Although twelve+ years since its inception at Mozilla, primarily in the past five or so years Rust has gained significant momentum and interest within a wider community of academics, researchers and commercial enterprises. In fact, several notable large enterprises including Microsoft and Amazon have expressed public interest in the development language in the past two […]
Category Archives: Science & Technology
The Camera: It’s Not for Photos Anymore

Cameras – we all have them. They used to be for taking pictures. Now, they are all around us and not just for taking pictures anymore. The actual and the forecasted growth in number of cameras is phenomenal. Most of the growth will be for uses we do not think about. This on-line presentation discusses […]
A Little Introduction to the New Citizens BroadBand Radio Service (CBRS)

If you remember Smokey and the Bandit, you might be thinking of: “That’s a 10-4 good buddy. Come back.”, or similar trucker CB radio talk. According to the FCC, “CBRS” is an acronym for: The Citizens Band Radio Service (CBRS) — a private, two-way, short-distance voice communications service for personal or business activities of the general […]
Electrical Engineering Consultant
Electrical Engineering Consultant for Optiscan Biomedical in Hayward, CA.
University Professor’s Digitization of Education

Trained over 80 academic leaders in the use of digital technology to transform traditional programs into virtual and digital delivery of instruction.
Featured Consultant: Beth Ann Hockey, Language based AI

Beth Ann Hockey is an expert in language based AI. She uses her strong background in Computational Linguistics to enhance products with conversational interfaces. She develops systems architecture, algorithms, and data strategy for conversational AI, dialogue systems and intelligent agents. Beth Ann provides AI technical support, tech evaluation, and training for all sizes and stages […]
Theoretical and Practical Constraints for Wifi Capacity by Christopher Hansen, PhD

PATCA is a community of experts and at our June meeting, Christopher Hansen, PhD a long-time PATCA member and founder of Covariant Corporation, gave a detailed briefing on the current state and likely evolution of the Wifi family of wireless communication protocols. Wi‐Fi is a brand name for devices that have passed a certification test from the Wi‐Fi […]
Interesting Talk on Energy Harvesting Technologies

Interesting talk about energy harvesting technologies by Brian Zahnstecher from PowerRox. Opportunities in Energy Harvesting All across the entire world of electronics one will see mention of the importance of optimizing efficiency and nowhere is this more important than in the low power application space. Unfortunately, most of these mentions merely pay lip service […]
CAN: Controller Area Network (ARM Tech Seminar)

CAN networks are mandated for diagnostic use for every car sold in California, and as a result most cars sold in the United States rely on them. Bob Boys has worked with a number of car makers on tools to design and debug CAN networks and he provided both a well thought out overview as […]
What makes a great project manager?

by Walt Maclay, President of Voler Systems, a leading provider for electronic design and embedded firmware. A great project manager is able to work with internal resources, vendors, and ultimately the client to deliver requirements that are on schedule, on budget, and to specification. Before starting a project, there should be a well-defined scope of […]