Editor Profile > Brian Dipert

I cover mass storage, multimedia (audio, displays, 2-D and 3-D graphics, and still and video imaging), and PCs and peripherals for EDN. My background includes eight years in nonvolatile memory applications and ASIC design at Intel, preceded by three years as a system design engineer at Magnavox, where I cut my teeth on PLDs. I've also authored and co-authored several technical books for Annabooks Press. I earned a BSEE degree from Purdue University.

Electronics and its impact on society (both positive and negative) fascinates me. Trends in the electronics industry are at the core of today's Information Age. Innovations based on technical, economic, and moral concerns will ensure a higher quality of life for all humans and improve our environment. Engineering, a unique blend of the scientist's theoretical creativity and the tangible reality of the marketplace, is the place where these breakthroughs will occur.

I joined EDN because I had been a faithful reader for over a decade and felt that the magazine is uniquely qualified to provide timely, concise, yet comprehensive information to help solve your engineering challenges. I also believe that readers and editors have a lot to learn from each other, so don 't be shy about contacting me at my email address. To learn more about me, visit my personal website at www.bdipert.com and my blogs at Brian's Brain and How We See CE.

• November 4-7: In Los Angeles at the Microsoft Windows Hardware Engineering Conference
• January 5-9: In San Francisco at the Macworld Conference and Expo (tentative)
• January 6-11: In Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show
• January 10-14: In Las Vegas at the IEEE Conference on Consumer Electronics (tentative)
• February 8-12: In San Francisco at the IEEE Solid State Circuits Conference
• March 29-April 3: In San Jose at the Embedded Systems Conference
• April 17-23: In Las Vegas at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference

WHAT I'M WORKING ON:

• Ongoing Prying Eyes, Voices and EDN.comment writeups.
• Ongoing Brian's Brain and How We See CE blog posts
• The design feature in the November 13, 2008 issue, a hands-on benchmark analysis of numerous HDDs and SSDs.
• The cover story in the January 8, 2009 issue, a hands-on benchmark analysis of low-cost CPUs from AMD, Intel (Atom) and Via Techologies (C7 and Nano).