By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009
This biographical sketch about Theodore H. Maiman, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Maiman invented the first laser while working at Hughes Research Lab.
By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009
This biographical sketch about Jack Gifford, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Among other accomplishments, he founded Maxim Integrated Products
By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009
This biographical sketch about Nick Holonyak Jr., written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Holonyak invented the first practical LED among other inventions.
By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009
This biographical sketch about Robert Kahn, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Kahn helped create the ARPANET and worked with Vinton Cerf to create TCP/IP communications protocols.
By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009
This biographical sketch about Arnold Beckman, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Beckman was the founder of Beckman Instruments and invented the pH meter.
By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009
This biographical sketch about Robert Boschert, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Boschert was instrumental in the development of low-cost switching-mode power supplies.
By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008
Retirement isn’t coming easy to 83-year-old Joseph Engelberger, widely known as the Father of Robotics. “There’s a lot that can still be done,” he says wistfully, despite already accomplishing so much in the robotic field. In fact, Engelber
By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008
His pioneering work in digital computer technology gave the world reliable random-access magnetic-core memory that revolutionized computer speed and power. Nevertheless, Jay Forrester says his work today is “much more important.” “In 1
By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008
George Frye was happily working at Tektronix on high-speed sampling oscilloscopes in 1970 when his hearing-impaired mom needed some help. “Her old Zenith hearing aid was getting a little cranky, ” said Frye. She took him up on an offer to b
By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008
James Gosling, inventor of the Java programming language and the virtual machine, skipped many of his high school math and physics classes. His teachers knew it, but they still gave him A’s. That’s because, said Gosling, they knew why he wa
By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008
The printing press was one of the most influential inventions in human history. Could universal personal computing and worldwide networking be just as significant to human thought? In the 1960s, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008
If you want to make a difference, don’t follow the crowd, Marvin Minsky advises today’s students. Don’t go into the most popular field. “That could be a disaster. When I started to work on artificial neural networks, only four other researcher
By Joseph Desposito, December 01, 2008
Selecting the best OEM products and technologies of the year can be a daunting task, given the wealth of innovations that this industry produces. But a few always stick out in an editor’s mind, somehow making their way to the top of the list.
By Kristina Fiore, October 19, 2007
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
By John Arkontaky, October 19, 2007
Some say that asking the right question is more important than having the right answer. But if you're Aart de Geus, you'll do them both, and you'll do them both pretty darn well. Synthesis programming as well as all of the computeraided eng