Our task as technical and scientific writers is to talk about technically complex subjects in a way that informs and engages our readers. It is our job to inform not to entertain. On the other hand science and engineering does not need to be dull but can it be romantic? In our latest book, 5G …
The Monarch Who Measured and the Science of Millimetre Metrology. George 3, described in school textbooks as ‘the mad king who lost America’ was in practice a capable King with a particular passion for science. On June 3rd 1769 he observed and timed the transit of Venus from the Kew Observatory near Richmond, a measurement …
When we write a proposal for a technical book, there are five questions a publisher needs us to answer. What are we writing, why, who will read it, where do they live and when will the work be ready. Of these, ‘where’ is important to the publisher as it tells them where to market and …
We at Artech House encourage a spirit of collaboration, and we couldn’t be more thrilled to have author Geoff Varrall review Telecommunication Electronics, by Dante Del Corso, Roberto Quaglia, Vittorio Camarchia, Paolo Bardella. Read on for his insights: Those of us still self-isolating have a once in a lifetime (hopefully longer) opportunity to catch up …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Artech House author Geoff Varrall shared his monthly technology topic from his company, RTT. This month he (humorously) examines how moblie communication is being used and could be used to control communicable disease: The use of smart phones and phone data to support test track and trace is proving to be a significant life saver. …
James Genova, author of Electronic Warfare Signal Processing, told us why he wrote his latest bestseller: My early career was in systems testing and anti-submarine warfare coherent digital signal processing (DSP). My first task in EW was to explore the potential of feedback control. By the 1990’s anti-ship missiles (ASM) were guided by one or …
