Category: Career

Career

  • An Open Letter to EE Journal Readers

    Dear EE Journal Readers, I think the issues raised by Jim Turley in his EE Journal article “Consider the Source“ are incredibly important.  I also…

  • What’s Virtual Is Real

    Google is known for engaging broadly across a range of seemingly unrelated projects. Whether glasses or driverless cars or even same-day delivery, it’s as if…

  • Harvesting the Smart Meter

    Smart meters represent a major infrastructural change in our energy delivery industry. It’s gone smoothly in some places and has met with fierce resistance in…

  • The Worst Two Answers

    You’re an upstanding product marketing guy, and you want to validate your company’s product ideas with customers and potential customers. So you go get in…

  • MORE Lawyers, Please!

    In response to Dick Selwood’s recent article “Lawyers, Bankers, and Engineers”, I want to take a different (and perhaps controversial) stand:  We need MORE lawyers.…

  • ISSCC Goes RGB

    I’ve commented in the past about how ISSCC, largely in contrast to other shows, had a distinctly binary color – or lack of color –…

  • The New (Pro)Vocative

    OK, going off script here a bit… English has been much simplified over the years as compared to its long-ago forebears. Yeah, it’s complicated in…

  • Minding the Home Front

    I got into an interesting discussion the other day with career consultant Yu Xi Mi. In fact, it unexpectedly turned into a demo. Here’s what…

  • Time to Get Loud

    It’s a classic case of upping the ante, and it’s not clear where it’s going to stop. Much consumer technology these days has been focused…

  • FIRST Follow-up

    On Monday we talked about the Seattle-area FIRST robotics team from Liberty High School in the Issaquah district. We now have some video of their…