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Monthly Archives: April 2007

What do you do on the weekends?

Monday, April 30, 2007

My family had always raised me to give back to our community.  Whether this was visiting old aged homes or raising money for the poor, this was part of my growing up.  Even today I continue to give back by singing Christmas Carols at old age homes or preparing Thanksgiving dinner for the needy.  My volunteering participation has [...]

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A mouse made from a mouse

Monday, April 30, 2007

Depending on how you feel about animals and gadgets you could find this incredibly cool or pretty disgusting. A computer mouse made from a stuffed real mouse is about as visual a pun as one can create.

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Hawking frees himself from wheelchair in zero-gee flight

Friday, April 27, 2007

I envy the man the experience. I am also heartened to see Steven Hawking fly free, if only for a moment. He who has done so much for our understanding of the cosmos and is such a tireless promoter of humankind’s expansion into space deserved to get a small taste of what the big outside feels like.

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Promotion Brings Music to EEs

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Prototype-PCB manufacturer Schmartboard (Fremont, CA) is trying to make it easier for EEs to whistle they work. Valid on transactions from April 23, 2007, the Schmartboard Rocks promotion presents a $10 Apple iTunes gift certificate to customers who’ve made a $100 purchase. No time limit has been set for the promotion, but Neal Greenberg, Schmartboard’s VP [...]

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Spectrum Power Management Systems Relocates

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Spectrum Power Management Systems is relocating their manufacturing, logistics and headquarters operations to State College, Pennsylvania. The new facility features a 25,000 square foot manufacturing center, which will be dedicated to the design and integration of power distribution and circuit protection equipment. This relocation is part of an overall effort to create a larger, more [...]

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University of Illinois Teams Up with NVIDIA

Friday, April 20, 2007

Students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are part of a pioneering class this semester. In a unique arrangement, the class is co-taught by Dr. David Kirk, chief scientist at graphics-processing industry leader NVIDIA, and Dr. Wen-mei Hwu, the AMD Jerry Sanders Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Illinois. The course, titled ECE [...]

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Boeing conducts first autonomous satellite servicing in-orbit

Thursday, April 19, 2007

While I do not believe that robotic missions can replace human efforts, they can certainly augment them. In-flight routine maintenance of orbital vehicles is one of the areas where such human force multiplication makes a great deal of sense. For refueling, battery replacement, and modular equipment exchanges the Orbital Express could become the perfect tool.

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