In this month’s technology topic/posting we explore the potential for a space enabled global New Deal as a mechanism for post pandemic economic recovery. There are particular parallels between our present situation and Franklin Roosevelt’s $50 billion dollar recovery plan. The economic and social devastation caused by the stock market crash of 1929 was compounded …
Authors of Medical Device Cybersecurity for Engineers and Manufacturers Axel Wirth and Chris Gates share what prompted them to write their book: Chris: I was born to this. I really didn’t have a choice. My father was an E.E. in the broadcast industry (radio and television) so I grew up around electronics. I was soldering …
Zoom Teleconferencing Boom The impact of the corona virus on telecoms is one obvious starting point – in last month’s posting, The Zoom Boom, we discussed the demand side impact of Covid-19 on teleconferencing. Business is booming for Zoom Video, the remote conferencing services platform. Since the start of the year Zoom’s market value has risen …
Sorin Fericean’s book is titled Inductive Sensors for Industrial Applications and primarily deals with sensors containing inductive primary sensing elements, and that is because the “Inductive” is one of most widely used in the market and also due to the fact that the author acted mainly in the R & D, manufacturing and tests and …
Enjoy this blog post, which originally appeared on meditechdive.com, written by Greg Slabodkin, and featuring Chris Gates, one of the authors of Medical Device Cybersecurity for Engineers and Manufacturers, and book contributor Allan Friedman of the NTIA: A dearth of details on third-party software widely used in medical devices is making patients vulnerable to cybersecurity threats, a …
Writing about science, technology or engineering does not necessarily mean we can or should comment on contemporary politics but understanding political context is important if we want to understand how and why some technologies and the business plans behind them fail and some succeed. Although most of us live and work in capitalist economies, R …
The authors of Medical Device Cybersecurity for Engineers and Manufacturers explain the need to secure medical devices in the market today: The medical device industry was the first industry to be regulated to produce secure embedded devices, which left manufacturers in the odd position of being trailblazers in what is often unfamiliar territory. Secure development …
From the series In Your Own Words Kazuhiro Mochizuki on his book on vertical GaN and SiC power semiconductor devices My book, Vertical GaN and SiC Power Devices published by Artech House, is intended to provide a comparative introduction to vertical GaN and SiC power semiconductor devices for students, researchers, and engineers working in the …
Author Cameron Coursey gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the writing process of his book, The Practitioner’s Guide to IoT: My advisor in graduate school told me I had a knack for writing after he read the thesis for my Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. Come to think about it, he commented more on …
