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E-Waste: World’s Manufacturing and Consumption Cycle of Electronics is Unsustainable

By Dick Weisinger

Electronic and Digital waste are incredibly important but seldom discussed back-of-mind issues. They are the side effects of a world obsessed with electronic gadgets and virtual lives. Aaron Blum, the CEO of ERI, told Time magazine that “in our society,…

Artificial Intelligence: Thinking Slow and Fast

By Dick Weisinger

The human brain is fascinating, but it is also something that is not well understood and is an intense topic of study by both medical, social science, and computer science researchers. Social scientists have identified two types of thinking that…

Open Source: The Open Core Conundrum

By Dick Weisinger

Open Source software is publicly accessible and can be downloaded, modified, and reused. It is developed in a decentralized way with peer collaboration and review. Open Core is a business model where a company drives creates an open-source software project…

Moore’s Law: Are the Current Alternatives Enough?

By Dick Weisinger

Semiconductor chips are continually shrinking and performing faster, something predicted by More’s Law. Taiwanese chip maker TSMC has announced plans to manufacture a 1-nanometer size chip in 2027. However, it is becoming increasingly difficult technically and from a cost perspective…

Hardware/Software CoDesign: Application-Specific Optimized Architecture

By Dick Weisinger

Hardware/Software co-design is an approach to computing that tries to take into account both hardware and software design to create a system which can optimally perform computations for a specific task. Most computers today are general purpose and can be…