by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Research, Technology
Multi-port Memory Invention April 25, 2022 by Lance In 1990 I filed a patent on a new kind of multiport memory. It exploits the fact that we store words rather than just bits in memories. By storing the words in clever ways one can tolerate collisions among accesses...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Research, Technology
Prediction of magnetic flux-controlled gate voltage in superconducting field-effect transistors April 25, 2022 by Lance Our fundamental circuit limits work plus many discussions with Prof. Paul Penfield, Jr., helped me uncover the only time I was able to predict new...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Research, Technology
A linear circuit theory conservation theorem using the numerical range by The theoretical work of which I am most proud was on a linear circuit theory conservation theorem that used the numerical range and produced tight bounds on the performance of circuits composed...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Research, Technology
Having Fun as an MIT Professor: multiprocessors and wireless chips April 25, 2022 by Lance During my time on the M.I.T. faculty, my students and I did get some chances to do some work that was just plain fun. In 1988 Charles Zukowski was taking an advanced math course...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Research, Technology
The first modelocked semiconductor laser diodes April 25, 2022 by Lance I was a member of the team that first modelocked a semiconductor laser. We did it first with GaAlAs and then with GaInAsP. These experiments generated pulses more than an order of magnitude...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, DARPA, Technology
The Time has Come for Style and Fashion in Electronics. Electronics as Fashion. April 25, 2022 by Lance “4:37,” replied an electrical engineer as he consulted his nondescript black watch blinking off the seconds. He was, of course, right. He could have...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, DARPA, Research, Technology
Needed: Digital Assistants That See and Hear by Please do not hand me a saw when I am holding a nail. Do not tell me about restaurants in Pittsburgh when I am gathering my luggage in San Francisco Airport. I want the services of a competent assistant who understands...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Research, Strategy, Technology
Poetry and Cleantech Investing April 25, 2022 by Lance I am occasionally asked by friends about prospects for all sorts of “green” technologies to have an impact on satisfying the world’s energy consumption. It is difficult to get ones mind around the scale of the...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, Finance and budgeting
For several years I have searched for cycle-independent metrics to analyze the performance of companies in the semiconductor equipment industry. The problem I was trying to address was how to judge the performance of businesses in the presence of violently cyclical...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Business, Finance and budgeting, General Management, Product Development
Over time, successful businesses develop models of how they operate that are self-consistent and self-perpetuating. For instance, one company will focus on differentiated products that command high gross margins while another will focus on operational excellence with...
