When was the last time you walked into a data center and were stopped dead in your tracks by the beauty of a computer? Right, probably never. That is why you will most likely never see a computer in any art history books...but there is one that may well change that. Even though there is amazing beauty in the intricate...
History Session @ Flash Memory Summit, Aug 7th, Santa Clara, CA
Session 302-C: An Interview with Simon Sze, Co-Inventor of the Floating Gate (History Track) Organizer: Brian A. Berg, President, Berg Software Design Thursday, August 7 9:45am-10:50am Santa Clara Convention Center Speaker Simon Sze, Professor, National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) Session Description: What was the origin of the "floating gate" transistor, the foundation for all of today's nonvolatile memory? A small...
DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar in Conversation with John Markoff @CHM June 11, 2014
Introduction: This CHM conversation (with NY Times moderator John Markoff asking the questions) was more about the challenges faced by Ms Arati Prabhakar, PhD then it was about DARPA. It would've been very appropriate for a Women in Engineering meeting. However, there were several important topics related to Ms Prabhaker's two terms of employment at DARPA, which we've attempted to...
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