Bradley M Kuhn, the Chief Technology Officer of the Software Freedom Law Center, will give a talk entitled, “Software Freedom, Digital Restriction, and the Age of the Personal Terabyte.” He will discuss the conflicts between Open Source/Free Software and the protections provided by patents and copyrights at the College of Engineering on February 28 at 6:00pm. This event is hosted by the Student Branch of IEEE.
On April 14th 150 to 200 undergraduate students for universities through out the IEEE Region 2 conference will be gathering here at U.C. to present research papers, compete electronic design challenges, and to generally mingle and socialize. If your company would like to be a part of this weekend event see the article link for more details.
Dr. Hall’s UC Bearcat Robot Team is entering the 2007 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. This 15th annual competition will be held June 8 through 11 at the Oakland University in Rochester Michigan and is sponsored by our friends at DARPA. The UC team is looking for financial support so take a look and see if you or your company can help them out. For more details check out www.robotics.uc.edu and www.darpa.mil/grandchallenge
The UC IEEE student branch, the Eta Kappa Nu chapter, and the ECE and CS graduate student associations are holding the ECECS poster symposium on April 6th. They will be holding graduate and under graduate poster competitions. For more information contact Graduate Student Association
Sixty years ago this month, the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper on station WLW in Cincinnati, OH, USA, which recently had begun broadcasting at the unprecedented output power of 500 kW. The WLW superpower transmitter was interesting technologically but it was also the center of a public policy debate which pitted an interest group favoring a few clear-channel, high-power stations against a rival group favoring a much greater number of lower power stations. (more…)
Sixty-five years ago this month, the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper by J. Warren Horton on “the electrical transmission of pictures and images.” At the time he was Chief Engineer of the General Radio Company of Cambridge, MA, but the paper was based on his earlier research at the Bel Telephone Laboratories. He had been an active participant in the design and testing of a mechanical-scan television system which had been demonstrated publicly in April 1927. Horton and his Bel Labs coleagues had demonstrated television reception over both wire and radio links. (more…)
Sixty years ago this month, the PROCEEDINGS OF THE lNSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper by Wilmer L. Barrow on the analysis of nonlinear vacuum-tube circuits subjected to large signals. At the time he was teaching communications engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and also was engaged in research at the Round Hill facility of MIT. During the 1930’s, Barrow and his MIT students made important contributions to microwave engineering, especially in the investigation of waveguides and horn antennas. He was the author or coauthor of 14 technical papers published in the PROCEEDINGS during 1932-1940. (more…)
Sixty-five years ago this month. the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper by Stuart Ballantine on the topic of vacuum-tube detectors subjected to large signals. During his career, Ballantine made numerous contributions to the design of vacuum-tube circuits, measuring instruments, and acoustic devices. He was the author and co-author of sixteen PROCEEDINGS papers published between 1919 and 1934 and received the Morris Liebmann Memorial Award from the IRE in 1931. He also served on several IRE committees and was President of the IRE in 1935. (more…)
Seventy-five years ago this month, the PROCEEDINGS OF THE INSTITUTE OF RADIO ENGINEERS (IRE) included a paper by A. Hoyt Taylor on the subject of concealed radio receiving systems. He had submitted the paper almost three years earlier, but, like a number of other technical papers perceived to be of military importance, it was not published until after World War I. Taylor had written the paper while he was still a physics professor at the University of North Dakota, but he had become a U.S. Navy officer during the War. He was to become a pioneer in the field of radar during along career at the Naval Research Laboratory and was author or coauthor of 14 IRE papers published between 1916 and 1936. (more…)
