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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…