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- 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
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- I3T Lab Tour a Part of Regional NAE Meeting
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Improvisation Theater Training for Creativity and Communication Skills
An activity that enhances both creativity and communication skills — wouldn’t that be a fun activity to try? Uri Alon, a scientist at Weizmann Institute of Science, promotes creativity of improvisation theater training as similar to creativity of truly innovative … Continue reading
Posted in Communication skills, Creativity, Humor, Public speaking, Tips and tricks
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Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016: Does It Affect My Purchasing Decisions?
Coming to the Consumer Electronics Show is like stepping into a geeky adults’ version of a candy shop, except that some of the candy you see won’t be on sale for several months (if it reaches the market at all), … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Consumer technology, How the world is changing, Industry, Industry trends, Internet of Things, Technology, Wearable computing
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Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016: First Timer’s Impressions
The legendary and glorious Consumer Electronics Show. A congregation of more than 170,000 people (for comparison, I grew up in a city of only 30,000), in the shiny artificial Las Vegas. A happening that takes over tech pages in all … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Consumer technology, Hardware, Highlights, How the world is changing, Industry trends, Internet of Things, Technology, Travel, Uncategorized, Wearable computing
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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DARPA Project Experience and DARPA Project Leaders
Recent Wired Magazine profile of Dr. Regina Dugan, formerly the director of Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and currently an executive at Google (Wired Magazine article available here) led me to a Harvard Business Review article by Dr. Dugan … Continue reading
Posted in Career and Leadership, Good reads, Management, Ph.D., Technology
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PM Candidates: Ask Questions, Please
All job candidates, for all jobs everywhere, should know to ask questions of their interviewers when prompted. The answer to “Do you have any questions for me?” ought to be never be “no“, for any position. But especially for PM … Continue reading
Posted in Career and Leadership, Communication skills, Industry, Management, Skills, Tips and tricks
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