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Sweating the Small Stuff
“Don’t sweat the petty things, and don’t pet the sweaty things.” – George Carlin Ah, yes. The old “make versus buy” decision. For months, I’ve…
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Living On the Edge
Ah, words… Simple audio utterances that contain meaning. Well, except when they don’t. Or when each of us parses a different meaning out of a…
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Altium Amps PCB
Altium (long ago known as Protel) has long distinguished themselves as the provider of PCB tools for the mainstream. They based their business on the…
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The Jenga Conundrum
“Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.” — Clayton M. Christensen One good way to…
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Microsoft’s Take on Quantum Computing
This year’s ICCAD conference featured a keynote from Microsoft’s Dr. Krysta Svore on quantum computing. We’ve looked at the topic before (with me making limited…
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Visualizing Real-Time Issues
I had planned this piece some months ago, but suddenly it has become tied into a major breaking news story. In the last ten or…
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Another RISC-V Religious Conversion
“It will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion.” — Fredrik Bajer (1837–1922) You could see them coming a…
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Taming Technology’s Social Impact
Engineering education is all about problem solving. Of course, we learn the basics of some technology – electronics, software, mechanical systems – whatever. But the…
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Trust and the IoT
Not too long ago, the IoT Security Summit happened – a day spent with all things security as they relate to the IoT. So today…
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Playing the Game; Gaming the Play
“It’s a whole new world every time you start.” – Jennifer Hale It will come as no surprise to anyone who’s visited Disneyland (excuse me,…