-
Recent Posts
- Keynote and Technology Demonstrations at IEEE VisArch Co-located with ISCA
- Recent I3T Lab Graduate Sarah Eom Highlighted by the Duke University Center for Computational and Digital Health Innovation
- Is This the Future of our Day to Day Lives with Smart Glasses and AI?
- I3T Lab Tour a Part of Regional NAE Meeting
- One More Half-marathon: Garmin Durham 1/2
Selected Topics
Archives
Category Archives: In the news
Work-Wearables: Next Step in Major Wearable Technology Deployments?
New Zealand Herald has an interesting opinion piece on the promise of wearable tech in work-wearables. The author makes several good points about why work wearables look like a promising area: work wearables have more reasons to be wearable, their … Continue reading
Posted in In the news, Industry trends, Internet of Things, Technology, Wearable computing
Comments Off on Work-Wearables: Next Step in Major Wearable Technology Deployments?
IoT Spectrum Devices: Unusual Design Choices in Amazon Dash Button
Amazon recently announced that it will be partnering with over 50 additional brands in deploying its Dash buttons, small electronic buttons that can be sprinkled around the house and clicked to order the product a button represents. There are now … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer technology, Creativity, Hardware, In the news, Industry trends, Internet of Things, Mobile computing, Technology
Comments Off on IoT Spectrum Devices: Unusual Design Choices in Amazon Dash Button
RIP Andy Grove
I was saddened by the death of Andy Grove, the former Intel CEO who drove the growth of Silicon Valley. Andy Grove’s “High Output Management” has been my go-to book on running teams and improving business processes. I have seen few books … Continue reading
Posted in ASICs, Career and Leadership, Good reads, In the news, Management, Technology, Tips and tricks
Comments Off on RIP Andy Grove
The Onion At Its Best: ‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method
The Onion spots a much-needed addition: ‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method. Quoting from the article: “After making an observation and forming a hypothesis as usual, the new third step of the scientific method will now require researchers to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Creativity, Good reads, Humor, In the news, Ph.D., Research
Comments Off on The Onion At Its Best: ‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method
Projected Ending of Moore’s Law: Can Engineering Creativity Sustain The Rate Of Progress?
The projections of the ending of the Moore’s Law are nothing new — seemingly, they were being made for many decades. For example, back in 2009 an NSF director Jeannette Wing had the following graph in her ACM MobiCom talk … Continue reading
Posted in ASICs, Creativity, Hardware, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry, Industry trends, Research, Technology
Comments Off on Projected Ending of Moore’s Law: Can Engineering Creativity Sustain The Rate Of Progress?
New Management Models: Do They Make Control-Theory And Information-Theory Sense?
There has been a lot of talk lately about new management models, that is, the alternatives to centralized top-heavy decision-making that has been the staple of the corporate world for so long. Coursera has had a fun class on this, … Continue reading
Posted in Communication skills, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry trends, Management, New business models, Uncategorized
Comments Off on New Management Models: Do They Make Control-Theory And Information-Theory Sense?
Quirky, which Brought us Pawcet and Hundreds of Other Products, Is No More
Quirky, an invention platform startup that created the magnificent Pawcet, a drinking fountain for dogs, is, alas, no more. After raising more than $180 million from investors and bringing more than 400 products to the market over its 6 years … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer technology, Creativity, Hardware, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry, Industry trends, New business models, Technology
Comments Off on Quirky, which Brought us Pawcet and Hundreds of Other Products, Is No More
Experience with Manufacturing
When I was interviewing for PM positions a couple of years ago, I wanted to do what I do now – build exciting real-world products soup to nuts, concept to manufacturing to deployment, algorithms to software and hardware design to … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer technology, Good reads, Hardware, In the news, Management, Technology
Comments Off on Experience with Manufacturing
Value of Meetings
Recent results from a study on how one hour of executives’ meetings propagates to hundreds of thousands of hours across the organization are not at all surprising, but its good to see the actual numbers beautifully visualized. The Guardian has … Continue reading
Posted in Communication skills, In the news, Management, Skills
Comments Off on Value of Meetings
Nike Will Stop Making Wearable Hardware
Oh, Nike, – really?! Nike’s Fuelband Hits the Wall Nike fires majority of FuelBand team, will stop making wearable hardware A company with such rich history of innovation surely could have tried harder to gain and preserve its strategic positioning … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer technology, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry trends, Sports, Technology, Wearable computing
Comments Off on Nike Will Stop Making Wearable Hardware