Depending on whom you ask, you will get different opinions about the tools engineers need for their jobs. Some complain of too many tools with overlapping features. Others say the tools are never quite finished, are...
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, is known for its high-technology sector. Yet it has seen jobs move overseas, too. A University of Ottawa report, Ottawa Works 2—Profiling Ottawa's Work Force (2002), says the recent downturn...
What is it? Is it a cell phone? A message pad? A computer? A camera? It's all of the above. But who needs it? And why? Marketers tell us we need it. Kids seem to want it. Is this complexity elegantly packaged or...
"If it works, it's obsolete." This quote from the late University of Toronto media professor Marshall McLuthan in the 1960s describes what electronics and computer engineers face every day.
