Yearly Archives: 2011

IP Developers Will Play Games

Gamification is moving from social media networks to technical sites for both motivational and generational reasons. Engineers will have to play to win.

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When A Neutrino Physicist Comes Knocking

Circumstellar rings around SN 1987A, with the ejecta from the supernova explosion at the center of the inner ring.

Will neutrinos from a supernova in the Tarantula Nebula save Einstein endangered postulate? Does all research have to be immediately profitable? Will collisions at Fermilab’s Tevatron slow the speed of declining scientific prominence in the United States?

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EDA Inflections on Technology Innovations

Each of the major semiconductor EDA companies approaches innovation is different ways, but all agree that creating new products and improving existing ones is essential to survival. By John Blyler Everyone talks about innovation. Start-up companies are the most visible vehicle for innovation, but also the most risky with a one-in-ten chance of modest success. Less visible is the innovation …

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Picking Your Mistakes

Repeatable Evidence is hard to obtain. Dr. Nancy Cartwright of the London School of Economics and UC San Diego examines the movement to establish evidence-based public policy in this ISEPP lecture.

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