Topic: Electrical Engineering

Too Young to Know It Can't be Done

Ask people what makes entrepreneurs successful and you'll hear a familiar list of adjectives; agile, tenacious, resilient, opportunistic, etc. What you don't hear is that often they didn't know any better.READ»

Wind Could Drive 20% of World Power Needs By 2030, With China in Lead

20% of the world's electrical could be powered by wind inside 20 years--with China leading the way. Do we believe it? READ»

Silicon Wars: The Middle East Takes on Asia

Abu Dhabi is investing a whole lot of cash into a new chip manufacturing facility. Is this a sign of things to come?READ»

AMD's Chip Architect Brad Burgess on Mobile Computing's Future

AMD's Brad Burgess is the chief architect behind the company's future low-power/portable device Bobcat CPUs. We spoke to him about them, but also about the future. READ»

Honey, I Shrunk The Memory! Scientists Heralding Smaller Gizmos, Again

Rice University scientists are reporting advances in shrinking the technology that makes computer memory work--a huge key to the next revolution in gadget design. Soon your supercomputer may be iPhone-sized.READ»

Intel's Biggest Rival: ARM Chips in Servers and Smartphones

Forget Intel versus AMD--that was a chip-maker battle of yesteryear. Now the real CPU war is happening in smartphones and servers, where Intel is playing a desperate game of catch-up to ARM and a few new contenders.READ»

Alstom to Power-Up Power-Hungry Iraq

French power firm Alstom just signed a deal to rebuild and regenerate the electricity infrastructure in Iraq, decimated since the war.READ»

Spain's Ambitious Solar Program Facing Budget Cuts

Spain has long been celebrated as a leader in solar power generation. The country, which covered 2.8% of its electricity demand in 2009 with solar energy, is the fourth largest manufacturer of solar power technology in the world. ...READ»

Use Reverse Innovation to Inspire Ethonomics

Last week I wrote about reverse innovation. We often witness this in other countries where the local conditions--whether due to political uncertainty, low local income levels, or unfavorable geography-- seem like a hindrance to ...READ»

Fish Play Follow-the-Leader With Robofish, to Save Them From Turbine Doom

Scientists have discovered that real schools of real fish can be steered along by artificial robot fish. Weird. But the news has big implications for green power production. NYU-Poly's Dynamical Systems Laboratory, using the ...READ»

Quantum Computing Gets a Step Closer With Seven-Atom Transistor

Quantum computing just got a little bit closer, after an Australian team of researchers unveiled a seven-atom transistor. Measuring just four billionths of a meter and embedded in a single silicon crystal, it acts as a switch on a ...READ»

HP's Memristor Tech Promises Faster, Bigger, Cheaper Memory Chips

Memristors are a seriously hot topic at the moment--we've seen several announcements about these tiny slivers of semiconductor which are the future of electronics, and now HP's got news too. Their memristors will beat flash memory, ...READ»

The Memristor Revolution: Chips Can Work Like Brains Too

Memristors: If you don't know about 'em, you certainly will over the next few years. We're probably not talking about the same kind of revolution as the transistor sparked off, but new research has shown they can mimic brain cells, so ...READ»

The Death of Coal?

Unmasking coal as not so “cheap” powerREAD»

Nuclear Plant Pre-Bailout: Obama's Dumbest Move Yet?

Nuclear power is not necessary. It is not sensible. It opens great risks for small returns that can be much more easily achieved in other ways. It is a gift to the terrorists, a robbery from the taxpayers, a diversion of resources away from better and far more proven technologies that could meet all of our energy needs safely, and a serious threat to the well-being of future generations.READ»

The Barbie Factor by Caroline Simard, Vice President of Research and Executive Programs

Barbie became a computer engineer today. In a field that has so few female role models, this is a victory. For most young girls, becoming a technologist is not on the radar of the possible jobs. Research shows that girls are less ...READ»

Come on Barbie, Let's Go Program: Geeks Rejoice Over 2010's Computer Engineer Barbie

Girls choose Google over graph paper, pass by Architect Barbie in favor of Computer Engineer and News Anchor.READ»

• Architect Barbie: Putting the Fab! in Pre-Fab

Robocalypse Alert: New Transistor Mimics Synapse Functions

Talk of androids, advanced computer-based brain simulations and war robots is very exiting, but the development of artificial intelligence has been slightly stumped by a lack of transistors that work like our brains do. Until now.Now, ...READ»

Pixel Qi: The Screen Tech Behind CES' Most Buzzworthy Gadgets

Ever tried to read an email on your smartphone in direct sunlight? Well, if you haven't, don't--because it's pretty much impossible. That's because the screens on most computers and cell phones are backlit, especially now that both ...READ»

Duke Researchers Use Photo-Acoustic "Fingerprints" to Locate Mobile Phones Indoors

Computer engineers have come up with a way to use smartphones' microphones, cameras, and accelerometers, to identify a person's location in the end all and be all of indoor mazes: the shopping mall.READ»

What It Takes for a Career to Emerge

I have spent most of this month researching and writing about emerging green careers for a book about that subject, and the effort has made me aware of the many factors that must be in place before an emerging career can reach the ...READ»

Go Dumpster Diving For New Strategies

A Chinese phrase advises that you “borrow a corpse for the soul’s return.” This metaphor points to the fact that we tend not to dig through garbage. Once we’ve thrown something away we mentally label it “trash” and so ...READ»

Exploring the Apple Tablet Rumor...Again

The Apple Tablet--long hoped-for magic unicorn of the high-tech gadget world--is back in the news. But this time instead of merely speculating, people are saying they have hard numbers to back up their rumors. So--is it real? The ...READ»

Why the Microgrid Could Be the Answer to Our Energy Crisis

Why small-scale, local power -- the microgrid -- could be the answer to our energy crisis. And why the big utilities are fighting it with all they've got.READ»

Still No Good Reason to Develop Nuclear ∏ower

Triple Pundit's been getting lots of comments on a post <a href="http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/magic-beans-for-100-nuclear-power-plants.php">questioning whether nuclear power plant decommissioning schemes can work ...READ»