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The Lunar Roving Vehicle: How Earth’s Moon Became the Cadillac Ranch
“We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard;…
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“Proving Ground”: A biography and history of the six women who invented programming for ENIAC
ENIAC, generally and arguably considered to be the world’s first large-scale general purpose electronic computer, was the Big Bang of the computer industry. Credit for…
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Teradyne’s Tactics to Tackle Twenty-First Century Test
When I was a young sprout, I used to work for a pair of sister companies called Cirrus Designs and Cirrus Computers in the UK.…
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“The Game Console 2.0” Serves up Images of 123 Home Video Game Consoles Across 9 Generations
My engineering career started shortly after video games appeared. The first arcade video game, Computer Space, was developed by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney and…
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Blinded by the Light
Do you remember the song Blinded by the Light? This composition, which was originally written and recorded by Bruce Springsteen, first appeared on his 1973…
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Blumind Bodes AI For Everyone, Everywhere
As I’ve mentioned several times on previous occasions, when I commenced my degree course in Control Engineering at Sheffield Hallam University in England circa the…
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Farewell my beloved x1 x10 Scope Probe
In its infinite wisdom, the Test and Measurement Alliance (TMA) has announced that there’s been an “industry-wide decision to retire x1/x10 switchable oscilloscope probes.” What,…
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The Future Sounds Incredible (When Employing Ultrasonic Speaker Technology)
I’ve said it many times before, and I’ll doubtless say it many times again—I’m a simple man who likes a simple story—something I can wrap…
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In Memoriam: Chuck Near, An Extraordinary Engineer and Engineering Manager
The man sitting across the desk from me had come to Case Western Reserve University in the winter of early 1975 to recruit new engineering…
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Want to Reduce Your Data Center AI Inferencing Infrastructure Costs by 10X?
I just had something of an epiphany.* What pops into your mind when you are exposed to the term “extreme edge”? Assuming you are of…