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Debugging to the Tenth Power
“We’re boned.” – Bender Rodriguez Debugging code is hard enough. Now we’re taking on a whole new level of software sanitation. By that I mean…
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Fiduciary Irresponsibility
The corporate world has a well-established legal principle called “Fiduciary Responsibility” or “Fiduciary Duty.” Simply put, it is the legal duty to act “solely in…
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An IoT Semantic Interop Proposal
The Holy Grail for the Internet of Things (IoT) is that any machine can talk to any other relevant machine and, notwithstanding possible different transports…
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Embedded World Diary
In the subterranean hallways of the main railway station in Nuremberg, every ticket machine is surrounded by people wrestling with the fare structure and the…
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Making Mobile Video Move
Over the past few years our mobile devices have gotten smaller, sleeker, and more efficient. From smartphones to laptops to tablets to a plethora of…
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The Greek Philosophy to Programming
“The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.” – Archimedes Life could be worse. Imagine you’re sitting on the beach on a Greek…
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More Compression, Less Area
If you’ve ever digitized your vinyl albums, you know that you have a decision to make: what format should be used to store the music?…
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Synopsys and SPICE Go Native
Want to feel old? Wait… hello? You still there? OK, whew… I thought you’d already answered, “No” and moved on to something else. Guess I…
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The Road from Java
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability…
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Managing Beacons from Afar
Malls are increasingly abuzz with electromagnetic chatter. It’s the beacon thing, adding to the already healthy (or un-) level of EM waveage contributed by our…