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- New Funding: 4-year NSF CISE FutureCore Award on Automated AR Guidance Monitoring
- RIP Magic Leap Headsets
- 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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Category Archives: Technology
Shelved Project Ara: Would Have Made a Great Research Project
Google’s project Ara, aimed at creating a smart phone consisting of easily interchanged modules, is officially shelved. Ara should have been a research project, and not a productization attempt. As a product, it was always questionable: it’s hard to figure out what … Continue reading
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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
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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
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Why I Volunteer On The Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee
I am finding it exceptionally rewarding to be serving on the Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee, that is, reviewing Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference travel grant applications. I’ve served on this committee in 2015 and 2016, and … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Career and Leadership, Communication skills, Conferences, Highlights, Ph.D., Tips and tricks, Uncategorized, Women in technology
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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