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Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame
Here are the stories behind the best gadgets of the past 50 years We’re all gadget hounds now. In developed countries, we wake up to our smartphones, we consult them obsessively all day, and then fall asleep with them by our side. Between dawn and dusk, we glance at our smartwatches, look at monitors and […]
Documentaries for Engineers: Mission Control, Denial, and Viva Amiga
These three films will keep you thoughtfully entertained during your vacation travels Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo Photo: Mission Control In Mission Control, director David Fairhead, an experienced hand at space-race documentaries, focuses on the men who manned the consoles in Houston during the Apollo program. In addition to interviews with surviving controllers (and a […]
Thank “James Clerk Maxwell” for Cellphones
NOW THAT THE WORLD HAS BECOME ADDICTED to portable electronics, billions of people have come to see the companies providing these gadgets as the most innovative, and the people who head those companies as the most exalted, of all time. “Genius” is a starter category in this discussion. But clever and appealing though today’s electronic […]
The Radio Science Bulletin, December 2015
download in pdf: http://www.ursi.org/files/RSBissues/RSB_355_2015_12.pdf What’s in: Special Section on Disaster Management The Pavers of Maxwell’s Pathway to His Equations: Ottaviano Fabrizio Mossotti 16th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY, JULY 5-7, 2016, LVIV, UKRAINE http://mmet.org/2016/index.php XXXIInd URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium (GASS) will be held in Montréal August 19-26, 2017 http://gass2017.ece.mcgill.ca/ The James Clerk Maxwell […]