customary pageantry, flag waving, and folderol. Americans…

  • Can You Copyright Software?

    Can You Copyright Software?

    “People who like eating sausage, and respect the law, should never see either one being made.” – John Godfrey Saxe The one certainty in law…

  • We Need to Talk!

    We Need to Talk!

    What we have here is a failure to communicate. – Cool Hand Luke The farmer and the cowman should be friends. – Oklahoma  There are…

  • Intel One API

    Intel One API

    Intel released more information last week on One API – a “unified programming model to simplify application development across diverse computing architectures.” This obviously ostentatious…

  • A Modem Bundled with Time

    A Modem Bundled with Time

    “The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.” – Leontyne Price There’s something…