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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

Spelunking v. Thunking

Acquiring Data from Acquired Data

While working on his Ph.D. thesis at Yale’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the mid-1970s, James Meehan developed a LISP program capable of generating Aesop ‘s Fable-style stories from a database of facts and character…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

A Space Odyssey

Image Compression and the Wavelet Transform

As a member of the High School class of 1984, I was imbued with more than my fair share of Orwellian analysis. Although a majority of present day references recount the omnipresent surveillance technology contained in George…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

In Like a Lion

Remote Sensing and Windshear

Data acquisition is often thought as the handmaiden of automation. Existing experiments and manufacturing processes requiring the measurement of quantities including temperature, pressure, flow rate, and level can exhibit increased efficiency…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

A Ctrl-Shift in Paradigm

Opportunity Cost of Legacies

The standard keyboard layout was patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868, and a historic typing contest held in Cincinnati, Ohio on July 25, 1888 established the use of touch-typing on the Universal or “QWERTY” keyboard as the…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

Straight to the Heart

Data Acquisition and Biotelemetry

Ask an American in their early fifties to name influential people and events of the 1960s and odds are good the list will contain John, Paul, George, Ringo, and the Vietnam War. Pose the same question to an early thirty-something…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 1, 2018

Relativistic Data Acquisition

The Importance of Calibration

Absolute values do exist. Examples that come to mind include the temperature of absolute zero and hosts of irrational numbers such as pi, the natural logarithm (e), and the square root of 2. However, no one has actually…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

The Next Wave of Fast ADCs

Exploiting Photonics for Analog-to-Digital Conversion

As a photon jockey, I get excited (pun intended) when learning about the hybridization of electronics and photonics. I once worked on a development team set to the task of deploying three-dimensional…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

If at First

The Successive Approximation Register

During routine office visits with my physician, the assistant asks me to step on the scale. Every assistant sets the scale to a maximum of two hundred pounds and then proceeds to dial in my weight. I’ve begun to keep track of how long it takes…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

Do You Hear What I Hear

Digital Audio Storage Formats

While working at Bell Laboratories in 1948, Claude Shannon, John Pierce, and Bernard Oliver developed a method for high-speed digital transmission of multiple phone conversations over the same set of wires. It represents a…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 1, 2018

DAQ Evolves into Informatics

The Next Era of Data Acquisition

In the mid 1990’s, Professor Fred E. Lytle of Purdue University, regarded as one of the principle pioneers of modern analytical science, declared that the measurement and analysis community is entering its third epoch…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

Tag, You’re It

Data Acquisition Using Transponders

It has happened to most of us. We purchase a few sundries at the local department store, make a mad dash for the exit after enduring the interminable price checks and jammed register tapes, only to be assaulted by a blaring alarm. A quick…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

Less than Picture Perfect

Digital Image Capture

As an experimentalist, I always experience a certain amount of envy toward the breathtakingly beautiful color images produced by the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) folks. As a programmer, I can appreciate the level of talent…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Feb 2, 2018

One If By Land

Data Transmission and Error Correction

Early railroad signals used a white light to signal “go” and a red light to signal “stop”. This wireless communication system between stationmasters and engineers worked well until that fateful day when a red cover lens fell out of its…

February 06, 2018

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