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 …
Artech House author of Adrian Cardalda-Garci Location Based Services, shortened LBS, are a fundamental part of cellular networks. In the 5G ecosystem, the applications of LBS are increasing exponentially, not only for smartphones, but also for autonomous driving, UAVs, the Industry 2.0, eHealth and a large number of industry verticals. With this promising future, one …
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 are so thrilled that Artech House author Uttam Majumder has been given an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Appointment (2020-2022). He will be delivering this webinar on machine learning, hosted and organized by IEEE USA: Topic: Deep Learning Based RF Target Classification: Recent Results and Technical Challenges Description: The focus of this lecture will be recent …
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 …
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. Read on to find out what Warren Stutzman, who wrote Polarization in Electromagnetic Systems, Second Edition had to say: What are some problems your book can help …
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 …
Cameron Coursey, who just released his second book with Artech House, The Practitioners Guide to Cellular IoT, describes what compelled him to write his book, and gives us a look at how he got into his field of IoT. What prompted me to write my book: There is a scene in the movie Apollo 13 …
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 is the pre-eminent publisher of technical books, and we are so happy our communities agree! Read on for an endorsement of David Cruickshank’s latest book, Finally, at the threshold of 5G cellular communications and their promise of the Internet of Things, machine-to-machine communication, self-driving cars, and faster-than-ever data, audio, and video communication, there …
