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 | Mar 30, 2022 | DARPA, Technology
Today’s technology begets tomorrow’s military readiness. Dual-use technology. March 30, 2022 by Lance If our children and grandchildren have to go to war, as previous generations of Americans have done, will they face a lethal, high-tech battlespace more...
