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“Softly” Defined Networks
Programmability is a powerful concept. It allows us to build a physical machine and then modify, upgrade, repurpose, repair, and evolve it – without having…
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Mapping the Great Indoors
Car navigation technology has made amazing strides over the last decade. Heck, we may talk about a future of driver-less cars, but we already have…
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Exposed by Tools
Do you like to be watched while you work? Most people don’t. There’s this fine line between making sure that stakeholders know about your progress…
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Ray-Tracing Wizard Requires Imagination
Ray tracing is one of those cool things that computer geeks often play with at some point in their careers. I fiddled with ray-tracing software…
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Augmented Reality
The prior article in this series, “Embedded Vision on Mobile Devices: Opportunities and Challenges,” introduced various embedded vision applications that could be implemented on smartphones,…
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The Annual EUV Update
OK, folks, SPIE Advanced Litho happened last month, so it must be time for… wait for it… wait for it… wait for it… That’s the…
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Accelerating Innovation in Cloud & Mobile Computing
In part one of this article series, I suggested that datacenter architectures could benefit from revisiting the parallel computing innovations of the 1980s, and I…
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Officer, My Computer Crashed
When you’re driving at 182 MPH, don’t slam on the brakes and expect to survive. That thought flitted briefly through my mind as I watched…
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Board Revolution
Mentor Graphics is number one in PCB design tools. They want me to tell you that. They want me to tell you that – even…
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Distributing Data, Machine to Machine
The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about Things talking to people and to other Things. This relationship between Things and other Things and People…