Gamification is moving from social media networks to technical sites for both motivational and generational reasons. Engineers will have to play to win.
Read More »Yearly Archives: 2011
Tesla’s Lost Lab Recalls Promise Of Wireless Power
Wireless power transfer has come a long way since Nikola Tesla's work at the forgotten Wardenclyffe lab.
Read More »When A Neutrino Physicist Comes Knocking
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?
Read More »Engineering – The Lost Profession
The ring is given in a ceremony developed with the assistance of Rudyard Kipling and known as "The Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer."
Read More »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 …
Read More »Icahn Seeks Mentor’s Acquisition or Sell-off
Would the EDA industry be better served by the disruption caused by yet another acquisition attempt on Mentor or a sell off?
Read More »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.
Read More »
JB Systems Media and Tech Covering the High-Tech Semi-Electronics-Systems Industries