Kristina Fiore is an Assistant Editor with Electronic Design. She holds a master's degree in science journalism from New York University and has worked as a reporter for a number of newspapers.
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January 31, 2008[TechView: The Industry] Distributed Design Teams Pose No Problem With Video Chatting
Since the rise of overseas outsourcing, video conferencing has been a popular way to do business with remote employees. Now, companies that make video chatting their primary business are making it easier for engineers to work with remote teammates. Typically aimed at casual chatters, these applications offer features like six-way video chat that could facilitate long-distance collaboration. And two companies are upping the bar for video chatting—SightSpeed...
January 17, 2008
[Technology In The News] Agilent Aids Discovery Of DNA Mutation Mechanism
When Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) researcher Jennifer Lee was studying the mechanisms of Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD), she expected to find DNA additions or deletions in the wrong place on patients’ chromosomes. After all, PMD – a progressive degenerative disorder of the central nervous system – occurs when DNA gets shuffled around incorrectly during replication.
January 17, 2008
[Technology In The News] Team Advances Hollow-Core Optical Fibers
Scientists from the University of Bath have discovered a way to speed up production of hollow-core optical fibers — a new generation of optical fibers that could lead to faster and more powerful computing and telecommunications technologies.
December 16, 2007
[Technology In The News] The Transistor Turns 60
It is hard to believe, in today’s world of miniaturization and shrinking components, that the first transistor ever created can be seen by the naked eye.
December 3, 2007[Technology Report] Tech Year In Review
JANUARY 30 The transistor gets its most thorough makeover in nearly 40 years. Intel and IBM change the composition of the gate stack, which researchers say is necessary for the perpetuation of Moore’s Law. The new high-k plus metal-gate (HK+MG) design swaps silicon-dioxide insulation, which has become rather leaky at only five atoms thick, and a silicon gate for a “high-k” dielectric insulator and a metal gate. The...
November 15, 2007[TechView: The Industry] Companies Revamp Read-Heads For Multi-Terabyte Storage
Hard-disk-drive (HDD) manufacturers are hard at work on ways to pack multiple terabytes (Tbytes) of storage onto a single device. At October’s Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference in Tokyo, two key players in the HDD market detailed their latest work in expanding storage capacity. Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (GST) revamped its readheads to make possible a 4-Tbyte drive, while Western Digital shaped current read-head technologies to deliver 3-Tbyte...
October 25, 2007[TechView: The Industry] TI Wireless Tech To Connect Medical Devices With HealthVault
For diabetes patients, a quick stick of the finger will soon reveal more than blood sugar levels. With glucometers that can wirelessly connect to Microsoft's HealthVault online health information center, patients can upload their stats and download relevant medical advice anytime, anywhere. Texas Instruments has agreed to bundle software on some of its existing wireless products so companies can produce connected medical devices that will...
October 19, 2007[Technology Report] Young EE Carves His Own Path To Success
Ryan Patterson considers himself lucky. As a toddler, he started "tinkering" by stuffing knives into electrical outlets and twisting light bulbs into sockets. He watched his dad wire their family home, and he absorbed the basics like current flow and hooking up motors and switches. By the time he was going off to high school, he had built two robots. "I feel really lucky because I've always had a natural interest in electronics," Patterson says....
October 19, 2007[Technology Report] Differing Interests Define Engineering Dream Jobs
In his senior year at the University of California, Electronic Design reader Thanh Nguyen remembers the chair of the physics department cancelling class so students and professors could watch NASA's firstever shuttle launch. As Columbia lifted off on April 12, 1981, Nguyen's dreams of working for NASA were just taking flight. "I remember sitting in the physics department's conference room and watching the shuttle lift off flawlessly for the first...
October 19, 2007[Hall Of Fame] Paul Baran: Cold War Comm Work Lays Grounds For 'Net Shopping
To maintain the Cold War stalemate with the Soviet Union, the United States knew it had to develop a hefty communications system that could withstand a nuclear strike and allow for retaliation. If the Soviets knew the U.S. could strike back, they would be less likely to attack. Policymakers weren't the only players in prolonging what seemed inevitable. Solutions rested heavily on the shoulders of engineers like Paul Baran. "We could stumble into a...
October 19, 2007[Hall Of Fame] Don Knuth: The Historian Of The Computer Age
These days, Donald Ervin Knuth spends most of his time in his study, poring over books, papers, and essays in an attempt to finish his life's work, The Art of Computer Programming. Forty years of advances in computer science are congealing, one idea at a time, into a thorough account of a field that this retired Stanford professor helped birth. "I wrote a sentence this morning," Knuth says just after 10 a.m. on the phone from his California home. It's...
October 19, 2007[Technology Report] Spencer Klein: Mapping The Neutrino Sky
One of the world's next best "telescopes" will not peer out into space. Instead, it will probe deep into the ice of the South Pole for a better picture of the high-energy universe. The project, dubbed "IceCube," will use 4800 optical sensors sitting 2500 m below the polar surface to detect fundamental particles called neutrinos as they pass through the earth. The goal is to map the "neutrino sky," which will pinpoint sources of high-energy cosmic rays that...
October 19, 2007[Technology Report] Mike Collette: Merging Film And Digital Tech For Superior Pictures
When Mike Collette visits a few of the national parks this fall, he'll be bringing his work with him. As president of Better Light Inc., a digital-imaging technology company he founded 15 years ago, he will shoot breathtaking landscapes on regular film. But he'll be able to preserve them digitally using his company's main product, the digital scanning back. An engineer with a passion for photography, Collette has carved out a dream job for himself developing the...
October 19, 2007[Technology Report] Ricky Howard: Programming Autonomous Spy Satellites (Cloak And Dagger Optional)
Since they fly low and home in on a specific area, spy satellites must constantly reboost to maintain a view of their assigned position. That eats up fuel, and when a satellite's power runs out, the crafty contraption is kicked. But what if there was a way to autonomously dock a refueling vehicle on the satellite? Its lifetime could be extended, and national defense could save millions of dollars per year not having to relaunch new spyware. That's where Ricky Howard...
October 19, 2007[Technology Report] Ryan Bloomfield: Expensive Toys Take Flight
Ryan Bloomfield likes being part of a team that makes "toys" on a grand scale. People usually fly the personal aircraft he works on at CubCrafters in Yakima, Wash., just for fun. "We really do make a high-end toys," says Bloomfield, an avionics engineer who helps wire the company's two-seater recreational aircraft. It's a dream job, he says, not only because he's hands-on in the design of planes, but also because he's surrounded by a tight-knit family of CubCrafters...
October 19, 2007[Technology Report] Jason Lucier: Engineering For The Jet Set
When the new Boeing model 787 airplane launches for commercial use in May 2008, passengers will be able to travel around the world on one of the most efficient jets ever designed. Until then, only test flight engineers like Jason Lucier will be on board, making sure the Dreamliner family of jets can transport 250 passengers across 8000 miles as efficiently as promised. "The flight test portion is like a dream," says Lucier, a Boeing Company engineer who will eventually...
October 3, 2007
[Web Exclusive] Engineering Sputnik
While Sputnik’s steady stream of radio-signal beeps broadcast the Soviet’s early prowess in space exploration, the creation of the first man-made satellite had long remained a state secret.
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