April 16, 2014, Churchill club, Santa Clara, CA—Jim Walsh from Global Logic moderated a panel that addressed the need for “greatness” in engineering and design. Panelists included Catherine Courage from Citrix, Steve Johnson from Linked-In, Frederick Pferdt from Google, Larry Tesler from MINE, and Charles Warren from SalesForce. The term “great” has to be added…
July 8, 2013, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—An Steegen from Imec displayed the power, area, cost, and performance requirements for continuation of process scaling. The biggest challenge is that the increasing data traffic due to mobile and cloud drives optical scaling at the cost of power limits, increased process complexity, and cost. As defined by…
July 8, 2013, IMEC Technology Forum, San Francisco—Luc van den Hove from IMEC described the overriding philosophies and some of the results of their research in his opening talk at the forum. The general concept for their work is the sum of minds. IMEC tries to bring together a wide range of diverse and complementary…
November 13, 2012, A. Richard Newton Global Technology Leaders’ Conference, UC Berkeley—Bernard Amadei from Engineers Without Borders and the University of Colorado, Boulder proposed engineering innovation for all. He noted the need to design for the needs of the 5B poor people in the world. This other 90 percent of the world’s population has great…
October 15, 2012, CEA Industry Forum, San Francisco—Dean Kamen, inventor, entrepreneur, and director of the F.I.R.S.T ( For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) presented the need for a louder voice to influence change in non-technical areas. Currently, less than half of all high school students in the US graduate. We have a major…
Henry Petroski, a Professor of Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering is prolific author who won Washington Award 2006 for his accomplishments in making engineering theory and practice understandable to the general public. The Awards is one of the oldest and most prestigious engineering awards in the United States. The first recipient of it was…