Category: Career

Career

  • A Conference Presentation Figure of Merit

    In this business, I end up going to a lot of conferences on a lot of different topics. Now, I was trained as an engineer…

  • Getting Away from Rare Materials

    Every couple months or so it’s not hard to find some mention somewhere in the mainstream media about the industrial world’s vulnerability with respect to…

  • A Company Reunion?

    Back in 1982, I joined a smallish company that had gotten their start in memories, but had subsequently been the first company to build a…

  • Intelligent Devices Lack Social Graces

    My bathroom scales clearly knew it was my birthday – the display that shows my age and other stats when I step on had advanced…

  • Magma People and Products

    At the time I commented on the announced Synopsys/Magma merger the other day, I had received no comment on the fate of products and people…

  • RyanAir, a low cost Ireland base

    RyanAir, a low cost Ireland based airline, notorious for charging for anything they can, was rumoured to be thinking of installing pay toilets on their…

  • A New Conference Fee Coming Your Way?

    Go to any conference, and everything is sponsored. Lunch is sponsored. The coffee is sponsored. The Wifi is sponsored. The salad fork is sponsored (and…