Nov 19 2009 8:21AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (1) |
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Chuck House spent 29 years at Hewlett-Packard and worked in a wide variety of roles at a number of divisions and groups. He’s an IEEE Fellow for logic analysis technology, was President of ACM (the world’s largest Computer Science society), and is an ACM Fellow. He also holds HP’s only “Medal of Defiance,” awarded to him by David Packard for “extraordinary contempt and defiance beyond the normal call of engineering duty.” If that sounds like someone you would want to hear speak, your chance is coming nigh because Chuck House has written a book called The HP Phenomenon and he’ll be speaking about HP and the book at the Computer Histo...Read More

Nov 18 2009 10:44AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (0) |
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Thanks to an emailed idea from Monster.com’s Inside Tech, I’ve got a brilliant use for Twitter. Here’s what people are saying about their bosses right now. Bad, bad idea. So much guilty fun to listen in and Twitter away your valuable time.

• Dear Boss, I'm not coming in today, I'm sending my robot instead: http://bit.ly/P6IWG
• I hate it when the stupid boss at work acts like it's multiple people complaining when it is really just her and her stupidity.

Nov 14 2009 8:55PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (0) |
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NAND Flash manufacturing cost reductions of 60% per year sustained over nearly a decade have driven many technology changes, developments, compromises, and innovations. Prices have fallen even faster over the past five years, but the precipitous price decline could easily slow due to technical forces and in all likelihood, they will. Further, NAND Flash specifications are changing and will continue to change in predictable and unpredictable ways due to these forces. These changes will create new capabilities for NAND users, will impose extra performance burdens, and may ultimately limit the flexibility of NAND Flash in future device generations compared to what is available today.

This paper describes these trends in a series of warnings, enumerates the steps the semiconductor industry is taking to smooth product transition for NAND Flash users, and highlights development...Read More

Nov 13 2009 1:28PM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (9) |
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NASA finally announced today that the LCROSS experiment conducted on October 9, when a Centaur upper stage rocket and the LCROSS platform itself crashed into the moon’s south pole, has produced data indicating that there’s water in the perpetually dark craters in the southernmost part of the moon. IR and UV spectroscopy both confirm the presence of water. Project scientist Anthony Colaprete smiled and said “We found a significant amount” of water as he held up a two-gallon plastic bucket. Apparently, the creation of a 20-meter crater caused by the Centaur upper-stage impact threw up a vapor cloud containing an estimated 100 kilograms of water, about 25 gallons worth. That’s a significant amount.

Nov 8 2009 11:19AM | Permalink | Email this | Comments (2) |
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Back when I ran the Microprocessor Forum, I created a music video titled “Dare to Embed It” based on the song “Dare to be stupid” by Weird Al Yankovic. Last week, I had dinner with Michael Fisher and his wife Dana. Both worked at Reed-Elsevier with me and Michael did a lot of the audio work, played guitar, and sang backup vocals for the video. The dinner inspired me to dig out the video and post it on YouTube. Here it is. Please rate it highly.