In 1973, the Miller Brewing Company launched the “lite” beer revolution with an ad campaign that proclaimed “Tastes great. Less filling.” The company’s ads backed up the slogan by showing very masculine athletes including Ray Nitschke, Ben Davidson, Bubba Smith, and John Madden drinking (or at least holding) glasses of the lite beer, to make it look more manly. Going back a bit earlier, the Peter Paul … Read More → "ST’s newest serial EEPROMs support both byte and page access"
I’m afraid I’m in a techno-dweeby mood at this moment in time. My head is filled with thoughts that are bouncing around my noggin like demented ping pong balls. Speaking of which, do you remember my 12×12 ping pong ball display?
If so, then—as you may recall—the last thing I did with this bodacious beauty was to implement a Read More → "This One’s for the Techno-Dweebs"
Almost anyone involved in developing new products today wants those products to have an artificial intelligence (AI) component [for the purposes of this column we will take AI to embrace machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL)]. The problem is that AI is still very new in the scheme of things—everyone has heard about it, almost everybody uses it, but relatively few people know how to … Read More → "One More Step on the Path to AIIE (AI-In-Everything)"
AI-based anomaly detection takes center stage in this week’s Fish Fry podcast! My guest is Rachel Johnson from MathWorks and we explore how AI can work in tandem with engineers to reduce the incidence of defects and optimize maintenance schedules and the steps involved in designing and deploying an AI-based anomaly detection system; from conceptualization and data gathering to deployment and integration.
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Ikutaro Kakehashi founded Roland Corporation in Osaka on April 18, 1972. He’d just resigned from his first company, Ace Electronic Industries, the previous month. Ace made electronic rhythm machines for electronic organs, and its largest customer was the Hammond Organ Company. When Roland opened for business, it had no products. Kakehashi quickly developed electronic drum or rhythm machines to start the revenue stream that would help him realize … Read More → "The Day of the Drum Machine"
