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Innovation or Obsession? A Retrospective on Electronic Design As the traditional playing of the bagpipes draws the 47th annual Design Automation Conference to a close, it’s tempting to write a retrospective of the show. But this year, I feel it’s far more appropriate to write a retrospective on the industry itself. I’ve spent the last 25 years in the electronics industry, moving from a technical writer at Intel Scientific and Tektronix in Oregon, to a business and technology reporter in Silicon Valley, and then from a PR agency writer to a corporate-side flak at Altera, TSMC and Cadence.

Global PLM (Product Lifecycle Management), Architecture, SOA and Development This is the home site of Martin Ohly. Originally from the UK and now over 25 years in Germany based in Berlin. I have worked for over 33 years in different areas of engineering and IT. The last 20 years working on large and distributed systems in different application domains - covering factory control, healthcare, SAP deployments, global PLM solutions and most recently concerned with electronic toll collection systems - with many successful and some not so successful large and small projects. Areas of interest My interests lie in several areas: Leading $20.9B Global Manufacturing and Technology Company PageCopy1 Explore Our Businesses For a quick look at what products, services, and technology solutions Emerson's five business platforms offer to our customers around the world, visit Explore Our Businesses. From there, you can link to our business websites for more information.

A Simple Act of Transparency Americans, in general, don’t know the first thing about war. And that’s exactly how our military leaders would like things to be. When a soldier or seaman or airman comes home from basic training at Christmas, and tells his or her cousins and uncles, “I disagree with what you are saying, but I will fight to the death for your right to say it!” Research Rap: Are Engineers Social? Online They Are! A quick peek into some research on… how active engineers are with social networks. While attending the PROuser conference, I heard Robin Saitz of PTC talk about a study that they commissioned Forrester Research to develop. The goal of the study was to better understand how active PTC’s customers are in social networks. The Secret Military History of Silicon Valley This video of a presentation given by serial entrepreneur Steve Blank in 2007 is priceless. It maps out the military roots of what was to become Silicon Valley, and just as important, it explains the birth of the university/start-up phenomenon which began at Stanford University. The video takes us on a trip through World War II, the Korean War and the Cold War, looking at defense and intelligence gathering electronics and how they were developed at secret and not-so-secret laboratories around the country. It also looks at the two people who were largely responsible for laying the foundation for applied development of cold war technologies in Silicon Valley: Stanford University Engineering Dean and Provost Frederick Terman (right) and the inventor of the transistor, William Shockley (below) whom I have covered extensively in previous blogs. During the 1940s and 1950s, Terman encouraged faculty and graduates to start their own companies.

PLM Content and Facebook Open Graph « Daily PLM Think Tank Blog Facebook F8 conference this week was a place for some very interesting announcements that, in my view, may have an impact on PLM too. I can recommend you to read a good summary of news introduced by Facebook here. In my view, it presents a very interesting dimension in the future development of Facebook. The question I’m asking – should PLM care? Is there something new presented by Facebook, that can catch a focus of current and future PLM development?

Top Secret America - 'Top Secret America' draws notice for use of Web tools The Post's "Top Secret America" series has spurred a great deal of debate in national security circles -- but it has also been a topic of discussion among designers and new media observers intrigued by the series' use of databases and interactive elements to help tell the story. Many have praised the series: • The New America Foundation's Sustaining Democracy in a Digital Age blog: "It's no secret that we live in a time when the news most likely to be consumed is that which is served bite-sized to readers, ideally in 140 characters or, if necessary, 140 words...With this in mind, the form and delivery of this week's Washington Post investigation, "Top Secret America," has piqued my interest even more than the content of the story itself (although perhaps my colleagues at New America's Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative will feel differently).

Electronic News Electronic News was a publication that covered the electronics industry, from semiconductor equipment and materials to military/aerospace electronics to supercomputers. It was originally a weekly trade newspaper, which covered all aspects of the electronics industry, including semiconductors, computers, software, communications, space and even television electronics. Fairchild Publications started the newspaper in 1957, as a complement to its other trade newspapers, including Women's Wear Daily, Home Furnishing Daily, Supermarket News, among others. At its peak in 1984, Electronic News took in $25 million in revenue with margins above 50%.[citation needed] The following year, the newspaper began losing advertising and influence to rival Electronic Engineering Times, beginning a decline that eventually led to the newspaper's demise.[citation needed]

The Xuropean Interlaken is the name of a very picturesque town in Switzerland (pictured), but it’s also the name of the next communications protocol that will be driving a cloud near you! Maybe the fact that Interlaken, the town, sits between two huge lakes in the Alps is what inspired the name of the protocol. Think of the lakes as huge pools of data that needs to move from one lake to another. You get the idea. Chip-to-chip bandwidth is one of the major bottlenecks in cloud computing as the amount of data that needs to be moved around increases incessantly. Cisco and Cortina Systems recognized the need in 2006 and announced the protocol.

State of the Media I'm going to save you thousands of dollars on a common marketing practice. And you probably won't like what I have to tell you. If you are like most companies, especially young start ups, there comes a moment that you believe you

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