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This One’s for the Techno-Dweebs
I’m afraid I’m in a techno-dweeby mood at this moment in time. My head is filled with thoughts that are bouncing around my noggin like…
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Ask Steve: Career and management advice from the former CEO of Microchip
It’s a new year and New Year’s resolutions may be on your mind. You’ll find some helpful hints on making resolutions, or just getting your…
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One More Step on the Path to AIIE (AI-In-Everything)
Almost anyone involved in developing new products today wants those products to have an artificial intelligence (AI) component [for the purposes of this column we…
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I See Holograms Everywhere
I have seen the future, and it’s going to be even more amazing than our wildest dreams. Do I have your attention? Good. Then I’ll…
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Augmenting an Existing 2D CMOS Sensor to Provide 3D Depth Perception
The term “machine vision” refers to the technologies and processes by which machines extract, analyze, and interpret visual information from the physical world using sensors…
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The Day of the Drum Machine
Ikutaro Kakehashi founded Roland Corporation in Osaka on April 18, 1972. He’d just resigned from his first company, Ace Electronic Industries, the previous month. Ace…
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Bringing Innate Intelligence to Trillions of Devices
Did you ever wonder why they (whoever “they” are) chose the prefix “tera” to mean trillion (as in 10^12, or 1,000,000,000,000)? Well, it’s because because…
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The Man Who Loved Music
This article is a book review of an autobiography of Ikutaro Kakehashi, published in 2002 and titled “I Believe in Music.” Kakehashi-san founded the electronic…
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From Concept to Programmable Logic Prototype in Minutes
My poor old noggin is currently buzzing with ideas for things I could do with the new line of programmable devices that were recently introduced…
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A Bold New Twist on Optical Computing
There are obvious attractions to “computing at the speed of light” with photonics-based technology—not just the extremely high speed, although that’s important, of course, but…