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Climber makes "worlds highest mobile phone call"

Mobile telephony reached another frontier yesterday when the British climber Rod Baber set a new record by making the world’s highest land-based mobile phone call from the summit...

17 years 11 months ago

Free access to JACIC

I’ve just found out that the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is offering access to the entire content of the Journal of Aerospace Computing, Information...

17 years 11 months ago

Military Avionics Technology Exhibition, UK

Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Military Avionics Technology Exhibition arranged by the UK MOD, and held at Defence Equipment and Support Agency’s Abbey Wood...

17 years 11 months ago

What's in a Kernel?

Recently my cohorts Paul Parkinson and Doug Gaff have been making a bit of noise about changes in the software industry – evolution of software, and specialized software for...

17 years 11 months ago

Hi Mom, I'm home from Mars.

Scientists find evidence of ice on Mars. Not just "ice." We all know there’s ice on Mars, seasonal ice caps and all. Ice. "Enough to create oceans" should it ever melt. And not...

17 years 11 months ago

Evolving Architecture Standards Race On

On Wednesday of last week I had the chance to present at the Evolving Architecture Standards Conference in the UK. The event was focused on the ATCA, AMC and MicroTCA standards and...

17 years 11 months ago

Autonomous military robots

In an earlier blog, ‘ A robot in every home ‘, I commented on some of the issues related to the development of robotics software, in particular in relation to open standards and...

Keeping current with A&D conferences

I seem to receive so much email these days, much of it spam and junk (wikipedia), that sometimes I miss information that I want to receive. Also, some of my email volume is self...

Support for Virginia Tech

This will be a departure from my usual blog topics, but I think it’s important to stand up for my Alma Mater right now. Virginia Tech is where I started my career in Embedded. I...

Is the Embedded Industry Dead?

An analogy, SAT-style: The Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) is to Embedded Engineers what EclipseCon is to Eclipse Developers. At ESC, you will see hardware and software engineers...