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William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Mar 11, 2018

Laboratory 3.0

Upgrading Laboratory Processes in a Flat World

I recently had the great fortune of viewing an online MIT OpenCourseWare presentation of a talk given by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Thomas L. Friedman. He was addressing students on the topic of his book, The World is Flat: A…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Mar 11, 2018

Between the Lines

The Evolution of Revolutionary Broadcast Technology

Introductions to the topic of data acquisition eventually include a discussion of sampling. This is not due to outmoded homage to tradition, but simply because we do not have the technology to record an infinite number…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Mar 11, 2018

Operation: Furious Speed Bump

Systematic Impediments to Laboratory Integration

Twenty years ago this month, I was a junior undergrad taking a course in laboratory instrumentation. As I recall, our project involved the development of a visible absorption spectrometer using a…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Mar 11, 2018

A Scanner Darkly

Acquiring a Signature from Dark Matter

“If a tree falls in the middle of the woods and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” That’s one of those crowd pleasers that usually arrive after the third or fourth round of adult beverages. An even more interesting…

William L. Weaver in TL;DR Innovation

Mar 11, 2018

Fact or Fiction?

Vetting Text with Natural Language Processing Algorithms

While teaching my instrumentation and measurement courses, I am often met with surprise at the statement, “Scientists are the members of our civilization charged with discovering, documenting, and disseminating…

March 08, 2018

March 12, 2018

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