Kevin Fogarty

Experienced tech/science writer, editor, analyst

Experienced journalist proficient in breaking news and in providing cogent, clear, timely feature stories and analysis of technology and medical/science issues critical to specific audiences, including consumers, institutional investors, board-level executives and engineers. Current topics include the business and technology of semiconductors and the impact of Big Tech issues including 5G, artificial intelligence, datacenter and HPC computing, autonomous vehicles, IoT, IIoT and cybersecurity.

Kevin Fogarty

Experienced tech/science writer, editor, analyst

Will Open-Source EDA Work?
DARPA program pushes for cheaper and simpler tools, but it may not be so easy. Open-source EDA is back on the semiconductor industry’s agenda, spurred by growing interest in open-source hardware. But whether the industry embraces the idea with enough enthusiasm to make it successful is not clear yet.
Machine Learning Inferencing Moves To Mobile Devices
TinyML movement pushes high-performance compute into much smaller devices. It may sound retro for a developer with access to hyperscale data centers to discuss apps that can be measured in kilobytes, but the emphasis increasingly is on small, highly capable devices. In fact, Google staff research engineer Pete Warden points to a new app that uses less than 100 kilobytes for RAM and storage, creates an inference model smaller than 20KB, and which is capable of processing up to 10 million arithmetic operations per second.
Machine Learning Drives High-Level Synthesis Boom
As endpoint architectures get more complicated, EDA tool becomes key tool for experimenting with different options. High-level synthesis (HLS) is experiencing a new wave of popularity, driven by its ability to handle machine-learning matrices and iterative design efforts. The obvious advantage of HLS is the boost in productivity designers get from working in C, C++ and other high-level languages rather than RTL.
Why The IIoT Is Not Secure
The Internet of Things is famously insecure, but not because the technology to build it or secure it is immature. Likewise, severely insufficient security on the Industrial IoT suffers from a lack of will. Neither tech buyers nor providers have yet invested the same effort expended in other areas of the tech world to create and adopt steps that will make everyone safer, according to chipmakers and analysts.
Vertex: The Write Stuff
A biotech company ditched its scientists' paper notebooks for a digital research system that speeds development of money-making drugs. Mark Murcko's career is based on the idea that you can indeed—platitudes aside—rush genius. In fact, his company's whole strategy is based on it. So was his decision to take paper notebooks off the lab benches of his scientists.
Baseline
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By 2025 Internet Will Be Invisible – Like Oxygen
By the year 2025, the Internet will have almost completely disappeared, according to the latest edition of one of the longest-running, most broad-based surveys of Internet experts and heavy users of the Web. The Internet won’t go away, of course. By 2025 the Internet will be considered simply the utilitarian mechanism that allows almost everything else to happen, according to according to Digital Life in 2025,the 2014 edition of the semi-annual Imagining the Internet survey conducted by the Pew Internet Project and Elon University.
Dice News
Google’s Project Tango Helps Robots Fly on ISS
Between the one-day public sale of Google Glass smart goggles and the revelation that it is working on contact lenses smart enough to see for the people wearing them, there's an argument to be made that Google has done enough for nontraditional gadget design for one week. However, the April 16 debut of the modular, endlessly customizable Project Ara was only the appetizer in Google's you-won't-believe-this-is-a-phone sweepstakes.
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Lasers, Google Maps Reveal Vatican Catacombs
The Vatican, while notoriously secretive about things buried in its vaults and archives, is being as public as the digital age allows it to be about the nearly completed restoration of catacombs early Christians used as secret churches as well as burial sites. Contractors, archaeologists and art experts spent the past five years restoring the Priscilla catacombs under the Vatican using lasers, among other techniques, to restore frescoes painted on the walls of the burial chambers.
Dice News
Top 10 Electrical & Computer Engineering Schools by Salary
In the competition for top-paying academic discipline, engineering faces many fierce competitors. Unfortunately for the rest of the academic world -- at least at the baccalaureate level -- almost all of the top-paying academic degrees are also in engineering. Salaries for graduates with humanities degrees did rise 3.5% between 2013 and 2014 compared with just 0.3% for engineering, according to a 2014 salary report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Lowish raises are unlikely to turn top engineering students to the arts, however. Engineering is not only the highest-paying major at the baccalaureate level, engineering sub-specialties fill the rest of the top 10 list as well.
EE Times
Baseline 500: Wall Street (Almost) Doesn`t Care About CIOs
If you judge by stock price, even the top Baseline 500 companies aren't handling their assets so well. No one doubts that using information technology effectively has an impact on how well a business operates and, ultimately, how profitable it is. So shouldn't certification as one of the 500 companies that use IT most effectively have not only an impact on a company's stock price, but a positive one?
Baseline
Home Routers Pose Biggest Consumer Cyberthreat
Many of the same Linksys routers with flaws that make them vulnerable to infection by TheMoon ship with other doors and windows open. Chief among them is a bug that would allow a remote user to access the administrative console of a Linksys router without logging in first, using port 8083, which is left open on many Linksys models.
Dice News
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Oppression is Stronger Than the Internet: Study
The Internet can serve as potent a tool to oppress a national population as it is a way for those oppressed to communicate secretly and foment rebellion against dictatorial authorities, according to a new study. Karlsson’s analysis is based on levels of “e-participation” – in blogs, micro-blogs such as Twitter, Web forums and other forums for online activism – from a host of authoritarian nations including Egypt, China, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Syria, Vietnam, and Iran.
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Electron Spin Could Yield PCs That Run Fast While Turned Off
A team of Japanese researchers has proposed a model for the near future of computing based on identifying a 1 from a 0 according to the direction in which an electron spins, rather than where the chip had previously stashed an electrical charge. Spintronics (a portmanteau word meaning "spin transport electronics") is a promising non-volatile memory technology that stores 1s and 0s according to which direction a captive electron spins rather than the electrical charge it can deliver.
EE Times
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How Obamacare Could Drive the Internet of Things
Verizon’s Enterprise Solution division has combined three of the hottest tech buzzwords in its new set of cloud-based cybersecurity services designed to protect devices connected to the Internet of Things. Managed Certificate Services (MCS) is designed as a fully managed, no-security-skills-required alternative to complex public key infrastructure (PKI) systems, the better to give connected devices a way to verify their identities and transmit data securely.
Dice News
Extending the Internet to the Bottom of the Ocean
Wireless networking vendors have promised (and often delivered) access to the Internet from anywhere. To technologists, that translates as “anywhere it’s possible to get a wireless signal.”. To end users, it translates as “why can’t I get my e-mail from inside this cave?”. Wireless and cellular networks cover even vacation beaches and extend over the ocean to ships at sea but not, so far, under the ocean.
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Neglect Causes Massive Loss of ‘Irreplaceable’ Research Data
Research scientists could learn an important thing or two from computer scientists, according to a new study showing that data underpinning even groundbreaking research tends to disappear over time. Researchers also disappear, though more slowly and only in terms of the email addresses and the other public contact methods that other scientists would normally use to contact them.
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About

Kevin Fogarty

Experienced Journalist proficient in breaking news and providing cogent, clear, timely information and analysis on technology issues critical to specific audiences, including consumers, institutional investors, board-level executives and engineers. Expertise in multiple roles, including:

Writer / Reporter
• News writing, features, headline writing, journalism driven by data analysis, white papers, business and financial coverage of technology industry and the social, political and economic impact of emerging technologies.

Editor and Editorial Manager
• Develop the work of mixed editorial staffs into high-quality content in competitive environments.
• Creative, entrepreneurial editor of successful editorial-product launches, events and the re-focus of existing titles.

Technology Analyst, Editor
• Write, edit and produce clear, insightful analysis of technology or business issues in quick-turnaround environments.
• Write, edit and project-manage production of white papers and high-value reports based on data analysis, surveys and other long-form analysis of business technology issues.