Mani Vadari, who released Electric System Operations: Evolving to the Modern Grid, Second Edition, gave us a behind-the-scenes look at today’s electric grid: To the layperson, electricity may seem ubiquitous and simple; flip the switch and voilà, you have light! But what happens behind the scenes is anything but simple. Today’s electric grid is increasingly …
At Artech House, we ask our authors what problems their books can help readers solve. In this series, we share what our authors aim to do in their writing, starting with Ed Birrane, who, along with Jason Soloff, wrote Designing Delay-Tolerant Applications for Store-and-Forward Networks: How can I increase the value of a congested/impaired network? Network …
Artech House author Sue Robertson let us know about her her career journey and the current climate of her field of study: Traditional wars have been fought in the air, land and sea but now the electromagnetic (EM) domain has come to dominate the way in which battles are fought. The EM domain underpins and …
Authors Fabio Cavaliere and Antonio D’Errico explain what they hope to share in the writing of their book, Photonic Applications for Radio Systems Networks: What is the author aim? What prompted authors to write this book is to help people to gain basic complementary skills in both optics and radio communication technologies. The book intends, on …
The book “Multimedia Networking Technologies, Protocols, and Architectures” aims at providing telecommunications specialists, and professionals working with multimedia services, an in-depth and up-to-date coverage of the different technologies involved in the delivery of this type of services. The book has been written to also serve as a useful learning resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate …
Author Brian Watson’s book, Non-Line-of-Sight-Radar, wrote a comprehensive volume, but there’s always more to talk about. Read on for his thoughts on radar, how he wrote the book, and his writing process: Radar: Big data is being incorporated into a variety of fields to improve performance including medicine, physics, and smart systems. Radar is no …
December author Günter Kompa let us know what prompted him to write his new book, Parameter Extraction and Complex Nonlinear Transistor Models: Since the eighties, parameter extraction of microwave transistors was the permanent key topic in my research group at Kassel University. Initially we dealt with packaged devices comprising the wire-bonded die in a metal or …
The second edition of Sundar Madihally’s book, Principles of Biomedical Engineering, available in December, discusses how timely the subject of biomedical engineering is today. Here are his thoughts on why it’s so important: Every day you could see an advancement in the field helping improve the quality of life. For example, developing glucose sensors that can …
Fabio Cavaliere and Antonio D’Errico released their title, Photonic Applications for Radio Systems Networks, from Artech House. Keep reading to learn more about why they wrote this book, and how they hope the book will help to shape the future of 5G networks… Why have the authors written the book? The book is written to …
Artech House author Serge Borso is one of the foremost names in IT security, and he gave us insight as to how and why he came to write his latest book, The Penetration Tester’s Guide to Web Applications. Read below for more: When I made the switch from freelancing as an IT/Security consultant, to a …
