By Assad Ebrahim, on June 12th, 2024 (99 views) | Enter your password to view comments.
Topic: Education, Software Engineering, Technology
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Topic: Building Technology, Education, Electronics, Technology
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Topic: Education, SWEng--Programming, Technology
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Topic: Education, SWEng--Programming, Technology
By Assad Ebrahim, on May 27th, 2024 (158 views) | Enter your password to view comments.
Topic: Education, SWEng--Toolbox, Technology
We are delighted to announce the successful completion of a tiny footprint high-level computing language for high-speed, low-power, embedded computing on bare silicon (no BIOS, no OS). In terms of size, cost, and carbon footprint, the kernel clocks in at 730 bytes which includes a fully extensible runtime kernel providing DSL (domain specific language) capability for application specific computing.
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If you haven’t done so already, you may want to start by reading the Preface to Knowledge Engineering & Emerging Technologies.
January 31st, 2024 (4th ed)
When designing a system, what should you optimize? If it is a user-interface or process, you should be minimizing clicks, or process steps. But for hardware-software systems, the answer is not obvious, and a common mistake is to fail to consider the end-to-end problem. This article explores what is involved in optimizing end-to-end in hardware-software systems. The goal here is to minimize the overall complexity of the system, i.e. of the triple hardware-software-user combination. The following remarks set the stage for our discussion:
- “Any [one] can make things bigger, more complex. It takes a touch of genius, and a lot of courage, to move in the opposite direction.” – Ernst F. Schumacher, 1973, from “Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered”.
- “The goal [is] simple: to minimize the complexity of the hardware-software combination. [Apart from] some lip service perhaps, no-one is trying to minimize the complexity of anything and that is of great concern to me.” – Chuck Moore, [Moore, 1999] (For a succinct introduction to Chuck Moore’s minimalism, see Less is Moore by Sam Gentle, [Gentle, 2015]
- “We are reaching the stage of development [in computer science] where each new generation of participants is unaware both of their overall technological ancestry and the history of the development of their speciality, and have no past to build upon.” – J.A.N. Lee, [Lee, 1996, p.54].
- “The arc of change is long, but it bends towards simplicity”, paraphrasing Martin Luther King.
 Between complexity and simplicity, progress, and new layers of abstraction. Continue reading this article…
By Assad Ebrahim, on May 1st, 2023 (7,463 views) |
Topic: Education, Technology
2nd ed. Jan 2023 (before the ChatGPT/LLM AI release), 1st. ed. 2005
Overview
In the intersection between Mathematics, Modern Statistics, Machine Learning & Data Science, Electrical Engineering & Sensors, Computer Science, and Software Engineering, is a rapidly accelerating area of activity concerned with the real-time acquisition of rich data, its near real-time analysis and interpretation, and subsequent use in high quality decision-making with automatic adjustment and intelligent response. These advances are enabled by the development of small, energy efficient microprocessors coupled with low-cost off-the-shelf sensors, many with integrated wireless communication and geo-positional awareness, communicating with massive high-speed databases. For teams able to bridge the disciplines involved, the potential for economically productive application is limitless.
 Traditional science and technology disciplines are in the outermost ring, often isolated from each other. The result of their integration is driving the areas out of which a large portion of technology in the coming decades is likely to appear. Continue reading this article…
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