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Where There Is No Vision…
Connected Devices and IoT
By Howdy Pierce
I was disappointed in CES this year. Aside from minor tweaks, virtually everything on display in 2018 was also on display in 2017. Although I did see the world’s first “mixed reality dimensional guidance device,” I’m not sure what it is, but with that name I want it! Evidently, I’m not the only one whose… View ArticleDetails
Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2017
AWS
By Kevin Courter
Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent is a massive and fast-growing event. Estimates for this year’s attendance range between 40,000 and 50,000 people, and it was sold out nearly two weeks before the first day. This year there are over 1000 breakout sessions covering a dozen or more tracks, as well as workshops, certification classes, hands-on labs,… View ArticleDetails
Innovating With iZotope
Audio
By Cardinal Peak Staff
We recently completed a really cool project with our friends at iZotope. For those who have never picked up a guitar and dreamed of being the next Tom Petty, iZotope designs award-winning audio products and technologies for musicians, music producers and audio post engineers around the world. In a nutshell, they develop the software that… View ArticleDetails
Teaching in Africa: Part 1
Cardinal Peak Culture
By Mike Perkins
I’m on sabbatical from Cardinal Peak right now, teaching at Carnegie Mellon’s Africa campus in Kigali, Rwanda. Aside from the fun I’ve had being in another culture and in an academic environment, it’s been great to see how a world class university like CMU educates graduate students in ECE and IT overseas. CMU’s Rwanda program… View ArticleDetails
Negative Zero
Signal Processing
By Howdy Pierce
Discover the surprising world of floating point math and its quirky rules, from negative zero to division by zero. Delve into IEEE 754 standards and understand why infinity isn’t just a number. Details
Why Should You Use a Third-Party IoT Platform?
Connected Devices and IoT
By Bernard Vachon
These days many companies are looking to IoT to enable their products. In the case of commoditized items, some see an opportunity to differentiate themselves and increase their margins; and with the help of some good marketing, may convince people that they need a smart kettle to get the water boiling 5 minutes before they… View ArticleDetails
IoT in the Medical Device Industry
Connected Devices and IoT
By James Bockrath
Cardinal Peak works with a range of medical devices and technologies and is increasingly engaged in IoT initiatives for major health care companies. We have built ultrasound systems, surgical device energy generators, Fitbit-like health monitors, medical information memory cards, and RFID tagging systems for configuring and tracking medical devices. Details
Google I/O Rundown
Connected Devices and IoT
By Thomson Comer
Here’s a quick rundown from a tech perspective of what Google announced last week at its I/O conference: Google.ai Google bases most of its service model on artificial intelligence (AI). In this year’s I/O, they announced some really cool new data-center clusters called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs): huge, heavy-duty number-crunching machines that each provide up… View ArticleDetails
Amazon Releases New Alexa SSML Tags
Connected Devices and IoT
By Thomson Comer
One small step for man, one giant leap for robot-kind? Well, sort of. After years, we are starting to see AI technology become more enjoyable to interact with. Amazon released five new language nuance enhancements to the Alexa API last week. The Semantic Syntax Markup Language (SSML) is what Amazon has defined for performing text-to-speech… View ArticleDetails
Yes, You Do Need to Document Your Open Source Code
Software Development
By Dave Beal
I’ve recently had the experience of working with two pieces of open source code. Both implement a standard wireless communication stack in Linux. Names are omitted to protect the guilty. In one case, the code has been around since 2001 and has been part of the Linux kernel since version 2.4.6. It has now been… View ArticleDetails
Virtually Live From CES
Cardinal Peak Culture
By Kate Bethurem
I’m writing this post from the comfort of my hotel room in Las Vegas, where I am attending my very first CES. I’ve been in the tech industry for a long time, both as an engineer and in business development, which probably makes it more surprising that this is my first time here — especially… View ArticleDetails
