40th Anniversary

A former EE Times editor-in-chief ('82-'88) and publisher reflects on the days when Gordon Moore keynoted industry conferences and the home PC was a strange notion. more >>

The work of championing the practice of chip design is not always easy or glamorous, the veteran duo behind the ISSCC conference has found over the years. more >>

Memristors were invented in 1971, but are finally realizing in a wide variety of microchips slated for release in 2013. more >>

How Joel Dunsmore, the son of bakers, became one of the most noted minds in the world of test and measurement. more >>

While the goal of continuous voice recognition remains as elusive today as it was 50 years ago, Siri developer Dag Kittlaus has proven that pocket applications defined by limited domains can make practical voice recognition possible. more >>

Homestead High – alma mater of Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak -- offered a course that sparked the creativity of Cupertino’s kids: John McCollum’s electronics class. more >>

Immersion lithography resurrects an age-old microscopy method to extend 193-nanomerter light down to the 7-to-8 nanometer circa 2024. more >>

The event that launched the medical electronics era was, ironically, an electrical blackout, in Minnesota's Twin Cities on the night of Oct. 31, 1957. more >>

The electronics revolution of the last four decades has contributed mightily to humankind’s attempt to test Carl Sagan’s theory: "If we are alone in the Universe, it sure seems like an awful waste of space." more >>

Whatever we seek, we have to react to disruption when it happens, as too many good ideas have simply withered on the vine due to risks associated with being different. more >>

I propose a positive vision in 2052 that develops from what we are currently doing and where we have come from in the past ten years. more >>

Peter Diamandis’ interest in space exploration culminated when he founded the X Prize Foundation for which he is CEO today. more >>

Highlights from an extensive collection of early minicomputers, mainframes, and instrumentation remind us just how amazing smart phones are. more >>

Physicist John Goodenough has established himself as one of the key figures behind the development of three distinct lithium battery chemistries. more >>

George Heilmeier began his career at RCA’s Sarnoff Research Center where he discovered that an applied voltage could change the color of dye-doped liquid crystals in the 1960s. more >>

“There’s an army of unsung engineers who helped invent Ethernet,” says Bob Metcalfe, taking a long drag on his cigarette as he ruminates about the now ubiquitous network technology he described in a memo to colleagues at Xerox PARC on May 22, 1973. more >>

Change and innovation in semiconductor technology is going to continue at a rapid pace for the foreseeable future. How can that be? more >>

Andy Rubin’s Android started life as an idea for smart cameras and morphed into an open source ecosystem that powers more than 400 million devices. more >>

To understand why the ARM architecture and culture is shaped the way it is, you need to go back to the1970s, in the early days of EE Times. more >>

Ian Chen believes a world increasingly stitched together by sensors will provide context for interpretation of all the data. That's how Ian Chen, executive vice president of Sensor Platforms, views things from his perch, where EE Times has identified him as one of the 40 key technologists to watch in the coming years. more >>

Gene Frantz and his colleagues realized that the DSP they had designed as a speech synthesis chip was being used in ways they had never imagined. more >>

Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk sold PayPal to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion and used the funds to launch a batch of startups, including electric car maker Tesla and, grandest of all, Space Exploration Technologies Inc. more >>

Engineer Dennis Carter, the first technical assistant to Intel chief executive Andy Grove, borrowed the consumer-goods industry’s cooperative marketing model to launch the Intel Inside campaign. more >>

Forty years ago, Martin Cooper, a Motorola executive, stood on a street corner in Manhattan and pulled off one of engineering’s biggest public relation coups ever: he made the world’s first call on a handheld, mobile cellular phone—in public—to a colleague at AT&T, a rival in the high-stakes race to develop the technology. more >>

In the course of helping define the software industry, Bill Gates won himself a place as one of the most influential people in electronics. more >>

For every analog signal processing function replaced by digital, there are two new analog functions springing up, and the trend is expected to continue or perhaps even accelerate. more >>

The Eureka Sand Dunes have nothing to do with the Silicon Valley, yet they have everything to do with the Silicon Valley. more >>

Shuji Nakamura, a young engineer with Nichia, a small Japanese company that made phosphors for fluorescent lights and CRT displays, was becoming increasingly frustrated with his lack of ability to create new products. more >>

The co-founder of Apple popularized a gospel of surprising and delighting users with designs that were simple, yet elegant and above all easy to use. more >>

In a post-9/11 environment where “security” often trumped “privacy,” one stubborn EE forced the government to confront the flaws in its proposed e-passport system, ultimately helping to convince federal officials to beef up e-passport security mechanisms. more >>

Meet Jeff Kodosky and Jim Truchard, founders of National Instruments (Austin, Texas). more >>

We're celebrating EE Times' 40th anniversary, with a special online section, print issue, and upcoming iPad App. more >>

Predicting the future is always fraught with peril, but the visionaries featured here are boldly going where no one has gone before. more >>

Gordon Moore predicted the continued downsize scaling of semiconductors, the accuracy of which, has enshrined it as Moore's Law, which is currently being expanded to include biotechnology. more >>