Collaborate Disseminate
Neural networks have become a hot topic over the last decade, put to work on jobs from recognizing image content to generating text and even playing video games. However, these …read more Continue reading Researchers Build Neural Networks With Actual Neurons
In any given field there are epoch-defining moments, those events after which nothing was quite the same as it had been before. It’s been a decade since the launch of …read more Continue reading It’s Official! The Raspberry Pi Is Now 10!
Most of us probably have some vivid memories of high school or college chemistry lab, where the principles of the science were demonstrated, and where we all got at least …read more Continue reading Big Chemistry: From Gasoline to Wintergreen
Along with many other natural phenomena, lightning is probably familiar to most. Between its intense noise and visuals, there is also very little disagreement that getting hit by a lightning …read more Continue reading The Electrifying Debate Around Where Lightning Comes From
For British teenagers in the 1980s, the delights of 8-bit computers such as the Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64, or BBC Micro were firmly restricted to the offline arena. We would …read more Continue reading Teardown: Alcatel Telic 1 Minitel Terminal
I’ve had a fairly varied early part of my career in the semiconductors business: a series of events caused me to jump disciplines a little bit, and after one such …read more Continue reading Hair Today Gone Tomorrow: Four Men Go To Fix A Wafer Prober
Back in the late 80s, our company managed to procure the complete 28 volume MIT Radiation Laboratory (Rad Lab) series, published in 1947, for the company library. To me, these …read more Continue reading Remembering the MIT Radiation Laboratory
Pumped hydro storage is one of the oldest grid storage technologies, and one of the most widely deployed, too. The concept is simple – use excess energy to pump a …read more Continue reading Underwater Tanks Turn Energy Storage Upside-Down
A few months ago, I was discussing the control of GPIB equipment with a colleague. Based on only on my gut feeling and the briefest of research, I told him …read more Continue reading Save Money and Have Fun Using IEEE-488
If you are old enough, you may remember that, for a time, almost every year was the year that home video was going to take off. Except it never was, …read more Continue reading Shelf Actualization