Tidbits
Editor's Note: I am always looking for strange, fun, or interesting technical communication tidbits. Please contribute freely.
Playing with Toys for a Living
From SpectruM Tech Alert, 2 April 2009
"You don’t have to be an A student to land your dream job; you just have to be incredibly persistent and keep your eyes on the prize. Take, for example, a self-proclaimed former B student, Shannon Bruzelius, who’s now living his dream at Wild Planet Toys in San Francisco... Tekla Perry has the story"..... Listen to podcast .
ExpertNow Has a Newsletter
Contributed By Julia Williams
You can find out what's going on with ExpertNow, the eLearning modules that IEEE produces, by reading their newsletter. The newsletter highlights new modules and customer feedback...Read more.
Ion Teleportation and Quantum Computers
From IEEE Spectrum Tech Alert , 29 January 2009
"Though we’re accustomed to thinking of the Star Trek version of teleporting, what physicists call teleportation is the exact mapping of one particle’s quantum characteristics onto another particle. That matters because future quantum computers and quantum cryptography networks will need some way of storing data and moving it around"....Read more.