Tekla S. Perry
IEEE Spectrum
Silicon Valley, CA, United States
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The Latest 2023 Tech Layoff Numbers, in Three Charts
The bad news may have peaked in January, but the axe continues to swing hard → Read More
Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP
The co-creator of the Internet’s protocols admits his crystal ball had a few cracks → Read More
Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf
Even after 50 years, he’s still extending and evangelizing the Internet → Read More
Eight Graphs that Explain Software Engineering Salaries in 2023
Tech professionals’ pay by programming skills, job functions, regions, and more → Read More
Nanosys’s blue quantum dots can make screens safer for your eyes
Nanosys, the manufacturer of quantum dot films used in television displays from several major manufacturers, is aiming to dial down viewers’ exposure to blue light without sacrificing picture quality by adding a blue quantum dot to its current red-and-green quantum dot array.<a href=". → Read More
Four Offbeat Gadgets from CES 2023 That You Might Actually Want
The consumer electronics world looks to CES for the next big new technology that’s going to change our daily lives. But consumer electronics isn’t just about big companies or world-changing ideas.Here are four small ideas that may have big legs. → Read More
CES 2023 Preview: A Stick-on-the-Wall TV, A Covid Breath Test, and More
I’m expecting to see AI in places both useful and silly, attempts to make a killer app for the metaverse, and some new TV features . But, as always, the highlight of CES for me is the hidden treasure, a gadget that I didn’t know I need, but is clever, well-designed, and solves a real problem. → Read More
Latest Tech Layoff Trends in Three Charts
“Twitter slashes nearly half its workforce.” “Meta lays off 11,000.” “Amazon may lay off 10,000.” The November headlines were full of tech companies announcing layoffs. And only the biggest tech employers made the news; small tech startups trimming already lean staffs were hidden in the deluge. → Read More
The 3 Most Overhyped Decarbonization Technologies
According to Emily Kirsch, founder and managing partner of Powerhouse Ventures, speaking at the 2022 Stanford Global Energy Forum, the most overhyped decarbonization technologies are:Blockchain-based carbon managementNature-based solutions: many are just a license to polluteCarbon-accounting softwar... → Read More
How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor
Hoff thought designing 12 custom chips for a calculator was crazy, so he created the Intel 4004 → Read More
This Idea Wasn't All Wet: The Sensing Water-Saving Shower Head Debuts
An engineer’s dinner-table invention is finally a consumer product → Read More
Inflation-Adjusted Income for U.S. Engineers Drops
Insights from IEEE-USA’s annual salary survey, in six charts → Read More
What’s the Tech Background of an Autonomous Vehicle Engineer?
They come from video games, finance, geospatial research, the hacker community, and more, says Cruise’s EVP of engineering → Read More
The First Million-Transistor Chip: the Engineers’ Story
The designers of the floating-point adder and multiplier units made the logic for rounding off numbers conform to IEEE standards, which slowed performance. (Cray Research Inc.’s computers, for example, reject those standards to boost performance.) While some N10 engineers wanted the higher performance, they found customers preferred conformity. However, they did discover a way to do the fast… → Read More
Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It
The inside story of personal computing at the legendary research lab → Read More
Asad Madni and the Life-Saving Sensor
His pivot from defense helped a tiny tuning-fork prevent SUV rollovers and plane crashes → Read More
Understanding Software Engineering Salaries in 2022, in 5 Charts
Programming in Go, the open source language, is the most in-demand skill; the cybersecurity talent shortage continues to intensify; and Silicon Valley companies continue to offer the highest salaries, even to their remote workers. → Read More
Volunteers Scramble to Preserve Ukraine’s Digital Culture
The effort started shortly after the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Anna Kijas, a librarian at Tufts University, tweeted in February about an upcoming data rescue event aimed at working to save Ukrainian websites. A couple weeks later, the volunteer army numbered more than 1,000. → Read More
How the Wayback Machine Is Saving Digital Ukraine
When the Ukrainian invasion began, the Internet Archive launched several efforts to capture the Ukrainian Internet. Its archivists launched a high volume crawl through hundreds of thousands of web sites ending in “.ua.” → Read More
Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers’ Story
The daring and design that went into the best-selling computer of all time → Read More