Stephen Cass

University of Colorado Boulder

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Kevin R. Grazier

United States Military Academy

Harry Goldstein

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Evan Ackerman

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Philip Ross

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Jean Kumagai

Optimal Solutions (United States)

Prachi Patel

Houston Methodist

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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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SQL Should Be Your Second Language

IEEE Spectrum (2022)

Stephen Cass

Welcome to IEEE Spectrum's annual ranking of the Top Programming Languages. This year we've revamped and stream-lined our interactive ranking tool online and made other changes under the hood. But the goal remains the same–to combine metrics from different sources to estimate the relative popularity of different languages. Here we show the results for the highest-ranked languages, but you can find the full list of 57 languages online.

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Fourth-generation programming language

10.1109/mspec.2022.9915547

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Passive Radar With the KrakenSDR > Spot stuff with TV antennas and a software-defined radio

IEEE Spectrum (2022)

Stephen Cass

Normally, when it comes to radio-related projects, my home of New York City is a terrible place to be.If we could see and hear radio waves, it would make an EDM rave feel like a sensory deprivation tank. Radio interference plagues the metropolis. But for once, I realized I could use this kaleidoscope of electromagnetism to my advantage–with a passive radar station.

Kaleidoscope

Passive Radar

10.1109/mspec.2022.9941039

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Contributors

IEEE Spectrum (2019)

Susan Hassler Harry Goldstein Elizabeth Bretz Mark Montgomery Stephen Cass

10.1109/mspec.2019.8701140

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The megaprocessor

IEEE Spectrum (2016)

Stephen Cass

In James Newman's living room is a monument to our kind of crazy. Seven 2-meter-tall panels are covered with circuit boards festooned with blinking lights. It is a complete working CPU, plus 256 bytes of RAM and an input/output interface, all built out of 42,300 hand-soldered discrete transistors. It took Newman some four years and roughly £40,000 sterling (about US $52,500) to build and design the so-called Megaprocessor in his home in Cambridge, England. In some absinthe-tinged sense, the project is the logical end point of his software writing career. Newman explains that, over the years, he found himself doing increasingly low-level programming, and so became more and more interested in the underlying hardware. He says he began working on the Megaprocessor because he "wanted to build a processor to see how a real one worked".

Interface (matter)

10.1109/mspec.2016.7572529

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The stars their destination: four interstellar probes and their fates [Dataflow]

IEEE Spectrum (2013)

Stephen Cass

This past October, NASA announced that after 36 years of flight, Voyager 1 had finally crossed into the interstellar medium that fills the space between the stars. Although it is the first probe to do so, Voyager 1 is not alone in its one-way mission out of the solar system: Four other probes are following it. The destinations of Voyager 1 and 2 and Pioneer 10 and 11 are plotted below. The ultimate destination of the fifth probe–the New Horizons mission to Pluto–is still unknown (its trajectory will be adjusted during its mission in hopes of sending it past another Kuiper Belt object). Although these probes will be dead metal when they reach the stars, all but New Horizons have messages on board designed to be decoded by aliens–just in case.

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New horizons

10.1109/mspec.2013.6677018

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Resources

IEEE Spectrum (2015)

Stephen Cass

Presents reviews of various electronics products in the marketplace.

10.1109/mspec.2015.7335791

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The "air" theremin

IEEE Spectrum (2016)

Stephen Cass

A few months ago I modified a vintage Casio synthesizer so that it could produce bizarre new sounds. At the same time, I built an interface that allowed an Arduino Mega microcontroller to control the keyboard. This was part of my scheme to use electronic assistance to solve my ongoing problem of not actually being able to play any instrument.

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Vintage

10.1109/mspec.2016.7572531

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The Path to Nerdvana

Science and fiction (2015)

Kevin R. Grazier Stephen Cass

10.1007/978-3-319-15072-7_2

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The garage fab [Resources]

IEEE Spectrum (2018)

Stephen Cass

Electronics enthusiasts like being able to make things themselves. In IEEE Spectrum's Hands On column, we've detailed how readers can make their own solder reflow ovens, conductive ink, and synthetic aperture radars. But making DIY integrated circuits seemed impossibly out of reach. After all, building a modern fab is astronomically expensive: For example, in 2017 Intel announced it was investing US $7 billion to complete a facility for making chips with 7-nanometer- scale features. But Sam Zeloof was not deterred. This 17-year-old high school student has started making chips in his garage,albeit with technology that's a few steps back along the curve of Moore's Law. Zeloof says he has been working on his garage fab, located in his home near Flemington, N.J., for about a year. He began thinking about how to make chips as his "way of trying to learn what's going on inside semiconductors and transistors. I started reading old books and old patents because the newer books explain processes that require very expensive equipment."

10.1109/mspec.2018.8241700

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Tools & Toys: For Your Eyes Only

IEEE Spectrum (2007)

Stephen Cass

Presents information on the latest computer and engineering technologies and products.

10.1109/mspec.2007.323434

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