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Ultraconductors
Last year, I delved a little into the world of superconductors and their bizarre circuits. In poking about afterwards, I ran across something called an…
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Das Boot und Kryptographie
Security wonks talk about the “root of trust” for computer systems, and for good reason. If you can’t start from a known-good position, everything that…
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Elevating Their Game
High-level synthesis has always been the “personal jet pack” of electronic design automation. We all know that someday, “in the future,” we won’t need all…
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Sensors Get Platforms
New technology follows an arc. If it’s something really new and different, then it typically starts with an inspiration or an insight into how to…
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Pocari Sweat
Let’s say you’re shopping for a new car. (Congratulations.) You head down to your town’s Auto Row and start browsing all the dealerships. There’s the…
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Teaching Programming
There is some debate these days about teaching our kids to “code” and integrating software development into the mandatory curriculum along with reading, writing, and…
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A Tale of Two Graphenes
It’s pretty good times and, well, not as great times as we might have liked for one of the wonder materials of our time: graphene.…
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Teaching Coding
Many years ago, I was attending a series of classes on computing. It was intended to introduce librarians, of which I was one, to the…
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XP ATM IoT FUD
Two news items made the rounds last week. Both involved hacking, and both are (probably) bogus. I think the news says more about us as…
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Racing for Computer Nerds
Every ten minutes, the green flag drops. Billions of dollars worth of exotic hardware strain the very limits of physics and engineering wherewithal. Elegant efficiency…