by Lance | Jul 8, 2022 | Technology, Research, Zero's story
Special Relativity Aids the Escape by Special relativity calculations show that if good guys from earth accelerate at 1 g and get a year’s head start, the bad guy aliens can never catch them though they go at the speed of light. Very counter intuitive!...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Life, Research
Thank you Japan by It was the Summer of 1987. I was sitting in my living room drinking Jack Daniels and listening to the Grateful Dead while trying to figure out what I was going to do next. I had just spent seven years on the M.I.T. faculty, teaching VLSI and doing...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Research
Silicon Valley melting pot April 26, 2022 by Lance Like many in Silicon Valley high tech, I have faced the question of how we take advantage of globalization in technology development. Last year, as CTO and as part of pulling together my thoughts on this topic, I...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Research, Strategy, Technology
What does a CTO do? by The CTO is the Chief Technology Officer. What does a CTO do in a high-tech company? It is the most ill-defined of the CxO jobs. The trick is figuring out what activities can make a difference and which are merely motions. When I briefly took the...
by Lance | Apr 26, 2022 | Business, Research, Technology
Industrial Research Management by Bert Sutherland April 26, 2022 by Lance Reprinted by permission of the author Industrial Research...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | Research, Technology
Publications in refereed journals April 25, 2022 by Lance Glasser, L.A., and H.A. Haus, “Microwave Mode Locking at X-Band using Solid-State Devices,” IEEE Trans. Microwave Theory and Techniques, Vol. MTT-26, No. 2, 62-69, February 1978. Glasser, L.A.,...
by Lance | Apr 25, 2022 | DARPA, Life, Research, Technology
Electronics Evolution: Diversity Revisited April 25, 2022 by Lance Diversity of size and function, a long accepted fact of life in the biological world, will characterize the emerging information revolution–and for the same reason: survival. There are more small...
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...
