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From: Paul Hovnanian P.E. on 23 Dec 2009 00:31 Tim Wescott wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:28:44 -0800, Paul Hovnanian P.E. wrote: > > > Tim Wescott wrote: > > > > [snip] > >> > >> So blow your own damn horn, and take those 'top ten' lists with a grain > >> of salt. > >> > >> > > Make sure you get a job with an outfit that lets you blow it. Rather > > than one that labels your work 'proprietary' and has strict rules about > > publishing even the stuff you do on your own time. > > > > And definitely don't go to work for an outfit that takes your work and > > has the boss' idiot son-in-law present it to IEEE working groups. > > Personal experience? Boeing. > I worked for years for an outfit that was very uneven in that regard -- > when it came to really stupid scheduling snafus they were as shortsighted > as they came. But they were good (or indifferent) about letting you > publish stuff that didn't impinge on their specific technology. > > Even in a pathological company it's good to blow your own horn -- to get > raises, so the boss realizes he needs to keep you on to generate fodder > for his idiot son in law, and (most especially) so that when you can cut > them loose there's a good pool of folks in your area who realize that > you're good in your own right. But if you become known as the producer in your group, pretty soon people will figure out that the idiot son-in-law isn't actually doing his own work. That can be career limiting. -- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul(a)Hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Shoot straight you bastards! Don't make a mess of it.
From: Paul Hovnanian P.E. on 23 Dec 2009 00:38 Hedy Lamarr? -- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul(a)Hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ Reject nihilism!
From: Paul Hovnanian P.E. on 23 Dec 2009 00:42 Tim Wescott wrote: > > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:15:36 -0800, whit3rd wrote: > > > How about the OLD analog guys? Eccles and Jordan, and Steinmetz? We > > all build on their foundation work. > > Honorable mention for Ohm, Ampere, Faraday, Henry, Volta, Maxwell, that > crowd? If you are going to nominate people for fundamental principles, how about Murphy? -- Paul Hovnanian mailto:Paul(a)Hovnanian.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities. -- Walt Kelly, "Pogo"
From: Jon Kirwan on 22 Dec 2009 19:37 On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:17:47 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)My-Web-Site.com/Snicker> wrote: ><snip> >It might be amusing to suggest a class (SED lurkers) problem... design >(at the CMOS transistor level) a three-input NAND, so that delays to >output from each input are identical. > >Can any of you out there (besides Hobbs) do that? This may help: http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~adnan/vlsi-05-backup/lec4MosEqns.ppt Jon
From: osr on 23 Dec 2009 01:43
Add about 50 1920s to 1990s Bell Labs engineers to that list : ie: Winston Kock Harald Friis Boyle and Smith, the CCD From BOTH the Manhatten Project and The Radlab... Louis Alvarez ------------ My two cents, Steve |