Backscatter Need a Kluge? With the increasing complexity of today's systems, more kluges, by whatever name, will be ...More 13 Aug 2020
Backscatter Amazing Grace The amazing Grace Hopper defied the odds to become a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy and a p...More 18 May 2020
Backscatter Josie the Riveter Josie the Riveter and her compatriots played an important role in helping women become a s...More 19 Feb 2020
Backscatter Harnessing Cybertech? Many of us believed that technology could save mankind. Yet it now appears that many cyber...More 20 Dec 2019
Backscatter Everyone a Winner? Today’s engineers may need to be satisfied with personal “wins,” without the acknowl...More 24 Oct 2019
Backscatter KISS? “Yes.” TMO? “No.” Simplicity was the key to KISS system design. Yet it was not always adhered to as more com...More 28 Aug 2019
Backscatter A Salute to Captain William Eddy When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, retired Navy Captain William Eddy volunteered to r...More 16 Jul 2019
Backscatter The 737 MAX: An Accident Waiting to Happen? The recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, in both of which all passengers and crew were lost, b...More 2 May 2019
Backscatter The Driverless Car Rumbles Toward the City The question is not whether autonomous vehicles can be developed, produced and sold at com...More 14 Feb 2019