Engineering discipline requires that we are always able to answer these two questions… If it doesn’t work, why? If it works, why? Only the first question gets looked at. It’s easy, something is not working; everybody can see it is not working; it needs to start working immediately! Once it starts working, there is a […]
Two projects that I have worked on got the visibility of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India (2002-2007). One of those projects was about the development of a robotic ultrasound scanning system that was used to scan the composite wing skin of a fighter aircraft that was being designed. My team came into the […]
The development of the BAAZ prototype was coming to a close. The army troop assigned to the project had been undergoing training for the past month. The devices were going through final tests before we packed them up for their trip by Military transport to North India. Wheels up was 7:00am the next day. The […]
Earlier this year I got to meet quite a few people who I had worked with over 20 years ago. What was supposed to be a lunch meeting for people who had kept in touch, became a huge lunch party with a lot of the earlier team members, along with their family and kids. One […]
Wow! And expected…reminds me about emergent outcomes… https://www.quantamagazine.org/artificial-intelligence-learns-to-learn-entirely-on-its-own-20171018/
Hah! Made me smile today! Made me laugh too! “That’s especially the case in Silicon Valley, where pivoting has become the new failure, a concept to describe a haphazard, practically madcap form of iterative development. With its sheen of management-speak, pivoting is well suited to our moment. And like any act of public relations, pivoting […]
A really cool looking corvette (http://www.nydailynews.com/autos/latest-reviews/ratings-review-2016-chevrolet-corvette-stingray-article-1.2773075) passed me on the way to work this morning. A great looking car with a really odd number plate, “RFC3271”. I have done quite a bit of work in the past with the IETF, having worked on the RTP, SPI, MGCP, MEGACO, and RTSP protocol implementations. And all these […]
Saw the link that one of the developers of COBOL had died. Some nostalgia there…this was the first programming course I ever did (1986) and my grades in it were good enough that the programming school I went to gave me a free course to do advanced COBOL and DBase III+. Never did any COBOL […]
One of my biggest issues in travelling to china is that… My credit cards don’t work anywhere but a major chain hotel I have to carry cash, and most likely go to an ATM in china to get money Contrast that to the way that my colleague in china makes payment! WeChat! But isn’t that […]
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